Association of Heads of Independent Girls’ Schools NSW Inc ABN 81 660 358 175 2020 Archdale Debating Competition Draw Competition Dates Archdale Preliminary Rounds Round 1 Tuesday, 21 July Round 2 Tuesday, 28 July Round 3 Tuesday, 4 August Round 4 Tuesday, 11 August Round 5 Tuesday, 18 August Round 6 Tuesday, 25 August Round 7 Tuesday, 1 September Rescheduled Debates Will not be held in 2020 Tie-Breakers Will not be held in 2020 Quarter Finals Tuesday, 8 September Semi Finals Tuesday, 15 September Grand Final Tuesday, 22 September 2020 Draw Formulation The 21 returning schools were ranked according to their Archdale Shield results from 2019 noting the withdrawal of Tangara and addition of Canberra Girls Grammar School for the 2020 competition to be held via Zoom. 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 Ravenswood Santa Sabina Loreto Normanhurst (Randomly Assigned Canberra Girls Grammar (Randomly Assigned Group C School) School Group A School) Each school will debate against the six other schools in their group and also receive a bye across the seven preliminary rounds. As there are seven schools in Groups A and C, 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 C debates on the draw below. LG1 56 Delhi Rd, North Ryde NSW 2113 Phone: (02) 9888 9477 Website: www.ahigs.nsw.edu.au As there are eight schools in Group B, these schools will only debate against other schools in their group. Wherever possible, all schools have three away and three home debates, an alternating home then away allocation was preferred. No school has more than two consecutive away debates. 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 Roseville v Ravenswood Loreto Kirribilli v Loreto Queenwood v Pymble Ladies' Tara v Abbotsleigh Normanhurst Round 1 College Meriden v Monte Sant’ SCEGGS v St Vincent’s Santa Sabina v Wenona 21 July Angelo Ascham v PLC Sydney Kambala – Canberra Girls *St Catherine’s – Kincoppal St Catherine’s – *Kincoppal Grammar School Danebank v Kambala St Vincent’s v Kincoppal Ravenswood v St Catherine's Queenwood v MLC Ascham v SCEGGS Tara v Roseville Round 2 Pymble Ladies' College v PLC Sydney v Loreto Abbotsleigh v Meriden Santa Sabina Normanhurst 28 July Monte Sant' Angelo – *Loreto Wenona - Canberra Girls *Monte Sant' Angelo – Loreto Kirribilli Grammar School Kirribilli Roseville v Abbotsleigh MLC v Pymble Ladies' College SCEGGS v PLC Sydney Round 3 Meriden v Tara Santa Sabina v Queenwood Kincoppal v Loreto Kirribilli St Catherine's School v Monte Kambala v Wenona Loreto Normanhurst v 4 August Sant' Angelo Canberra Girls Grammar Ascham *St Vincent’s v Ravenswood School v Danebank St Vincent’s v *Ravenswood Danebank v Santa Sabina Ravenswood v Meriden St Vincent's v Loreto Queenwood - Canberra Girls Abbotsleigh v St Catherine's Normanhurst Round 4 Grammar School Monte Sant’ Angelo v PLC Sydney v Kincoppal Pymble Ladies' College v 11 August Roseville Loreto Kirribilli v SCEGGS Kambala Tara – *Ascham *Tara – Ascham Wenona v MLC Ravenswood v Tara Danebank v Queenwood St Vincent's v Ascham Monte Sant' Angelo v Wenona v Pymble Ladies' Kincoppal v SCEGGS Round 5 Abbotsleigh College Loreto Kirribilli v PLC Sydney St Catherine's v Roseville Kambala v MLC 18 August Loreto Normanhurst v *Loreto Normanhurst v Canberra Girls Grammar *Meriden Meriden School v Santa Sabina MLC - Canberra Girls Loreto Normanhurst v Tara v Monte Sant' Angelo Grammar School Queenwood Kincoppal Round 6 Abbotsleigh v Ravenswood v Wenona Ascham v Loreto Kirribilli Meriden v St Catherine's Pymble Ladies' College v 25 August PLC Sydney v St Vincent's Roseville – *SCEGGS Danebank *Roseville – SCEGGS Santa Sabina v Kambala Danebank v Wenona Ravenswood v Monte Sant' SCEGGS v Loreto MLC v Santa Sabina Round 7 Angelo Normanhurst Kambala v Queenwood Roseville v Meriden Kincoppal v Ascham 1 Canberra Girls Grammar St Catherine's v Tara Loreto Kirribilli v St Vincent's September School v Pymble Ladies' Abbotsleigh v *PLC Sydney *Abbotsleigh v PLC Sydney College 2020 Representative Debating Competition Dates TBA Updated 19 August 2020 .