NUDC 2025

2025 · BP

Below Average

A smaller or newer tournament. Good for building confidence and getting reps.

97 teams (This edition), 114 teams (2024)

NUDC 2025 (2025)13 motions

Round 1This House Opposes the norm that rewards 'going the extra mile'
Round 1This House Regrets the idolization of historical figures
Round 1This house would significantly prioritize political compatibility in relationships
Round 1This House Opposes the acquisition of smaller AI companies by the four major AI developers
Round 1As a working-class Gen-Z, This house would actively seek a full-time career in content creation
Round 1As the feminist movement, This house would heavily center its advocacy on microfeminism
Round 1In combating recession, This House Believes That developing countries should implement negative interest rate policy to stimulate the economy
Round 1This house supports the narrative that hardships are a part of God's trials as opposed to the Devil's work
Round 1This House Believes that the advocacy against right-wing populism should primarily be based on economy (ie. macroeconomic policies, tax, etc) as opposed to social and moral aspects (ie. gender, race, and religion etc
Round 1THW implement plea bargaining into the Indonesian legal system
Round 1As the Indonesian government, THW prioritize the development of football in the expense of other sports
Round 1This House Prefers that mankind universally adopts the 'Babel' as an everyday language
Round 1This House Supports the Brexit Reset deal

Social & Identity8%

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T-7Read the roomGo through this page once so nothing on the day surprises you.
T-6Work through "Generating arguments"Foundations for Social & Identity motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-6Work through "Weighing arguments"Foundations for Philosophy motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-5Prep sprint: one Social & Identity motion, 15 minutes, full caseMechanism, actors, weighing. Time it like the real thing.Pull a motion ›
T-4Case-prep past motions this tournament actually setStart with: This House Opposes the norm that rewards 'going the extra mile'Motion archive below ›
T-3One practice round with a partner or clubmateAsk for a Social & Identity motion and your weaker bench.
T-2Second sprint: PhilosophyPull a motion ›
T-1Light review and logisticsReread the numbers above, check the schedule, sleep. No new material the night before.

33% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 77.5.

Last edition: 32 of 97 teams broke.

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??.?–??.? estimated speaker score

This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:

75.5 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 73.2 and 77.9.

This is 0.9 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 81.2

Top-10 pace 79.5

Top-20 pace 78.3

Median average speaks at each finishing spot, across 1 edition.

Comparable: Macau Debate Open 2026 (75.6), Tilburg Open 2026 (75.3)

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

Debater	Speech	Motion	Score
🇮🇩 Carlsson K.	LO	—	83
Muhammad R.	MO	—	83
🇮🇩 Carlsson K.	MO	—	83
🇮🇩 Brian H.	DLO	—	82
Nurul F.	MO	—	82
🇮🇩 Jason S.	OW	—	82
Muhammad R.	MG	—	82
Septian A.	LO	—	82
Mahben H.	MG	—	82
Raziq A.	OW	—	82
Zahra M.	OW	—	82
Aluh A.	GW	—	82

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