Easters

Easters comprises 6 preliminary rounds of debates, followed by a 16 team knock-out finals series.

The aims of the Easter Championship are:

Style of Debate

Easters style debating consists of two teams of three speakers each, one team taking the role of the Affirmative, and the other the Negative. Speeches are heard alternately from the Affirmative and Negative, and have a duration of six to eight minutes. Both teams are given 30 minutes to prepare their speeches, from the time the topic is announced. 

Unlike Australs, Easters does not feature reply speeches.  In all other respects the style of debate is identical to Australs style, providing valuable experience for novice debaters and adjudicatorsin Australs style.

The rules of debate can be found in the Australia-Asia Debating Handbook, which can be viewed by linking here {link to training page}. Other rules, including the definitional rule are contained in Article 41 of the AIDA constitution

Novice Requirement

The Easter Championship is primarily a novice competition, with a requirement that two-thirds of each team be comprised of novice debaters.

A novice debater at Easters is a person who has not debated at Worlds or Australs, and is debating for the first or second time at an Easter Intervarsity Debating Championship.

Schedule

While every Eastrs is different, traditionally the championship has consisted of the following elements:

Day 1 (Holy Thursday):

Day 2 (Good Friday):

Day 3 (Easter Saturday):

Day 4 (Easter Sunday):

 

Hosts

The host of the 2009 Easter Intervarsity Debating Championships are the University of Queensland.

Their website, once it is online, will be found at: www.easters2009.com.

Past Hosts

History

The first Easters tournament was held in 1990 by the Australian National University with Simon Banks as the Convenor and Clayton Long the Chief Adjudicator. These two had been instrumental in hosting the AustralAsian championships at the Australian National University the previous year and used the surplus funds left over from that tournament towards this novice tournament. At that stage the tournament was a one-off but under the auspices of the then newly-formed Australasian Intervarsity Debating Association, Monash University hosted the tournament in 1991 and the tournament's future was secured.

 

Year Champions Runners Up Hosts
2008 University of Sydney University of Queensland Macquarie University
2007 University of Queensland University of Melbourne University of Sydney
2006 Australian National University University of Sydney Australian National University
2005 University of Sydney University of Sydney University of Western Australia
2004 University of Sydney University of Queensland University of New South Wales
2003 Australian National University University of Adelaide University of Queensland
2002 Australian National University University of Sydney University of Adelaide
2001 University of New South Wales Australian National University University of Sydney
2000 University of New South Wales University of Melbourne University of Melbourne
1999 University of New South Wales University of Sydney University of New South Wales
1998 Australian National University Monash University Australian National University
1997 University of Melbourne University of Sydney University of Melbourne
1996 University of Melbourne University of New South Wales University of Adelaide
1995 Australian National University University of Sydney University of Sydney
1994 Monash University University of Melbourne Monash University
1993 Australian National University Monash University Macquarie University
1992 Monash University University of Melbourne Australian National University
1991 University of Sydney Macquarie University Monash University
1990 Australian National University University of New South Wales Australian National University

Year Best Speaker University
2008 Claudia Newman-Martin Australian National University
2007 Sienna Merope University of Melbourne
2006 Amit Golder Monash University
2005 Tom Robertson University of Sydney
2004 David Solomon
Jenny Bowles		 University of Western Australia
Australian National University
2003 Shannon Price University of Sydney
2002 Kate Mason University of New South Wales
2001 Anthony Jones University of Sydney
2000 Pete Morris University of New South Wales
1999 Andrew Gormly University of Adelaide
1998 Nick Wood Australian National University
1997 Chris Bacon University of Melbourne
1996 Michael Walsh University of New South Wales
1995 David Ruschena Monash University

 

Year Best Novice Speaker University
2008 Michael Falk
Paul Karp		 University of Sydney
University of Sydney
2007 Sienna Merope University of Melbourne
2006 Steve Hind University of Sydney
2005 Tom Robertson University of Sydney
2004 Jenny Bowles Australian National University
2003 Shannon Price University of Sydney
2002 Patrick Delaney Australian National University
2001 Anthony Jones University of Sydney
2000 Mark Thomson Australian National University
1999 Sarah Kennedy University of Melbourne
1998 Mark Thomson Australian National University
1997 Anthea Roberts Australian National University
1996    
1995 Luke Oliver
Tim Maxwell		 Monash University
University of Melbourne