Grand Final Success for our FED Debaters
Last Friday evening the Grand Final of the FED debating competition was held at St Josephs College. MLC School had three teams competing in the event – teams and coaches were feeling nervous, but quietly confident. For the Grand Final there is a panel of three Adjudicators to decide the winner and topic selection as well. This means teams decide Affirmative or Negative first through a coin toss and then have five minutes to choose a topic they would like most debate from three topics they are offered. Each team gets to veto one topic and rank the other two according to preference. It is a process where teams must make smart choices.
The 7A team:
- Abira Sanan
- Anaahat Kahlon
- Lauren Cheng
- Elsa Liu
was affirmative and debated the topic that ‘children should support their parents financially in retirement’. Parents will be happy to know they successfully argued the case to help parents and were awarded a unanimous win by the judges.
Our Year 9 team:
- Taylor Lu
- Ingrid Henderson
- Sarah Zhang
- Pip McGuire
- Bridget Cortis-Jones
- Yolanda Deng
have had a very successful season being trained by MLC School Old Girl Esther Kim (2024) in her first year coaching. Both Esther and the team were proud and happy to be awarded a unanimous win.
The Year 10 team:
- Yerina Kang
- Lindsay Zeng
- Rebecca Ho-Bui
- Luella Farah
- Josephine Doan
won the Year 9 trophy last year and the Year 8 one in 2023, so no pressure to win again this year! Against an enthusiastic team from Knox Grammar our team stayed cool and focussed in arguing the affirmative case that ‘The true crime genre has done more harm than good to society’. Luckily the team love true crime and knew a lot about it, the result another unanimous win.
Congratulations to the whole 40 strong FED team of debaters for an enjoyable and successful season of debates.
– Andrea Rowe
Oratory Coordinator
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