The full list of results of the 2019 national round is now available in the results page. Congratulations to all!
2019 Solutions
The Problem sets and Solutions for the first and second 2019 rounds are now available here
Preparing for OzCLO 2019
You can practice with all the past OzCLO regional and national round papers.
And if you want a challenge you can check out the International Linguistics Olympiad Past problems.
And of course make sure your teacher and team register before 8th March!
2019 Competition Dates
Round 1 – Wednesday 13th March
State | Preparation Time | Competition Time |
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ACT | 1:30 – 2:30pm | 2:30 – 4:30pm |
NSW | 1:30 – 2:30pm | 2:30 – 4:30pm |
NT | 12:00 – 1:00pm | 1:00 – 3:00pm |
QLD | 12:30 – 1:30pm | 1:30 – 3:30pm |
SA | 1:00 – 2:00pm | 2:00 – 4:00pm |
VIC | 1:30 – 2:30pm | 2:30 – 4:30pm |
WA | 10:30 – 11:30am | 11:30am – 1:30pm |
Contact your local organisers if you wish to compete offline!
Round 2 – Wednesday 27th March
Registration open!
Registration for OzCLO 2019 is now open!!!
Via our new registration system
Both online and offline teams need to register

Solutions to IOL 2018 now available
If you’re looking for help preparing for OzCLO 2019 and you want to see what they get up to at the International Olympiad, the solutions to last year’s competition in Prague have just been released http://www.ioling.org/problems/
Achievements at IOL 2018 in Prague
Breaking news form our teams at IOL in Prague:
Jenny Wang and Jisu Choi from Brisbane State High School have been awarded two honourable mentions, and James Phillips from Canberra Grammar School a Bronze medal.
Well done, guys, we are very proud of you!
Results for OzCLO 2018
Congratulations to our 2018 winners and their dedicated teachers.
Two Senior Gold winners:
Jonathan Lee, James Phillips, Alex Park and Daniel Tian from Canberra Grammar School, ACT, and
Jisu Choi, Chuanshu Jiang, Deren Teo and Jenny Wang from Brisbane State High School, QLD
Senior Silver winner:
Joshua Lin, Steven Zhang, Junu Choi and Nicholas Chang from Sydney Church of England Grammar School, NSW
Two Senior Bronze Winners:
Albert Smith, Ben Kemspon, Akio Ho and Daniel Stark from Christ Church Grammar School, WA, and
Ellen Zheng, Uditha Jith, Cathleen Li and Isabella Matthews from Smith’s Hill High School, NSW
Junior Gold Winner:
Kumaran Manivannan, Isaac Yu, Joseph Lukies and Thomas Wright Hill from Melbourne Grammar School, VIC
Junior Silver Winner:
Jarrod Li-Hunnam, Ellen Archibald, Shaun Thomas and Ivy Srbinovski from Darwin High School, NT
Junior Bronze Winner:
Mitchell Guyatt, Samuel Robertson, Amitai Rosenbaum and Peleg Kark from Indooroopilly State High School, QLD
Results of OzCLO 2017
A summary of the results of OzCLO 2017 are now available at the OzCLO website. Thank you to all participants, and congratulations to the winners!
OzCLO’s best ever results at the International Linguistics Olympiad
The Australian delegates to the International Linguistic Olympiad at Mysore, India, have achieved their best results in the history of OzCLO!
Australia was represented by our Gold winning team from Melbourne Grammar and our Silver Winning Team from Baulkham Hill.
The results are:
Australia-1 (Max, Tom, Hamish, Martin)
– Melbourne Grammar – Team Silver (2nd in the world, Australia’s first ever top 3 placing in team)
– Max – Individual gold medal (4th in the world, Australia’s first ever gold) + best solution prize for Problem 2 (Australia’s first ever best solution)
– Tom – Individual honourable mention
Australia-Baulko (Henry, Luke, Al-Aabid, Gamshagi)
– Henry – Individual silver medal
Congratulations to all!