{"id":8750,"date":"2026-02-16T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/?p=8750"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:26:02","slug":"2026-harvard-national-speech-and-debate-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/2026-harvard-national-speech-and-debate-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Harvard National Speech and Debate Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-1-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-1.jpg 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Competition: <\/strong>2026 Harvard National Speech and Debate Tournament<br><strong>Location:<\/strong> Harvard University, Cambridge, MA<br><strong>Date: <\/strong>Feb 13-15 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to our Opus Team for making it to <strong>Quarter Finals<\/strong>\u00a0for Cross-Examination Junior Varsity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Opus Team<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Cross-Examination Junior Varsity<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Placement (33 Teams Total)<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>M. Chiu &amp; E. Wan<\/td><td>Quarter Finalists<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Speaker Awards<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Placement (65 Competitors)<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>M. Chiu<\/td><td>5th Place<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/harvarddebatetournament-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/harvarddebatetournament-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/harvarddebatetournament-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/harvarddebatetournament-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/harvarddebatetournament.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our Opus Team for making it to Quarter Finals\u00a0for Cross-Examination Junior Varsity.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[190,87,179,89],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","tag-2025-2026-competitions","tag-debate","tag-harvard-debate-council","tag-harvard-debate-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8766,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions\/8766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opusacademy.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}