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Shri Ram Pre-ABP 2025

What it took to break here, the topics that come up, and every past motion.

Aug 16, 2025BP1 edition with resultsField: Above Average

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Breaking here

of teams broke in 2025 (16 of 94)
17%
safe on
11 pts
average speaks of the last team in, 2025
78.2
teams in 2025
94

Your break chance here

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Break categories, 2025

  • Open break16 teams
  • Novice break5 teams

What gets set here

Share of 9 categorised motions across 1 edition. Bars run to 100%.

Practise Social & Identity motionsRead: Generating arguments

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Past motions

2025Shri Ram Pre-ABP 20259 motions
  1. Round 1THW allow political parties to make binding electoral promises that, once broken, will immediately trigger re-election
  2. Round 2THS the rise of citizen journalism
  3. Round 3In cases where laws are repealed or are found to be unconstitutional, THBT the state should reparate individuals convicted under those laws (e.g., LGBTQ+ people in India prosecuted under Section 377 before it was repealed in 2018, interracial couples in the US punished before Loving v. Virginia (1967), Black South Africans imprisoned under apartheid-era “pass laws” and protest bans, and women in the UK and US jailed in the early 1900s for protesting for voting rights.)
  4. Round 4THS animal rights movements that actively advocate against traditional religious and cultural practices that harm animals (e.g. indigenous whaling, native game hunting etc...)
  5. Round 5THBT the Milgram's obedience test should be a mandatory criteria for selecting army officers
  6. Novice FinalsTH prefers a world where humans do not value bodily aesthetics
  7. Open QuarterfinalsTHBT Malaysia’s federal government should require state consent before approving major foreign-led development projects
  8. Open SemifinalsTH, as the feminist movement, opposes Mattel's making of Barbie dolls out of feminist icons (e.g. Amelia Earhart, Freida Kahlo, Katherine Johnson etc...)
  9. Open Grand FinalTHR the rise of the narrative that one must fulfill their potential in life

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The field and the judges

Field

  • Field strengthAbove Average
  • Teams, 202594
  • Teams, 202481
  • Teams, 2023117
  • Teams, 202284
  • Teams, 202148

How speakers score here

average speaker score, 1 edition
75.8
where most speakers land
73.8 to 77.7
average at tournaments of similar strength
75.9

What finishing high has taken

  • Top speaker80.4
  • 10th speaker78.8
  • 20th speaker78.0

Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.

Similar-strength tournaments

  • Meta Open 202674.8
  • Drexel Pre-WUDC 202577.7

Top speeches

The highest speaker scores at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
Angela R.CGGWIn cases where laws are repealed or are found to be unconstitutional, THBT the state should reparate individuals convicted under those laws (e.g., LGBTQ+ people in India prosecuted under Section 377 before it was repealed in 2018, interracial couples in the US punished before Loving v. Virginia (1967), Black South Africans imprisoned under apartheid-era “pass laws” and protest bans, and women in the UK and US jailed in the early 1900s for protesting for voting rights.)83
🇬🇧 Andrew C.OOLOTHS animal rights movements that actively advocate against traditional religious and cultural practices that harm animals (e.g. indigenous whaling, native game hunting etc...)83
🇬🇧 Hans D.COOWTHBT the Milgram's obedience test should be a mandatory criteria for selecting army officers82
🇦🇺 Yang S.OOLOTHBT the Milgram's obedience test should be a mandatory criteria for selecting army officers82
🇨🇦 Raymond Q.CGMGTHBT the Milgram's obedience test should be a mandatory criteria for selecting army officers82
🇯🇵 Nasa T.CGMGTHS animal rights movements that actively advocate against traditional religious and cultural practices that harm animals (e.g. indigenous whaling, native game hunting etc...)82
🇬🇧 Andrew C.COOWTHW allow political parties to make binding electoral promises that, once broken, will immediately trigger re-election82
🇺🇸 Caleb L.OODLOTHS the rise of citizen journalism82
Tajei P.OGPMIn cases where laws are repealed or are found to be unconstitutional, THBT the state should reparate individuals convicted under those laws (e.g., LGBTQ+ people in India prosecuted under Section 377 before it was repealed in 2018, interracial couples in the US punished before Loving v. Virginia (1967), Black South Africans imprisoned under apartheid-era “pass laws” and protest bans, and women in the UK and US jailed in the early 1900s for protesting for voting rights.)82
Tajei P.OOLOTHS the rise of citizen journalism82
🇦🇺 Auguste M.OODLOTHBT the Milgram's obedience test should be a mandatory criteria for selecting army officers82
🇬🇧 Chris C.COMOTHW allow political parties to make binding electoral promises that, once broken, will immediately trigger re-election82

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