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The Harvard College Debating Union is pleased to invite you to another year of our schools debating tournament, the Harvard College World Schools Invitational. 

As in previous years, the tournament boasts the most successful World Schools adjudication core, including multiple former out-round WSDC debaters and coaches, highly successful British Parliamentary debaters, and some of the most accomplished former high school debaters in America. 

As always, we anticipate having multiple national debating teams at our tournament who are preparing for the World Schools Debating Championship in the summer. 

Please see our tournament website for all information related to schedule, hotel deals, registration, fees, etc.: https://harvardschools.wixsite.com/invitational

We're pleased to announce that our Chief Adjudication (CA) Panel this year comprises of incredibly successful World Schools debaters and coaches from around the world.

Our first CA is former Harvard debater Dhruva Bhat.

Dhruva graduated from Harvard with a degree in economics, and is currently doing an MPhil in Development Studies at Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship.

He debated for Team India at the World Schools Debating Championships in 2011, ‘12 and ‘13, and has co-coached the Indian team at AWSDC ’16 and ‘17 and WSDC ‘17. While at Harvard, he served as the president of the Harvard College Debating Union and competed on the British and American Parliamentary circuits.

Our next CA is former team USA and current Yale debater Ellie Singer!

Ellie Singer is a graduate of the Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and competed in World Schools Debate with Team USA, breaking at tournaments including EurOpen and the Harvard College World Schools Invitational. Ellie was also on the most successful US team in recent history, which broke 9th and made it to the semifinals of the World Schools Debating Championships 2017, where she also placed in the top 20 speakers.

Ellie also competed in public forum debate for the Blake School for four years. Her junior year, she was top speaker at the Glenbrooks, top speaker at NDCA, and placed in the top 14 at NSDA Nationals, auto-qualifying her for the ToC and Nationals in 2017. Her senior year, she received a bid and speaker award at every regular season tournament, championed the Glenbrooks, won and was top speaker at the Ivy Street Round Robin, and placed 2nd at the Tournament of Champions.

Ellie now competes in parliamentary debate at Yale, where she studies Political Science.

Our 3rd CA is current Harvard Law student and HCDU coach Clíodhna Ní Ch.

Cliodhna is the former coach of Team Ireland at the World Schools Debating Championship. She is a European semi-finalist and winner of 9 tournaments including the International Mace and the Cambridge Women's IV.

She has also broken at WUDC and EUDC as a judged, and has chaired two quarterfinals at WUDC. She judged the ESL final of EUDC 2016 and WUDC 2017 and has been the Chief Adjudicator for multiple tournaments, including Cambridge Open and Durham Open.

As our fourth and final CA, we're happy to introduce one of our own - Archie Hall.

Archibald is a sophomore at Harvard College and amongst a handful of people to have won both the World Universities Debating Championship and the World Schools Debating Championship. As a member of Team England, Archie broke at WSDC 2015 and won WSDC 2016 in Stuttgart. He has broken at and won multiple other school competitions in the UK, including Cambridge Schools.

Archie won WUDC 2018 in Mexico City and broke at WUDC 2017 in Netherlands. He is also the reigning US BP Champion, having won the US Universities Debating Championship in 2017.