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News ArchiveNew MUDS venuePlease note that all MUDS events henceforth are to be held in Old Geology Theatre 1. It can be found on the ground floor of the Old Geology building, which faces Architecture and adjoins both the Chemistry and Richard Berry buildings.  More exciting new appointments!A big congratulations to both Candice Tan (Internal Competitions Officer) and Trina Malone (Social Officer) on their new positions on the MUDS Committee!MUDS in Semester 2 MUDS will be on every Tuesday from 5:30pm at our brand new venue, Old Geology Lecture Theatre 1. Every Tuesday night, MUDS will be holding an event. Generally this event will be either an internal competition round, a training night, or a social event. Unless it is already a social function, each night will end up at the Corkman Pub on the corner of Pelham and Leicester Streets (opposite the Law building). MUDS nights will always be something like this: 
Our adjudicators also did extremely well - with our three "trainees" Duncan Campbell, Amy Fazio and Chris Williams aceing the adjudication test and immediately being promoted to full adjudicators! All three adjudicators chaired panels during the rounds, and Chris Williams adjudicated the Octos and Duncan Campbell the ESL Grand Final. Also, a MUDS member, Lucia Pietropaoli was Deputy Chief Adjudicator (DCA) of the tournament. People noted the extremely high quality of interesting and challenging topics over the course of the tournament, as well as the excellent briefings, so well done to Lucia for all her hard work!Next year Australs will be hosted by Ateneo de Manila in the Philippines. More here...Appointment of Public Debates Officer Congratulations and a very warm welcome to Duncan Campbell on his appointment to the MUDS Committee as Public Debates Officer for the remainder of 2007.Australs 2007 ContingentThe teams and three adjudicators for Australs 2007 have now been finalised and are as follows:Melbourne 1 Chris Hibbard Lauren Knight Seamus Coleman Melbourne 2 Nicole Lynch Sienna Merope Duncan Kauffman Melbourne 3 Jessica Chiew Laura Bellamy Anna Blair Adjudicators Duncan Campbell Amy Fazio Chris Williams The contingent will leave for Kuala Lumpur in early July to participate in the Australasian Debating Championships being hosted in 2007 by UT Mara. With MUDS' gloried history of success in Australs, this year's teams and adjudicators will no doubt again do MUDS very proud. We wish them all the best of luck for Australs 2007! For more information on Australs » For past contingent details & results » UT MARA Australs 2007 » MUDS at the President's Cup  MUDS was as usual ably represented at the 2007 President's Cup, held at Wesley College over the 28th-29th April weekend. Co-hosted by the Debater's Association of Victoria and the Monash Association of Debaters, over 4 rounds the competition saw MUDS break to both the novice semi-final (Team A: Daniel White, Daniel Baker & Emma Hassaram) and a team consisting of MUDSians present and past go on to become the champions of the Novice Grand Final (I forgot to eat: Charisma Dungan, Kel Mitchell, Stuart Johnson & Alan MacKinnon). Our very own MUDS president and her team (The Greatest Moral Challenge of Our Generation: Nicole Lynch, Tim Sonnreich & Prasanna Venkataraman) broke first in the main break undefeated and then subsequently won the President's Cup! Nicole Lynch was also ranked 2nd best speaker of the tournament.
Congratulations to all on their fine efforts and a wonderful weekend of debating!
Tournament Dinner MUDS in Grand Final at Easters!
