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Brazil Open 2025
May 31, 2025 · BP
Motions
Brazil Open 2025 (2025)9 motions
- Round 1This House Believes That universities should lift all restrictions on the use of Artificial Intelligence for assignments.
- Round 2This House Regrets the rise of podcast culture.
- Round 3This House Believes That the US Democratic Party should embrace the Abundance Agenda.
- Round 4This House Believes That Brazil should classify major organized crime groups* as terrorist groups. *e.g. Comando Vermelho (CV), Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), etc.
- Round 5This House Believes That choice feminism has done more harm than good for the feminist movement.
- SemifinalsThis House Predicts That the end of ultra-loose monetary policies* in developed countries will do more long-term harm than good. *e.g. near-zero interest rates, quantitative easing, and yield curve control in Japan, the US, and the EU.
- Grand FinalIn democracies, This House Opposes attempts by courts to ban far right political figures from running for office*, even in cases where they are alleged to have committed crimes. *e.g. Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Calin Georgescu in Romania, Marine Le Pen in France.
- ESL FinalsThis House Believes That a new nuclear deal with the United States is in the interests of Iran.
- Novice FinalsThis House Opposes the popularity of the “enemies to lovers” trope in fiction.
What gets set here
Media22%
Politics22%
Education11%
Law & Crime11%
Social & Identity11%
Economics11%
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13% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 80.3.
Last edition: 8 of 61 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break8 teams
- ESL break5 teams
- Novice break4 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Lucie S. | DLO | This House Believes That the US Democratic Party should embrace the Abundance Agenda. | 85 |
| 🇺🇸 Matt M. | DPM | This House Believes That Brazil should classify major organized crime groups* as terrorist groups. *e.g. Comando Vermelho (CV), Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), etc. | 85 |
| 🇺🇸 Ethan J. | GW | This House Regrets the rise of podcast culture. | 85 |
| 🇬🇧 Lucie S. | DLO | This House Believes That Brazil should classify major organized crime groups* as terrorist groups. *e.g. Comando Vermelho (CV), Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), etc. | 85 |
| 🇨🇦 Hidden debater · 2dm6 | MG | This House Believes That choice feminism has done more harm than good for the feminist movement. | 84 |
| 🇨🇦 Hidden debater · 2dm6 | MO | This House Believes That the US Democratic Party should embrace the Abundance Agenda. | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Matt M. | MG | This House Believes That the US Democratic Party should embrace the Abundance Agenda. | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Veer J. | MG | This House Regrets the rise of podcast culture. | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Amitai P. | LO | This House Believes That the US Democratic Party should embrace the Abundance Agenda. | 84 |
| 🇨🇦 Hidden debater · 2dm6 | DLO | This House Regrets the rise of podcast culture. | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Amitai P. | LO | This House Believes That Brazil should classify major organized crime groups* as terrorist groups. *e.g. Comando Vermelho (CV), Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), etc. | 84 |
| 🇩🇰 Darin M. | MO | This House Believes That Brazil should classify major organized crime groups* as terrorist groups. *e.g. Comando Vermelho (CV), Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), etc. | 84 |
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