Zagreb Pre-WUDC 2026

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The field

Ultra Premier

Expect the absolute best in the world to attend.

Based on the 2025 edition. This year’s field isn’t rated yet.

104 teams (2025), 52 teams (2024), 98 teams (2023)

Motions from this series

Zagreb Pre-WUDC 2025 (2025)10 motions

Round 1This House Supports the narrative that romantic partners should be prioritized over platonic friendships
Round 2TH Prefers a world where Bulgaria joined Yugoslavia
Round 3This House regrets the rise of subscription models in gaming software and hardware
Round 4In developed countries, This House Prefers a norm where most families have 1 child over a norm of having 3 children
Round 5This House Would implement substantial measures to impose long-termism in corporate investment culture (e.g., minimum holding periods, yearly reports, long term executive compensation plans)
QuarterfinalsThis House Believes That the android liberation movement should be lead through violent resistance rather than peaceful protest.
SemifinalsThis house believes that Colombia should significantly increase its cooperation with the United States on anti-narcotics operations
Grand FinalThis house, as Alexander, would take the deal
ESL SemifinalsThis House Believes That the android liberation movement should be lead through violent resistance rather than peaceful protest.
ESL FinalsThis House Would choose to become a vampire

What gets set here

Fiction30%

Social & Identity20%

History10%

Video Games10%

Economics10%

International Relations10%

Practice Fiction motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›

You vs this tournament

What gets set here, next to how you have scored on each category across your own imported rounds.

Fiction · 30% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Social & Identity · 20% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
History · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Video Games · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Economics · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
International Relations · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

Built from what this tournament sets most. Import more tabs and this plan tunes itself to your weak spots.

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T-7Read the roomGo through this page once so nothing on the day surprises you.
T-6Work through "Generating arguments"Foundations for Fiction motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-5Prep sprint: one Fiction motion, 15 minutes, full caseMechanism, actors, weighing. Time it like the real thing.Pull a motion ›
T-4Case-prep past motions this tournament actually setStart with: This House Supports the narrative that romantic partners should be prioritized over platon...Motion archive below ›
T-3One practice round with a partner or clubmateAsk for a Fiction motion and your weaker bench.
T-2Second sprint: Social & IdentityPull a motion ›
T-1Light review and logisticsReread the numbers above, check the schedule, sleep. No new material the night before.

Breaking here

16% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 79.6.

Last edition: 17 of 104 teams broke.

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Break categories

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

Open break17 teams
ESL break12 teams

How scoring works here

77.4 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 75.1 and 79.7.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 82.4

Top-10 pace 81.2

Top-20 pace 80.2

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

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