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YWPS Debate Team Wins Big!

5/7/2016

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Congratulations to our English Debate Team!
YWPS Debate Team wins big at the Primary Schools Debating Tournament 2016.
Congratulations to our English Debating Team for winning the coveted championship at the Primary Schools Debating Tournament 2016 which was organized at St Joseph’s Primary School this morning. This time, our team sent out three members who are Jason Chan, Isaac Lee (6B) and Isaac Yan (6E) to take part in this highly competitive tournament and they made history by winning a stunning victory after defeating three elite schools in a row, and finally took home with the glorious trophy for the first time ever.

The factor which makes the tournament hypercompetitive is the impressive list of elite schools joining which include La Salle, Diocesan Girls’, Heep Yunn, Marymount, St. Joseph’s, St. Stephen’s, St. Paul’s Convent, Wah Yan and Raimondi Primary School. These schools has made a name for themselves in debating due to their long experience in joining public competitions, in comparison with Ying Wa’s only two-year-old English debating team. Therefore, we joined the competition with a heart fond of learning and gaining experience but the results are definitely a pleasant surprise for all of us.

We competed against the Raimondi Primary School in the first round and the motion was that “Single-sex primary schools are better than mixed-sex primary schools.” We were on the affirmative side and having studied in a single-sex school for six years, our team members had no difficulty in defending their arguments in favour of the motion, and we won an impressive 265 – 200 and got through to the next round.

We were against La Salle Primary School at the semi-final and pressure was huge on our boys. The motion was that “Social media does more harm than good” and we were on the affirmative side. We lost a bit of luck here since we got a slightly weaker stance to defend and not surprisingly, La Salle did a very good job in their presentations and they are no doubt experienced debaters. However, our boys did not back down and get timid by the opposing team’s fierceness. Instead, our boys demonstrated their wonderful skills in making rebuttals on the spot and made some really strong counter arguments which the opponent could not rebut nicely. At the end, the match was a really close-call but our team managed to secure another win with a 270 – 254.

Since there were three winning teams at the semi-finals, which were Ying Wa, Wan Yan and Diocesan Girls but only two teams could get to the final, all our members and the audience were very anxious waiting for the results to see which two schools got the highest point differential scores. Everyone was so excited when the results were announced since Ying Wa made it to the final match and would compete against Diocesan Girls’. Beyond any doubt that would be a tough match and the fact that our boys had to be on the negative side for the motion “Single-sex primary schools are better than mixed-sex primary schools” made the competition really interesting. The DG girls were undoubtedly the strongest competitors whom our team had ever faced and they demonstrated excellence in presentations, making rebuttals and organization. However, our boys wowed the audience with their confidence, strong presence, tactful rebuttals and humour in their speech! The matches were really intense and all the audience was stunned by the amazing performance of both teams. After a long and careful deliberation, the judges announced the results and Ying Wa’s team won the overall championship while Jason Chan (6B) was named “Best Debater” in the final match.

This is the perfect ending for our English Debating Team this year but it is definitely not the end of the debating journey for our members. The biggest wish I have as your coach is that the whole experience has inspired each one of you to pursue debating in secondary schools or even universities and you will never stop being critical. You have all proven yourself to be amazing debaters and I sincerely hope that  you can keep up the passion!

I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to Mr. Thomas Ching, Mrs. Rebecca Ho, Ms Candy Ho for coming to watch the matches, help with the logistics and show your valuable support to our boys. I would also like to thank the parents and students who have come today and I hope all of you have enjoyed the competitions. Boys from P.4 & P.5, if you are interested in debating and if you think you have what it takes, do consider joining the debate team next year! It will be tough, demanding and exhausting but I guarantee, that “it will do more good than harm”!


Mr. Dennis Tam        
Coach of Debate Team


p.s. See the excitement at the moment of prize presentation captured by video below! Go to our video section to watch more clips of the final!
10 Comments
Dr H C Lee
5/7/2016 10:54:16 pm

The news shocked Vancouver as we are still having our study tour here! Well done boys, coach and supporting teachers! This achievement / recognition is huge! I am particularly moved by that you came back from a bitter defeat months ago to earn the trophies this time. Your effort and determination are amazing! Keep debating! Congratulations!

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Mrs Lam
5/7/2016 11:02:55 pm

The good news kept me awake for the whole night in Vancouver !! You and your boys are just amazing ! I was deeply touched as I read through your letter to the boys many times ! I truly believe they will keep their passion for debate and inspire those in the lower forms. Good job ! Well done !!!!!!

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C K Tsang
5/8/2016 10:09:44 am

Well done. People always says girls are more eloquent in spoken environment as evident by many female public figures. You boys give us hope that the male species can rise up to the challenge and win handsomely. I need to learn to deal with many females around me!!!

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Maria
5/9/2016 06:51:11 am

Your sense of humor is highly appreciated !

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Isaac Lee
5/8/2016 10:58:03 am

Thanks to Mr Tam's training we won first place at last !And this also proved that girls are not always stronger than boys .I hope this tournament can give the next year debaters advice to do even better!👍🏻👍🏻😆😆🎉🎉

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Jason Chan link
5/8/2016 02:48:23 pm

Yesterday was a unforgettable and wonderful day. The Ying Wa primary school debating team won the champion of the debating tournament held in Saint Paul's boys primary school and I was awarded the best speaker.
From the deepest of my heart, I thank Mr Tam greatly as he coached and taught me how to become a debater. He also used a great of time to prepare our scripts and all the research so that we may have stronger points and rebuttals which is essential for our win. Mr Tam also teaches me with such patience than I learnt a lot. Best of all, Mr Tam paid us for lunch and I got a ribeye steak!
Secondly, I thank Mrs Lam for granting me a chance to be a member of the Ying Wa debating team and let me have a valuable opportunity to shine on stage.
Thirdly, I thank all the teachers for nurturing me in different categories and teaching me.
Fourthly, I thank my parents and my teammates Isaac and Isaac (Lee and Yan ) for supporting and helping me.
I hope that I will have more chances to debate on stage in the future!

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Calix's mum
5/8/2016 11:57:21 pm

Congratulations, Mr Tam & our brilliant delators! We enjoyed watching your performances and were proud to be the spectators who witnessed your first ever win in debating competition! We all saw that you were doing better and better round after round. We felt your confidence and good preparation supported by strong researches. I remembered one of the adjudicators commented that you guys performed beyond the primary school level for which I couldn't agree more. Hope that YW debating team will keep shining in future competitions!

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Henry Ho
5/9/2016 12:54:18 pm

The boys are back! Well done, proud of you guys!

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Isaac Yan
5/9/2016 07:45:24 pm

From the bottom of my heart, I thank Mr.Tam for coaching us too! He put lots of effort into the debate team and almost didn't sleep on the night before the competition! Although I was sick after the competition and had a very serious sore throat, I really enjoyed debating with the other schools and of course, getting the first place. It was indeed a very exciting and unforgettable experience to have 3 matches in 1 day! I hope I will have chances to keep on debating in secondary school!

I learnt a lot while competing with the other schools and I thank all of the supporting teachers, supporting classmates and schoolmates, supporting parents, Mr.Tam, my teammates (without them I would never succeed) and of course Mrs.Lam for creating the debate team a year ago.

:-) :-) :-)

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Ryan Chang
5/10/2016 06:09:55 pm

That was a exciting game!

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