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RPDA Pre-PAUDC 2025

What it took to break at this edition, what was set and who set it.

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Sat 15 Nov 2025

From 4 tabs, newest RPDA Pre-PAUDC 2025.

How many points did it take?

15points were safe
in 2025

In the middle figureOlder, not counted

Across the last 3 editions with a figure, the middle was 15 (15, 14, 15, newest first). The last team in averaged 78.4 speaks in 2025.

Every year

What will they set?

Out of 33 past motions with a topic, from 4 editions.

Practise Social & Identity motionsLesson: Generating arguments

How many teams, and how many break?

17of 116 teams broke
in 2025

Field strength: Above Average in 2025, from the ratings of the debaters who went.

Past motions

4 editions with motions on record, newest first.

RPDA Pre-PAUDC 20259 motions
  1. Round 0This would require all international financial assistance, loans, and development funding to African countries, including IMF and World Bank, to be transacted in US dollars or euros than in African National currencies.Practise this motion
  2. Round 1This House, as the feminist movement, regrets embracing carceral feminism (i.e., reliance on the criminal justice system to address gendered harms).Practise this motion
  3. Round 2This House believes that it is in the interest of religious institutions to prioritise social justice activism over spiritual evangelism,Practise this motion
  4. Round 3This House would ban private military contractors from fighting in active wars.Practise this motion
  5. Round 4This House would require all international financial assistance, loans, and development funding to African countries (including IMF and World Bank support) to be transacted in African national currencies rather than in US dollars or euros.Practise this motion
  6. Round 5This house regrets the rise of "influencer spirituality".Practise this motion
  7. QuarterfinalsThis House believes that Ghana should invest heavily into the Black Queens as opposed to the Black Stars.Practise this motion
  8. SemifinalsThis House regrets the growing tendency of governments to delegate political authority and resource allocation decisions to autonomous Artificial Intelligence system.Practise this motion
  9. Grand FinalThis House, as the people of Ankobra, would release the sea.Practise this motion
RPDA Pre-PAUDC 20248 motions
  1. Round 1THS the normalization of the idea that hard-launching is a social requirement for amorous relationship.Practise this motion
  2. Round 2THBT the corporate world should incentivize women to give birth through artificial wombs.Practise this motion
  3. Round 3THS the emergence of a "4B Movement" in the US as a valid form of feminist resistance.Practise this motion
  4. Round 4THW periodically put up for bid the right to govern failing cities.Practise this motion
  5. Round 5THS the degrowth movement.Practise this motion
  6. QuarterfinalsTHW exclude members of terrorist organizations from the "erga omnes" protections.Practise this motion
  7. SemifinalsTH, as a Ghanaian youth who's church did not participate in the protest would actively disassociate themselves.Practise this motion
  8. Grand FinalTHBT African countries harboring asylum-seekers should militarize their borders to deter politically motivated kidnappings.Practise this motion

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RPDA Pre-PAUDC 20238 motions
  1. Round 1THS the rise of Consensual Non-Monogamous Relationships.Practise this motion
  2. Round 2THBT athletes should not be sanctioned for their political expression on and off the field of playPractise this motion
  3. Round 3THP a world where hyphenated faith is the dominant normPractise this motion
  4. Round 4TH Predicts the unification of African states in a 100 years.Practise this motion
  5. Round 5THS the dollarization of the Argentinian economy.Practise this motion
  6. QuarterfinalsTHR the portrayal of military scientific advancement in mainstream media and movies as an achievement in human progression. (E.g celebration of the creation of the nuclear bomb in Oppenheimer, Alfred Novel’s creation of dynamite)Practise this motion
  7. SemifinalsTHR the decision of ECOWAS to not invade Niger.Practise this motion
  8. Grand FinalThis house believes that the moral agency of humans should not supersede that of animals and the environment.Practise this motion

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RPDA Pre-PAUDC 20228 motions
  1. Round 1THS the use of artistic license in biopics about minority groups.Practise this motion
  2. Round 2THP a world where Vtubing is the dominant norm of streaming THP: This house prefersPractise this motion
  3. Round 3TH as the British Monarchy will live their lives in full transparency of the publicPractise this motion
  4. Round 4THBT Trade Liberalization Hurts SME'sPractise this motion
  5. Round 5Assuming it did not result in their statelessness, THW establish a market for individuals to trade and/or gain citizenships.Practise this motion
  6. QuarterfinalsTHW implement gender-neutral language in curriculums of Primary and Secondary level of education.Practise this motion
  7. SemifinalsTHR the rise of Prime Time political satire (e.g. The Daily Show, Mock the Week, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)Practise this motion
  8. Grand FinalTHBT political apathy in Africa is an assault on the furtherance of Democracy in AfricaPractise this motion

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The break, year by year

The points that were safe, the last team in and how many broke, at each edition with results.

YearSafe on (points)Last team in (speaks)Teams broke
20251578.417 of 116
20241478.517 of 97
20231578.519 of 120
20221578.816 of 132

How speakers score here

Speaker averages, what finishing high has taken, and the top speeches at this edition.

average speaker score, 4 editions
76.6
where most speakers land
74.4 to 78.7
average at tournaments of similar strength
75.8

What finishing high has taken

  • Top speaker81.4
  • 10th speaker79.2
  • 20th speaker78.6

Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 4 editions.

Similar-strength tournaments

  • Meta Open 202674.8
  • Vivaatam Pre-ABP 202675.0

Top speeches

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇳🇬 Ayafa T.COMOThis House would require all international financial assistance, loans, and development funding to African countries (including IMF and World Bank support) to be transacted in African national currencies rather than in US dollars or euros.84
Serg M.CGMGThis House, as the feminist movement, regrets embracing carceral feminism (i.e., reliance on the criminal justice system to address gendered harms).83
🇳🇬 Ayafa T.CGMGThis House, as the feminist movement, regrets embracing carceral feminism (i.e., reliance on the criminal justice system to address gendered harms).83
Ayodele S.COMOThis house regrets the rise of "influencer spirituality".83
Ayodele S.CGGWThis House, as the feminist movement, regrets embracing carceral feminism (i.e., reliance on the criminal justice system to address gendered harms).83
Serg M.OOLOThis House would ban private military contractors from fighting in active wars.83
Serg M.COOWThis house regrets the rise of "influencer spirituality".83
Zephyr K.OODLOThis House would require all international financial assistance, loans, and development funding to African countries (including IMF and World Bank support) to be transacted in African national currencies rather than in US dollars or euros.82
Henry K.CGGWThis House, as the feminist movement, regrets embracing carceral feminism (i.e., reliance on the criminal justice system to address gendered harms).82
Randy M.OGPMThis House, as the feminist movement, regrets embracing carceral feminism (i.e., reliance on the criminal justice system to address gendered harms).82
Dela K.COOWThis House, as the feminist movement, regrets embracing carceral feminism (i.e., reliance on the criminal justice system to address gendered harms).82
Ezeri G.COOWThis House would ban private military contractors from fighting in active wars.82