SSE Riga Pro-Am 2025

2025-10-25 · Latvia, In person · BP

Below Average

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

41 teams (This edition), 37 teams (2024)

SSE Riga Pro-Am 2025 (2025)5 motions

Round 1THW legalize all drugs
Round 2THBT it is possible to objectively judge the quality of art
Round 3THW ban advertising in public spaces
Round 4TH predicts that in 10 years the majority of Baltic citizens will regret the Rail Baltica project
Grand FinalThis House Prefers a World where the Space Race didn’t end

Economics40%

Law & Crime20%

Arts & Culture20%

History20%

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

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T-7Read the roomGo through this page once so nothing on the day surprises you.
T-6Work through "Generating arguments"Foundations for Economics motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-6Work through "Linear flow"Foundations for Law & Crime motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-5Prep sprint: one Economics motion, 15 minutes, full caseMechanism, actors, weighing. Time it like the real thing.Pull a motion ›
T-4Case-prep past motions this tournament actually setStart with: THW legalize all drugsMotion archive below ›
T-3One practice round with a partner or clubmateAsk for a Economics motion and your weaker bench.
T-2Second sprint: Law & CrimePull a motion ›
T-1Light review and logisticsReread the numbers above, check the schedule, sleep. No new material the night before.

10% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 74.9.

Last edition: 4 of 41 teams broke.

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??.?–??.? estimated speaker score

71.8 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 69.0 and 74.5.

This is 2.3 points below tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 77.8

Top-10 pace 75.5

Top-20 pace 73.3

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

Comparable: Macau Debate Open 2026 (75.6), Tilburg Open 2026 (75.3)

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

Debater	Speech	Motion	Score
Kaspar N.	MO	THW legalize all drugs	82
Andrew M.	MO	TH predicts that in 10 years the majority of Baltic citizens will regret the Rail Baltica project	81
Mattia M.	PM	TH predicts that in 10 years the majority of Baltic citizens will regret the Rail Baltica project	80
Karl K.	OW	THW legalize all drugs	80
Ieva B.	MO	THBT it is possible to objectively judge the quality of art	80
Daryna I.	MO	THBT it is possible to objectively judge the quality of art	80
Daniel R.	OW	THW legalize all drugs	80
Valentīns O.	PM	TH predicts that in 10 years the majority of Baltic citizens will regret the Rail Baltica project	79
Arp T.	GW	THBT it is possible to objectively judge the quality of art	79
Greg J.	PM	THW ban advertising in public spaces	79
Lola S.	DLO	THBT it is possible to objectively judge the quality of art	78
Karl K.	GW	THW ban advertising in public spaces	78

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