"Online Friendly Competition” First victory of UM Cantonese Debating Team against
Open University of Hong Kong
The epidemic has not stopped the University of Macau Cantonese Debating Team (UM CDT) to expand their social network! A few days ago, UM CDT won the first friendly competition against the Open University of Hong Kong on "Zoom"!
The competition was hosted by UM CDT. In view of the uncertainty of the epidemic and a response to the SAR government’s policies, both sides decided to use "Zoom" as the competition platform to break the limitation of the epidemic and space. Resulting in the ability for the universities to exchange debate skills through video conferencing despite being separated in two locations.
The motion of the debate was "Hong Kong and Macao's anti-epidemic relief through cash sharing has more advantages than disadvantages". As the opposition, University of Macau sent the main debater Ng Chi Kuan, a third year student from Faculty of Education and Ma Man Kei and Lo Pak Sam College; first debater Lam Weng Man, a third year student from Faculty of Business Administration and Henry Fok Pearl Jubilee College; second debater S, a fourth year student from Faculty of Health Sciences and Lui Che Woo College; and whip Mak Chi Chon, a second year student from Faculty of Law and Choi Kai Yau College. After heated debates and exchanges, UM CDT defeated the Open University of Hong Kong by 1:2.
Among them, Lam Weng Man, the first debater of the UM team, won the prize of best debater in this competition. Although the online competition has some limitations and inconvenience, during the epidemic period, the team members can still exchange and learn with foreign school debaters and use the online platform to improve their own abilities, which encouraged the team members and enhanced their team cooperation to reduce the effects of the epidemic on their training. The Cantonese Debating Team of University of Macau will also continue to use online resources to help members learn and train at home.
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