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Officers Cup 2025

What it took to break at this edition, what was set and who set it.

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Sun 1 Jun 2025

From 1 tab, newest Officers Cup 2025.

How many points did it take?

7points were safe
in 2025

The last team in averaged 73.5 speaks in 2025.

Every year

What will they set?

Out of 26 past motions with a topic, from 1 edition.

Practise Technology motionsLesson: Generating arguments

How many teams, and how many break?

6of 32 teams broke
in 2025

Past motions

1 edition with motions on record, newest first.

Officers Cup 202526 motions
  1. Round 0TH would require university courses to be only assessed by methods (e.g. written exams) which are AI-proofPractise this motion
  2. Round 0TH believes that the New Zealand Government should act to dramatically reduce the power of the teachers' unionsPractise this motion
  3. Round 0TH would criminally prosecute professional service firms (e.g. lawyers, accountants) who are found to have abetted money laundering, irrespective of whether they knew it was taking place (i.e. a strict liability test)Practise this motion
  4. Round 0TH believes that the New Zealand Police should prioritise investigation and enforcement against overseas criminal groups (e.g. Comancheros) over local criminal groups (e.g. Mongrel Mob)Practise this motion
  5. Round 1TH would require university courses to be assessed only by methods (e.g. written exams) which are AI-proofPractise this motion
  6. Round 1TH believes that the New Zealand Government should act to dramatically reduce the power of the teachers' unionsPractise this motion
  7. Round 2TH believes that the New Zealand Police should prioritise investigation and enforcement against overseas criminal groups (e.g. Comancheros) over local criminal groups (e.g. Mongrel Mob)Practise this motion
  8. Round 2TH would criminally prosecute professional service firms (e.g. lawyers, accountants) who are found to have abetted money laundering, irrespective of whether they knew it was taking place (i.e. a strict liability test)Practise this motion
  9. Round 3TH regrets the dominance of the concept of intersectionality in social justice movementsPractise this motion
  10. Round 3TH believes that social movements should frame harmful actions by men as the result of external social ills (e.g. loneliness), rather than as expressions of masculinityPractise this motion
  11. Round 4TH supports the availability of heartbalm tortsPractise this motion
  12. Round 4TH would only allow plaintiffs with a direct and concrete connection to the outcome of a decision to judicially review itPractise this motion
  13. Round 5TH believes that social media has done more harm than goodPractise this motion
  14. Round 5TH regrets the rise of politicians interacting and interviewing with non-traditional media (e.g. Donald Trump on Joseph Rogan, Bernie Sanders on Theo Von)Practise this motion
  15. Round 6TH believes that artists who develop a new artistic style deserve greater praise and recognition, than artists who perfect or master an existing stylePractise this motion
  16. Round 6TH prefers a world where people believe that most forms of higher knowledge are fundamentally beyond their reach, even with effort and timePractise this motion
  17. Round 7TH believes that Governments should actively discourage religious sects from establishing alternative societies (e.g. not providing teaching licenses, requiring compliance with employment law)Practise this motion
  18. Round 7TH, as the European Union, would pursue highly protectionist policy in relation to industrial manufacturing and other heavy industriesPractise this motion
  19. Round 8THBT urban design and amenity effects should never be considered in resource consenting processesPractise this motion
  20. Round 8TH would allow developers to obtain resource consents for construction projects by committing to separate environmental projects with an equal or greater positive impact, rather than by mitigating or eliminating the negative impacts of the original projectPractise this motion
  21. QuarterfinalsTH would substantially reduce the legal barriers to firing employees in NZPractise this motion
  22. QuarterfinalsTH believes that professional disciplinary boards (such as those for lawyers, doctors, teachers) should not penalise people for actions committed in their personal lives, except where they have been criminally convictedPractise this motion
  23. SemifinalsAmerican Catholic Bishops have recently denounced American immigration policy. TH as the Catholic Church would adopt a more aggressive response to Republican immigration and welfare policies (e.g. actively counter-organising against ICE in their communities, organising protests)Practise this motion
  24. SemifinalsTH supports the Democrats enacting retaliatory gerrymandering in blue statesPractise this motion
  25. Grand FinalTH supports the use of military force in opposition to rogue nuclear programsPractise this motion
  26. Grand FinalTH believes that New Zealand should continue to use hedging as its foreign policy strategy when dealing with the US and ChinaPractise this motion

How speakers score here

Speaker averages and what finishing high has taken.

average speaker score, 1 edition
71.0
where most speakers land
69.0 to 73.0

What finishing high has taken

  • Top speaker75.8
  • 10th speaker73.1
  • 20th speaker72.3

Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.