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Fritz Lang
Guest
A team to watch in CSDA and CAS competition could be Waverley College.
Although better renowned for brawn than brain, the Waverley opens this year have 10 debaters, an increase of 333% on previous years and given the success of this cohort in last years CSDA (winning 6/6 and losing narrowly to CBHS in the finals) they should be regarded as genuine challengers for the title. The greater challenge for Waverley will come in the CAS competition where they will have to overcome both the opposition and the anti-Waverley bias that is a serious problem preventing the rise of a school still only considered good for footy. The CAS has, in previous years, been a 5-team competition with Waverley merely making up the numbers and adjudications, despite Waverley being obviously superior in some debates, have reflected this perception of Waverley being to debating what Sydney Boys and Grammar are to rugby.
Although better renowned for brawn than brain, the Waverley opens this year have 10 debaters, an increase of 333% on previous years and given the success of this cohort in last years CSDA (winning 6/6 and losing narrowly to CBHS in the finals) they should be regarded as genuine challengers for the title. The greater challenge for Waverley will come in the CAS competition where they will have to overcome both the opposition and the anti-Waverley bias that is a serious problem preventing the rise of a school still only considered good for footy. The CAS has, in previous years, been a 5-team competition with Waverley merely making up the numbers and adjudications, despite Waverley being obviously superior in some debates, have reflected this perception of Waverley being to debating what Sydney Boys and Grammar are to rugby.