Closing Opposition CO
Speaker scores for both CO speeches, from majors and strong-field tournaments only, so weak or inflated-scale events don't skew them.
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What does CO score?
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highest score
From 56,474 CO speeches (both speakers) by 11,431 debaters in imported tabs. People known only from the historical archive are left out, as on the leaderboard.
Best CO speeches
The highest speaker scores given from this bench.
| Debater | Score | Motion | Tournament |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺Udai K. | 90 | This House opposes the increasing influence of customary authorities in African politics.Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2025 | Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2025 |
| Sonam W. | 89 | THO the glorification of digital nomadismJohns Hopkins Pre-WUDC 2023 | Johns Hopkins Pre-WUDC 2023 |
| 🇮🇪Shane T. | 89 | This House Hopes that the next Pope is Cardinal Tagle rather than Cardinal Ambongo.Glasgow Ancients 2025 | Glasgow Ancients 2025 |
| 🇦🇺Jack S. | 89 | This House opposes the increasing influence of customary authorities in African politics.Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2025 | Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2025 |
| Dan L. | 88 | This house would not allow out of court settlements for workplace discrimination and harassmentMexico WUDC 2018 | Mexico WUDC 2018 |
| Ayal M. | 88 | This House Supports job security legislationMexico WUDC 2018 | Mexico WUDC 2018 |
| 🇨🇦Emma J. | 88 | This House regrets the addition of Prolonged Grief Disorder to the DSM.McGill Intervarsity 2024 | McGill Intervarsity 2024 |
| 🇺🇸Tejas S. | 88 | THBT The Pacific Alliance should introduce a common currencyMadrid WUDC 2023 | Madrid WUDC 2023 |
| 🇷🇴Ana C. | 88 | THP religious beliefs of Collective Salvation, rather than religious beliefs of Individual SalvationThe Earlsfort Open 2023 | The Earlsfort Open 2023 |
| 🇸🇬Deon K. | 88 | This House prefers Hayekian economic policies to Keynesian economic policiesGlasgow European Universities Debating Championships 2024 | Glasgow European Universities Debating Championships 2024 |
| Ahsan M. | 88 | This House Believes That leaders of marginalized minority groups should urge their respective communities to partake in greater social integration at the expense of sustaining unique cultural attributes.Doxbridge 3: Return of the King 2021 | Doxbridge 3: Return of the King 2021 |
| 🇬🇧Max P. | 88 | Assuming feasibility, THW grant collective guardianship and jurisdiction of the Ka'bah to all Muslims instead of continuing Saudi Arabian guardianship and jurisdiction.Trinity IV 2025 | Trinity IV 2025 |
Motions CO scores highest on
Speaker average from this bench on each motion. Practise any of them with a prep timer.
THR the rise of ‘Publish or Perish’ culture.
- CO speeches
- 56
- speaker average
- 78.6
THW ban viatical settlements
- CO speeches
- 96
- speaker average
- 78.0
THW revoke registered charitable status from groups that focus solely or primarily on "advancing religion"
- CO speeches
- 42
- speaker average
- 78.0
THBT the Democratic Party leadership should publicly commit to using 'procedurally activist' congressional tactics to pursue their policy objectives.
- CO speeches
- 150
- speaker average
- 77.6
THW allow city and local governments to be held civilly responsible for deaths that can be ascribed to homelessness
- CO speeches
- 46
- speaker average
- 77.6
THW, as major sporting associations of female dominated sports (e.g. netball, gymnastics, beach volleyball, figure skating), focus our marketing/recruitment on expanding men’s participation
- CO speeches
- 174
- speaker average
- 77.5
THBT Southeast Asian nations should actively move towards the consolidation of a regional alliance at the expense of seeking stronger ties with non-regional allies (e.g. by forming closer intra-ASEAN defence ties, increasing ASEAN economic integration etc).
- CO speeches
- 150
- speaker average
- 77.4
THR the romanticisation of love marriages in Bollywood movies
- CO speeches
- 82
- speaker average
- 77.4
CO by motion topic
Speaker average from this bench on each kind of motion.
| Topic | Speeches | Speaker average |
|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 427 | 77.6 |
| Comedy & Novelty | 415 | 77.2 |
| Health & Medicine | 1,211 | 77.0 |
| Religion | 1,872 | 76.9 |
| Social & Identity | 10,885 | 76.9 |
| Politics | 6,455 | 76.9 |
| Environment | 942 | 76.9 |
| History | 449 | 76.9 |
| Meta-Debate | 65 | 76.9 |
| Education | 2,877 | 76.9 |
| Sport | 2,109 | 76.8 |
| International Relations | 4,697 | 76.8 |
Who gives it best
Highest speaker average from CO speeches, among debaters with 4 or more scored.
| Debater | Speeches | Speaker average |
|---|---|---|
| 🇭🇷Tin P. | 31 | 83.1 |
| 🇧🇬Niki A. | 7 | 82.9 |
| 🇬🇧Neo S. | 4 | 82.8 |
| 🇳🇱Emma L. | 4 | 82.8 |
| 🇮🇩Tengku H. | 5 | 82.6 |
| Noluthando H. | 4 | 82.5 |
| 🇬🇧Tan W. | 4 | 82.5 |
| 🇬🇧Maximus P. | 6 | 82.5 |
| 🇲🇾Naveen | 12 | 82.5 |
| 🇵🇭Ignacio V. | 13 | 82.5 |