China News Service, Toronto, February 18-Two Chinese female high school students from Vancouver Debate College, Canada, won the Stanford University Debate Competition and the Harvard University Debate Competition in the past two weekends.

This is also the first time that Canadian teams have won consecutive championships in these two debates.

　　The Vancouver Debate Academy revealed to the media on February 18 that the champions are Mia Liu, a 9th-grade Chinese high school student from Vancouver Lord Byng Middle School and Sarah Lin, 10th-grade Sir Winston Churchill Middle School in Vancouver.

They represented the Vancouver School of Debate in the 35th Stanford University Debate Tournament from February 6th to 8th and won the rookie category, and then went 11 to the 47th Harvard University National Debate Tournament from February 13th to 15th. 0 excellent record to win the championship.

　　Affected by the epidemic, these two debate events have chosen to be held online for the first time.

Each competition has more than 3,000 students from all over the world participating. Compared with more than 2,000 students in the past, this year's event has greater competition.

Bryan Weber, director and coach of the Vancouver Debate College Debate Program, said that not only did the two female high school students win all 11 rounds in the Harvard Debate Competition, but during the competition, only one of the 25 referees did not vote for it. they.

　　Liu Xingru and Lin Siyu started studying debate about 2 years ago.

They said that the debate can make people look at issues from different angles, make people grow, and can also be exposed to broader knowledge.

Even the epidemic has disadvantages and advantages. For example, all debate competitions are now held online, which allows students from all over the world to overcome the barriers of time and travel expenses and have more opportunities to participate.

　　Lin Siyu won the 2020 Georgetown University Fall Debate Championship and the Best Debate Award, and Liu Xingru won the runner-up in the 2020 Princeton University Debate Competition.

These competitions are also held in the "cloud".

In fact, Lin Siyu has not yet participated in an offline face-to-face competition.