Opposition Whip OW
Speaker scores for the OW speech, from majors and strong-field tournaments only, so weak or inflated-scale events don't skew them.
COSecond speaker for Closing Opposition
What does OW score?
speaker average
highest score
From 27,512 OW speeches by 7,733 debaters in imported tabs. People known only from the historical archive are left out, as on the leaderboard.
Best OW speeches
The highest speaker scores given from this speech.
| Debater | Score | Motion | Tournament |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺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 |
| 🇺🇸Tejas S. | 88 | THBT The Pacific Alliance should introduce a common currencyMadrid WUDC 2023 | Madrid WUDC 2023 |
| 🇬🇧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 |
| Dan L. | 88 | This house would not allow out of court settlements for workplace discrimination and harassmentMexico 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 |
| 🇸🇬Deon K. | 88 | This House prefers Hayekian economic policies to Keynesian economic policiesGlasgow European Universities Debating Championships 2024 | Glasgow European Universities Debating Championships 2024 |
| 🇺🇸Xiao-Ke L. | 87 | THBT developing countries should adopt MGNREGA-style rural employment guaranteesEconomics Open 2021 | Economics Open 2021 |
| 🇦🇺Kat C. | 87 | TH, as an average individual in the world today, would prefer to be immortalMadrid WUDC 2023 | Madrid WUDC 2023 |
| 🇬🇧Matt H. | 87 | This house would limit the amount of time that a museum can display a given piece of art to 3 months out of every 10 year period, rather than allow museums to display their works as long as they chooseMexico WUDC 2018 | Mexico WUDC 2018 |
| 🇷🇴Carasel V. | 87 | THP religious beliefs of Collective Salvation, rather than religious beliefs of Individual SalvationThe Earlsfort Open 2023 | The Earlsfort Open 2023 |
| Dylan C. | 87 | THBT South Korean feminists should advocate for the mandatory conscription of womenTrinity Open 2024 | Trinity Open 2024 |
| 🇺🇸David | 87 | This house would limit the amount of time that a museum can display a given piece of art to 3 months out of every 10 year period, rather than allow museums to display their works as long as they chooseMexico WUDC 2018 | Mexico WUDC 2018 |
Motions OW 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.
- OW speeches
- 28
- speaker average
- 78.4
THW ban viatical settlements
- OW speeches
- 46
- speaker average
- 78.1
THW allow city and local governments to be held civilly responsible for deaths that can be ascribed to homelessness
- OW speeches
- 22
- speaker average
- 77.9
THW revoke registered charitable status from groups that focus solely or primarily on "advancing religion"
- OW speeches
- 20
- speaker average
- 77.9
THR the romanticisation of love marriages in Bollywood movies
- OW speeches
- 40
- speaker average
- 77.7
THO the use of VAR in football in its current form
- OW speeches
- 26
- speaker average
- 77.5
THBT the Democratic Party leadership should publicly commit to using 'procedurally activist' congressional tactics to pursue their policy objectives.
- OW speeches
- 74
- speaker average
- 77.5
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
- OW speeches
- 88
- speaker average
- 77.5
OW by motion topic
Speaker average from this speech on each kind of motion.
| Topic | Speeches | Speaker average |
|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 208 | 77.7 |
| Comedy & Novelty | 195 | 77.1 |
| Health & Medicine | 585 | 77.0 |
| Religion | 915 | 76.9 |
| Sport | 1,021 | 76.9 |
| Social & Identity | 5,255 | 76.9 |
| Politics | 3,186 | 76.8 |
| International Relations | 2,280 | 76.8 |
| History | 221 | 76.8 |
| Environment | 455 | 76.8 |
| Education | 1,398 | 76.8 |
| Media | 1,001 | 76.7 |
Who gives it best
Highest speaker average from the OW speech, among debaters with 4 or more scored.
| Debater | Speeches | Speaker average |
|---|---|---|
| ðŸ‡ðŸ‡·Luka P. | 4 | 83.0 |
| 🇧🇬Niki A. | 7 | 82.9 |
| 🇺🇸Aditya D. | 6 | 82.8 |
| 🇬🇧Matt H. | 5 | 82.8 |
| 🇮🇪Andy C. | 5 | 82.8 |
| 🇸🇬Nar M. | 4 | 82.8 |
| 🇮🇱Hadar G. | 12 | 82.8 |
| 🇳🇱Emma L. | 4 | 82.8 |
| 🇮🇩Tengku H. | 5 | 82.6 |
| 🇬🇧Maximus P. | 6 | 82.5 |