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Government Whip GW

The closing proposition speaker in CG. The board counts GW speeches from majors and strong-field tournaments only, so weak or inflated-scale events do not distort the rankings.

33,752GW speeches on record
76.3Average speaker score
87Highest on record
11,620Debaters who've given it

Best GW speeches on record

The highest speaker scores ever given from this seat.

DebaterScoreMotionTournament
🇦🇹Marina K.87This House Would dissolve the position of High Representative for Bosnia and HerzegovinaZagreb European Universities Debating Championships 2022
Speaker A.87This House Regrets the rise of TikTok trends that encourage self-diagnosis of mental health conditions.ANU Winter 2022
Devashish T.87THS non-violent property damage (e.g. blowing up pipelines, sabotaging logging equipment etc.) in order to stop climate changeNALSAR IV 2021
🇺🇸Tejas S.87This House Believes that feminists in Western Liberal Democracies should adopt reconciliatory rather than confrontational approaches in their advocacyPanama WUDC 2025 2024
Fiachra N.87This House Supports the legalisation of assisted dying in England and WalesLSE Open 2025
🇬🇧Ahmed S.87THBT The Pacific Alliance should introduce a common currencyMadrid WUDC 2023 2022
🇺🇸Tejas S.86THW would give industry representatives (e.g unions or professional associations) a veto over political appointments made in their area of expertise (e.g. bar associations when selecting judges, teachers unions when appointing an Education Minister, etc.)Doxbridge Pre-WUDC 2022: So Long, and Thanks for All The Fish
🇬🇧Joseph L.86THBT the Biden administration should adopt a diplomatic rather than an antagonistic approach to RussiaKCL Open 2021
🇬🇧Teck T.86This House, as Iran, would cease all support for militant groups in the Middle East (e.g. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, etc.)Mexico WUDC 2018
🇬🇧Umar B.86THBT schools should teach about history as a product of clashes between social forces which represent different material conditions, rather than the product of clashes between different ideas and perspectivesCall Out 2022
🇺🇸Tejas S.86THW would give industry representatives (e.g unions or professional associations) a veto over political appointments made in their area of expertise (e.g. bar associations when selecting judges, teachers unions when appointing an Education Minister, etc.)Doxbridge Pre-WUDC 2022
🇺🇸Enting L.86THS political centrism (e.g. favouring moderate policies and bipartisan approaches to political engagement, "reaching across the aisle") as a dominant political ideology.Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2022

Best motions for GW

The motions where GW speakers score highest on average.

MotionSpeechesAvg score
THS the use of doxxing by the Left to counter the harrassment of women2278.6
THP a world in which Islam had a strong central authority since inception (cf. the papacy in Catholicism)8877.8
Assuming the prevalence of any given gene in the total human population remains the same, THP a world where babies were born with a random genetic profile, rather than one inherited from their parents8677.8
THBT parents should primarily use reward power rather than legitimate power when trying to modify behaviour2277.7
THW allow city and local governments to be held civilly responsible for deaths that can be ascribed to homelessness2277.7
THS the transition of media coverage of sports to social media (e.g. athletes promoting themselves on social media, sports associations streaming games for free online) at the expense of traditional sports journalism (e.g. televising of games on TV, journalists providing long-form features of athletes)8877.5
THW grant the WHO, in times of crisis, coercive powers to gather information about suspected infectious disease outbreaks and to enforce its policy recommendations.7877.5
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).8077.4

How GW scores by motion category

Average GW speaker score on each kind of motion, from the same majors-and-strong-field set.

CategorySpeechesAvg score
Religion121476.6
Arts & Culture97876.5
Environment62876.4
Comedy & Novelty23276.4
Health & Medicine75276.4
Social & Identity682376.3
Law & Crime225776.3
Politics397576.3
Education182276.3
Sport135876.3
Pop Culture29676.3
Economics531676.2

Debaters who specialise

The highest average speaker scores from the GW seat, among debaters with 4+ scored speeches.

DebaterSpeechesAvg score
🇮🇱Hadar G.1183.4
🇦🇺Amrit A.483.0
🇭🇷Lovro Š.882.9
🇬🇧Teck T.482.8
🇺🇸Shayor K.482.8
🇵🇭Ignacio V.682.7
🇭🇷Tin P.582.4
🇺🇸Tejas S.5282.3
🇲🇾Kuberan K.982.2
🇧🇩Sajid K.482.0