ASL hosted a debate tournament Nov. 15-16 in which three schools participated: Zurich International School, Frankfurt International School and ASL.
The Debate Team came away from the event successful, as Debate Team Presidents Liam Hamama (‘20) and Max Preiser (’20) won the Parliamentary Debate, where ASL students also placed third, fourth and fifth.
In the original oratory, the other event that took place during the tournament, ASL placed third.
From the three schools, roughly 40 students participated in the tournament. However, not all students debated in each of the five rounds of the Parliamentary Debate event. The judges decided who progressed through each round. In the final round, just Preiser, Hamama and their opponents remained to debate for first place.
Social Studies Teacher Christopher Wolf decided all of the debate topics for the tournament. They ranged from reparations for colonized nations to whether the use of illegal drugs should be a public health or criminal justice issue.
“It was a pretty broad range of topics,” Preiser said.
Participants did not know that these would be the topics before the tournament began.