WORLD SCHOLAR’S CUP: DGS AND CIS WIN INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM HONOURS

CHECK ALL THE RESULTS FOR THE TOURNAMENT HELD AT SOUTH ISLAND SCHOOL ON SATURDAY MAY 19th

All-Round Top Individuals Junior Division
Place ID Student Team Score
1 1043 Hui Kay Nicole Liu Diocesan Girls’ School 7440.0

All-Round Top Individuals Senior Division
Place ID Student Team Score
1 5012 Bryce Lim Chinese International School 7446.7

Scholar’s Cup Top Teams – First Place
Division Score TeamID School Students
Junior 27,645.7 Team 104 Diocesan Girls’ School Yuen Kwan Vanessa Ma, Adriana Kelly Lee, Hui Kay Nicole Liu
Senior 27,003.3 Team 501 Chinese International School Aspen Wong, Bryce Lim, Susan Maginn

Scholar’s Challenge Junior Division Art
Score Place ID Team Student
411.4 1 1011 Chinese International School Mehda Goyal

Scholar’s Challenge Senior Division Art
Score Place ID Team Student
346.7 1 5102 St. Stephen’s Girls’ College Mak Linda

Scholar’s Challenge Junior Division Current Affairs
Score Place ID Team Student
457.1 1 1233 West Island School Howard Chae

Scholar’s Challenge Senior Division Current Affairs
Score Place ID Team Student
480.0 1 5012 Chinese International School Bryce Lim

Scholar’s Challenge Junior Division History
Score Place ID Team Student
457.1 1 1011 Chinese International School Mehda Goyal

Scholar’s Challenge Senior Division History
Score Place ID Team Student
373.3 1 5022 Chinese International School Davis Wong

Scholar’s Challenge Junior Division Literature
Score Place ID Team Student
525.7 1 1173 Shanghai United International School Dominique Hua
525.7 1 1062 Dulwich College School Tara Parekh

Scholar’s Challenge Senior Division Literature
Score Place ID Team Student
373.3 1 5141 Yew Chung International Secondary School Hoi Kiu (Gabrielle) Tse
373.3 1 5102 St. Stephen’s Girls’ College Mak Linda

Scholar’s Challenge Junior Division Metro
Score Place ID Team Student
480.0 1 1231 West Island School Brandon Mok

Scholar’s Challenge Senior Division Metro
Score Place ID Team Student
480.0 1 5012 Chinese International School Bryce Lim

Scholar’s Challenge Junior Division Science
Score Place ID Team Student
525.7 1 1081 Dulwich College School Yifeng Dong

Scholar’s Challenge Senior Division Science
Score Place ID Team Student
400.0 1 5143 Yew Chung International Secondary School Lok Yiu (Claire) Chan
400.0 1 5112 Yew Chung International Secondary School Lin (Lily) Lin

Writing Junior Division – Top Individuals
Score Place ID Team Student
1960.0 1 1103 German Swiss International School Angel Cheung

Writing Senior Division – Top Individuals
Score Place ID Team Student
1920.0 1 5133 Yew Chung International Secondary School Jonathan Liu

Challenge Junior Division – Top Individuals
Score Place ID Team Student
2468.6 1 1173 Shanghai United International School Dominique Hua

Challenge Senior Division – Top Individuals
Score Place ID Team Student
2106.7 1 5012 Chinese International School Bryce Lim

Debate Junior Division – Top Individuals
Score Place ID Team Student
3640.0 1 1253 Sha Tin College Angelina Li

Debate Senior Division – Top Individuals
Score Place ID Team Student
3640.0 1 5171 Wellington College Katie Cook

Writing Junior Division – Top Teams
Place Score Team ID Students
1 5460.0 German Swiss International School 109 Petra Ho, Dana Poon, Karen Hsu

Writing Senior Division – Top Teams
Place Score Team ID Students
1 5380.0 Chinese International School 501 Aspen Wong, Bryce Lim, Susan Maginn

Challenge Junior Division – Top Teams
Place Score Team ID Students
1 5508.6 Chinese International School 101 Mehda Goyal, Jaqueline Wu, Ying Ngai Yu

Challenge Senior Division – Top Teams
Place Score Team ID Students
1 5733.3 Chinese International School 501 Aspen Wong, Bryce Lim, Susan Maginn

Debate Junior Division – Top Teams
Place Score Team ID Students
1 10426.7 German Swiss International School 110 Amanda Sin, Chloe Cheung, Angel Cheung

Debate Senior Division – Top Teams
Place Score Team ID Students
1 10106.7 Chinese International School 502 William Park, Davis Wong, Francis Newman
1 10106.7 Yew Chung International Secondary School 513 Chun Hong (Anfernee) Lo, Kai Jun (Joshua) Wang, Jonathan Liu
Scholar’s Bowl Junior Division – Top Teams
Place Score Team ID Students
1 7790.0 Shanghai United International School 117 Eunice Li, Anton Yao, Dominique Hua

