2022 Harvard Worlds Results

The 2022 Harvard Worlds came to an end last weekend. VDA students succeeded not only as individuals but team players. They won back-to-back victories in the fierce rebuttals. Half of our team broke into the elimination rounds. They defeated national teams form Canada, the United States, and Brazil. They were also the highest ranked team among all the teams from Vancouver.

Most of the VDA students who participated in this tournament were under grade 10. And they were playing against senior national teams from various countries around the world. It is really impressive that they were able to acquire all the achievements.

Not only that, the students had just finished the intense Stanford & Harvard American Debate Tournament and had only week to adjust to the Worlds Style Tournament. It was a big shift in terms of discourse, rules, logic, and tournament strategy.

Proudly, all 6 of our teams that participated adapted to the transition very well. Whether it was against senior national teams or professional world style debate teams, each VDA team won multiple games? in the 6 rounds of prelims. 3 of our teams were selected out of 158 teams to make it to the elimination rounds.

Congratulations to the team of Anny Chen, Adam Han, Rosie Wu, Will Wu, and Nishesh Kumar Jain for winning 5 overwhelming victories in the 6 rounds of preliminaries, beating not only a group of Canadian national team, but also a Brazilian national team. In the double-oct round?, we lost to the Canadian national team, who eventually won the tournament. We were the top 16 among 158 teams!