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Aberdeen Open 2025
2025-10-18 · Scotland, In person · BP
Motions
Aberdeen Open 2025 (2025)8 motions
- Round 1THP to be an Earl in 14th Century Scotland than an average person in Scotland today
- Round 2THO the prevalence non-field academics commenting on current affairs in mainstream news media (e.g. archaeologists quoted to support Brexit; historians quoted to support multi-gender bathrooms).
- Round 3TH, as a middle-class, UK-based, female biochemistry graduate, would choose to pursue their entire career in academia over their entire career in the private sector.
- Round 4THP documentaries that prioritise aesthetic and emotional experiences over documentaries that prioritise fact with minimal interpretive intervention.
- Round 5THS the EU's ReArm Europe Plan
- SemifinalsTHP the bodily account of identity to the psychological one.
- Pro-Am FinalsTH as Barry B Benson would date Vanessa Bloome
- Grand FinalTHR the fall of the Soviet Union
What gets set here
History25%
Media25%
Education13%
International Relations13%
Philosophy13%
Fiction13%
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Practice History motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›Breaking here
43% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 9 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.0.
Last edition: 9 of 21 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break9 teams
- Pro-Am break8 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Eli F. | MG | THO the prevalence non-field academics commenting on current affairs in mainstream news media (e.g. archaeologists quoted to support Brexit; historians quoted to support multi-gender bathrooms). | 83 |
| 🇬🇧 William S. | DLO | TH, as a middle-class, UK-based, female biochemistry graduate, would choose to pursue their entire career in academia over their entire career in the private sector. | 83 |
| 🇬🇧 Miya T. | DLO | THP to be an Earl in 14th Century Scotland than an average person in Scotland today | 82 |
| Matthew M. | GW | THS the EU's ReArm Europe Plan | 82 |
| Eoghan C. | OW | THO the prevalence non-field academics commenting on current affairs in mainstream news media (e.g. archaeologists quoted to support Brexit; historians quoted to support multi-gender bathrooms). | 82 |
| 🇬🇧 William S. | MO | THP documentaries that prioritise aesthetic and emotional experiences over documentaries that prioritise fact with minimal interpretive intervention. | 82 |
| 🇬🇧 Wurdaan K. | MO | THO the prevalence non-field academics commenting on current affairs in mainstream news media (e.g. archaeologists quoted to support Brexit; historians quoted to support multi-gender bathrooms). | 82 |
| Joshua S. | MG | THS the EU's ReArm Europe Plan | 82 |
| 🇬🇧 Wurdaan K. | MG | TH, as a middle-class, UK-based, female biochemistry graduate, would choose to pursue their entire career in academia over their entire career in the private sector. | 82 |
| 🇬🇧 Amy S. | OW | TH, as a middle-class, UK-based, female biochemistry graduate, would choose to pursue their entire career in academia over their entire career in the private sector. | 81 |
| Joshua S. | MO | TH, as a middle-class, UK-based, female biochemistry graduate, would choose to pursue their entire career in academia over their entire career in the private sector. | 81 |
| Joshua S. | LO | THP to be an Earl in 14th Century Scotland than an average person in Scotland today | 81 |
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