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Uhuru Worlds (Panthera) 2022

2022-06-01 · South Africa · BP

Part of the Uhuru Worlds series →

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The field

Average

A standard open. Solid competition with a mix of experience levels.

93 teams (This edition), 157 teams (2021), 104 teams (2021)

Motions from this series

Uhuru Worlds (Panthera) 2022 (2022)7 motions
  • Round 1THW ban plea bargains
  • Round 2THBT environmental movements should advocate for carbon offsetting as a primary strategy for combatting climate change
  • Round 3THBT the feminist movement should strongly encourage women to enter traditionally male sectors e.g. STEM, Finance, etc.
  • Round 4THBT major technology companies should make all their software open source
  • Round 5In countries where first-past-the-post is the voting system, THBT smaller political parties should focus their election campaigns on producing hung parliaments instead of campaigning on positive policy platforms.
  • Round 6THBT AUKUS is in the interest of ASEAN
  • Round 7THBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings
Uhuru Worlds (Loxodonta) 2021 (2021)5 motions
  • Round 1THBT progressive political candidates and parties should refuse to accept donations from corporations and high-net individuals.
  • Round 2THS Mafia Association Laws.
  • Round 3THW confiscate persistently vacant residential properties to use as social housing.
  • Round 6TH as developing states would prefer the use of a neutral aggregate currency to the US Dollar as the global reserve currency
  • Round 7THBT settler-states should pursue immigration policies that lead to no cultural or racial group being a majority of the population.
Uhuru Worlds (Outrounds) 2021 (2021)9 motions
  • OctofinalsTHS Russian intervention in the Nagorno-Karabakh Region
  • QuarterfinalsTH, as a wealthy retired contact sport player, would sue their former teams for health problems obtained during their careers.
  • SemifinalsTHR the Mbokodo narrative
  • Grand FinalTH, as a fiction author of national importance, would write books that cannot be construed as a "national allegory".
  • ESL QuarterfinalsTHBT countries with judicial supremacy should confirm new Supreme Court judges by a nation-wide popular vote requiring a 60% majority.
  • ESL SemifinalsTHW grant the River Nile environmental personhood, with rights against pollution and mismanagement sued for in national courts by a set of independent trustees.
  • ESL FinalsTHW not induct successful athletes strongly suspected to have used performance enhancing drugs to their sport's Hall of Fame.
  • Schools SemifinalsTHW ban the appearance of children on reality television
  • Schools FinalsTHW create UN protectorates in failing states.
Uhuru Worlds 2021 Panthera Division (2021)7 motions
  • Round 1THBT liberal media organizations should actively glorify political candidates of color.
  • Round 2THP a world in which no one sought revenge
  • Round 3THS the use of adversity scores in college admission exams
  • Round 4THS the rise of the anti-hero in film and television
  • Round 5THW abolish the common farming exception.
  • Round 6TH, as developing economies, would require international actors to match the financial value of their indirect foreign investment in the form of foreign direct investment as a prerequisite of entry into investment in their stock exchange
  • Round 7THBT the queer community should actively promote queer theology at the expense of critique to religion

What gets set here

Social & Identity14%
Politics14%
Law & Crime11%
International Relations11%
Economics11%
Media11%

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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.

  • Social & Identity · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Politics · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Law & Crime · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Economics · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Media · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

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Breaking here

13% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 14 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 77.1.

Last edition: 13 of 93 teams broke.

  • 202114 pts · 77.6 speaks22/157
  • 202114 pts · 77.7 speaks12/104
  • 202214 pts · 76.0 speaks13/93
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Break categories

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

  • Open break13 teams
  • ESL break19 teams
  • Schools break50 teams

How scoring works here

75.4 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 72.7 and 78.2.

This is 0.3 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 80.6

Top-10 pace 78.9

Top-20 pace 77.9

Median average speaks at each finishing spot, across 3 editions.

Comparable: Meta Open 2026 (74.8), Tilburg Open 2026 (75.3)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇮🇪 Gabrielle F.MOTHBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings84
AinOWTHBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings84
🇺🇸 Sreyan K.MGTHW ban plea bargains83
🇮🇪 Dylan C.OWTHBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings83
🇺🇸 Pranav A.LOTHBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings82
🇮🇪 Dylan C.PMTHBT environmental movements should advocate for carbon offsetting as a primary strategy for combatting climate change82
🇮🇪 Dylan C.LOTHBT the feminist movement should strongly encourage women to enter traditionally male sectors e.g. STEM, Finance, etc.82
🇺🇸 Kayla P.GWTHW ban plea bargains82
Bernard A.MOTHBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings82
🇮🇳 Ritabrata M.OWTHBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings82
Allison L.MGTHBT major technology companies should make all their software open source82
🇮🇪 Gabrielle F.DPMIn countries where first-past-the-post is the voting system, THBT smaller political parties should focus their election campaigns on producing hung parliaments instead of campaigning on positive policy platforms.82

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