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Penn USUDC 2025
2025-11-21 · United States, In person · BP
Motions
Penn USUDC 2025 (2025)11 motions
- Round 1This house opposes the prominence of the aesthetics of the unsaid in queer media.
- Round 2This house believes that financial regulators in Western liberal democracies should aggressively limit systemically important institutions‘ total financial exposure to frontier AI providers.
- Round 3This house opposes the expectation to avoid involvement in interpersonal drama.
- Round 4This house predicts that the Chinese Communist Party will launch an amphibious invasion of Taiwan by 2035.
- Round 5This house regrets the centrality of the Seven Deadly Sins in Western European Catholicism.
- Round 6This house believes that it is in the United States’ interests for the U.S. government to attempt to significantly reduce global reliance on the U.S. dollar (e.g., build non-dollar currency reserves, use trade leverage to coordinate dollar depreciation, tax non-resident holdings of U.S. government securities).
- QuarterfinalsThis house supports the Ukrainian government promoting a strong sense of nationalism among people under age 18 in Ukraine.
- SemifinalsIn areas with high levels of organized crime, this house believes that hospitals should deprioritize emergency care for known perpetrators of multi-victim violent attacks (e.g., arson, bombings, shootings) who are in more critical condition than their victims.
- Grand FinalThis house believes that it would have been in Mexico’s interests for the Mexican government to pursue industrial policy followed by gradual liberalization rather than join NAFTA.
- Novice SemifinalsThis house opposes leaderless organizing among youth activists in Kenya.
- Novice FinalsThis house, as Susannah, would reveal her diagnosis and decision to forgo treatment to her children at the beginning of the summer rather than wait until the end of the summer to reveal them.
What gets set here
Economics27%
Social & Identity27%
Media9%
International Relations9%
Religion9%
Politics9%
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19% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 16 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 78.0.
Last edition: 16 of 84 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break16 teams
- Novice break9 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Will R. | DLO | This house believes that financial regulators in Western liberal democracies should aggressively limit systemically important institutions‘ total financial exposure to frontier AI providers. | 86 |
| 🇺🇸 Vincent Y. | LO | This house opposes the expectation to avoid involvement in interpersonal drama. | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Hudson C. | MO | This house regrets the centrality of the Seven Deadly Sins in Western European Catholicism. | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Rohan S. | DLO | This house opposes the expectation to avoid involvement in interpersonal drama. | 84 |
| Shayor K. | PM | This house opposes the expectation to avoid involvement in interpersonal drama. | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Richard C. | LO | This house believes that financial regulators in Western liberal democracies should aggressively limit systemically important institutions‘ total financial exposure to frontier AI providers. | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Elizabeth L. | DLO | This house believes that it is in the United States’ interests for the U.S. government to attempt to significantly reduce global reliance on the U.S. dollar (e.g., build non-dollar currency reserves, use trade leverage to coordinate dollar depreciation, tax non-resident holdings of U.S. government securities). | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Darren Y. | DLO | This house believes that it is in the United States’ interests for the U.S. government to attempt to significantly reduce global reliance on the U.S. dollar (e.g., build non-dollar currency reserves, use trade leverage to coordinate dollar depreciation, tax non-resident holdings of U.S. government securities). | 83 |
| Stephanie C. | DPM | This house believes that financial regulators in Western liberal democracies should aggressively limit systemically important institutions‘ total financial exposure to frontier AI providers. | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Darren Y. | DLO | This house believes that financial regulators in Western liberal democracies should aggressively limit systemically important institutions‘ total financial exposure to frontier AI providers. | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Seamus A. | PM | This house opposes the prominence of the aesthetics of the unsaid in queer media. | 82 |
| 🇺🇸 Elizabeth L. | DPM | This house opposes the prominence of the aesthetics of the unsaid in queer media. | 82 |
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