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North American Universities' Debating Championships 2026

Mar 6, 2026 · BP

Part of the North American Universities Debating Championship (NAUDC) series →

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The field

Ultra Premier

Expect the absolute best in the world to attend.

81 teams (This edition), 114 teams (2025), 79 teams (2024), 83 teams (2023), 80 teams (2022)

Motions

NAUDC 2026 (2026)11 motions
  • Round 1This house prefers photography* to literature as an artistic medium for evoking the sublime. *non-video
  • Round 2This house believes that the United States’ capture of Nicolás Maduro is in the interests of the Colombian people.
  • Round 3This house believes that animal advocates should encourage people to eat more meat from mammals (e.g., beef and pork) and fewer products from other animals (e.g., fish and chicken).
  • Round 4This house believes that the prominence of sports in American colleges and universities does more harm than good.
  • Round 5This house believes that it is in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party to significantly loosen restrictions on short selling.
  • Round 6This house predicts that most members of Generation Z in the West will never be in long-standing relationships.
  • Round 7This house prefers households in the United States to consume less and save more, in line with other advanced economies.
  • QuarterfinalsThis house believes that the Sunni doctrine of Ikhtilaf (permissible disagreement) has done more harm than good to Muslims.
  • SemifinalsThis house believes that breaking up large American technology companies would reduce overall existential risk from artificial intelligence.
  • FinalsThis house prefers the property view of romantic love to the relationship view of romantic love.
  • Novice FinalsThis house prefers plot-driven musicals to melodic-driven musicals.

What gets set here

Arts & Culture18%
Economics18%
International Relations9%
Environment9%
Education9%
Social & Identity9%

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You vs this tournament

What gets set here, next to how you have scored on each category across your own imported rounds.

  • Arts & Culture · 18% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Economics · 18% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Environment · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Education · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Social & Identity · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

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Breaking here

22% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 14 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 78.7.

Last edition: 18 of 81 teams broke.

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Break categories

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

  • Open break18 teams
  • Novice break8 teams

How scoring works here

76.3 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 73.8 and 78.8.

This is 0.6 points below tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 81.3

Top-10 pace 80.0

Top-20 pace 79.4

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

Comparable: Vienna Pre-EUDC 2026 (77.2), St Andrews Pre-EUDC Part 1 (77.2)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇨🇦 Diba H.DLOThis house predicts that most members of Generation Z in the West will never be in long-standing relationships.84
🇺🇸 Vincent Y.DPMThis house prefers households in the United States to consume less and save more, in line with other advanced economies.83
Anders W.DPMThis house believes that the prominence of sports in American colleges and universities does more harm than good.83
🇺🇸 Clement T.PMThis house believes that it is in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party to significantly loosen restrictions on short selling.83
Anders W.DPMThis house believes that animal advocates should encourage people to eat more meat from mammals (e.g., beef and pork) and fewer products from other animals (e.g., fish and chicken).83
Stephanie C.DPMThis house prefers households in the United States to consume less and save more, in line with other advanced economies.83
Stephanie C.DLOThis house believes that the prominence of sports in American colleges and universities does more harm than good.83
🇺🇸 Maria X.LOThis house believes that the prominence of sports in American colleges and universities does more harm than good.83
🇺🇸 Amy C.OWThis house believes that it is in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party to significantly loosen restrictions on short selling.83
🇺🇸 Soren J.OWThis house believes that it is in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party to significantly loosen restrictions on short selling.83
Sheryar F.OWThis house prefers households in the United States to consume less and save more, in line with other advanced economies.83
🇺🇸 Will R.DPMThis house believes that the prominence of sports in American colleges and universities does more harm than good.83

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