This weekend we went down to beautiful Tūrangi on the shores of Lake Taupō for Thropy 2024, the North Island Novice tournament! 12 teams, 12 trainees and 11 judges all had a great time, learnt lots about debating and developed over the weekend, and made friendships with each other as well as the squads from Waikato and Victoria!
We had many achievements to celebrate!
💡 Turn those lights OFF (Krishin Cox, Blake Bain, and Uday Jain) WON the tournament and took home the Thropy!!
❄️ It’s freezing – we need global warming (Eve French, Virginia Quartermain, and Joe Howells) broke 1st and did an excellent job in their semi-final!
🔢 Stop the count!!! (Rebecca Huang, Chloe Sim, and Henry Isac) broke 3rd and were superb in their semi!
Congratulations as well to James, Saad and Xandi from Victoria for an exceptional performance and making the grand final so high quality!
Our speakers had exceptional performances!
💙 Joe Howells was the equal BEST speaker!
💛 Virginia Quartermain was the 3rd best speaker!
💙 Henry Isac was the 4th best speaker!
💛 Eve French was the 5th best speaker!
💙 Chloe Sim was the 7th best speaker!
💛 Krishin Cox and Blake Bain were the 10th= best speakers!
💙 Eve French was the best reply speaker!
💛 Chloe Sim was the 3rd best reply speaker!
Further congratulations to Vic’s Jack Turnbull for being equal best speaker!
We are delighted to welcome Ella Mitchell, James Boland, Judy Fong, Lily Chalmers and Victoria’s Emma Hardy to the judge pool!!
Thank you to the adj core of Harry Aickin, Tiana Mayo and Lucy Jessep for their exceptional organisation and motions, to all the judges for enabling a large tournament and letting many people experience the fun of debating, and to Te Kura o Hirangi for hosting us!
We’re already counting down the days until next time 🤩
University of Auckland Debating Society 
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