CUHK English Debating Team

This July, EDT members also participated in the 2024 Guangdong Debate Challenge and achieved incredible results!

Ooi and Andrius, our wonderful EDT alumni, emerged as the Grand Champions of the entire tournament! 🏆 Ooi was crowned the Overall Best Speaker and Finals Best Speaker, and Andrius emerged as 9th Best Speaker 💪Preston and Anujit also found success, reaching the Novice Finals. Anujit became 3rd Best Novice Speaker, and Preston became the 7th Best Novice Speaker. 👏

Our alumni, Shawn and Jason, also did incredibly well during the tournament 🌟 Chloe and Charles also attended as Invited Adjudicators 🤩 Chloe went on to panel Open Quarterfinals and School Finals, while Charles chaired Open Semifinals and panelled Open Quarterfinals. Great job to all EDT members who participated!

Our debaters have been very busy this summer, participating in various tournaments and achieving spectacular results! Happy, Chantal and Jason made EDT extremely proud during the Jakarta Australs 2024, where, after several gruelling rounds, they emerged as the EFL Champions!!🏆 To make things even better, Happy was crowned the EFL Finals Best Speaker as well!🥇 We are so thrilled at these incredible accomplishments from our amazing debaters💪

Prior to Australs, two EDT teams and one EDT Invited Adjudicator participated at Malaysia UADC 2024, Asia’s largest AP tournament 🤩 We hope that our members,both new and current, will continue to participate in prestigious tournaments this upcoming academic year 🥳

We are currently recruiting for Semester 1, 2024-2025. 🥳

If you have been wanting to foster or improve your public speaking skills, build your confidence, make both local and international friends and travel to different countries for tournaments, CUHK EDT is the team for you! Sign up to make memories, friends and hone essential skills! 🤩

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EDT’s achievements at this year’s Joint University Debate Championships (JUDC) go beyond co-hosting - we are happy to announce that several of our debaters did incredibly well in the tournament 💪

Jason and Keith, EDT seniors and alumni, ended up emerging as the Open Grand Champions of the tournament🏆 Keith was also crowned 3rd best speaker (tied with EDT’s very own Happy 🤩), and Jason was 5th best speaker (tied with June!!) Happy and June also won big in the Open category, reaching the Grand Finals 👏 Kevin also made EDT proud, reaching the Novice Grand Finals with Julien Jin of PolyU 🙌 A huge shoutout to all EDT members who participated in the tournament as well!

CUHK EDT and conducted the Joint University Debate Championships from 22nd-23rd June 2024 💪 20 teams competed in four engaging out rounds, with four teams advancing to the Novice and Open Grand Finals respectively.

The team, “Deapan Selfies”, from HKU emerged as the novice Grand Champions, while team “WYK 1” from CUHK were crowned Grand Champions of the competition 🏆

A major congratulations to every single participant of JUDC 2024- we hope it was an enjoyable experience for all of you! We would like to thank all the IAs for their time and commitment, as well as CUHK’s ELTU department for their support. We hope the next edition of JUDC will be just as successful! 👏

While we work on our UADC posts, we are happy to announce that various CUHK EDT teams have found success in recent Chinese tournaments 👏

Charles and Chloe Wan recently took part in THU IV and broke 1st on almost all wins, eventually emerging as Grand
Champion 🤩 Charles was Overall Best Speaker, Finals Best Speaker and Chloe Wan was 2nd Open Speaker. In the PKU Pro-Ams, Preston and our CUHK EDT alumni Andrius emerged as Open Quarterfinalists 🎉 Finally, EDT won big at the Canton Debate Championship (CDC) 💪 Our captain, Chloe Loo, became a Grand Finalist along with Alex Gao from MUST, while Happy and Maria bowed out at the Open Semi Finals. Congratulations to these amazing teams and let’s keep it up during the rest of the summer!

