Instigator / Pro
1
1549
rating
9
debates
66.67%
won
Topic
#3312

The United States should substantially increase legal immigration

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Winner
1
1

After 1 vote and with the same amount of points on both sides...

It's a tie!
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
3
Time for argument
Two weeks
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Winner selection
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
1
1521
rating
3
debates
83.33%
won
Description

Thanks for the debate, Spacetime, and thanks for delaying it by a week! I don't remember the exact wording of the topic we used last time, but it was something like this.

== Definitions ==

Most of them are obvious, but “immigration” means “immigration to the United States.”

== Rules ==

(1) No kritiks (including “pre-fiat” kritiks, like asking judges to vote someone down based on the language they used, and “post-fiat” kritiks, like moral skepticism).

(2) No new arguments in the final round (including new responses, except for new responses to the immediate previous round of your opponent's).

(3) BOP is shared. This rule isn’t super-important; it just means, in the unlikely event that the debate is literally a tie, you should vote a tie.

(4) Judges should vote based on what happened in the debate, not their personal views on this topic. Since this is a “winner selection” voting system, you should vote based on who won the debate (rather than voting based on the categories in the four-point system).

Round 1
Pro
#1
Forfeited
Con
#2
Forfeited
Round 2
Pro
#3
I guess this isn't happening. Sorry again.
Con
#4
Forfeited
Round 3
Pro
#5
Don't vote on this.
Con
#6
Forfeited