The Mandarin Debating Team of the University of Macau (UM) has won the championship of the 22nd Macao Inter-Tertiary Debate Competition organised by the Education and Youth Development Bureau of the Macao SAR Government. This is the team’s third consecutive championship and 11th championship in the competition. In addition, Zhang Yupeng, a student from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, was awarded the title of ‘Best Debater’ in the final.
In the preliminary rounds, the UM team defeated the Macao Polytechnic University team in the first match and the City University of Macau team in the second match. The team defeated the City University of Macau team again in the semi-final and clinched the championship by beating the Macau University of Science and Technology team in the final. Fang Ruiyu, a student from the Faculty of Science and Technology, was named ‘Best Debater’ in the first preliminary match, and Wang Ruisi, a master’s student from the Institute of Collaborative Innovation, earned the ‘Best Debater’ title in the semi-final.
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