CUHK EDT hosted and convened the second edition of the Hong Kong Debating Championship from January 27th to 28th⚡️. We are thrilled to announce that The HKDC 2024 was a massive success - 84 teams participated in total, from universities all over Asia. Thank you to all the participants! ❤️

From CUHKEDT, Ishmam and Chloe Wan ended up becoming the Novice Grand Champions, which is the first time an EDT team has achieved such a feat (in its own tournament!!)🏆 Suyasha and Ingrid, also novices, reached the Novice Grand - Finals, while Charles and Satvika (in her 2nd ever tournament😳!!) bowed out in the Open Quarterfinals. Ishmam was the 6th best Novice Speaker, Alisha was 10th best Novice Speaker, and Charles was 10th Open Speaker.

Congratulations to all the breaking teams, and a massive shoutout to all the EDT members who participated - Alisha, Lily, Anujit, Andrius, Sabrina, Justin, Markus and Bonnie🙌🏻. And of course Chloe for convening and organising such a successful tournament 💪 Let’s hope for continued success this term!🥳

Hi I’m Chloe, the captain of CUHK EDT for 23/24 👋 I started debating as a freshman in CUHK and have (suprisingly) stayed in the Team ever since. My first ever break after 1.5 years of debating 😓 was at a mini tournament that was just 5 room big and I was carried by my Vice-Captain, Charles, so the journey hasn’t been the smoothest 🧠 but it’s been a fruitful one nonetheless. I know how challenging it may be especially at the start due to the steep learning curve but I’m here to dispel all those discouraging voices in the heads of our debate freshies. Post-NEADC, I’ll work even harder (alongside my amazing board members) to ensure the team flourishes throughout the rest of my captaincy 💪

Hi everyone! Im Charles, a year 2 law student struggling with readings and showing up to class every week.💀

I will be the Vice Captain as well as the Training Officer in the coming year and I hope to have fun with you all in trainings, socials and tournaments!!! 🙂

Hello everybody:) my name is Maria and I am a year 4 student majoring in gov’t and public administration. I will be your training officer this year. I love travelling (for debate obviously, here’s to commitment) and surrounding myself with meow meows and bunnies. Looking forward to organising exciting and informative trainings for y’all 🫶🏻

Hi! I’m Satvika, a year 2 Sociology student. You can usually find me in Uni lib attempting to study, but in my free time I love writing, reading fiction (not textbooks🥲) and listening to music! I’ll be the social media officer this year, and am really excited to meet all of you in the great events we will have this term!!!

Hi Im Ivan - current y4 med student who loves painting tiny figurines in his free time and hates arguing with people. I’m in debate team because I like interesting ideas but get scared when people are too loud.

Hihiiii, I am Yen Thung, a year 2 student studying Global Studies. I like sunset and blue sky but always end up in library dying in assignment.
I will be the tournament officer in the coming year. Enjoyyyy and have fun!!!

Hiii my name is Bonnie. I am a year 4 LLB student at CUHK. My interests are playing the violin, singing and eating (I like cakes!!!!) 😆😆😆 feel free to ask me for tournaments if you need a partner, I am always happy to help! Nice to meet you all and hope that we can spend a great year together :)

Hihi! My name is Pamela. I am a Year 2 student studying interdisciplinary program Global Economics and Finance (GLEF). I have always retained a keen interest in debate. It is my absolute honor to be part of this wonderful team. CUHK EDT is a fantastic team that does not only offer quality training, but also provides you many chances to get to know many interesting people! This coming year, I will be taking the role of social officer in the CUHK EDT, and I am truly excited to meet you all at many kinds of activities and events we will be holding during our term ;)))) See you guys soon!!!

Hey there!!! I’m Reiner, a year 3 student studying business and law double degree. I am currently serving as the liaison officer for this year’s EDT Board. I’ll be jetting off to Sydney during the coming term, but still, I’m really stoked to meet you all at our super exciting events we’ve got lined up this term!

Hi everyone! I’m Alisha, a year 1 student studying Quantitative Finance and Risk Management Science. I will be taking on the role as finance and social media officer and I’m looking forward to seeing you all and I hope the semester is as enjoyable and successful as we plan for it to be!

This is Wen Yiran (Yvonne) studying Economics Dual Degree Program with Tsinghua University. I joined EDT because I think this is a place where your knowledge can grow the quickest as your thoughts clash with the others’. You will need to understand the society from different aspects and be able to look from various actor’s perspective in order to be a good debator, which makes debating hard yet fascinating at the same time. I stayed in the team since the start of my university journey and I look forward to get back and reunite with the team after my Tsinghua years.

