AKLAN, Philippines – Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) applied mathematics students David Africa and Tobi Leung raised the Philippine flag higher for winning the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) 2023 in Madrid, Spain, on Tuesday, January 3.
It marked a historic win for securing the Philippines' first-ever win in the prestigious debate tournament.
The World Universities Debating Championship is "one of the largest and most diverse university-level majors, hailing teams from all around the world," ADS said.
Ateneo Debate Society (ADS) said in a Facebook post that this is the "third consecutive time an Ateneo team has made a finals appearance and an enormous feat that no other Filipino team has succeeded in since its conception."
The team's opponents were teams from Princeton University (United States), Sofia University (Bulgaria), and Tel Aviv University (Israel) in the finals, where they debated whether it was preferable to have "a world where all individuals have a strong belief in Ubuntu."
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