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 StyleGeneral Definition: How one delivers speeches, including techniques like tone, pitch, rate, facial expressions, gestures, volume, eye contact, word choice, etc. • Public Forum: Commonly used. In PF, style is typically evaluated as part of a debater's "Speaker Points", although it may influence the judge's perception of their arguments as well. • World Schools Debate: Commonly used. In WSD, this More Tournament. It was a big shift in terms of discourse, rules, logic, and tournament strategyGeneral Definition: Decisions made in the debate to optimize your likelihood of winning. Strategy can include argument choice, time allocation, the balance of offense and defense, rate of speech, and questioning approaches. • Public Forum: see general definition. • World Schools Debate: In WSD, this is 20% of a judge's ballot. Strategy evaluates whether or not you are allocating time More.
Proudly, all 6 of our teams that participated adapted to the transition very well. Whether it was against senior national teams or professional world styleGeneral Definition: How one delivers speeches, including techniques like tone, pitch, rate, facial expressions, gestures, volume, eye contact, word choice, etc. • Public Forum: Commonly used. In PF, style is typically evaluated as part of a debater's "Speaker Points", although it may influence the judge's perception of their arguments as well. • World Schools Debate: Commonly used. In WSD, this More 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!
VDA Honor
Varsity | Octofinalists | Anny Chen & Adam Han & Rosie Wu & Will Wu & Nishesh Jain |
Varsity | Double Octofinalists | Grace Hu & Raymond Li & Ardelle Tian & Jack Wang & Grace Wu |
Varsity | Triple Octofinalists | Aiden Han & Reine Huang & Brooke Ji & Sophie Yang |