Tournaments between university students from around Australia, Australasia and the world are the place to take debating to the next level. At IVs (the major tournaments on the debating circuit) and invitationals, intensive, high quality debating is matched with the opportunity to meet other debaters and adjudicators from all over the world, to travel to exciting locations and party hard between debates!
Want to know more about what happens at a tournament?! Check out our Tournament Survival Guide!
Tournament funding from MUDS is available for Australs, Women's and Worlds to those eligible. See the sponsorship policy here.
Click on the following links to find out more about the tournaments in the debating calendar.
| Intervarsities | |
EastersThe Australia-wide 3 on 3 tournament aimed at initiating novice debaters to the debating circuit. | |
AustralsThe pinnacle of 3 on 3 debating, the place where the best teams from Australasia compete. | |
| | Women's Take part in the annual Womens' British Parliamentary Debating Tournament. |
WorldsThe World Intervarsity Debating Championships is the biggest and most prestigious event on the debating calendar. | |
| Invitationals | |
ADAMLearn about Another Day at Melbourne: the pre-Australs tournament. | |
Sydney Novice InvitationalThe University of Sydney and UTS are co-hosting a novice tournament in BP style on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th August, 2005. | |
Melbourne MiniMelbourne Mini is a weekend British Parliamentary tournament, run in Melbourne before Worlds. | |
Sydney MiniSydney Mini is another weekend of British Parliamentary debating, this time held at the University of Sydney. It is run one week before Melbourne Mini |