Scholar’s Bowl Senior Division – Top Teams
Place Score Team ID Students
1 5930.0 Yew Chung International Secondary School 511 Ka Tai (Gordon) Li, Lin (Lily) Lin, Shi Hao (Dennis) Huang

Top Rookie Teams Junior Division
Place Score ID Team Students
1 27645.7 104 Diocesan Girls’ School Yuen Kwan Vanessa Ma, Adriana Kelly Lee, Hui Kay Nicole Liu

Top Rookie Teams Senior Division
Place Score ID Team Students
1 27003.3 501 Chinese International School Aspen Wong, Bryce Lim, Susan Maginn

Top Visiting Teams Junior Division
Place Score ID Team Students
1 26402.4 117 Shanghai United International School Eunice Li, Anton Yao, Dominique Hua

Top Scorer From Each School Junior Division
ID School Student
1011 Chinese International School Mehda Goyal
1043 Diocesan Girls’ School Hui Kay Nicole Liu
1062 Dulwich College School Tara Parekh
1103 German Swiss International School Angel Cheung
1123 Hong Kong International School Brittany Fried
1131 Island School Odetta Li
1142 Renaissance College Hazel Leung
1153 Shanghai Pinghe School Alexis Soohoo
1202 Shanghai United International School Joyce Lee
1211 South Island School Ji-Min Kang
1221 St. Stephen’s Girls’ College Rochelle Yu
1231 West Island School Brandon Mok
1242 Wellington College Adia Chew
1253 Sha Tin College Angelina Li

Top Scorer From Each School Senior Division
ID School Student
5012 Chinese International School Bryce Lim
5031 Diocesan Boys’ School Alex Yeung
5043 German Swiss International School Sharon Wong
5102 St. Stephen’s Girls’ College Mak Linda
5133 Yew Chung International Secondary School Jonathan Liu
5172 Wellington College Konstantin Chakos

WIDPSC 2012: Glittering Team Hong Kong effort with Lucien Wang crowned World Champion for Interpretive Reading

The World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships have just concluded in Brisbane, Australia, with Team Hong Kong returning a set of outstanding results.

The team of Brian Wong (Island School), Esther Mak (St. Paul’s Co-ed), Justin Lee (Shatin College), Claudia Tam (West Island School), Lucien Wang (KGV), Eunice Leung (Maryknoll Convent School), Ryan Tang (St Paul’s Co-ed) and Sarah Ku (Heep Yunn School) traveled to Australia to compete in four speaking disciplines: Persuasive Speaking, Impromptu Speaking, Interpretive Reading and Debating.

Lucien won the Interpretive Reading grand final and follows Heather Pickerell (2011 -Persuasive Speaking) as our second ever World Champion. A fantastic achievement!

Lucien did the Room 101 section from George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel ’1984′. Coach, Mr Roy Allen noted that Lucien: “managed to match Richard Burton for power and creepiness. It was done in a large Lecture Theatre and he did very well to project the voice and create a sense of fear… he got better each time he did it.”

After the preliminary rounds, several students finished in the top ten, earning them the right to compete in the “finals”. Only the top two (four for debating) contest the “grand final”. Reaching the finals is a major achievement in itself – congratulations!

Esther came 3rd in the final and was 1st overall in the preliminary rankings for Persuasive. Brilliant effort!

Justin and Ryan also made the Persuasive final. Claudia also made the reading final, Eunice the debating final and Justin the impromptu final. All amazing results!

Regarding the top 50 rankings of each category – here is the team summary:

In the overall rankings, all 8 members of the team came in the top 50.
In the persuasive category, all 8 members of the team came in the top 30.
In the impromptu category, all 8 members of the team came in the top 40.

Big thanks are due to team mentors: Roy Allen (coach) and Steven Lee (manager) who took the team to the championships after many, many hours of work. Alumni like Ben Allen are also to be thanked for giving the time to make this team a most successful one, even more meritorious given it was probably our youngest ever team Hong Kong.

You can check out the rankings for everything here:

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CHINESE INTERNATIONAL TAKE 5TH HKSDC JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP

Click here for team and speaker rankings from the tournament and
here for some amazing photos taken by Denise Wong of GSIS – thanks!

The 5th Junior Hong Kong Schools Debating Championship was held on the 17th March 2012 at Canadian International School. 24 teams from 23 schools in Hong Kong participated, with each team consisting of 3-5 members and debates were in Worlds Style.

Chinese International School, German Swiss International School, South Island School and Diocesan Boys School broke into the semi-finals, debating the motion THW allow parents to access the social networking sites of their children.

CIS and GSIS defeated their opponents and went on to debate the motion THW ban the use of animals in sport and entertainment in the Grand Finals, with CIS picking up the Champions trophy, defeating a gallant GSIS.

Queenie Fung, who debated superbly throughout the tournament for Heep Yunn School, was crowned “Best Speaker”.

In an innovation for HKSDC, three “New Speaker Awards” were handed out to Bianca Chan (Maryknoll Convent School), Arnesh Batlaw (HKIS) and Alex Yeung (DBS). This award is for debaters who have never before participated an HKSDC tournament and is designed to encourage all new debaters to take part and aim to achieve at the top level.