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2023 Harvard University Tournament

  • Date 2023-02-22

41 VDA Students Win Top Honours at Harvard Debate Tournament

Vancouver Debate Academy finished with 41 students winning top honours at this year’s Harvard Debate Tournament, including an incredible 20 team trophies and 7 speaker awards. At the top of the pack were varsity debaters Mia Liu & Claire Zhong and Andrew Zhang & Johnson Wu, who finished in the top 16 teams in the country and earned Gold Bids to the elite Tournament of Champions in April. Winning a JV Championship in the International Division were the team of Aella Gong & Erwin Wang, while debaters Mary Tian and Victor Zhang were top speakers of the online Varsity and Novice divisions, respectively.

Finishing in the top 4 of their divisions were the teams of Aiden Han & Vivian Lang (Varsity Online) and Fredrick Li & Nikki Zheng (JV), while Adam Han & Eric Ma (Varsity Online), Annie Zhao & Serena Zhang (JV), and Yuanze Toth & Zena Su (JV International) finished in the top 8. On the individual side, Mia Liu won 6th speaker, Claire Zhong 7th, and Johnson Wu 10th in Varsity, while Adam Han finished 7th in Varsity Online, and Emily Qian was 6th in Novice Online.

VDA wins big at elite invitation-only Harvard tournament (only top international teams from Canada, China, and Vietnam invited for the Round Robin 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 tourmament) – VDA teams of Adam Han & Eric Ma and Johnson Wu & Andrew Zhang were invited
2. Adam Han & Eric Ma finish 3rd with near perfect record
3. Adam Han wins 3rd speaker of the tournament

This year’s Harvard tournament was attended by over 2,000 of the best Public Forum debaters from around the world, and every student should be incredibly proud of their amazing accomplishments. Congratulations to everyone on an outstanding team effort!

VDA Honor

International Breakout JV PFChampions Erwin Wang & Aella Gong
International Breakout JV PFQuarterfinalists Zena Su & Yuanze Toth
Junior Varsity PFQuarterfinalists Serena Zhang & Annie Zhao
Junior Varsity PFSemifinalists Nikki Zheng & Fredrick Li
Varsity PF onlineQuarterfinalists Eric Ma & Adam Han
Varsity PF onlineSemifinalists Vivian Lang & Aiden Han
Novice PF onlineOctofinalists Effie Li & Heidi Yang
Novice PF onlineOctofinalists Victor Zhang & Alina Dow
Round Robin 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 TournamentThird Place Eric Ma & Adam Han
Varsity PFOctofinalists Johnson Wu & Andrew Zhang
Varsity PFOctofinalists Mia Liu & Claire Zhong
MSPFDouble Octofinalists Caitlin Lee & Isabel Jiang
Novice PF onlineDouble Octofinalists Julianne Ng & Victor Chen
Novice PF onlineDouble Octofinalists Alvin Cheng & Ridhi Rao Gundapuneni
Novice PF onlineDouble Octofinalists Anthony Liu & Mandi Wang
Novice PF onlineDouble Octofinalists Emily Qian & Pascal Shen
Novice PF onlineDouble Octofinalists Dolly Sara Zhang & Bobby Yang
Varsity PF onlineDouble Octofinalists Audrey Wei & Sophie Zhao
Varsity PF onlineDouble Octofinalists Grace Wu & Daniel Zhang
Novice PFTriple Octofinalists Angela Zheng & Laura Zou
Varsity PFTriple Octofinalists Grace Hu & Ardelle Tian

Personal Honor

Novice PF online1st Place Speaker Victor Zhang
Varsity PF online1st Place Speaker Mary Tian
Round Robin 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 Tournament3rd Place Speaker Adam Han
Novice PF online6th Place Speaker Emily Qian
Varsity PF6th Place Speaker Mia Liu
Varsity PF7th Place Speaker Claire Zhong
Varsity PF online7th Place Speaker Adam Han
Varsity PF10th Place Speaker Johnson Wu

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