NSW Schools Debating 2023

[scrumhead99]

Death, Taxes and the ISDA A winner are the only certainties in life.

Again, "Success leads to complacency. Complacency breeds failure."

 

[TBoneTerry]

Again, "Success leads to complacency. Complacency breeds failure."

To put it in rugby terms. Of the 4 teams left in ISDA A one of them is the All Blacks, the rest are Japan, Canada and Argentina.

 

[scrumhead99]

To put it in rugby terms. Of the 4 teams left in ISDA A one of them is the All Blacks, the rest are Japan, Canada and Argentina.

Ahhh.... Understood, So really there are two competitors, and All Blacks should win.

 

[Asdyjftj]

Very interesting topics coming out of Archdale. Someone is doing a great job

It’s the same CA as ISDA - except the topics aren’t moderated by a topics committee.

 

[The Bait]

NSW team just broke first in the nationals. Semis v South Australia tomorrow.

 

[The Bait]

So I think it’s NSW v SA, winner straight through to grand final, loser is up against winner of QLD v ACT with the loser of that match eliminated.

 

[The Bait]

NSW loses to SA, now faces QLD with the winner to meet SA in the grand final and the loser eliminated.

 

[The Bait]

Sadly NSW has just been eliminated, congrats on representing our state so proudly. SA v QLD in the grand final.

 

[Asdyjftj]

Reports from Senior A are Aloys won unanimously in a fairly clear debate and Grammar won in a very close debate, with the chair getting rolled.

 

[Debating4life]

Reports from Senior A are Aloys won unanimously in a fairly clear debate and Grammar won in a very close debate, with the chair getting rolled.

Interestingly the debate’s chair who got rolled lost her Austral’s semi on the neg of that same topic, barker was on neg as well.

 

[InterestedBystander]

…with the chair getting rolled.

For the ignorant, what does this mean?

 

[The Bait]

SA wins the NSDC beating QLD. Aust team announcements soon….

 

[Romanforum]

So next Friday night we see the 2 best teams in NSW debating (including CHS imo) face off for the ISDA title, like they did in 2021.

Acc. To another poster, Grammar beat Barker (who was missing their state speaker) in a close one whilst Aloys beat the impressive Joeys team in a unanimous and clear decision.

The College St faithful will no doubt be out in force but I think something special is brewing just North of the bridge.

This Grammar team is nowhere near as strong as previous years whilst the Aloys team is freakishly good. It is because of this and the fact that no team has come near them all year, that my call for the ISDA title is St Aloysius.

 

[GregMcBean]

Anybody know anything about the year 9 Shore team?

 

[Debating4life]

So next Friday night we see the 2 best teams in NSW debating (including CHS imo) face off for the ISDA title, like they did in 2021.

Acc. To another poster, Grammar beat Barker (who was missing their state speaker) in a close one whilst Aloys beat the impressive Joeys team in a unanimous and clear decision.

The College St faithful will no doubt be out in force but I think something special is brewing just North of the bridge.

This Grammar team is nowhere near as strong as previous years whilst the Aloys team is freakishly good. It is because of this and the fact that no team has come near them all year, that my call for the ISDA title is St Aloysius.

Looking at this age group in previous years, it looks like Grammar beat Aloys in year 10 and year 9 respectively.

I’ve heard that one Aloys speaker has become quite strong in recent years, though.

One member mentioned that Aidan Woo’s brother James Woo is currently debating in the grammar Senior Bs, and two state squad members are in the 2nds (senior B) and 3rds of the grammar teams. Grammar doesn’t do age group teams for seniors, which is why there are 2 or 3 year 11s in the senior A team (as I have seen posts suggesting that Kasra Roushan is in year 11 and year 12, so I’m not sure about him). Given the depth of the cohort (as there is a state squad speaker in the 3rds without age group selections), the fact that this is the third year in a row they are in the grand finals, and finally the fact that the adj who got rolled last week was the only one who voted in favour of the barker neg team for a topic she lost her Australs semis on, on the same side as Barker, I’m not quite convinced by RomanForum’s argument.

That said, I have heard similarly excellent things about the Aloys team, with that one speaker in particular becoming quite strong in the past two years.

The Grammar team (who I’m slightly more familiar with) consisting I believe of the historically strong (as one member mentioned early in the competition) Remy Sloan and Kasra Roushan, as well as another strong year 11 Will Ellis, are still well positioned as a very strong team to take home the premiership for Grammar for the 3rd year in a row.

but given the form of Aloys this year, in a match up between the best teams in NSW debating, it will be a very high quality debate to watch.

 

[pocockenthusiast1973]

Anybody know anything about the year 9 Shore team?

Interesting to see how the younger sides of these schools are shaping up.

 

[ProudToAffirm/Negate]

Anybody know anything about the year 9 Shore team?

Unsure, the strength of junior teams always seems to be changing. All the best for them in the Grands against a surprising Grammar opponent that beat MLC. This cohort of MLC speakers won last year and many claimed that there were very strong speakers in that team.

 

[The Bait]

Be good to hear thoughts on the isda grand final from anyone who has actually watched or participated against Aloys/Grammar.

 

[Doggies doggies doggies!]

Be good to hear thoughts on the isda grand final from anyone who has actually watched or participated against Aloys/Grammar.

Aloys has a very very strong team this year. Blue and Gold should take this year out

 

[Lachie Goon]

what time and what day is the final?