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Monash Pre-WUDC 2026

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

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Sat 28 Nov 2026in 51 days

From 2 tabs, newest Monash Pre-WUDC 2025.

How many points to break?

10points, the middle of
the last 2 editions

Safe points at the last 2 editions with a figure: 9, 10, newest first. The last team in averaged 78.9 speaks in 2025.

Every year

What will they set?

Out of 21 past motions with a topic, from 2 editions.

Practise Politics motionsLesson: Generating arguments

How many teams, and how many break?

17of 60 teams made the open break
in 2025

Field strength: Premier in 2025, 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 prep week

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

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  • For Politics motions, the topic set most here.Open the lesson
  • Mechanism, actors, weighing. Use the prep timer below.Pull a motion
  • Start with: This House opposes states using external consultants in policy-making (e.g. hiring consult...Past motions
  • Ask for a Politics motion on your weaker position.
  • Pull a motion
  • Check the schedule and the break line. No new material the night before.Tournament info

Prep timer

15:00

Past motions

2 editions with motions on record, newest first.

Monash Pre-WUDC 202511 motions
  1. Round 0This House opposes states using external consultants in policy-making (e.g. hiring consultancy firms for research and data-gathering, referring to consultants for advice, having consultancy firms manage other stakeholders).Practise this motion
  2. Round 1This House opposes states using external consultants in policy-making (e.g. hiring consultancy firms for research and data-gathering, referring to consultants for advice, having consultancy firms manage other stakeholders).Practise this motion
  3. Round 2This House, as the Church of England, would recognise same-sex marriage.Practise this motion
  4. Round 3This House opposes focus on the liveability of cities.Practise this motion
  5. Round 4This House believes that Bulgaria should put greater emphasis on its communist history in its curriculum.Practise this motion
  6. Round 5This House opposes the use of sanctions (e.g. on Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, Iran).Practise this motion
  7. Open QuarterfinalsThis House regrets the changes in the US Democratic Party’s priorities between 2012 and 2024.Practise this motion
  8. Open SemifinalsThis House regrets the Euro.Practise this motion
  9. Open FinalsThis House prefers the approach of the Línea Fundadora to the Asociación.Practise this motion
  10. ESL FinalsThis House opposes the value placed on nature being 'unspoiled'.Practise this motion
  11. Novice FinalsThis House opposes trade unions taking positions on political issues beyond workplace and industry matters.Practise this motion

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Monash Pre-WUDC 202310 motions
  1. Round 1This House opposes the hyper-specialization of higher educationPractise this motion
  2. Round 2This House believes that socially progressive groups in the US, as part of their campaign for greater welfare, should adopt the narrative that wage slavery impedes voting rightsPractise this motion
  3. Round 3This House believes that it is in the interest of Bongbong Marcos to fully cooperate with an ICC probe on the drug war of the previous Duterte administrationPractise this motion
  4. Round 4Given the choice, THW forgo deep platonic friendships rather than forgo deep romantic love.Practise this motion
  5. Round 5This House, as a developing country, supports the implementation of the BEPS 2.0 framework.Practise this motion
  6. QuarterfinalsThis House supports the switch to Central Bank Digital Currencies by governments that have the capability to do soPractise this motion
  7. SemifinalsThis House, as Pope Francis, would retire instead of waiting to die as a means to relinquish the papacyPractise this motion
  8. Grand FinalThis House believes in the right to universal digital anonymityPractise this motion
  9. ESL SemifinalsThis House supports the switch to Central Bank Digital Currencies by governments that have the capability to do soPractise this motion
  10. ESL FinalsThis House, as Pope Francis, would retire instead of waiting to die as a means to relinquish the papacyPractise this motion

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The break, year by year

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

YearSafe on (points)Last team in (speaks)Open break
2025978.917 of 60
20231078.216 of 72

Every break in 2025

  • Open break17 teams
  • ESL break6 teams
  • Novice break6 teams

How speakers score here

Speaker averages and what finishing high has taken.

average speaker score, 2 editions
76.7
where most speakers land
74.4 to 79.0

What finishing high has taken

  • Top speaker81.8
  • 10th speaker80.6
  • 20th speaker79.5

Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 2 editions.

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.