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Huber Debates

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

In person, Burlington VtBPTournament site

Sat 7 Nov 2026in 30 days

From 1 tab, newest Huber Debates 2025.

How many points to break?

11points were safe
last time

The last team in averaged 72.8 speaks in 2025.

Every year

What will they set?

Out of 11 past motions with a topic, from 1 edition.

Practise Social & Identity motionsLesson: Generating arguments

How many teams, and how many break?

20of 52 teams made the open break
in 2025

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

What should you do first?

Work through “Generating arguments”

Your prep week starts 6 days before the tournament. 6 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 Social & Identity motions, the topic set most here.Open the lesson
  • Mechanism, actors, weighing. Use the prep timer below.Pull a motion
  • Start with: THBT wellness influencers do more harm than good.Past motions
  • Ask for a Social & Identity 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

1 edition with motions on record, newest first.

Huber Debates 202511 motions
  1. Round 1THBT wellness influencers do more harm than good.Practise this motion
  2. Round 2THS the regular rewriting of constitutions.Practise this motion
  3. Round 3In times of financial crises, THBT nationalization of the banking sector is preferable to bailouts.Practise this motion
  4. Round 4TH, as a governing body in sport (FIFA, WTA, ATP etc.) W not host sporting events in Saudi Arabia.Practise this motion
  5. Round 5THBT NATO should not support the US in a conflict with Latin America.Practise this motion
  6. Open QuarterfinalsTH, as a progressive teacher is conservative state, W keep the banned books on the shelf.Practise this motion
  7. Novice SemifinalsTH, as a progressive teacher is conservative state, W keep the banned books on the shelf.Practise this motion
  8. Open SemifinalsTHW open the box.Practise this motion
  9. Novice FinalTHBT the environmental movement should embrace the green growth theory.Practise this motion
  10. Rookie FinalTHBT the environmental movement should embrace the green growth theory.Practise this motion
  11. Grand FinalTHR the narrative that we’ve already reached “late stage capitalism.”Practise 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.

Every break in 2025

  • Open break20 teams
  • Novice break8 teams

How speakers score here

Speaker averages and what finishing high has taken.

average speaker score, 1 edition
74.8
where most speakers land
72.8 to 76.7

What finishing high has taken

  • Top speaker78.4
  • 10th speaker77.2
  • 20th speaker76.4

Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.

Prep these too

Coming up, and their past motions cover the same topics. Topic match is how alike the two topic mixes are: 100% would be the same mix.