7A Debaters Take Out Archdale Grand Final

The Grand Final of the Archdale Debating Competition was held during the week starting 22 November 2021. Congratulations to our 7A team (Amelia Tchan, Umaiza Mahfuz, Anna Obaid, Harriet Hahn and Elena Sun) which was victorious over Kambala to take out the Grand Final. 

Our eight teams began debating back in April 2021, so it’s been a long haul to get to the end.

Most of the competition has been conducted online this year and for the finals our teams were able to prep together in a room at school. Our 7A team defeated Pymble to make it through to Tuesday evening’s Grand Final.

The Grand Final started with a coin toss to decide sides and then topic selection. Teams have a choice of three topics they can list in order of preference. Our team took the Negative side debating the topic, “Political parties should not be able to advertise on TV” against Kambala. It was a lively debate with excellent speakers on both sides, a panel of three Adjudicators gave the win to MLC School.

In the overall points tally for the Archdale shield, MLC School came in second, just one point behind the winners for 2021, SCEGGS. Congratulations on an outstanding season to all our debaters.

– Dr Andrea Rowe
Debating Coordinator