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IIUM OPEN Pre-WUDC 2026

What it took to break here, what gets set, and a plan for the week before.

In person, MalaysiaBP

Sat 21 Nov 2026in 44 days

From 1 tab, newest IIUM Open 2024.

How many points to break?

8points were safe
last time

The last team in averaged 76.8 speaks in 2024.

Every year

What will they set?

Out of 10 past motions with a topic, from 1 edition.

Practise Economics motionsLesson: Generating arguments

How many teams, and how many break?

16of 56 teams made the open break
in 2024

Field strength: Below Average in 2024, from the ratings of the debaters who went.

What should you do first?

Work through “Generating arguments”

Your prep week starts 6 days before the tournament. 6 tasks in the plan below.

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Your chance of breaking here and your average on each topic this tournament sets, from your own tab.

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Your prep week

Built on the topics set most here. Import your tab and it switches to your weakest topics.

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  • For Economics motions, the topic set most here.Open the lesson
  • Mechanism, actors, weighing. Use the prep timer below.Pull a motion
  • Start with: THW end all state-run gifted education programsPast motions
  • Ask for an Economics motion on your weaker position.
  • Pull a motion
  • Check the schedule and the break line. No new material the night before.

Prep timer

15:00

Past motions

1 edition with motions on record, newest first.

IIUM Open 202410 motions
  1. Round 0THW end all state-run gifted education programsPractise this motion
  2. Round 1THW end all state-run gifted education programsPractise this motion
  3. Round 2THS the independent voting movementPractise this motion
  4. Round 3This House Regrets the Franchise systemPractise this motion
  5. Round 4This House Opposes the use of Private Military ContractorPractise this motion
  6. QuarterfinalsThis House would implement an annual tax on shares owned by individuals or entitiesPractise this motion
  7. SemifinalsThis house regrets the glorification of Luigi Mangione's actionsPractise this motion
  8. Grand FinalAssuming that bodily features (face, height, skin color, body shape) still differ from individual to individual, this house prefers a world where everyone has the same self-presentation (same clothes, same car, same hairstyle, same accessories).Practise this motion
  9. Novice SemifinalsTHBT developing countries should nationalize all natural resource extractionPractise this motion
  10. Novice FinalsThis house would allow a substantially lower minimum wage for prisoner labour.Practise this motion

Open the IIUM Open 2024 prep page

The break, year by year

The points that were safe, the last team in and how many broke, at each edition with results.

Every break in 2024

  • Open break16 teams
  • Novice break11 teams

How speakers score here

Speaker averages and what finishing high has taken.

average speaker score, 1 edition
75.9
where most speakers land
74.0 to 77.8

What finishing high has taken

  • Top speaker80.5
  • 10th speaker79.0
  • 20th speaker77.5

Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.

Prep these too

Coming up, and their past motions cover the same topics. Topic match is how alike the two topic mixes are: 100% would be the same mix.