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Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2025
Dec 20, 2025 · BP
Motions from this series
Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2025 (2025)15 motionsCA: 🇺🇸 Pranav A., 🇦🇹 Paula B., 🇬🇧 Andrew C., 🇵🇭 Bea L., 🇺🇸 Mukudzeiishe M.
- Round 0This House believes that we are more likely to live in a simulation than a naturalistic universe (one that was not created by some being).
- Round 1This House would make secondary school (ages 12 to 18) mathematics education focus on statistics (e.g. probability, data analysis) as opposed to calculus (e.g. algebra, functions, differentiation).
- Round 2This House would break up and redistribute the collections of major metropolitan museums (e.g. the British Museum, the Louvre, the Met, etc).
- Round 3This House regrets Rogernomics.
- Round 4This House opposes the increasing influence of customary authorities in African politics.
- Round 5This House prefers a world where people do not care about what others think about them.
- OctofinalsThis House, as the anti-abortion movement, would prioritise secular as opposed to religious advocacy.
- ESL Partial QuartersThis House believes that post-colonial states should prioritise reformist as opposed to revolutionary values in nation-building.
- Novice Partial SemisThis House supports the glorification of 'authentic' tourist experiences that aim to reflect local life and culture.
- QuarterfinalsThis House would partition Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- ESL SemifinalsThis House believes that we are more likely to live in a simulation than a naturalistic universe (one that was not created by some being).
- Novice FinalsThis House supports Bulgarians being optimistic as opposed to pessimistic about the future.
- SemifinalsThis House prefers a world where most film is neo-realist.
- ESL FinalThis House regrets the slowdown in EU expansion post 2007.
- Grand FinalThis House believes that Angela Merkel's Chancellorship did more harm than good.
pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open (2024)12 motionsCA: 🇺🇸 Pranav A., Jeremiah E., 🇮🇪 Oisín B., 🇮🇱 Annie S., Jack S., 🇦🇹 Marina K.
- Round 1This House believes that previously colonised nations should prioritise lobbying for systemic reparations, rather than financial reparations
- Round 2This House believes that European centrist parties should seek to form coalitions that include the far right rather than seek coalitions that exclude them
- Round 3This House prefers a world in which it is the norm to remain single
- Round 4This House prefers a world composed of many smaller communes as opposed to a few large empires
- Round 5This House believes that countries should adopt an economic policy of non-retaliation against protectionist measures by emerging economies
- Open Partial-OctosThis House opposes the glorification of intelligence
- QuarterfinalsThis House believes that Panama should prioritise rural over urban development
- SemifinalsThis House believes that it is in the interests of Mojtaba Khomenei to introduce social and economic liberal reforms in Iran
- Grand FinalAssuming 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 Alpha
- ESL SemifinalsThis House supports 'L' becoming widely available
- ESL FinalsThis House regrets the mass recruitment of Gastarbeiter between 1955 and 1973
- Novice FinalsThis House would set sail to find the distant land
Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open (2022)12 motionsCA: Njuguna M., 🇬🇧 Lucie S., 🇦🇹 Katharina J., 🇬🇧 Andrew C.
- Round 1THS the normalisation of prenuptial agreements.
- Round 2THBT social movements should adopt the approach of ‘joyful militancy’.
- Round 3THS political centrism (e.g. favouring moderate policies and bipartisan approaches to political engagement, "reaching across the aisle") as a dominant political ideology.
- Round 4THBT for students over the age of 14, art and literature curricula should actively include works with violent or sexual themes, as opposed to minimising their role in the curriculum.
- Round 5THP energy policy and resources across EU Member States to be entirely controlled by an EU-run energy agency.
- Partial OctofinalsTHBT it is in the interests of highly developed countries to have immigration policy that favours immigrants that are projected to be high-paid instead of low-paid.
- QuarterfinalsTHO the focus on coming out in LGBTQ media and popular culture.
- SemifinalsTHBT advocacy for indigenous people should prioritise influencing general government policy over obtaining legal recognition of their status and historical grievances.
- Grand FinalTHO established states actively curating and promoting a patriotic sense of national identity
- ESL SemifinalsTHBT Biden should lift all sanctions on Venezuela.
- ESL FinalsTHP a world where everyone is equipped with a rePlayer.
- Novice FinalsTHP university admission standards to be based solely on a single ‘high-stake’ standardised exam, as opposed to solely on the average of the pupil’s performance over the course of their studies.
What gets set here
Politics28%
Social & Identity26%
Education8%
Economics8%
International Relations8%
Philosophy5%
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20% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.8.
Last edition: 35 of 164 teams broke.
- 202210 pts · 80.3 speaks26/122
- 202411 pts · 79.1 speaks25/133
- 202510 pts · 80.0 speaks35/164
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break35 teams
- ESL break22 teams
- Novice break12 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Udai K. | MO | This House opposes the increasing influence of customary authorities in African politics. | 90 |
| 🇦🇺 Jack S. | OW | This House opposes the increasing influence of customary authorities in African politics. | 89 |
| 🇬🇧 Aidan W. | LO | This House would break up and redistribute the collections of major metropolitan museums (e.g. the British Museum, the Louvre, the Met, etc). | 86 |
| 🇬🇧 Max R. | DLO | This House opposes the increasing influence of customary authorities in African politics. | 86 |
| 🇩🇰 Alisa P. | MO | This House would break up and redistribute the collections of major metropolitan museums (e.g. the British Museum, the Louvre, the Met, etc). | 86 |
| 🇬🇧 Tanush A. | DLO | This House would break up and redistribute the collections of major metropolitan museums (e.g. the British Museum, the Louvre, the Met, etc). | 85 |
| 🇺🇸 Muzamil G. | OW | This House would break up and redistribute the collections of major metropolitan museums (e.g. the British Museum, the Louvre, the Met, etc). | 84 |
| 🇩🇰 Daniyar B. | OW | This House would break up and redistribute the collections of major metropolitan museums (e.g. the British Museum, the Louvre, the Met, etc). | 84 |
| 🇨🇳 Ricky J. | MO | This House would break up and redistribute the collections of major metropolitan museums (e.g. the British Museum, the Louvre, the Met, etc). | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Max R. | DPM | This House would break up and redistribute the collections of major metropolitan museums (e.g. the British Museum, the Louvre, the Met, etc). | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Jack S. | LO | This House regrets Rogernomics. | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Sophie H. | LO | This House opposes the increasing influence of customary authorities in African politics. | 84 |
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