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Ottawa Summer 2026
What it took to break here, the topics that come up, and every past motion.
Jun 27, 2026BP1 edition with resultsField: Premier
Breaking here
- of teams broke in 2026 (19 of 96)
- 20%
- safe on
- 10 pts
- average speaks of the last team in, 2026
- 79.0
- teams in 2026
- 96
Break categories, 2026
- Open break19 teams
- ESL break15 teams
What gets set here
Share of 12 categorised motions across 1 edition. Bars run to 100%.
Past motions
2026Ottawa Summer 202612 motions
- Round 1-AThis House Prefers a relationship in which you love your partner more than they love you, over one in which your partner loves you more than you love them
- Round 2-AThis House Believes That Xi Jinping's tenure has been in the interest of China
- Round 1-BThis House Opposes the expectation that people should find closure after painful experiences
- Round 2-BThis House Prefers A World without social media
- Round 3This House Would replace democratic legislatures with a large random sample of the adult population, each member of which is chosen to serve a single five-year term
- Round 4This House Would impose a 100% wealth tax on wealth over $1 billion CAD
- Round 5This House, as an international first-year undergraduate student from India studying in the United States, Would choose to return to India as opposed to staying in the United States after graduation
- QuarterfinalsThis House Supports a strong emphasis on avoiding fragmentation within social movements
- SemifinalsThis House Supports the de-personalisation* of warfare. *increased use of armed drones operated from different continents, AI-assisted targeting systems, cyber warfare capabilities, and emerging autonomous weapons
- Grand FinalThis House Would would heavily tax the use of AI
- ESL SemifinalsThis House Supports a strong emphasis on avoiding fragmentation within social movements
- ESL FinalsThis House Believes That the European Union should aggressively invest in developing a collective nuclear deterrent
Who sets the motions
The field and the judges
Field
- Field strengthPremier
- Teams, 202696
How speakers score here
- average speaker score, 1 edition
- 76.9
- where most speakers land
- 74.8 to 79.0
- average at tournaments of similar strength
- 76.4
What finishing high has taken
- Top speaker82.2
- 10th speaker79.8
- 20th speaker78.8
Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.
Similar-strength tournaments
- UCLA IV 202576.7
- Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open 202577.2
Top speeches
The highest speaker scores at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Justin Z. | OODLO | This House, as an international first-year undergraduate student from India studying in the United States, Would choose to return to India as opposed to staying in the United States after graduation | 85 |
| Shayor K. | OOLO | This House, as an international first-year undergraduate student from India studying in the United States, Would choose to return to India as opposed to staying in the United States after graduation | 85 |
| 🇮🇱 Hidden debater · lc3y | OOLO | This House Would impose a 100% wealth tax on wealth over $1 billion CAD | 85 |
| Hidden debater · 2dm6 | OODLO | This House Would impose a 100% wealth tax on wealth over $1 billion CAD | 84 |
| 🇨🇦 Tanzim H. | OGPM | This House, as an international first-year undergraduate student from India studying in the United States, Would choose to return to India as opposed to staying in the United States after graduation | 84 |
| Azrina H. | OGDPM | This House, as an international first-year undergraduate student from India studying in the United States, Would choose to return to India as opposed to staying in the United States after graduation | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Justin Z. | COOW | This House Would impose a 100% wealth tax on wealth over $1 billion CAD | 84 |
| Rai D. | OODLO | This House Opposes the expectation that people should find closure after painful experiences | 84 |
| John W. | CGGW | This House, as an international first-year undergraduate student from India studying in the United States, Would choose to return to India as opposed to staying in the United States after graduation | 83 |
| 🇬🇧 Rohan C. | COMO | This House Opposes the expectation that people should find closure after painful experiences | 83 |
| Maximus | COOW | This House Would impose a 100% wealth tax on wealth over $1 billion CAD | 83 |
| Hidden debater · 2dm6 | COOW | This House Believes That Xi Jinping's tenure has been in the interest of China | 83 |