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Vienna IV 2026

What it took to break here, the topics that come up, and every past motion.

Apr 18, 2026BP1 edition with resultsField: Premier

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Breaking here

of teams broke in 2026 (18 of 91)
20%
safe on
10 pts
average speaks of the last team in, 2026
79.2
teams in 2026
91

Your break chance here

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Break categories, 2026

  • Open break18 teams
  • esl break13 teams
  • novice break5 teams

What gets set here

Share of 11 categorised motions across 1 edition. Bars run to 100%.

Practise International Relations motionsRead: Generating arguments

Your average on each of these topics

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Past motions

2026Vienna IV 202611 motions
  1. Round 1This house prefers a world where the incoming Hungarian government did not win a two-thirds constitutional majority.
  2. Round 2This house believes that science should not pursue research whose consequences society is not prepared to handle.
  3. Round 3This house regrets the cultural veneration* of old art at the expense of new art. *showing deep respect, reverence, or honor
  4. Round 4This house believes that states have a right to use military force to protect their access to water resources.
  5. Round 5TH prefers command-and-control instruments to market-based instruments for environmental regulation
  6. QuarterfinalsThis House prefers a world without the doctrine of "God's Plan".
  7. SemifinalsThis house would abolish perpetual private ownership of land
  8. Grand FinalThis house regrets the rise of the globalist left.
  9. ESL SemifinalsThis house supports the technological democratisation of warfare amongst states.
  10. ESL FinalTH Predicts that the world’s governments would unite rather than divide in the face of an undeniably impending extraterrestrial threat
  11. Novice FinalThis house would rather be a character in a science fiction book written by a human author than in one written by an LLM.

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The field and the judges

Field

  • Field strengthPremier
  • Teams, 202691
  • Teams, 202590
  • Teams, 202490
  • Teams, 202389
  • Teams, 202288

How speakers score here

average speaker score, 1 edition
76.2
where most speakers land
73.3 to 79.1
average at tournaments of similar strength
76.4

What finishing high has taken

  • Top speaker83.0
  • 10th speaker81.4
  • 20th speaker79.8

Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.

Similar-strength tournaments

  • Drexel Pre-WUDC 202577.7
  • UCLA IV 202576.7

Top speeches

The highest speaker scores at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇷🇴 Carasel V.OODLOThis house believes that science should not pursue research whose consequences society is not prepared to handle.85
🇬🇧 Leo M.OOLOThis house regrets the cultural veneration* of old art at the expense of new art. *showing deep respect, reverence, or honor85
🇧🇬 Alek S.OODLOThis house regrets the cultural veneration* of old art at the expense of new art. *showing deep respect, reverence, or honor85
🇷🇴 Ana C.OOLOThis house believes that science should not pursue research whose consequences society is not prepared to handle.85
David S.COMOTH prefers command-and-control instruments to market-based instruments for environmental regulation85
🇬🇧 Tanush A.COMOThis house believes that science should not pursue research whose consequences society is not prepared to handle.84
🇮🇪 Jack P.COMOTH prefers command-and-control instruments to market-based instruments for environmental regulation84
🇬🇧 Maximus P.COOWThis house believes that science should not pursue research whose consequences society is not prepared to handle.84
🇬🇧 Leo M.OGPMThis house believes that states have a right to use military force to protect their access to water resources.84
🇮🇪 Jack P.CGGWThis house regrets the cultural veneration* of old art at the expense of new art. *showing deep respect, reverence, or honor84
David S.OGDPMThis house believes that science should not pursue research whose consequences society is not prepared to handle.84
🇺🇸 Amitai P.COMOThis house regrets the cultural veneration* of old art at the expense of new art. *showing deep respect, reverence, or honor84

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