2017 Archdale Debating Competition Draw Competition Dates Archdale Preliminary Rounds Round 1 Tuesday, 16 May Round 2 Tuesday, 23 May Round 3 Tuesday, 30 May Round 4 Tuesday, 6 June Round 5 Tuesday, 13 June Round 6 Tuesday, 25 July Round 7 Tuesday, 1 August Tie-Breakers Tuesday, 15 August Quarter Finals Tuesday, 22 August Semi Finals Tuesday, 29 August Grand Final Tuesday, 5 September 2017 Draw Formulation The 22 returning schools were ranked according to their Archdale Shield results from 2016. Group A Group B Group C Abbotsleigh MLC SCEGGS PLC Sydney Kambala Meriden Monte Sant'Angelo Ravenswood Pymble Ladies' College Wenona Kincoppal Rose Bay Roseville College Loreto Kirribilli Tara Ascham St Catherine's School Santa Sabina Queenwood St Vincent's College Loreto Normanhurst Tangara (Randomly Assigned (Randomly Assigned Danebank Group C School) Group B School) Each school will debate against the other schools in their group. As there are eight schools in Group A, these schools will only debate against other schools in their group. As there are seven schools in Groups B 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 B and C debates on the draw below. All schools have 7 debates; three away debates and four home debates or four away debates and three home debates. Updated 24 November 2016 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 Ascham v Tangara Loreto Kirribilli v St Vincent's MLC v Kambala Pymble Ladies' College v Abbotsleigh v Monte Loreto Normanhurst v Tara Round 1 SCEGGS 16 May Wenona v PLC Sydney Kincoppal v Santa Sabina Roseville v Meriden Danebank v St Catherine's * Queenwood v Ravenswood *Queenwood v Ravenswood Tangara v Queenwood St Vincent's v St Catherine's Kambala v Ravenswood Pymble Ladies' College v Monte v Loreto Kirribilli Tara v MLC Round 2 Ascham 23 May Abbotsleigh v Wenona Loreto Normanhurst v Kincoppal SCEGGS v Roseville PLC Sydney v Danebank Santa Sabina v * Meriden * Santa Sabina v Meriden Ascham v SCEGGS Loreto Kirribilli v Abbotsleigh MLC v Loreto Normanhurst Roseville v Pymble Ladies' Wenona v Monte Kincoppal v Tara Round 3 College 30 May St Catherine's v PLC Sydney Ravenswood v Santa Sabina Queenwood v Meriden Danebank v St Vincent's Tangara* v Kambala Tangara v Kambala* Kambala v Kincoppal Tangara v Roseville St Vincent's v Wenona Loreto Normanhurst v SCEGGS v Queenwood Round 4 Monte v Danebank Ravenswood Meriden v Ascham 6 June Abbotsleigh v St Catherine's Santa Sabina v MLC * Tara v Pymble Ladies' PLC Sydney v Loreto Kirribilli Tara v * Pymble Ladies' College College Kambala v Tara Tangara v Pymble Ladies' St Vincent's v Monte Santa Sabina v Loreto College PLC Sydney v Abbotsleigh Round 5 Normanhurst Ascham v Queenwood 13 June St Catherine's v Loreto Kirribilli Ravenswood v MLC Meriden v SCEGGS Danebank v Wenona *Roseville v Kincoppal Roseville v *Kincoppal Pymble Ladies' College v Loreto Kirribilli v Danebank Tara v Santa Sabina Meriden Monte v PLC Sydney Loreto Normanhurst v Kambala Round 6 SCEGGS v Tangara 25 July Abbotsleigh v St Vincent's Kincoppal v Ravenswood Roseville v Queenwood Wenona v St Catherine's MLC v *Ascham * MLC v Ascham Ascham v Roseville St Vincent's v PLC Sydney Kambala v Santa Sabina Meriden v Tangara Round 7 Loreto Kirribilli v Wenona MLC v Kincoppal 1 Queenwood v Pymble Ladies' August St Catherine's v Monte Ravenswood v Tara College Danebank v Abbotsleigh *SCEGGS v Loreto Normanhurst SCEGGS v * Loreto Normanhurst 2017 Representative Debating Competition Dates Wednesday 7 September Archdale v CHS Monday 12 September Archdale v GPS Wednesday 14 September CHS v GPS Updated 24 November 2016 .