Southwest Sillies

Name: Southwest Sillies
Start: 2026-04-25T09:00:00+01:00
Location: Avenue Campus, University of Southampton

Schedule

Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Avenue Campus, University of Southampton | Southampton, EN

You are probably wondering: what is this? who is it for? why should I go?
Last year Southampton ran a silly competition and we all loved it so much we wanted to open it up to more people.
It is aimed for bolstering our community with a little bit of fun. So all Southwest UK circuit unis are welcome as well as other smaller unis.
So what is silly?
The rules. Each round you will get a unique additional info slide that will change the rules of debate for that round only. Speakers and judges will need to debate/judge following the standard debate manual except this one change.
Team Cap: 48
Judge Rule: N-1
CAs: TBD
Equity: TBD
Tab: TBD
Conveners: Asher Jayson + TBA
Provisional Schedule:
09:00-09:30 Registration
09:30-10:15 Announcements
10:15-12:15 Round 1
12:15-14:15 Round 2
14:15-15:00 Lunch
15:00-17:00 Round 3
17:00-18:45 Round 4 (closed)
18:45-19:30 Dinner
19:30-19:45 Break announcement
19:45-21:15 Final
21:15-21:45 Closing ceremony
21:45 onwards: Social
How to get to Southampton - formatted for computer (originally created by Parth Pandya): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CkLHuilc4GQkf2Icgvgjl5KAzv6ku3H3auIHg9qqpRo/edit?usp=sharing