Hi everyone! Hope you are all enjoying an eventful new year🙂

CUHK English Debate Team is delighted to announce recruitment for team members in semester 2! 🥳

Our application period this time will start from 4 January (Thursday) till 11 January (Thursday). Interviews will be arranged between 12–16 January (Friday—Tuesday).😼

Interested applicants, please fill in the following form and we will contact you as soon as possible!😝What are you waiting for? Come and join us now! 😳

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Last weekend, our captains, Charles and Chloe, represented CUHK at Shantou University's English Festival 🎪 We took part in the debate contest and travelled alongside ELTU teachers with 2 other CUHK students who "public-spoke" and sang 🎤; one of them being Miu who broke GDC when they represented us last time even without formal debate training (big shoutout to Miu!!!!) It was a great learning opportunity getting to understand the mainland circuit better too 🤝

Thank you to (from Dr Jose Lai and Dr Joyce Lee who followed us to Shantou to ELTU staff members who helped with the logistic side of things) 🙏 Looking forward to more collaborative opportunities with ELTU and other official university departments

Semester 2 is going to be a busy one with the hosting of our own tournament (HKDC 2024), lots of AP training to prep for majors beyond NEADC and in the summer 🌞 and another big secret project (iykyk) 😉

Good luck for everyone's finals and that's a wrap for semester 1 🎉

CUHK EDT is on a roll, achieving great success during NEADC 2023- 5 out of 6 teams broke open, 2 directly to quarter finals🥳 This the biggest breaking contingent for CUHK ever! To make it even better, 3 of our judges broke and a novice (EFL) team broke as the #7 open breaking team. Charles was #8 best speaker, while Marcus was #7 best EFL speaker. 4 teams bowed out in the quarter finals. Congratulations to all EDT members who participated in the tournament as both judges and debaters!! Let’s hope for continued success in the coming semester 🤩

We have an announcement- CUHK EDT are selling merch after years!! Sales have opened and will continue until we run out of stock. However, if you want to make sure that we don’t run out of your size for these amazing baseball jackets, fill in our google form before noon on 8th November!

Congrats to both CUHK EDT teams that participated in ABP 2023 Malaysia 💪 🎉CUHK 2 made it to the Pre-Grand Finals and CUHK 1 scored 9 points in their first face to face majors!!

Come watch us tonight! 📺 If you'd like to get a better idea of what parliamentary debating is like, tune in from the comforts of your home at 8.30pm 🛋️

If you are still deliberating whether or not to apply (although there is only one right answer to that question of course 🙄💁), those who wish to ask questions❓will be able to do so after the debate.

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After many years, EDT has a booth at the CUHK art fair! Today was the first day of the fair and we are extremely happy about the turnout and number of registrations we’ve received! If you’d like to learn more about our team and college debating, visit our booth tomorrow and Friday!

Not only is the CUHK EDT currently open for recruitment, we will also have a booth (C17) at the CUHK Art Fair from 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿! We hope to see you then!

Registration for the team is open from today until 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, and interviews will be held from the 𝟭𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁.

CUHK EDT is a team that helps build confidence, improves English speaking, fosters friendships between local and non-local students, and provides members opportunities to travel to different parts of Asia and abroad for tournaments! If these experiences sound like fun to you, sign up before registration closes!

Shout out to all organizers of HKDC 2023 for making this event happen. You all made an amazing team 🤍

Thanks to all participants, organizers, and audiences from HKDC 2023. This has been an incredible journey for cuhkedt, and we could not have done it without everyone’s love and support. 🫶🏼 This was so fun and such a great pleasure, hope to see everyone again next year!
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HKDC successfully completed 🎊

An exciting start from our new team members- Charles and Maria! They took part in the Inaugural Ningbo International Tournament 2022, breaking 4th in Open Category 💪
As speakers, Maria became 5th best Open Speaker while Charles ranked 9th!! 🥇 🥈
Let us hope the team can keep up the momentum for the rest of the year.