Name: Russell McVeagh Auckland Novice 2025
Start: 2025-03-29T09:30:00+13:00
Location: University of Auckland

Have you dabbled in debating before? Done some debating at school? Never debated before and keen to get amongst it? A living breathing human? Then this is the tournament for you!
The Russell McVeagh Auckland Novice Development Tournament is our tournament for new and novice debaters ✨ an $800 prize pool 💸👀 this will be an event you don't want to miss!
The tournament will have two separate divisions that speakers can speak in, depending on previous debating experience. The six best speakers from each division will face off in the grand finals to be crowned the winner of their division 🏆
Divisions:
- White Division: No prior debating experience
- Gold Division: Premier grade schools speaker/regional team speaker
If you have previously spoken at an NZUDC tournament or broken at Thropy you are ineligible to speak at this tournament.
You can sign up with your friends as a team or we can organise a team for you.
Sign up here: https://forms.gle/PZVZDkBLfhCCg3f46