CityU Debate Team Won the Champion of the 15th Macau Inter-Tertiary Debate Competition of the Mandarin Category

The grand final of the "15^th Macau Inter-Tertiary Debate Competition (Mandarin Category)" was held in the Macau Science Centre on 5^th November. 38 teams from 8 Higher Education Institutions have had a tough competition before the CityU Mandarin Debate Team won the final round against Macau University of Science and Technology, the champion of the previous two years, with a score of 2:3.

Hosted by the Tertiary Education Services Office of Macao SAR, organised by Debating and Speech Culture Association of Macao and supported by the Office for Personal Data Protection, the competition is divided into the Cantonese, Mandarin and English categories. The CityU Debate Team has taken part in all 3 categories. They ranked No.5 in the Cantonese category, which is the best result they have achieved throughout the years. In the Mandarin category, our team was promoted to the semi-final as the second runner-up in the first round with 1 win and 1 lose. In the semi-final and grand final, CityU debate team won the champion by defeating Macau University of Science and Technology and University of Macau respectively. Furthermore, Zhang Chao won three Best Debater Awards. Winning the champion with 3 wins and 1 lose, this is the best result CityU has ever achieved in this competition. In addition, this is the first time CityU was promoted to the semi-final, grand final and winning the champion.

The debate team has had great accomplishments in recent years. They won the second runner-up in last week’s Baihe Challenge National Debate (Hong Kong and Macau Region), the Best Debater Award at the 8^th Asia-Pacific Intervarsity Chinese Debate Tournament in Singapore in July and 4 Best Debater Awards in the quarter-finals of the Baijeibei Challenge National Debate in May.