Queen's College English Debating - QCEDT

Our junior squad broke in the 15th Junior Debating Championship after 4 rounds of debates at Renaissance College today. Congratulations to Mickey Chan, Chris Guan and Gordon Chan for their performance!

The quarter-finals will be held on Monday, 27/11, at Renaissance College. Best of luck!

HKPDS Workshop & Tournament

What kind of students would spend the first week of summer attending lectures and giving 7-minute speeches all day long? Debaters, that’s right, we’re a special kind of Queenians.

It has been a tough but fruitful experience where we debated, made more new friends and debated against tournament as we became slightly better each time.

Eleven debaters from our team, including Artie Lam, Enoch Lau, Eden Lau, Ryan Ng, CK Chiu, Gordon Chan, Panold Tung, Vincent Chen, Mervyn Tang, Chris Guan and Justyn Mak were assigned to different classes for training. Aside from the workshop, debaters have also taken part in an intense 2-day tournament.

Massive congratulations to Enoch Lau for breaking into the octo-finals in his very first BP tournament and to Artie Lam (9th best speaker) for reaching the semis. Although most of our teams didn’t break, it was truly an exceptionally challenging experience. We hope to see debaters reaching further in future tournaments!

There will be an exhibition match in our hall at 11:00. Do come and support our debaters!

See you!

Over the last three days of the Chinese New Year Break, our debaters decided red pockets and assignments are not enough. Instead, debating makes them slightly more contented.

8 of our debaters ranging from Form 1 to Form 4 debated in the Hong Kong British Parliamentary Debate Championship 2017. We congratulate Pessimist Entertainers (Eden Lau and Artie Lam) for making it to the Semi Finals and our captain, Artie Lam for ranking 14th in the Speaker Tab.

Massive congratulations to all our debaters for having this precious experience in the tournament and we look forward to their future performances!

Our club is currently recruiting passionate and confident speakers to join our team! Be sure to fill out the google form with the link below if you are interested in debating! Don't miss this opportunity to join us and have fun expressing yourselves on stage!

For any enquiries, feel free to message Artie Lam, Enoch-Akita Fujihara, Tom Yeung or any other members of our team for more information. We look forward to receiving your applications!

https://goo.gl/forms/tMD306gjCcInwEf42

"Falling up", a team including Joshua Yeung, Timothy Lo and Artie Lam won the champion in the Durham University Hong Kong Public Affairs and Social Service Society English Debate Tournament held at the HKU two weeks ago (30-31/7). The tournament was in World Schools Style, and Joshua and Timothy were both the Top 10 best speakers after 5 preliminary rounds. Artie was also awarded as the best speaker in the Grand Final. They have engaged and humbly learnt from many talented speakers from high school and university teams, and this summer tournament proved to be a refreshing experience. Congratulations to our debaters!

Today our junior team participated in the finals of the Junior SDC tournament. Below are the results of the debates today.

Quarter-finals: TH regrets the use of private consulting firms in boarding school and college application
QC (won)vs DBS

Semi-finals: THBT environmentalists have a moral obligation to be vegetarian.
QC vs GSIS (won)

Although we didn't get into the Grand finals, the tournament as a whole was very fruitful to our debaters as we spectated quality debates from excellent debaters and received useful comments from adjudicators after our debates.
We congratulate our debaters, Enoch Lau, Ryan Ng, Artie Lam, Eden Lau and Gordon Chan for their excellent achievements in this tournament and we hope they can continue to thrive in their years ahead!

Today our school's junior debate team participated in the Junior SDC competition and achieved excellent results. We won all of the five matches and broke fifth into the quarter-finals. Below are the motions we debated about today:

Round 1: QC (won) vs. KC
THW ban academic programmes aimed at pre-primary school students.

Round 2: STFAYYC vs. QC (won)
THBT national football teams should not have foreign coaches.

Round 3: QC (won) vs. WYK
THW abolish the executive pardon.

Round 4: QC (won) vs. GHS
THW give domestic workers the right to vote in Hong Kong (prop, v. GHS)

Round 5: CIS vs. QC (won)
THW set aside doctor-patient confidentiality and require psychiatrists and psychologists to report pilots that express an intention to harm others or themselves.

Info on Quarter-finals
QC vs DBS
Date: 21 May 2016
Venue: GHS

Congratulations to all our debaters today and our heartfelt gratitude to our seniors. We will be facing DBS in the quarter-finals two weeks later, on 21 May, at Good Hope School. Please continue to support our team! Thank you.

Yesterday we had our o-day and we were very happy to have some passionate students joining us. They had their first taste of debating with the motion 'THBT school uniforms does more harm than good'.
It doesn't matter if you missed the o-day, feel free to fill in the forms on the notice boards of your classrooms if you are interested. Remember, we don't need you to be very good at English, all we want is your passion towards debating. So make sure that you fill in the form before the deadline on 13th October!

Grasping the last bit of the summer vacation, we had another interesting friendly competition for senior members with Diocesan Boys' School about global warming.

The motion: THW criminalize denial of global warming.
Winning side: Proposition (Queen's College)
Best Speaker: Thomas So

Shortly after the commencement of the new school year, our club will be recruiting new members. We invite all Queenians to join us and have a fantastic debating experience. Please support our club and we look forward to another fruitful year.

"Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, TH, as a feminist,..."

Yesterday afternoon, seniors from QC and QES had their friendly match with intense interactions and demonstrated the impressive art of argumentation, with rounds of applause concluded the debate. With a very narrow win, we are delighted to announce the result:

Motion: TH, as a feminist, would oppose products marketed to help women prevent date r**e.

Winning side: Opposition (Queen's College)

Best speaker: Ernest Sin (5B)

May we again express our sincere gratitude towards debaters and teachers from QES. Last but not least, we are looking forward to another debate with them.

Stay tuned!

Dear all,
Debating is a sophisticated art of discourse, which trains an individual to be more independent, analytical and empowers them with critical thinking skills, and we value this very much. This is why we are recruiting new junior and senior members to join our family, so don't hesitate and fill in the form below to join us!

QCEngDe Application Form