Sat 29 Mar 2025
From 2 tabs, newest DTU PD 2025.
How many points did it take?
10points were safe
in 2025
Across the last 2 editions with a figure, the middle was 11 (10, 11, newest first). The last team in averaged 77.0 speaks in 2025.
What will they set?
- Social & Identity35%
- Economics4 of 17
- Technology2 of 17
- Fiction2 of 17
Out of 17 past motions with a topic, from 2 editions.
Practise Social & Identity motionsLesson: Generating arguments
How many teams, and how many break?
8of 48 teams made the open break
in 2025
Field strength: Premier in 2025, from the ratings of the debaters who went.
Past motions
2 editions with motions on record, newest first.
DTU PD 20258 motions
- Round 1This House Opposes the romanticisation of financial struggle in popular culturePractise this motion
- Round 2TH, as the scientist, will not publish the researchPractise this motion
- Round 3TH would harmonize Wikipedia entries in all languagesPractise this motion
- Round 4THBT Quantitative Easing does more harm than good.Practise this motion
- Round 5In post conflict states with multiple ethnicities, THP Consociationalism (CS) over Centripetalism (CP)Practise this motion
- SemifinalsThis House Supports the collaboration of EU’s Global Gateway Strategy with China’s Belt and Road Initiative.Practise this motion
- Grand FinalTHBT the Wheel of Time should be destroyed.Practise this motion
- Novice FinalTH as Commissioner Gordon would not use the Bat signal.Practise this motion
DTU PD 20239 motions
- Round 1THBT the left should not glorify individual politicians who belong to marginalized groups on the basis of their identity of them belonging to that group (examples include but are not limited to: suggesting that this politician's success represents a success for that minority group, suggesting that the politician's identity gives them unique knowledge/experience that will help them be a good leader)Practise this motion
- Round 2THO the rise of second-wave digisexual technologiesPractise this motion
- Round 3TH as Generation Z, W reject the concept of a nuclear family.Practise this motion
- Round 4THR the commercialization of space.Practise this motion
- Round 5THR the commercialization of space.Practise this motion
- Novice Semi FinalsTHP a world where people did not attempt to leave behind a legacy.Practise this motion
- Novice FinalsTHP a world where the vast majority of people lived in cohousing communities.Practise this motion
- Open Pre Semi FinalsTHW reject the veil of ignorancePractise this motion
- SemifinalsTHR the normalization of debt in the everday consumption habits of normal consumers.Practise 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 | 10 | 77.0 | 8 of 48 |
| 2023 | 11 | 77.5 | 12 of 71 |
Every break in 2025
- Open break8 teams
- Novice break4 teams
How speakers score here
Speaker averages, what finishing high has taken, and the top speeches at this edition.
- average speaker score, 2 editions
- 75.5
- where most speakers land
- 73.5 to 77.6
- average at tournaments of similar strength
- 76.8
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
- Doxbridge 3: Return of the King76.9
- LSE Open 202178.3
Top speeches
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇮🇳 V. S. | COMO | TH, as the scientist, will not publish the research | 84 |
| Debayan B. | COOW | TH, as the scientist, will not publish the research | 83 |
| Debayan B. | OGPM | THBT Quantitative Easing does more harm than good. | 82 |
| 🇮🇳 V. S. | OGDPM | THBT Quantitative Easing does more harm than good. | 82 |
| 🇮🇳 Vansh C. | OODLO | TH, as the scientist, will not publish the research | 81 |
| 🇮🇳 Sehaj R. | OODLO | THBT Quantitative Easing does more harm than good. | 81 |
| 🇮🇳 Angad C. | OGPM | This House Opposes the romanticisation of financial struggle in popular culture | 81 |
| 🇮🇳 Angad C. | COOW | In post conflict states with multiple ethnicities, THP Consociationalism (CS) over Centripetalism (CP) | 81 |
| 🇮🇳 Angad C. | OOLO | TH, as the scientist, will not publish the research | 81 |
| 🇮🇳 K. S. | OOLO | THBT Quantitative Easing does more harm than good. | 81 |
| 🇮🇳 V. S. | OGDPM | This House Opposes the romanticisation of financial struggle in popular culture | 80 |
| 🇮🇳 K. S. | OOLO | This House Opposes the romanticisation of financial struggle in popular culture | 80 |