Hi All,
I heard some badmouthing about my school about GPS topics this year. Decided to get out Excel and correct a few misperceptions: thought I'd share my results here.
'That major sports club decisions should be subjected to a vote of members who are fans' - Affirmative won 33%
'That we should legalise the buying and selling of human organs' - Affirmative won 50%
'That university fees should be deregulated' - Affirmative won 33%
'That all defendants should have to use a publicly funded lawyer' - Affirmative won 67%
'That charities should not use of social media to inform Western audiences about global events' -Affirmative won 2 from 9 (High/Scots rescheduled. Topic/winners for this?) - 22%
'That there should be recall elections for politicians who break nominated promises' - Affirmative won 25%
'That the West should give a defence guarantee to Ukraine and Eastern European states against further annexation/invasion' - Affirmative won 75%
Overall, this means that 36 out of 81 affirmatives won by my count. The only real shocker seems to be that the R7 topic gave such a strong Affirmative weighting - we had figured the opposite would be true. Not sure how these compare to typical results though - 36/81 has Affirmatives winning a bit less than 45%. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to get that figure up to the 50 mark over the course of the season. Has anyone done a similar exercise for other years/comps?
Cheers.
Wes.
Can we have a prediction Wolfey?
Update - CAS firsts and seconds both lost to CHS and are yet to win a debate this reps season. CHS teams won their debates against CAS, and won one against Archdale.
Also team confirmation for CHS
Firsts - Yanek(fort st), Theodora von Arnim and Marcus McCulloch
Seconds - Riley Irwin, Eleanor Kirk, Brendan Ma. Fourths are unknown.
Thanks for the update Marcus
Finally know who the CHS teams are. Now all we need are the Archdale teams.
Seconds had the topic that Universities fees should be de regulated. This is the third time this has been debated in the past month or so - in ISDA; in CAS and now again at reps and each time the negative have won as they did last night ( pretty much an unwinnable topic in affirmative when, as current university students, the adjudicators have a vested interest/views). same topic 3 times, Surely other fresh topics might be offered for debate?
Dont forget it was a GPS one too. Makes sense that it gets selected being very topical. You need to realise most comps involve some combination of CA and Convenors as a topic committee. Ive seen some brutually onesided topics this season that I suspect some convenor decided at some point was a good idea.
Been following the thread for a while but never really bothered or had need to say anything. Anyway, here is a contribution that might be of use.
Archdale squad is apparently , as was originally announced (in alphabetical order):
Anne Wang (SCEGGS)
Charlotte Haunton (Monte)
Eleanor Hall (Loreto Kirribilli)
Georgia Chahoud (Abbotsleigh)
Imogen Harper (SCEGGS)
Kaity Crowe (Abbotsleigh)
Katerina Theocharous (St Catherines)
Katrina Milliner (Monte)
Kendall Shepherd (Abbotsleigh)
Rebekah Oliver (Danebank)
Ricky Ham (Pymble)
Sophie Large (SCEGGS)
Seconds are apparently Anne Wang, Kaity Crowe, Georgia Chahoud and Eleanor Hall. Can't say what the others are as I cant find mention of it anywhere and I didnt watch the previous reps debates.
A.
Its simple - if the topics already been done that season in any of the forums - it shouldn't be done again. Those who have done it have an advantage having run through it all before and heard both sides and having had feedback on it previously.
Do we have results from CHS/Arhdale in the first round? Pending results from that the tally is: (3 points for 1sts, 2 for 2nds is how they calculate it)
GPS - 8
CHS - 5 (pending R1 results)
ARCH - 2 (pending R1 results)
CAS - 0
GPS in the box seat coming into tonight's debates but pending R1 results CHS could steal the cup for the first time in recent memory
CHS have won the competition many years - see the Hall of Fame of the Arts unit website- in fact they have won it more than any others but last recorded win was in 2010
Meanwhile a serious risk that CAS could go throughout the season without winning any points.?? has this happened before?