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Seattle IV

What it took to break here, what gets set, and a plan for the week before.

In person, SeattleBPTournament site

Sat 5 Dec 2026in 58 days

From 2 tabs, newest Seattle IV Online Pre-WUDC 2025.

How many points to break?

11points, the middle of
the last 2 editions

Safe points at the last 2 editions with a figure: 11, 10, newest first. The last team in averaged 77.5 speaks in 2025.

Every year

What will they set?

Out of 16 past motions with a topic, from 2 editions.

Practise Philosophy motionsLesson: Weighing arguments

How many teams, and how many break?

4of 46 teams made the open break
in 2025

Field strength: Average in 2025, from the ratings of the debaters who went.

Who has set the motions?

  • Grace S.
  • 🇺🇸 Isabel B.

Chief adjudicators in 2023, the newest tab that lists them.

Every panel

What should you do first?

Work through “Weighing arguments”

Your prep week starts 6 days before the tournament. 7 tasks in the plan below.

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Your chance of breaking here and your average on each topic this tournament sets, from your own tab.

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Your prep week

Built on the topics set most here. Import your tab and it switches to your weakest topics.

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  • For Philosophy motions, the topic set most here.Open the lesson
  • For International Relations motions, the topic set most here.Open the lesson
  • Mechanism, actors, weighing. Use the prep timer below.Pull a motion
  • Start with: This House would allow the Philippines to invite foreign (non-ASEAN) naval forces to joint...Past motions
  • Ask for a Philosophy motion on your weaker position.
  • Pull a motion
  • Check the schedule and the break line. No new material the night before.Tournament info

Prep timer

15:00

Past motions

2 editions with motions on record, newest first.

Seattle IV Online Pre-WUDC 20256 motions
  1. Round 1When choosing media to consume, THP to trust consumer reviews over critic reviews.Practise this motion
  2. Round 2This House would allow the Philippines to invite foreign (non-ASEAN) naval forces to jointly patrol and defend its territorial waters.Practise this motion
  3. Round 3THP AI to be built by MANGO companies over start-ups.Practise this motion
  4. Round 4THW alter the H-1B visa to align with China's K-Visa for the purposes of competing with it.Practise this motion
  5. Novice FinalTHBT the US national debt is unsustainablePractise this motion
  6. Grand FinalTHW endorse and plug into the pleasure machinePractise this motion

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Seattle IV 202310 motions
  1. Round 1https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gs9kaYb-RllHjpWqaoKtmOSjuVwbyAGg43JFfpavmLU/edit?usp=sharingPractise this motion
  2. Round 2https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gzTTMr3Yp07T_vJpd34e826Ukd6vi48gaCBxuRr7SGA/edit?usp=sharingPractise this motion
  3. Round 3https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fg7EyHL5ORmuSF3zjMmaAHgSGnTVcbLqFs9DEO9aJ9E/edit?usp=sharingPractise this motion
  4. Round 4https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a9nQUSZPxf4FfutZ9XTPWecYT7-N7DqxGO0iF8FwS_w/edit?usp=sharingPractise this motion
  5. Round 5https://docs.google.com/document/d/186O1aBcx5qGj9ZAkO43QDfk3zgM6DKRsIGRfW8pbNVo/edit?usp=sharingPractise this motion
  6. Novice Semifinalshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3ch6beFiPmzcFEh7XhzqSOy6mtqUm5ZusvTnl-mn-U/edit?usp=sharingPractise this motion
  7. Open Quartershttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1-RK3jR8t20HfYPoD5DK0gTuTNoX9QYfiDveZSzpdNhE/edit?usp=sharingPractise this motion
  8. Novice Finalshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1rD5rypz9ANlcBnojgSj0ODKQ2CTVPzh1oUcAAGirGfc/edit?usp=sharingPractise this motion
  9. Open Semishttps://docs.google.com/document/d/191uvRC_RvKONUcFGXL5hv_N7ymDOr_lf0eiVs5PWZpk/edit?usp=sharingPractise this motion
  10. Open Finalshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/14pZ-hpEZYk_XoagXp9HntLWE4CN2_Ydiw_y9d4pFFx4/edit?usp=sharingPractise this motion

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The break, year by year

The points that were safe, the last team in and how many broke, at each edition with results.

YearSafe on (points)Last team in (speaks)Open break
20251177.54 of 46
20231076.816 of 65

Every break in 2025

  • Open break4 teams
  • Novice break4 teams

Who sets the motions

Chief adjudicators by edition, where the tab lists them.

  • 2023Grace S., 🇺🇸 Isabel B.

How speakers score here

Speaker averages and what finishing high has taken.

average speaker score, 2 editions
75.1
where most speakers land
73.3 to 77.0

What finishing high has taken

  • Top speaker79.7
  • 10th speaker77.7
  • 20th speaker77.3

Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 2 editions.