赛报：小荷才露尖尖角｜西雅图大学中学生辩论锦标赛

05 26, 2022 英语赛事,赛报,辩论

赛报：小荷才露尖尖角｜西雅图大学中学生辩论锦标赛

北京时间5月16日上午结束的第二场西雅图大学中学生辩论锦标赛（May 15 2022），以新手及低年级组合为主的SDcamps中国战队让人惊喜：有三人冲上优秀辩手榜；一组选手打入淘汰赛获得八强的“Honors”荣誉，其他几组选手基本都有两胜的战绩。

他们中的大多数人都是第一次参加国际赛，第一次和英语母语的美国/加拿大选手对阵，全力备赛，克服了时差黑白颠倒的不便，为自己的成长留下了精彩的回忆。

八强Honors：郝子墨/周思言

NS Team Ranking
Rank	Team Name/Debaters	Final Result
1	ClimbUp KateReynolds & AnyaGuhan	1st
2	ClimbUp SurajNarra & BhadraPramod	2nd
3	AYAcad EmilyZhong & LilyZhu	Semis
4	BCAcad AnnaYang & IanKim	Semis
5	ClimbUp WesleyWang & EshaanChowdhry	TopHonors
6	ClimbUp SreenavyaKasireddy & ArsheyaThakkar	TopHonors
7	BCAcad DorisDu & RyanHyunsungKang	Honors
8	SDCamps HaoZimo & ZhouSiyan	Honors

“Top Speakers”优秀辩手榜：

Top 3 郝子墨

Top 9 刘佳妮

Top 14 周思言

Top NS Speakers
RANK	Speaker’s Name	Name of School	Drop H/L
1	KateReynolds	ClimbUp	183
2	AnyaGuhan	ClimbUp	179
3	HaoZimo	SDCamps	178
4	DorisDu	BCAcad	177
5	RyanHyunsungKang	BCAcad	176
6	LilyZhu	AYAcad	175
7	ArsheyaThakkar	ClimbUp	174
8	EmilyZhong	AYAcad	174
9	LiuJiani	SDCamps	174
10	JaydenYaejoonJung	BCAcad	174
11	AnnaYang	BCAcad	173
12	EshaanChowdhry	ClimbUp	173
13	BhadraPramod	ClimbUp	173
14	ZhouSiyan	SDCamps	173
15	AidenChoi	BCAcad	173

第一次参赛的Miranda Chen/谈瑆是两个四年级的小辩手，第一次和普遍比自己高两个年级的母语选手对阵，一输再输仍然斗志旺盛，不言败不放弃，终于有了一轮胜局；徐芳洲/张煜萱，吴衍宇/时海峦，刘佳妮/席乐琳全部打出了两轮胜局。

祝贺每一位取得成绩的选手，我们向所有参加这次比赛的选手致敬！

吴衍宇

四月第一次打辩论，我总想赢，打的很急很浮，所以很容易让对手找到漏洞，被“虐”的有点惨，但是总算是有个实战经历；五月第二次打辩论，我总结经验，分析得失，进行了更为充分的准备，所以整个过程也比四月份更有自信，更加稳重。

从这两次辩论中，我既得到了很多历练，又学到了很多方法；既知道了如何分析辩题，又学会了如何随机应变，不拘泥于辩题本身。我喜欢这种在辩论中成长的感觉！

徐芳洲

On may 15th, I attended the Seattle debate tournament. This was my first time to compete in an international tournament, prepare for the competition in such a short period of time, stay up the whole night, and debate with students from all around the world.

I learned a lot during this process, including to fully involve the reading materials and evidence into the cases, to answer the opponent’s questions directly, and to improve time management.

My partner and I put a lot of efforts into the preparation, and the results were pretty satisfying for us. I also had an extremely unique experience throughout the night in which we were debating, and I even saw the sunrise.

In a nutshell, even though the process of preparing for this debate tournament was hard, but the results, the experience and the things we learned were totally worth it. Thanks to my teacher, my judges, my partner, and my opponents.

徐芳洲 | Thanks to the tournament, I saw the day dawning for the first time

Miranda Chen

What I am feeling after the debate:

After the debate, I felt really nervous because I was worried if I got a good grade because I didn’t want it to be me to be the reason that we didn’t go into the finals.

Also, I felt really relieved because all of the pressure that I was on me was gone. Since I couldn’t do anything to change the result of the debate, all I needed to do was just wait for the judges to give out the teams that got into the finals.

Thirdly, I felt a bit guilty. This is because in the last round, I did a good final focus, but it needed something. I said how have standardized tests doesn’t give kids creativity, but the. u didn’t say how creativity is important, so the judge gave the point to the other team. The judge told our team if I said why creativity is important, then he might have considered to give our side the point.

Lastly, I actually feel a tiny bit proud. This is because this time is one of my first formal public forum debate and the SD小助手 told us that it was a debate for 5 to 6 grade. Me and my teammate were 4th graders, so he told us that he thought we weren’t going to win any rounds, but we won one round. Which is making me very proud.

So this is what I am feeling after the debate.

郝子墨

Hello everyone, I’m Hao Zimo.

First of all, I am very honoured to participate in this debate competition and won third place in The Best Speaker. Secondly, I want to express my gratitude to all the people who have helped me. Thank you very much to my coach for coaching us carefully. Thanks to my partner for our tacit cooperation. I would also like to thank all the judges for giving valuable comments to us and making us aware of our strengths and weaknesses. Finally, I would like to thank my parents for their encouragement and accompanying me during the competition.

I hope everyone can continue to work hard, stick to debate, pursue our dreams, and become better !

张煜萱

There were only 4 days left when I got to know Seattle debate tournament and made a decision to take part in it with my partner. That meant we need to read the materials and write the manuscripts in just 4 days and what was more challenging, this was my first time to participate in Public forum debate.

I spent all day long on reading materials and setting up meetings with my partner to discuss the arguments and supporting data. Although it was tiring, we learnt a lot from the competition which is worth our efforts. For example, I learnt to be more patient with my opponents, I learnt to only summarize the main strong arguments in the second speech and so on.

By the way, it’s the first time I stay up all night due to time zone differences. I saw the sunrise from my balcony during the competition, which was a magnificent sight.

This debate competition means a lot to me and a lot of thanks to my teachers and judges and of course also to my partner.