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Ateneo de Manila University is Back-to-Back Asian Debate Champions

posted on Jun 05, 2010 1:28am

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May 28, 2010

In a dramatic replay of last year’s grand final round against Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the Ateneo Debate Society (ADS) successfully defended its Asian title during the United Asia Debating Championship in Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand on May 12-18, 2010. This is ADS’s 9th Asian title since the first Asian tournament in 1994.

The final round saw Ateneo 2 composed of Walter Wong (III BS ME), Cecile Gotamco (IV AB DS), and Danielle de Castro (MA Global Politics) opposing the motion’ This house would abolish parties based on ethnicity’.

Across the bench, the ADS contingent turned in noteworthy performances with Ateneo 1’s Angelica Mangahas (IV AB SOS/DS), Vincenzo Tagle (AB ECO-H 2010), and Stephanie Co (YL-6. ASMPH, BS PSY 2008) making the semi-final of the tournament; and Ateneo 3, made up of Patrick Cocabo (IV BS LM), Jasmine Cruz (BFA CW 2010), and Ray Pine (II BS ME), making the top 8 teams. Individual speakers also turned in remarkable performances with Gotamco, Cruz, and de Castro receiving the 3rd, 4th, and 8th best speaker awards of the tournament.

The ADS’s judges also broke ground in the tournament with Sharmila Parmanand (AB POS 2007), Bernadette Angangco (AB POS 2009) and Eleanor Zosa (MA His) all judging the quarterfinal rounds having been conflicted out of the semis by the two Ateneo teams; Steffi Sales (III AB MA POS) judged the pre-octofinals and the English-as-a-Foreign-Language Final. Parmanand and Angangco ranked as the tournament’s 2nd and 6th best adjudicators, respectively.

Next up for the ADS is the Austral-Asian Debate Championships in Auckland, New Zealand this June 29-July 9, 2010 where they will battle it out with teams from all over Australia and Asia.

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