Member of Opposition MO
Speaker scores for the MO speech, from majors and strong-field tournaments only, so weak or inflated-scale events don't skew them.
COFirst speaker for Closing Opposition
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From 28,962 MO speeches by 7,739 debaters in imported tabs. People known only from the historical archive are left out, as on the leaderboard.
Best MO speeches
The highest speaker scores given from this speech.
| 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 |
| 🇮🇪Shane T. | 89 | This House Hopes that the next Pope is Cardinal Tagle rather than Cardinal Ambongo.Glasgow Ancients 2025 | Glasgow Ancients 2025 |
| Sonam W. | 89 | THO the glorification of digital nomadismJohns Hopkins Pre-WUDC 2023 | Johns Hopkins Pre-WUDC 2023 |
| 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 |
| 🇷🇴Ana C. | 88 | THP religious beliefs of Collective Salvation, rather than religious beliefs of Individual SalvationThe Earlsfort Open 2023 | The Earlsfort Open 2023 |
| Ayal M. | 88 | This House Supports job security legislationMexico WUDC 2018 | Mexico WUDC 2018 |
| 🇬🇧Tanae R. | 87 | This House Would break up the ABCDsZagreb European Universities Debating Championships 2022 | Zagreb European Universities Debating Championships 2022 |
| 🇷🇸Milos M. | 87 | THP a system in which the vast majority of high school students go into boarding schools in developed countries.Vienna IV 2022 | Vienna IV 2022 |
| 🇮🇱Hadar G. | 87 | In hindsight, THBT the European Union should have never formed the EurozoneEconomics Open 2021 | Economics Open 2021 |
| 🇬🇧Tanae R. | 87 | This House prefers Hayekian economic policies to Keynesian economic policiesGlasgow European Universities Debating Championships 2024 | Glasgow European Universities Debating Championships 2024 |
| 🇬🇧Mark R. | 87 | This House Prefers a world with the mass replacement of human police officers with Robocops to a world with no Robocops.LSE OPEN 2024 | LSE OPEN 2024 |
| 🇬🇧Patrick M. | 87 | This House Opposes the Commanding Distance military approachZagreb European Universities Debating Championships 2022 | Zagreb European Universities Debating Championships 2022 |
Motions MO scores highest on
Speaker average from this speech on each motion. Practise any of them with a prep timer.
THR the rise of ‘Publish or Perish’ culture.
- MO speeches
- 28
- speaker average
- 78.8
THW revoke registered charitable status from groups that focus solely or primarily on "advancing religion"
- MO speeches
- 22
- speaker average
- 78.0
THW ban viatical settlements
- MO speeches
- 50
- speaker average
- 78.0
THBT the Democratic Party leadership should publicly commit to using 'procedurally activist' congressional tactics to pursue their policy objectives.
- MO speeches
- 76
- 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
- MO speeches
- 86
- speaker average
- 77.6
THBT states formerly under the rule of the Soviet Union should not emphasize their history of struggle against Russian imperialism in constructing their national identity
- MO speeches
- 22
- speaker average
- 77.5
THW grant the WHO, in times of crisis, coercive powers to gather information about suspected infectious disease outbreaks and to enforce its policy recommendations.
- MO speeches
- 74
- 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).
- MO speeches
- 78
- speaker average
- 77.4
MO by motion topic
Speaker average from this speech on each kind of motion.
| Topic | Speeches | Speaker average |
|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 219 | 77.5 |
| Comedy & Novelty | 220 | 77.3 |
| Meta-Debate | 32 | 77.1 |
| Religion | 957 | 77.0 |
| Health & Medicine | 626 | 77.0 |
| Environment | 487 | 76.9 |
| History | 228 | 76.9 |
| Social & Identity | 5,630 | 76.9 |
| Education | 1,479 | 76.9 |
| Politics | 3,269 | 76.9 |
| International Relations | 2,417 | 76.9 |
| Sport | 1,088 | 76.8 |
Who gives it best
Highest speaker average from the MO speech, among debaters with 4 or more scored.
| Debater | Speeches | Speaker average |
|---|---|---|
| 🇭🇷Tin P. | 28 | 83.2 |
| 🇷🇸Milos M. | 6 | 83.2 |
| David A. | 16 | 83.1 |
| 🇲🇾Naveen | 8 | 82.9 |
| 🇵🇭Ignacio V. | 8 | 82.8 |
| 🇦🇺Dominic G. | 7 | 82.7 |
| 🇺🇸Enting L. | 7 | 82.7 |
| 🇬🇧Hamza C. | 10 | 82.6 |
| Emily F. | 7 | 82.6 |
| 🇬🇧Gareth Y. | 7 | 82.4 |