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Berlin Open 2025

Nov 22, 2025 · Germany, In person · BP

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The field

Below Average

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

47 teams (This edition)

Motions

Berlin Open 2025 (2025)8 motions
  • Round 1This House Would break up LVMH
  • Round 2This House Would provide welfare in terms of goods and services rather than paychecks
  • Round 3This House Supports vigilante paramilitary groups fighting drug cartels in Latin America
  • Round 4This House Would create a Balkan Football League
  • Round 5This House Prefers peer-to-peer therapy
  • SemifinalsThis House Supports friends-with-benefits relationships
  • Grand FinalThis House Believes That we have no obligation to the dead
  • Novice FinalThis House Would ban reality TV (e.g. Keeping up with the Kardashians, America's got Talent, Love is Blind, Survivor etc.)

What gets set here

Economics25%
Social & Identity25%
International Relations13%
Sport13%
Health & Medicine13%
Media13%

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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.

  • Economics · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Social & Identity · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Sport · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Health & Medicine · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Media · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

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Breaking here

17% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 78.4.

Last edition: 8 of 47 teams broke.

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Break categories

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

  • Open break8 teams
  • Novice break4 teams

How scoring works here

75.1 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 72.2 and 78.1.

This is 1.1 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 81.4

Top-10 pace 79.2

Top-20 pace 77.4

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

Comparable: Macau Debate Open 2026 (75.6), Munich Open 2026 (73.6)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
Lina F.DLOThis House Would create a Balkan Football League89
Daan K.LOThis House Would create a Balkan Football League89
Helena H.LOThis House Supports vigilante paramilitary groups fighting drug cartels in Latin America84
Martijn L.OWThis House Prefers peer-to-peer therapy84
🇷🇸 Katarina L.OWThis House Supports vigilante paramilitary groups fighting drug cartels in Latin America84
🇷🇸 Novak C.MOThis House Supports vigilante paramilitary groups fighting drug cartels in Latin America84
Jola S.DLOThis House Supports vigilante paramilitary groups fighting drug cartels in Latin America83
Mirtel E.MOThis House Prefers peer-to-peer therapy83
Nadya K.MOThis House Prefers peer-to-peer therapy83
🇩🇪 Felix R.PMThis House Prefers peer-to-peer therapy82
Hanix S.DPMThis House Would break up LVMH82
Raoul M.LOThis House Supports vigilante paramilitary groups fighting drug cartels in Latin America82

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