Soccer tournament

In round 1, B grade’s Derham defeated Steven on the topic “That we should restrict urban sprawl”, with debating extraordinaire Cooper Carbone letting slip that “we should kill all possums” because “we don’t like possums”. Despite this hot take, the very same team proceeded to win the B grade finals against Clifford, reaffirming the debating mantra that there are very few things you can do to immediately lose a debate. Kicking off in late term 1, the annual House Debating competition was another impressive display of Camberwell Grammar talent and at times, foolishness, a great opportunity for senior students of all experiences and year levels to debate.

In round 2, Derham House Captain Jerry Ji led the A team to an upset victory, narrowly beating out the Clifford team and Captain of Debating Kerry Sun who seemed to forget that timings existed, beginning a whole new thematic rebuttal at the time limit. A smooth brain inability to recognise the clock and squeeze in a response to certain arguments, delivered a clinching, yet well-deserved win for Derham. And to the chagrin of many, they subsequently won the final round against the Schofield team, discussing the topic “That trade should be linked to human rights”. The overall result was a 1st place finish for Derham, and a joint 2nd place for Clifford and Macneil house.

Congratulations to all those who participated, and a massive thanks to our adjudicators, heads of house and especially our debating coordinator, Dr Mandusic.

At the conclusion of term 2, the school’s highly anticipated Robinson street soccer tournament had kicked off once again.

After an easy win against the year 11s in the quarter finals, 95% possession were confident leading into their toughest game of all: against Grug Plays Soccer FC. A skilled shot by Lachie and a fatal mistake made by the goalie in the first half of the semifinals, saw the scores 0-1 in favour of Grug Plays Soccer FC. Undeterred, a pirouette by Alec- intentional or not- scored quite possibly the goal of the tournament, levelling the scores, 1-1. With 95% possession reinvigorated by the incredible display of athleticism and Grug plays FC humiliated by their lack of defence, saw Arya score a missile half court shot, straight past multiple members of their team, ending the game 2-1.

On the other hand... Prefect FC lived up to their unsportmanship ways, pushing and shoving their defenceless opponents out of their way into the finals.

There, facing 95% possession, led by captain Arya Arminazad, poetic justice was delivered onto the prefects, sending them back to the library and common room where they had crawled out from.

Already 3-0 behind, an embarrassing red card not only sent Conrad out onto the benches but had also distinguished their delusional dreams. A goalie run by Yanning cemented the final nail into their coffin, scoring against Ryan Le, who at this point was left alone by the defenders who had very clearly given up. A sympathetic goal was given to the prefects as the game ended with the scores 4-1.

Written by Yanning Zhang (not biased at all)