In the Grand Final Melbourne was ably represented by Melbourne 7 (Tom McCarthy, Sienna Merope, Jessica Chiew) with Sienna Merope coming away with both Best Novice Speaker and Best Speaker of the tournament, a truly remarkable achievement. Putting on a great Grand Final tussle, the Championship eventually went to University of Queensland 4. Also breaking were Melbourne 4 (Phil Barker, Nick Tam, Simon Thomas) making the quarter final and Melbourne 1 (Tony Kung, Alex Chapman, Christine Lim) making the octo-finals. With our very own Liz Sheargold as DCA, MUDS adjudicators also fared impressively, with Nicole Lynch, Steve Worcester and Seamus Coleman making the break.For more Easters results, please see the Easters page and for full contingent details, Contingents.Welcome to 2007! MUDS is back again in force for a busy new year and plenty of events planned. Look for our stall at O-Week, come meet the committee and pick up a copy of MUDSlinger, the official MUDS magazine. Be sure not to miss the O-Week exhibition debate, which will pit some of MUDS' best debaters against one another. Remember Tuesday nights are MUDS nights (every Tuesday, 5:30-7:30pm, Level 10 Redmond Barry), and for the first week back MUDS has a demonstration debate lined up to kick off debating for the year. An introductory training session for those new to uni debating in the second week will be followed by the annual Commencement Dinner, a perennial MUDS social highlight. Also coming up is the First Year's Competition, a great opportunity to practise, adjust to uni debating and get some valuable feedback just before Easters trials and the start of Freehills, MUDS' first internal competition of the year. Also don't forget to renew your membership - visit the MUDS table at O-week to re-register or sign up as a new member! Otherwise, just come along to one of our MUDS nights or contact our president, Nicole Lynch, to join. Membership fees for MUDS in 2007 are as follows: $10 for non-union members $5 for UMSU members Costs of membership cover all registration and participation in internal competitions, member training nights and practice debates. Membership is highly rewarding! Hope to see you at MUDS soon! MUDS Breaks 100% of Contingent at Worlds!
Melbourne A (Liz Ames and Tom O'Connor) broke 27th to the Octo finals at the largest Worlds ever - a truly impressive achievement - especially for Tom debating at his first ever Worlds! A second congratulations to Liz for ranking 32nd on the speaker tab! Nicole Lynch broke as an adjudicator - making a 100% breaking rate for MUDS - and had the honour of adjudicating the Octo-finals, the Quarter-finals and the ESL Grand-final on a panel of 7. To add to the success, MUDS President Nicole Lynch and Monash President Victor Finkel teamed up as 'Australia A' and were Grand Finalists in the World Masters Debating Championships. Congratulations!!News from 2006... MUDS goes to Womens! Over the last weekend of the mid-semester break, MUDS sent five and a half teams to Sydney to compete against some of Australia's strongest debaters in the annual women-only tournament. Continuing the trend of strong performances two of those teams (Nicole Lynch with Erica Leaney & Lauren Knight with Claire Lyndsey (Monash)) made the semi's whilst Sarah Kemeny and Laura Bellamy made it all the way to the finals! Individual performances were also strong with Sarah, Nicole and Sienne Merope ranking 3rd, 5th and 9th on the speaker tab respectively! Your webmaster is male but word is all participants had a smashing time hitting the town in Sydney as well. Congratulations to all participants! If you're interested in attending this event next year take a look at the Tournaments section of this website for more details!MUDSLINGER RELEASED! The long-awaited journal of all things MUDS (plus some) is now available for download at your leisure! MUDS Reaches GRAND FINAL at Australs! Over the winter break 22 intrepid Mudsians headed to sunny Wellington to compete in and adjudicate the Australasian Championships and had a spectacular showing. Our flagship- Melbourne 1- broke second in the rounds and were defeated again only in the Grand Final by our friendly rivals from Monash. Congratulations to Lucia, Jess and Liz for a phenomenal tournament and again to Liz for winning the coveted Best Speaker Prize! Kudos also to Melbourne 2 and Melbourne 4 for breaking to the quarter and octo finals respectively, to the four MUDS speakers that made the top 10 and to all participants for Melbourne's most successful tournament in recent memory.
