Vic One: Two wins
Vic Two: Four wins (top of tab)
Vic Three: Two wins
Vic Four: Three wins
Vic Five: Two wins

Every Vic team is in with a chance of breaking going into the last day (three rounds).

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Tomorrow night you’ll all be getting an email with the teams for our internal Vic Champs grade. If you haven’t signed up yet, get your email in to this address in the next few hours.

Basically how the rounds will work is that you turn up on the night and will be debating in either the first or the second debate of the evening. Before the debates start there will be a brief 15 minute seminar on a specific element of debating – this week will just be a general overview of how the grade will work and how to debate at the basic level. In your off round there will be the chance to shadow adjudicate – sit in with a judge and learn how that side of things work – or to just watch. While the teams prepare in your off round there will also often be a slightly more detailed seminar – this week on the basics of judging a debate.

The debates will have a topic announced, and then 30 minutes’ preparation with your coaches, and then the debate where there are three speeches a side at a maximum of 6 minutes each, and then a leader’s reply for each team. Don’t worry – this will all be explained in detail on Wednesday, and if 30 minutes scares you then it won’t once you get into the preparation room with your coaches to help. The first round will be nice and casual. The topic for each debate will be selected from a “theme” which will be different every round. This week’s theme is education, so you can expect a topic like (but not one of these) This House would ban the wearing of religious symbols in schools, or This House would enforce compulsory drug testing in schools.

For a better idea of the style, check the website’s debating styles page here for more information on how the debate works, and check our moot bank here for some examples of moots that have come up in the past.

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