Macau Debate Open 2025
What it took to break at this edition, what was set and who set it.
Sat 15 Feb 2025
From 2 tabs, newest Macau Debate Open 2025.
How many points did it take?
11points were safe
in 2025
Across the last 2 editions with a figure, the middle was 11 (11, 11, newest first). The last team in averaged 77.5 speaks in 2025.
What will they set?
- Social & Identity24%
- Philosophy3 of 25
- Economics3 of 25
- Politics3 of 25
Out of 25 past motions with a topic, from 2 editions.
Practise Social & Identity motionsLesson: Generating arguments
How many teams, and how many break?
16of 93 teams made the open break
in 2025
Field strength: Below Average in 2025, from the ratings of the debaters who went.
Past motions
2 editions with motions on record, newest first.
Macau Debate Open 202513 motions
- Round 0TH, as an average North East Asian, would opt into the belief that all morality is artificially constructed.Practise this motion
- Round 1This House Supports a 100% heritage tax.Practise this motion
- Round 2This House, as the athlete, Would choose to a play in a foreign leaguePractise this motion
- Round 3TH, as the USA, welcomes the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)Practise this motion
- Round 4TH, as an average North East Asian, would opt into the belief that all morality is artificially constructed.Practise this motion
- Round 5TH, as feminism movement, would actively embrace and spread non-traditional relationship model (e.g. female-domination relationships, situationships)Practise this motion
- QuarterfinalsTHR the wide use of constructive ambiguity in International Law.Practise this motion
- SemifinalsTHBT Faithtok does more harm than goodPractise this motion
- Grand FinalTHP the life of an average monkey who lives in a resourceful jungle rather than the life of an average human being.Practise this motion
- Novice QuarterfinalsTHBT developing countries should develop carbon emissions trading marketsPractise this motion
- Novice SemifinalsThis House Regrets the decline in Open Source development in AI ModelPractise this motion
- Novice FinalTHP a world in which eulogies before death was normalisePractise this motion
- Schools FinalThis House Regrets the decline in Open Source development in AI ModelPractise this motion
Macau Debate Open 202412 motions
- Round 1THBT States should distribute funding to charities based on their effectivenessPractise this motion
- Round 2TH Regrets the association between sports and national pridePractise this motion
- Round 3THW ban all forms of religious proselytization in areas of high povertyPractise this motion
- Round 4TH, as a gay person living in a conservative society, would seek for a cooperative marriage instead of coming outPractise this motion
- Round 5THW nationalize all property in high demand downtown areasPractise this motion
- Open Quarter FinalsTH regrets the popularity of “Nv Pin”Practise this motion
- Open Semi FinalsTHBT apoliticality is immoralPractise this motion
- Open Grand FinalsTHW implement Universal Basic Income in MacaoPractise this motion
- Novice SemifinalsTHBT publicly funded universities should allocate funding to degree programs based on their employment outcome.Practise this motion
- Novice FinalsTH Opposes the emphasis on sacrifice within lovePractise this motion
- School SemifinalsTHBT publicly funded universities should allocate funding to degree programs based on their employment outcome.Practise this motion
- School FinalsTH Opposes the emphasis on sacrifice within lovePractise this motion
The break, year by year
The points that were safe, the last team in and how many broke, at each edition with results.
| Year | Safe on (points) | Last team in (speaks) | Open break |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | 77.5 | 16 of 93 |
| 2024 | 11 | 75.2 | 24 of 68 |
Every break in 2025
- Open break16 teams
- Novice break18 teams
- Schools break7 teams
How speakers score here
Speaker averages and what finishing high has taken.
- average speaker score, 2 editions
- 75.4
- where most speakers land
- 73.9 to 77.0
- average at tournaments of similar strength
- 74.6
What finishing high has taken
- Top speaker81.0
- 10th speaker78.6
- 20th speaker77.6
Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 2 editions.
Similar-strength tournaments
- Tilburg Open 202675.3
- Munich Open 202673.6