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Diliman Pre-ABP 2025
2025-06-01 · Online · BP · Online
Motions from this series
Diliman Pre-ABP 2025 (2025)9 motions
- Round 1This house, as an average highschool student in the developed world, would choose not to attend university
- Round 2This house believes that governments should predominantly tax wealth instead of income
- Round 3This house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events
- Round 4This house opposes widespread catastrophizing narratives about the Trump presidency
- Round 5In states with a past history of ethnic tensions, TH supports the 'Two Schools under One Roof' system
- Pre-SemifinalsThis house opposes the criminalisation of hate speech
- SemifinalsThis house, as Vladimir Putin, regrets the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
- Grand FinalThis house believes democracy is in sustained decline in western society
- Schools FinalsThis house prefers a world where individuals can erase specific parts of their memories
Diliman Pre-ABP 2023 (2023)10 motions
- Round 1TH, as a fresh college graduate, would choose to aggressively pursue the FIRE lifestyle
- Round 2THBT it is in the interest of developed countries to enact an immigration amnesty for all existing undocumented immigrants
- Round 3THR the premium placed on patience as a virtue
- Round 4In new democracies, This House believes that the state should center the national identity around leaders and iconic figures rather than ideologies
- Round 5This House believes that the feminist movement should reject the introduction of laws regulating sexual violence, if they are framed as protecting women's modesty
- QuarterfinalsThis House would impose a capital gains tax on luxury goods in the Philippines
- SemifinalsTHBT the Nigerian government should actively encourage technology companies to set up charter cities
- Grand FinalTHBT the project of liberal democracy has failed
- Novice SemifinalsThis House would ban for-profit hospitals
- Novice FinalsThis House would allow UN peacekeeping forces to hire paramilitary groups
What gets set here
Social & Identity37%
Politics32%
Economics16%
Education11%
International Relations11%
Health & Medicine11%
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Practice Social & Identity motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›Breaking here
16% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.0.
Last edition: 14 of 86 teams broke.
- 202311 pts · 78.8 speaks17/104
- 202511 pts · 79.2 speaks14/86
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break14 teams
- Schools break5 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yashovardhan B. | DPM | This house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events | 84 |
| 🇮🇪 Andy C. | MG | This house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events | 83 |
| Archit L. | PM | This house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events | 83 |
| 🇨🇳 Ricky J. | DLO | This house opposes widespread catastrophizing narratives about the Trump presidency | 83 |
| 🇵🇭 Bea L. | MO | This house opposes widespread catastrophizing narratives about the Trump presidency | 83 |
| Naomi A. | OW | This house believes that governments should predominantly tax wealth instead of income | 82 |
| 🇸🇬 Way D. | GW | This house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events | 82 |
| Isobel D. | DPM | In states with a past history of ethnic tensions, TH supports the 'Two Schools under One Roof' system | 82 |
| 🇵🇭 Sam T. | DPM | This house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events | 82 |
| 🇦🇺 Yang S. | PM | In states with a past history of ethnic tensions, TH supports the 'Two Schools under One Roof' system | 82 |
| 🇵🇭 Chelsea F. | PM | This house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events | 82 |
| 🇨🇳 Daisy J. | LO | This house opposes widespread catastrophizing narratives about the Trump presidency | 82 |
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