Two minutes. One mate. A room full of singles.
Pitch Your Mate
You know exactly why your mate is a catch. They're hopeless at saying it themselves. So you get on stage, put up five slides, and sell them to a pub full of people who came out specifically to be sold to.
What a pitch-your-mate night actually is
The format goes by a few names. Pitch your mate. Pitch my mate. Pitch your single friend. A wingman night, or a wingwoman night, depending on who's holding the microphone. They all describe the same thing: instead of a profile, your introduction is delivered live, out loud, by someone who has known you for years and can be trusted to be funny about it.
At a Date My Mate night it runs in two halves. The first half is the pitches. Mates take the mic in turn, two minutes each, slides behind them, and make the case for their single friend to a room of people who are all there for the same reason. The second half is the mingle — the bar reopens properly, the room dissolves, and you go and talk to whoever you liked the sound of. Most of what happens on a Date My Mate night happens in that second half. The pitches are what give you something to walk up and say.
It is not speed dating. There are no timed rotations, no buzzer, and nobody is going to make you sit opposite a stranger for four minutes. And it is not an app — nothing here is sorted by an algorithm, because the sorting was already done by a friend who knows what you're actually like.
How to write a pitch that lands
You don't start from a blank page. Once you've got a ticket, our pitch builder walks you through it field by field and turns your answers into the slides that go up on the night. Five steps — the DATE, the basics, in your words, photos, then preview and send. This is the deck it builds.
- 1
Meet them
The title slide — their first name, the basics, three words that describe them, and a photo.
- 2
Sell them in one line
The hook, and the field people rewrite the most. Not a job title — the thing you'd actually lead with if you were introducing them at a party.
- 3
A green flag you'd vouch for
One. "Kind" means nothing; "drove four hours to help me move a couch and didn't complain once" means everything. You're vouching, so pick the one you'd stake your reputation on.
- 4
One slide you choose
Two truths and a lie, why are they still single, a funny story, or why they're a catch. This is where the personality goes, and where most of the laughs come from.
- 5
Say hi later if you…
The closer. Who should come and talk to them during the mingle — concrete enough that the right person recognises themselves.
Being someone's wingman for a night
Being a wingman used to mean nudging your mate at a bar and hoping. On a wingman night you get a microphone, a stage, a slide deck and a room of people who turned up specifically to listen. It is the same job with considerably better equipment. You don't have to be single to do it — the only person who needs to be is the mate you're pitching.
Pitch the friend who'd never sign up for this on their own. The people who get the most out of a wingman night are the ones who come off badly in photographs and brilliantly in person — that gap is precisely what this format closes. The bit wingmen consistently say they didn't expect is how much lands afterwards: once you've pitched, the whole room knows who your mate is, so walking up to someone stops being a cold approach and becomes a follow-up.
Which ticket do I need to pitch?
A PITCH Ticketis the one you want — it covers entry for both of you, and when you buy it you choose how many pitches. One, where you pitch your single mate. Or two, where you're both single and pitch each other, one each way. Same price either way. MINGLEis solo entry with no pitching at all, which is about half the room most nights. Every ticket includes your first two drinks; live prices and what's left sit on each event page.
Upcoming events
Be the date. Pitch a mate. Or just mingle.
Date My Mate @
The Hold – Manly
Pitch spots
- Women:
- 7 left
- Men:
- 6 left
Mingle spots
- Women:
- Available
- Men:
- Available
- Date
- · 6:00 pm
- Location
- Sydney · Manly
- Age range
- Ages 20–35-ish
Date My Mate @
The Greenwood Hotel
Pitch spots
- Women:
- 7 left
- Men:
- 7 left
Mingle spots
- Women:
- Available
- Men:
- Available
- Date
- · 6:00 pm
- Location
- Sydney · North Sydney
- Age range
- Ages 25–40-ish
Date My Mate @
The Chippo Hotel
Pitch spots
- Women:
- 5 left
- Men:
- 6 left
Mingle spots
- Women:
- Available
- Men:
- Available
- Date
- · 6:00 pm
- Location
- Sydney · Chippendale
- Age range
- Ages 22–38-ish
Date My Mate @
Dee Why Bowls Club
Pitch spots
- Women:
- 7 left
- Men:
- 10 left
Mingle spots
- Women:
- Available
- Men:
- Available
- Date
- · 6:00 pm
- Location
- Sydney · Northern Beaches
- Age range
- Ages 35–50-ish
Pitch your mate — FAQ
What is a pitch-your-mate night?
A live event where friends take turns on stage pitching their single mates to a room full of other singles with a short slide deck. The pitch covers who they are, a green flag worth vouching for, a story or a game they've picked, and who should come and say hi afterwards. Then everyone mingles over drinks and talks to whoever they liked the sound of. At Date My Mate the pitches take up about half the night and the mingle takes the other half.
How long is a pitch?
Two minutes at a Date My Mate night. The builder makes a five-slide deck — a title slide, your one-liner, a green flag, one prompt slide you choose, and a closer — which is about right for the time. It sounds short and it is; the discipline is what keeps the room's attention across a dozen pitches in a row. If you and your mate are pitching each other, that's two 2-minute pitches, one each way.
Do I need to make the slides myself?
No. The pitch builder asks you for the words and the photos and assembles the deck for you — you never open PowerPoint. If you'd rather build your own, you can upload a custom deck instead and we'll play it as-is. Either way your mate approves it and Date My Mate reviews it before the night.
What if I'm terrible at public speaking?
Almost everyone who pitches says that beforehand. It's a pub, not a conference: the room is on your side, everyone has a drink, and the slides carry a lot of the load. Two minutes is over before nerves get a chance to settle in.
Can my mate see the pitch before I give it?
Yes — they have to. The deck goes to them for approval before it can go live, so nothing reaches the projector your mate hasn't seen and signed off. Date My Mate reviews it too. The embarrassment is meant to be affectionate, not a stitch-up.
Is this the same as a wingman night?
Yes. Wingman night, wingwoman night, pitch your mate, pitch my mate, pitch your single friend — they're all names for one format, where a friend gets on stage and makes the case for their single mate to a room. The only real difference between the names is which side they describe: the wingman doing the pitching, or the mate getting pitched.
Who is the wingman at a Date My Mate night?
Your MATE — the wingman or wingwoman who knows you best. They fill in the pitch builder, take the mic for two minutes, and then do the introductions during the mingle that you're too shy to do yourself. That last part is the bit people underrate. They come in on a PITCH Ticket, which covers entry for both of you.
Where can I go to a pitch-your-mate night?
Date My Mate runs them at pubs around Sydney now, with Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart on the roadmap. Tickets are on datemymate.au — we don't sell through Eventbrite or Humanitix, so a similarly named listing on those platforms is somebody else's night. Other operators run their own versions around Australia under names like pitch my mate, wingmate and date my mate; they aren't affiliated with us.
Also worth a look: nights in your city or what's on in Sydney.
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