2020 Archdale Debating Competition Draw Competition Dates Archdale Preliminary Rounds Round 1 Tuesday, 19 May Round 2 Tuesday, 26 May Round 3 Tuesday, 2 June Round 4 Tuesday, 9 June Round 5 Tuesday, 16 June
Round 6 Tuesday, 28 July Round 7 Tuesday, 4 August
Rescheduled Debates Tuesday, 11 August Tie-Breakers Tuesday, 18 August Quarter Finals Tuesday, 25 August Semi Finals Tuesday, 1 September Grand Final Tuesday, 8 September 2020 Draw Formulation The 22 returning schools were ranked according to their Archdale Shield results from 2019. Group A Group B Group C Abbotsleigh Kambala SCEGGS Monte Sant' Angelo MLC Ascham Tara Pymble Ladies' College Loreto Kirribilli Meriden Queenwood PLC Sydney Roseville College Wenona Kincoppal Rose Bay St Catherine's School Danebank St Vincent's College Tangara Ravenswood Santa Sabina (Randomly Assigned (Randomly Assigned Loreto Normanhurst Group B School) Group A School)
Each school will debate against the other schools in their group. • As there are seven schools in Groups A and B, these schools will debate the other schools in their group and one, randomly allocated school from the other group. Cross Pool debates are marked with an asterix (*) and appear as both Group A and B debates on the draw below. • As there are eight schools in Group C, these schools will only debate against other schools in their group. All schools have 7 debates; three away debates and four home debates or four away debates and three home debates.
Updated 29 November 2019
The school listed first on the following draw will host that round and will take the affirmative side in all debates in that round. Group A Group B Group C
MLC v Danebank Kincoppal v Santa Sabina Abbotsleigh v Tara Queenwood v Pymble Ladies' PLC Sydney v Ascham Round 1 Monte Sant’ Angelo v Meriden College SCEGGS v Loreto Kirribilli Roseville v Tangara 19 May Wenona v Ravenswood St Vincent's v Loreto *Kambala v St Catherine’s *Kambala v St Catherine’s Normanhurst
Danebank v Kambala Meriden v Abbotsleigh Ascham v Loreto Pymble Ladies' College v Tangara v St Catherine's Normanhurst Round 2 Ravenswood Tara v Roseville Loreto Kirribilli v Kincoppal Queenwood v MLC 26 May *Monte Sant' Angelo v Santa Sabina v St Vincent's *Monte Sant' Angelo v Wenona SCEGGS v PLC Sydney Wenona
Meriden v Tara Kambala v Wenona Kincoppal v SCEGGS Round 3 Roseville v Abbotsleigh MLC v Pymble Ladies' Loreto Normanhurst v Santa St Catherine's School v Monte College Sabina 2 June Sant' Angelo Ravenswood v Queenwood PLC Sydney v Loreto Kirribilli *Danebank v Tangara *Danebank v Tangara St Vincent's v Ascham
Abbotsleigh v St Catherine's Pymble Ladies' College v Ascham v Kincoppal Round 4 Monte Sant’ Angelo v Kambala Loreto Kirribilli v Loreto Roseville Ravenswood v Danebank Normanhurst 9 June Tangara v Meriden Wenona v MLC PLC Sydney v Santa Sabina *Tara v Queenwood *Tara v Queenwood SCEGGS v St Vincent's
Abbotsleigh v Monte Sant' Danebank v Queenwood Ascham v SCEGGS Round 5 Angelo Kambala v MLC Loreto Normanhurst v PLC Roseville v St Catherine's Wenona v Pymble Ladies' Sydney 16 June Tangara v Tara College Santa Sabina v Loreto Kirribilli *Meriden v Ravenswood *Meriden v Ravenswood St Vincent's v Kincoppal
Pymble Ladies' College v Kincoppal v Loreto Abbotsleigh v Tangara Danebank Normanhurst Round 6 St Catherine's v Meriden Queenwood v Wenona Loreto Kirribilli v Ascham Tara v Monte Sant' Angelo 28 July Ravenswood v Kambala PLC Sydney v St Vincent's *Roseville v MLC *Roseville v MLC SCEGGS v Santa Sabina
Meriden v Roseville Kambala v Queenwood Kincoppal v PLC Sydney Round 7 Monte Sant' Angelo v Tangara MLC v Ravenswood Loreto Normanhurst v St Catherine's v Tara Wenona v Danebank SCEGGS 4 August *Pymble Ladies' College v *Pymble Ladies' College v Santa Sabina v Ascham Abbotsleigh Abbotsleigh St Vincent's v Loreto Kirribilli
2020 Representative Debating Competition DRAFT Dates • Wednesday 9th September • Monday 14th September • Wednesday 16th September
Updated 29 November 2019