The Hawke’s Bay Regional Debating Championship was held over the weekend of the 18/19th of March at Sacred Heart College. The tournament saw a huge turnout with 22 teams entered from schools from Gisborne to CHB and everywhere in between. After 4 rounds of debating 4 teams managed to break to the Semi Final, these were, Napier Girls High School, Karamu High School, Havelock North High School and Napier Boys High School. At the end of the day, Napier Boys High School emerged as the victorious team of the 4 managing to take out an extremely high quality final again Karamu on the topic of privatising water.
The weekend was a great success and all the credit for that has to go to Sacred Heart for doing a great job as the host school.
Winners: Napier Boys High School
Cameron Maddams
Daniel Kim
Liam Silverwood
Runners up: Karamu High School
Oliver Chamberlain
Holly Davies
Toby Hunter
Best Speaker
Toby Hunter
Best Style
Rebecca Mogey
Hawke’s Bay Regional Team
Liam Silverwood
Rebecca Mogey
Toby Hunter
Reserves
Kelci Alderton-Armstrong
Oliver Chamberlain
Highly Commended
Brianna Otto
Bridgett Petrie
Hana Drysdale
Most Promising
Oscar Treadwell
Promising Speakers
Francesca Gross
Lily Trow
