aka_the_think
Jimmy Flynn (14)
aka_the_think, can you keep track of View SDN results please? (senior a and b)
Rd 2 Snr A lost and Snr B won I'm pretty sure.
Rd 3 Snr A won via forfeit and Snr B won.
Could be wrong.
As for reps imo agree with A192 that state speakers weren't as strong compared to others during the course of ISDA. Eg Grammar (2 state speakers) vs Cranbrook (stronger speakers on the night). Abbotsleigh state speaker not well flanked by others in the team. Haven't seen the SCEGGS (Archdale) or the Sydney girls or boys (CHS) state speakers, so can't comment on them. A number of the better speakers (outside of state squad) either do not trial or if they do they only have the one debate at state trials (often allocated to a position they are not as familiar with) and this one debate may be insufficient to choose the best candidates from. State selectors often seem to go for tried and true feeder schools from this one viewing. They also seem to opt for an equal mix of year 11s and year 12s in the final team as well as a gender balance which also may eliminated some of the better speakers even from the first trial.
Lol mate, can't take a single word of that seriously, all pretty much rubbish. You've clearly got a lot of axes to grind, and your repeated references to Cranbrook's victory over Grammar (you've done it multiple times on the forum now) have next to no relevance, especially given the controversy surrounding that decision. Your examples don't really serve to illustrate your point: you said that, at best, Cranbrook were "stronger speakers on the night", not stronger speakers; you said that Abbotsleigh's state speaker is not "well flanked by others in the team." Neither of those statements demonstrate that A. The state speakers were bad nor B. That there are others better than them. While clearly this post was borne out of a sense that you were personally hard done by, it would be slightly tolerable if your evidence wasn't so anecdotal and you actually bothered to name speakers that got overlooked despite being decent. No one will take that opinion seriously, especially given the sexist jibe at the end.