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West African UDC 2025
2025-06-01 · BP
Motions
West African UDC 2025 (2025)13 motions
- Round 1This House Believes that streaming platforms have a responsibility to diversify moral narratives.
- Round 2THW accept a ‘Solitude Curse’, the absolute guarantee that they will never experience (romantic) love, if it would ensure their dearest friend or relative finds the perfect partner.
- Round 3THBT women-led protest movements in West Africa (e.g., Nigeria’s ‘Arewa Me Too’ movement, Ghana’s ‘Pepperdem ministries’, and the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace) should reject collaboration with mainstream political institutions
- Round 4THBT ECOWAS should re-admit the military dictatorships of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso back into the bloc.
- Round 5TH as a recent graduate from a middle-income family in West Africa will choose Japan’s model of lifetime employment.
- Round 6THO children’s media that depict romantic love as a literal and often ultimate magical force (e.g., reviving the dead, breaking spells)
- Round 7THS modern Luddism
- Round 8THP Venture Communism to private venture capital
- Round 9THR the narrative that "natural is better"
- Partial-QuarterfinalsTHS the usage of supernatural pleas in African countries.
- QuarterfinalsTHBT more African Countries should Accept Third-Country Deportation Deals
- SemifinalsTHBT developing economies should adopt a fixed currency regime.
- Grand FinalTH, speaking for all of humanity, would take the Cosmic Bet and choose our peaceful dissolution.
What gets set here
Social & Identity31%
Media15%
Comedy & Novelty15%
International Relations15%
Economics15%
Religion8%
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25% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 15 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.3.
Last edition: 28 of 110 teams broke.
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Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suleiman R. | GW | THR the narrative that "natural is better" | 84 |
| Super N. | GW | THP Venture Communism to private venture capital | 83 |
| Speaker S. | MG | THO children’s media that depict romantic love as a literal and often ultimate magical force (e.g., reviving the dead, breaking spells) | 83 |
| Israel A. | OW | THP Venture Communism to private venture capital | 83 |
| Dominic S. | MO | THP Venture Communism to private venture capital | 83 |
| Super N. | DPM | THR the narrative that "natural is better" | 83 |
| Super N. | LO | THO children’s media that depict romantic love as a literal and often ultimate magical force (e.g., reviving the dead, breaking spells) | 83 |
| Eziel J. | PM | THR the narrative that "natural is better" | 83 |
| Eziel J. | DLO | THO children’s media that depict romantic love as a literal and often ultimate magical force (e.g., reviving the dead, breaking spells) | 83 |
| Favour O. | PM | THR the narrative that "natural is better" | 82 |
| Esi B. | DPM | THP Venture Communism to private venture capital | 82 |
| Sebiotimo A. | LO | THR the narrative that "natural is better" | 82 |
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