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Tilburg Open

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

In personBP

Sat 3 Apr 2027in 177 days

From 2 tabs, newest Tilburg Open 2026.

How many points to break?

11points were safe
last time

The last team in averaged 74.0 speaks in 2024.

Every year

What will they set?

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

Practise Comedy & Novelty motionsLesson: Generating arguments

How many teams, and how many break?

8of 21 teams broke
in 2024

Field strength: Below Average in 2026, 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 Comedy & Novelty motions, the topic set most here.Open the lesson
  • Mechanism, actors, weighing. Use the prep timer below.Pull a motion
  • Start with: THW activate the Downsize-inatorPast motions
  • Ask for a Comedy & Novelty motion on your weaker position.
  • Pull a motion
  • Check the schedule and the break line. No new material the night before.

Prep timer

15:00

Past motions

2 editions with motions on record, newest first.

Tilburg Open 20268 motions
  1. Round 0THW activate the Downsize-inatorPractise this motion
  2. Round 1TH, as the fans of NAC Breda, regret not taking the bidPractise this motion
  3. Round 2THBT it is in the interest of moderate right wing parties to promise beforehand not to align with far right partiesPractise this motion
  4. Round 3TH, as Tiktok, would renew their license with UMGPractise this motion
  5. Round 4In areas with high demographic and socioeconomic diversity THW make the choice of school decided by lottery between schools in similar vacinityPractise this motion
  6. Round 5THP a world in which Abrahamic religions had developed without scripture.Practise this motion
  7. Pro-Am FinalsTHW start the rebellionPractise this motion
  8. Open FinalsTHW activate the Downsize-inatorPractise this motion

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Tilburg Open 20248 motions
  1. Round 0THW activate the Downsize-inatorPractise this motion
  2. Round 1TH, as the fans of NAC Breda, regret not taking the bidPractise this motion
  3. Round 2THBT it is in the interest of moderate right wing parties to promise beforehand not to align with far right partiesPractise this motion
  4. Round 3TH, as Tiktok, would renew their license with UMGPractise this motion
  5. Round 4In areas with high demographic and socioeconomic diversity THW make the choice of school decided by lottery between schools in similar vacinityPractise this motion
  6. Round 5THP a world in which Abrahamic religions had developed without scripture.Practise this motion
  7. Pro-Am FinalsTHW start the rebellionPractise this motion
  8. Open FinalsTHW activate the Downsize-inatorPractise this motion

Open the Tilburg Open 2024 prep page

How speakers score here

Speaker averages and what finishing high has taken.

average speaker score, 2 editions
75.3
where most speakers land
71.7 to 78.9

What finishing high has taken

  • Top speaker82.2
  • 10th speaker79.0
  • 20th speaker75.0

Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 2 editions.