Points of Information

For this special episode presenter Alexander and VST Coach Michael are in discussion with two members of the Victorian Schools Team, Max and Livia, talking about competitions, work loads, and the fun that was had at the National Schools Debate Championship earlier in the year. With Alexander Gregory, Michael Donaghue-Evans, Max Fang and Livia Tropea

The panel is going through a review of the round 2 topics, where the focus is on how to correctly use examples in your speeches. Then onto how the round 3 secret topics were received, and more discussion about how to correctly use examples in secret topics. With Alexander Gregory, Joel Cripps and Michael Donaghue-Evans.

The panel of adjudicators reflect on the topics of round 1 and analyse some of the common mistakes and issues with the first round of debates. With Alexander Gregory, Joel Cripps, Louay Elmustapha and Sarah Winch

With round 3 of 2020's online schools competition now over the panel is looking at how well teams fared for their first round of online secret topics in a regular round review format, as well as doing a regular round review of the D-grade topic. With Alexander Gregory, Elmira Cheung, Jacqui Presedge and Luisa Romeo

With round 2 of the schools competition now wrapping up, the Points of Information panel is going through the topics and discussing how well the topics were debated, as well as some of the issues and interests of running and debating in an online competition. With Alexander Gregory, Carina Field, Gajan Thiyagarajah and Vivan Lai-Tran

The schools competition is resuming in an online format, so the panel of adjudicators are taking the time to look over some common debating and adjudication misconceptions, everything from openings to conclusions and everything in-between. With Alexander Gregory, Joel Cripps, Mitchell Dye and Sophia Frentz

With the schools competition on pause the panel is turning their attention to the current Monash Asia Studies Debating Competition (MASDC), which is currently taking place online. With discussion about the topics, upcoming debates, and how to get involved. With Alexander Gregory, Alisdair Gurling, Hannah Kuhar and Sophia Frentz

For this episode the panel are ignoring debating to focus on the public speaking. Focusing on how public speaking is scored, and how to improve your manner and matter as well as some other tips for the upcoming public speaking competition. With Alexander Gregory, Charisma Taylor, Kim Hitchcock and Tracey Chau

While Victoria may be in Lockdown, there's still a panel of adjudicators out there, joining together online to bring you a recap of the (interrupted) round one of the schools competition. In this round the panel is providing in-depth analysis of how the various different round one topics went down, as well as providing some tips for approaching empirical topics. With Alexander Gregory, Elmira Cheung, Joel Cripps and Jonathan Benney

The DAV's debate-focused podcast, where a panel of some of the association's best and most outgoing adjudicators discuss debating tips for our schools competition debaters. The schools competition topics for 2020 have just been released, and the panel is discussing the new topics, issuing challenges and making some predictions. With Alexander Gregory, Michael Donaghue-Evans and Tara O'Toole