Imperial College Union Debating Society

Hi everyone!
Looking forward to seeing y'all tonight at 6.30pm in SAF for a fun training session on The United States, delivered by Alex Nielsen.
Motions to do with the US come up all the time in tournaments, and it's always useful to be able to analyse WHY the US government will or won't do something, and the consequence of HOW it would go about doing it. Don't miss out, especially if you have international tournaments coming up 😉

Dear debaters,
Anyone who's anyone will be in SAF at 6:30 this Tuesday for the beginning of our last term of training! I can exclusively confirm that there will be people there, but there would be even more people if you came. Look forward to an adrenaline filled evening of competitive debating with us - what more could you want?
See you there! xox

[Results of the AGM] President: Thomas Lindsay Vice-President: Alex Nielsen Treasurer: Gregory Patko Secretary: Matthew Hamer... Internal Debates Chair: Ivan Kapelyukh External Debates Chair: James Knight Social Officer: Dan Thurston Publicity Officer: Máté Balassa
Congratulations to all, we look forward to another year of Imperial debating
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Congrats to everyone who trialed for Athens EUDC 2019, you were all excellent! The final delegation is as follows:
Imperial A - Becky Elkington & Ivan Kapelyukh Imperial B - Gwylim Taylor & Shahira Yasmin Judge - Thomas Lindsay
... Many thanks to Nishith Hegde & Abigail Leblanc for selecting the squad!
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Imperial had a sick time at the Inner Temple Open this weekend (the absolute highlight of the debating calendar). Special congrats to Shahira Yasmin and Gordon Cheung for being the top breaking team into the pro-am final, to Shahira for being 2nd best ESL speaker and Benjamin Hilton and Alex Nielsen for breaking as judges.
The Inner temple Open is genuinely the best weekend of the year if you get the oppurtunity to absolutely sign up next year!!
Photo credits: James Laird-Smith, Alex Nielsen and idk probs more

Imperial had a wonderful time at the LSE pro-am this weekend!! special congrats to Becky Elkington and Alena Bell-Gam for breaking (ish) and Gwylim Taylor for breaking as a judge. Also special well done to Becky and Nick Zervoudis for being 8th and 9th best open speakers respectively and Alena and Shahira Yasmin for being 8th and 9th best novice speakers respectively with fantastic speaker schools all round.
Also well done to Becky, Gwylim and Ivan for breaking as judges at LSE juniors the day before!
If you want to come to tournaments sign ups are available on the email. They're lots of fun, free of charge and no experience level is required - feel free to ask if you have any questions!!!!

Imperial had a sick time at the Birmingham IV this weekend with Becky Elkington and Gwylim Taylor reaching the final and Becky being 3rd best speaker. Competitions are super lit and super spicey so please come to them! Also stay for the fucking photo ya bastards I didn't realise just quite how much photoshop this job would entail!!

Imperial had a fab time at the London Open last weekend as evidenced by this totally candid photo of us all having fun. Special well done to Becky Elkington and Jireh Chiu for being the top breaking team into the pro-am final (even if they had to leave :/ ), Becky for being 5th best speaker and Jireh for being 6th best novice speaker.
Competitions are sooper dooper looper fun, no skill level is required and there will be loads of stuff going on next term - details as ever on the emails!!!! :D

Imperial had a great time at the Bristol pro-am this weekend!!! Special well done to Becky and Gwylim for judging the final #bristolMeansEverything

Imperial had an excellent time at the Cambridge IV last weekend!!! Unfortunately, Gwylim Taylor and Rhys Steele are not as devoted to the societies publicity as certain, better, members and as such are not pictured here.
If you're interested in coming to competitions we attend them every weekend and people of all skill levels are welcome!! Check our weekly emails for more details or message the page!!