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From 3 tabs, newest Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2025.
How many points to break?
10points, the middle of
the last 3 editions
Safe points at the last 3 editions with a figure: 10, 11, 10, newest first. The last team in averaged 80.0 speaks in 2025.
How many teams, and how many break?
35of 164 teams broke
in 2025
Who has set the motions?
- 🇺🇸 Pranav A.
- 🇦🇹 Paula B.
- 🇬🇧 Andrew C.
- 🇵🇭 Bea L.
- 🇺🇸 Mukudzeiishe M.
Chief adjudicators in 2025, the newest tab that lists them.
What gets set here
Motions with a topic, from all 3 editions with results. Pick a year to see that edition alone.
39 categorised motions across all editions.
Inrounds and outrounds
| Topic | Inrounds | Outrounds |
|---|---|---|
| Politics | 4 of 16 | 30%7 of 23 |
| Social & Identity | 4 of 16 | 26%6 of 23 |
| International Relations | 1 of 16 | 2 of 23 |
| Abstract | 0 of 16 | 2 of 23 |
| Fiction | 0 of 16 | 1 of 23 |
Out of 16 inround and 23 outround motions with a topic, all editions.
Grand final motions
- 2025This House believes that Angela Merkel's Chancellorship did more harm than good.Politics
- 2024Assuming you're born in a western liberal democracy, This House Prefers to be born as a member of the Baby Boomer generation than as a member of Generation AlphaSocial & Identity
- 2022THO established states actively curating and promoting a patriotic sense of national identityPolitics
The open grand final of each edition, where the tab names it.
Every edition
The points that were safe, the last team in and how many broke. Open an edition for its motions and top speakers.
| Edition | Safe on (points) | Last team in (speaks) | Teams broke |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2025Sat 20 Dec 2025 | 10 | 80.0 | 35 of 164 |
| 2024pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2024Sat 21 Dec 2024 | 11 | 79.1 | 25 of 133 |
| 2023Vienna Pre-WUDC 2023: no tab yetSend us the tab | |||
| 2022Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2022Fri 16 Dec 2022 | 10 | 80.3 | 26 of 122 |
Who sets the motions
Chief adjudicators across all 3 editions.
| Chief adjudicator | Years |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Andrew C. | 2025, 2022 |
| 🇺🇸 Pranav A. | 2025, 2024 |
| 🇵🇭 Bea L. | 2025 |
| 🇺🇸 Mukudzeiishe M. | 2025 |
| 🇦🇹 Paula B. | 2025 |
| 🇮🇱 Annie S. | 2024 |
| Jack S. | 2024 |
| Jeremiah E. | 2024 |
| 🇦🇹 Marina K. | 2024 |
| 🇮🇪 Oisín B. | 2024 |
| 🇦🇹 Katharina J. | 2022 |
| 🇬🇧 Lucie S. | 2022 |
Show all 13 chief adjudicators
| Chief adjudicator | Years |
|---|---|
| Njuguna M. | 2022 |
How speakers score here
- average speaker score, 3 editions
- 77.0
- where most speakers land
- 74.6 to 79.3
What finishing high has taken
- Top speaker83.0
- 10th speaker81.4
- 20th speaker80.2
Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 3 editions.
Records and top speakers
Top speakers in this series
- 1David A.83.2
- 2🇵🇭 Tobi L.83.0
- 3🇦🇺 Jack S.2 editions83.0
- 4🇦🇺 Udai K.2 editions82.8
- 5🇺🇸 Madeleine W.82.4
- 6🇬🇧 Max R.82.4
- 7🇬🇧 Matt C.82.2
- 8🇬🇧 Chris C.82.2
- 9🇬🇧 Sophie H.82.2
- 10🇬🇧 Leo M.82.2
- 11🇬🇧 Max P.82.2
- 12🇺🇸 Enting L.82.0
- 13🇺🇸 Tejas S.82.0
- 14🇺🇸 Muzzi G.2 editions82.0
- 15🇬🇧 Tanush A.2 editions82.0
Best speaker average at any one edition.
Records
- Best speaker averageDavid A., 202283.2
- Biggest field2025164 teams
- Strongest fieldPremier2024
Field strength by year
- 2022Premier
- 2024Premier
- 2025Premier
Older editions predate much of the rating data we hold, so early years can read lower than they were.