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Budapest Open 2025

2025-10-25 · Hungary, In person · BP

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The field

Below Average

A smaller or newer tournament. Good for building confidence and getting reps.

48 teams (This edition), 44 teams (2024), 49 teams (2023), 52 teams (2022)

Motions

Budapest Open 2025 (2025)10 motions
  • Round 1TH, as the LGBT movement in Hungary, would adopt nationalist rhetoric (i.e. using the Hungarian flag in pride, talking openly about being "queer and a patriot")
  • Round 2THS the increased use of Ozempic in weight loss.
  • Round 3THBT admission of new members into the EU should be done by qualified majority vote rather than by consensus
  • Round 4THBT rave culture brings more harm than good
  • Round 5This House prefers mutually agreed population exchange as a model for post-conflict settlement.
  • QuarterfinalsTH, as a fresh physics graduate, would pursue a commercial and profitable career (e.g., in finance or IT) rather than an academic scientific one
  • SemifinalsTHO the expansion of equity within the debate community
  • Grand FinalTH, as a Zaunite, would join Silco’s cause rather than Viktor’s cult.
  • Novice FinalsTHR the depiction of mentally ill artists as unappreciated geniuses (ie Van Gogh, Kafka).
  • Schools FinalsTHS the creation and use of Lethal Autonomous Robots

What gets set here

Social & Identity30%
International Relations20%
Health & Medicine10%
Meta-Debate10%
Fiction10%
Media10%

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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 · 30% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 20% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Health & Medicine · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Meta-Debate · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Fiction · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Media · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

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Breaking here

25% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 79.0.

Last edition: 12 of 48 teams broke.

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Break categories

This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:

  • Open break12 teams
  • Novice break4 teams
  • Schools break6 teams

How scoring works here

75.5 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 72.6 and 78.3.

This is 1.4 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 82.0

Top-10 pace 79.0

Top-20 pace 77.6

Median average speaks at each finishing spot, across 1 edition.

Comparable: Macau Debate Open 2026 (75.6), QMUL Open 2026 (72.9)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇷🇴 Ana C.MGThis House prefers mutually agreed population exchange as a model for post-conflict settlement.84
🇦🇹 Paula B.PMTHBT admission of new members into the EU should be done by qualified majority vote rather than by consensus84
Darin M.OWTHS the increased use of Ozempic in weight loss.84
Maj H.OWTHBT admission of new members into the EU should be done by qualified majority vote rather than by consensus84
Christopher L.DPMTHBT admission of new members into the EU should be done by qualified majority vote rather than by consensus84
Victor B.LOTH, as the LGBT movement in Hungary, would adopt nationalist rhetoric (i.e. using the Hungarian flag in pride, talking openly about being "queer and a patriot")83
Flora Z.MOTHBT admission of new members into the EU should be done by qualified majority vote rather than by consensus83
Maj H.DPMTHS the increased use of Ozempic in weight loss.83
Victor B.PMTHBT admission of new members into the EU should be done by qualified majority vote rather than by consensus83
Laura P.MOTHS the increased use of Ozempic in weight loss.83
Anna S.DPMTHS the increased use of Ozempic in weight loss.83
Jerneja L.MOTHBT admission of new members into the EU should be done by qualified majority vote rather than by consensus83

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