Another Fantastic MUDS Tournament: ADAM! Over the weekend MUDS hosted another highly successful invitational. With almost 100 participants, ADAM was a fantastic warm up tournament for many Australs teams and greatly enjoyed by all involved. Many thanks to the organising Committe for all their hard work in running such a fantastic weekend and congratulations to 'ACU (NT)' (Roland Dillon, Tom Chapman and Jake Clifton) for winning the tournament. Congratulations also to our own 'Johnathan's Angels' (Lucia Petriopaoli, Liz Sheargold and Jess Moir) for making the Grand Final! See the final speaker tab here: (excel format)
MUDS Public Debate... a resounding success! In the lead up to the Victorian State election, the Melbourne University Debating Society proudly hosted a debate on a key election issue... If you do the crime, you should do the time! The debate featured 3 Victorian MPs, the Chief Magistrate of the Victorian Magistrates Court and the President of Liberty Victoria. An excellent event - thank-you to everyone who attended!
MUDS Reaches Quarters at Easters! MUDS has returned from ANU Easters with success after success! MUDS sent a massive contingent of 10 teams and 15 adjudicators who all did exceedingly well. MUDS broke five teams and three adjudicators to the finals. Our all novice Melbourne 8 (Sienna Merope, Tom McCarthy and Catherine Smyth-McMullen) made it all the way to the quarter finals! In the Grand Final, MUDS was represented on the adjudication panel by Liz Sheargold (Chair) and Tim Washington. To top it all off, three MUDS speakers finished in the top 10 on the speaker tab!!! A truely impressive effort by all involved!
For more details about this year's Easters, click here. Commencement Dinner The 2006 Commencement Dinner was held at Nyonya Restaurant in Lygon St followed by an after party at Phoenix Bar on Flinders St. Wow, what a fantastic night! For those who came to the dinner, you would know that it was filled with fun times, good conversation and slightly warmer than usual surroundings. We honestly hope that you enjoyed it, and take it as a signs of things to come around MUDS. A big thank-you to Liz Ames and Michael Symons for organising the dinner! Photos will be up soon. MUDS' Success at Worlds! MUDS has achieved outstanding success at the 2006 Dublin World Universities' Debating Championships. All teams spoke very well and were in contention for the break going into the final day. Melbourne 1, Lucia Pietropaoli and Elizabeth Sheargold, broke in an amazing 8th place, both ranked in the top 20 speakers and made it all the way to the Quarter Finals where they were knocked out by two Grand Final teams. Two of our adjudicators, Maryam Jahanshahi and Catherine Muhlebach also broke to the finals. In another success, Jess Moir won the comedy prize with a speech that receieved a standing ovation (and not just from Australians!). Congratulations to all involved!
News from 2005... Melbourne Mini! Sydney Mini!
Full details here. The passing of Hamish Malcolm Advanced First Principles Training
The Novice British Parliamentary Competition MUDS is again hosting the Novice BP Competition on Sunday 23rd October! This is a great chance for those new to the BP Style to fight (and debate) our Monash cousins for the ultimate prize! Meet on Concrete Lawns at 11:45am. more...
The DAV Annual Dinner
Dublin Worlds Contingent Announced! Best of luck to our Worlds Contingent who will be competing in Dublin in a mere 10 Weeks! MUDS will be proudly represented by the following teams and adjudicators: Melbourne A: Lucia Pietropaoli and Liz Sheargold Adjudicators: Maryam Jahanshahi Congratulations to Seamus Coleman and Duncan Kauffman in taking out the Law Students' Society Junior Mooting Grand Final!
In other news, your President and Vice-President, Tim Washington and Nicole Lynch, have made the LSS Negotiation Grand Final! It will take place next Thursday, 20th October in the Law School, room G27 at 6.15pm. Come along and support MUDS in winning another LSS Competition! Congratulations to Liz Sheargold and Liz Ames for winning the Australian Womens Debating Championships This year, the tournament was held by the team at the Australian National University. 'Team Liz' beat two Sydney teams and an ANU team in the Grand Final - A fantastic effort! More...
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