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Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 2025
Dec 20, 2025 · BP
Motions
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.
What gets set here
Politics27%
Social & Identity27%
Philosophy13%
Arts & Culture13%
Education7%
Economics7%
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21% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 80.0.
Last edition: 35 of 164 teams broke.
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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 |
| 🇬🇧 Max R. | DLO | This House opposes the increasing influence of customary authorities in African politics. | 86 |
| 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 |
| 🇩🇰 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 |
| 🇬🇧 Max P. | DLO | This House prefers a world where people do not care about what others think about them. | 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 |
| 🇬🇧 Sophie H. | LO | This House opposes the increasing influence of customary authorities in African politics. | 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 |
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