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Lagos Debate Open 2025
2025-06-01 · Nigeria, In person · BP
Motions
Lagos Debate Open 2025 (2025)8 motions
- Round 1THR the trend of quiet quitting
- Round 2This House will require teams in the NBA to agree personal terms with players before they can finalize trades.
- Round 3THP a world where major social media companies are treated as public utilities
- Round 4THBT LGBTQ+ movements in developing democracies should prioritize the narrative of "letting in" over that "coming out"
- Round 5THS granting full legal and personal identity continuity to uploaded minds as the same individual as their biological originals
- SemifinalsTHP a world where the prevalent religious narrative is of a "Hands-Off Creator"over ours with different claims of divine intervention.
- Novice FinalTH prefers a world where the preternatural is widely accepted and promoted as real rather than fictitious.
- Grand FinalAssuming feasibility, THBT the UN security council should cap military spending for all UN member states
What gets set here
Social & Identity38%
Technology25%
Sport13%
Religion13%
International Relations13%
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24% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 9 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.3.
Last edition: 8 of 33 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break8 teams
- Novice break4 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akinkunmi B. | MG | THBT LGBTQ+ movements in developing democracies should prioritize the narrative of "letting in" over that "coming out" | 82 |
| Ebubechukwu A. | DLO | THBT LGBTQ+ movements in developing democracies should prioritize the narrative of "letting in" over that "coming out" | 82 |
| Olamide O. | GW | THBT LGBTQ+ movements in developing democracies should prioritize the narrative of "letting in" over that "coming out" | 82 |
| 🇬🇭 Franco O. | PM | THBT LGBTQ+ movements in developing democracies should prioritize the narrative of "letting in" over that "coming out" | 81 |
| Vanessa U. | OW | THP a world where major social media companies are treated as public utilities | 81 |
| Ayodele S. | LO | THBT LGBTQ+ movements in developing democracies should prioritize the narrative of "letting in" over that "coming out" | 81 |
| Ayodele S. | PM | THP a world where major social media companies are treated as public utilities | 81 |
| Akinkunmi B. | PM | THS granting full legal and personal identity continuity to uploaded minds as the same individual as their biological originals | 81 |
| 🇬🇭 Franco O. | MG | THR the trend of quiet quitting | 81 |
| Vanessa U. | GW | THR the trend of quiet quitting | 81 |
| Olamide O. | DPM | THS granting full legal and personal identity continuity to uploaded minds as the same individual as their biological originals | 81 |
| 🇬🇭 Franco O. | MO | THP a world where major social media companies are treated as public utilities | 81 |
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