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Diliman Pre-ABP 2025

2025-06-01 · Online · BP · Online

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The field

Ultra Premier

Expect the absolute best in the world to attend.

86 teams (This edition), 104 teams (2023)

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

You vs this tournament

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

  • Social & Identity · 37% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Politics · 32% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Economics · 16% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Education · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Health & Medicine · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

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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

How scoring works here

76.8 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 74.8 and 78.7.

This is 0.3 points below tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 80.8

Top-10 pace 79.6

Top-20 pace 79.0

Median average speaks at each finishing spot, across 2 editions.

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
Yashovardhan B.DPMThis house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events84
🇮🇪 Andy C.MGThis house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events83
Archit L.PMThis house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events83
🇨🇳 Ricky J.DLOThis house opposes widespread catastrophizing narratives about the Trump presidency83
🇵🇭 Bea L.MOThis house opposes widespread catastrophizing narratives about the Trump presidency83
Naomi A.OWThis house believes that governments should predominantly tax wealth instead of income82
🇸🇬 Way D.GWThis house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events82
Isobel D.DPMIn states with a past history of ethnic tensions, TH supports the 'Two Schools under One Roof' system82
🇵🇭 Sam T.DPMThis house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events82
🇦🇺 Yang S.PMIn states with a past history of ethnic tensions, TH supports the 'Two Schools under One Roof' system82
🇵🇭 Chelsea F.PMThis house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events82
🇨🇳 Daisy J.LOThis house opposes widespread catastrophizing narratives about the Trump presidency82

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