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Ghana Universities Debate Championship 2025
Oct 7, 2025 · Ghana, In person · BP
Motions
Ghana Universities Debate Championship 2025 (2025)14 motions
- Round 1This House As the Black Stars would exclude Kelvin Damptey from the AFCON Finals Squad.
- Round 2This House Opposes the romanticization of indigenous ethnic identity in determining national loyalty.
- Round 3This House regrets the overemphasis of respectability in Ghanaian settings.
- Round 4Isabella is an accomplished female scientist in the field of physics who has been approached by a magazine to appear on their cover page where she would be introduced as 'the sexy scientist of the physics world
- Round 5THA the West opposes the MFN principle.
- Round 7This House Prefers a world where religious beliefs and teachings are not codified into scripture or doctrine
- Round 8THBT post coup countries should be given international recognition if they demonstrate popular domestic support
- Round 9This House Believes that Ghana's minor gods should unionize
- Open Partial SemiFinalsThis House believes that radical digital disconnection among the youth is a morally justified response to modern capitalism Ghana Universities Debate Association
- Novice QuarterfinalsIn highly conservative countries, THA the feminist movement will push against choice feminisim
- Open SemifinalsTHBT preserving the integrity of the timeline outweighs altering gruesome historical events.
- Novice SemifinalsThis House prefers UN partner-led missions (e.g. Kenyan-led mission in Haiti) over direct US involvement in conflict states.
- Novice FinalAssuming logistical feasibility, This House Prefers a world where foreign aid is distributed directly to individual citizens rather than through their national governments
- Open Grand FinalThis House believes that states should not fund the treatment of lifestyle diseases
What gets set here
Social & Identity36%
International Relations29%
Sport7%
Religion7%
Comedy & Novelty7%
Philosophy7%
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22% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 17 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 76.9.
Last edition: 13 of 58 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break13 teams
- Novice break37 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dewilaa F. | DLO | This House Prefers a world where religious beliefs and teachings are not codified into scripture or doctrine | 84 |
| Henry F. | LO | This House Prefers a world where religious beliefs and teachings are not codified into scripture or doctrine | 83 |
| 🇬🇭 Henaku O. | OW | This House Prefers a world where religious beliefs and teachings are not codified into scripture or doctrine | 83 |
| Desmond D. | PM | This House Believes that Ghana's minor gods should unionize | 83 |
| Isaac N. | MG | THBT post coup countries should be given international recognition if they demonstrate popular domestic support | 83 |
| 🇬🇭 Henaku O. | OW | Isabella is an accomplished female scientist in the field of physics who has been approached by a magazine to appear on their cover page where she would be introduced as 'the sexy scientist of the physics world | 83 |
| Dennis B. | LO | — | 83 |
| 🇬🇭 Henaku O. | DPM | This House As the Black Stars would exclude Kelvin Damptey from the AFCON Finals Squad. | 82 |
| 🇬🇭 Henaku O. | GW | THBT post coup countries should be given international recognition if they demonstrate popular domestic support | 82 |
| Joel A. | PM | THBT post coup countries should be given international recognition if they demonstrate popular domestic support | 82 |
| Desmond D. | PM | This House As the Black Stars would exclude Kelvin Damptey from the AFCON Finals Squad. | 82 |
| Desmond D. | MO | Isabella is an accomplished female scientist in the field of physics who has been approached by a magazine to appear on their cover page where she would be introduced as 'the sexy scientist of the physics world | 82 |
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