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River State U Open 2025

2025-06-01 · Nigeria, In person · BP

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The field

Above Average

A competitive tournament. Good preparation ground for larger events.

16 teams (This edition)

Motions

River State U Open 2025 (2025)7 motions
  • Round 1THW mandate that the most polluting countries accept the most climate refugees
  • Round 2THO all forms of religious nationalism
  • Round 3THW allow political aspirants to select some of their electoral campaign promises as legally binding.
  • Round 4THS the use of digital necromancy for thought leaders with premature deaths e.g Charlie Kirk, JFK
  • Round 5THW subject major national economic decisions e.g bailouts, debt collection and restructuring to a referendum
  • Novice FinalsTHW mandate all politicians to disclose all donations made to their campaigns during the campaign period.
  • Grand FinalTHBT it is in the best interest of the EU to improve their relationship with China

What gets set here

Politics43%
Environment14%
Religion14%
Technology14%
International Relations14%

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You vs this tournament

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

  • Politics · 43% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Environment · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Religion · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Technology · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

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Breaking here

25% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 79.2.

Last edition: 4 of 16 teams broke.

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Break categories

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

  • Open break4 teams
  • Novice break4 teams

How scoring works here

76.6 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 74.3 and 78.9.

This is 1.0 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 80.8

Top-10 pace 78.2

Top-20 pace 74.4

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

Comparable: Meta Open 2026 (74.8), Malaysia IV 2026 (76.3)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
AristotleOWTHW allow political aspirants to select some of their electoral campaign promises as legally binding.82
AristotleGWTHO all forms of religious nationalism82
Owolabi O.MGTHO all forms of religious nationalism82
Owolabi O.MOTHW allow political aspirants to select some of their electoral campaign promises as legally binding.81
Adio B.MGTHW mandate that the most polluting countries accept the most climate refugees81
Owolabi O.PMTHS the use of digital necromancy for thought leaders with premature deaths e.g Charlie Kirk, JFK81
Nelson N.OWTHO all forms of religious nationalism81
Owolabi O.PMTHW subject major national economic decisions e.g bailouts, debt collection and restructuring to a referendum81
Offiah K.DPMTHO all forms of religious nationalism80
AristotleDPMTHS the use of digital necromancy for thought leaders with premature deaths e.g Charlie Kirk, JFK80
Ezeri G.OWTHW mandate that the most polluting countries accept the most climate refugees80
Offiah K.GWTHW allow political aspirants to select some of their electoral campaign promises as legally binding.80

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