Virt's 2019 Tournament!

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Aloha!

Welcome to the first DART tournament of 2019! I am hoping to run regularly scheduled tournaments throughout the year. I hope that these tournaments will help make DART and help grow the debate section of the site. I will be using the Tournament Bracket Generator to create pairings. This will be a single elimination tournament.

This tournament will have a maximum of twelve participants (6 pairings). This may be increased if there is enough interest. Regardless of how many debaters we get this tournament will hopefully start within the next two weeks.

This tournament will be moderated by myself.

Rules

1.Topics will be decided by the debaters. However, there is a strict 48h time limit. If no topic is agreed to after this time frame, I'll be choosing a topic for you.

2. In the event of an odd number of competitors, there will be bye rounds, and I will randomly choose people to freely advance to the next round.

3. The voting period for the debates shall be set for two weeks

4. No troll or non standard debates

Possible Resolutions

If you can't think of a resolution to debate here are some that I believe would make for a good debate.

Resolved: In a democracy, the public’s right to know ought to be valued above the right to privacy of candidates for public office.

Resolved: The United States ought not provide military aid to authoritarian regimes.

Resolved: The United States ought to withdraw from NATO

Resolved: The United States should build and maintain a border wall with Mexico

Resolved: The United States federal government should impose price controls on the pharmaceutical industry.

Resolved: The United States federal government should ban the advertisements of prescription medicine.

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its restrictions on legal immigration to the United States.

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1. blamonkey

2. armoredcat

3. RationalMadman

4. warren42

5. nmvarco

6. WisdomofAges

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Judges Signup

I would also like to ask people to signup for judging debates. While anyone can judge a debate we want to be sure that each debate gets at least one high quality RFD and that there are no tied debates. As such if you signup to be a judge you may be called on to judge a debate if a debate has no votes and is less than 3 days left in the voting period.

1. Ramshutu

2. Moeology

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12.28.2018 06:49AM

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@David

I would be fine judging or debating.

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12.28.2018 06:50AM

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@blamonkey

OK awesome! I'll put you in as a debater for now.

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12.28.2018 07:35AM

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I can judge or debate (religion or phil primarily)

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12.28.2018 03:33PM

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@David

I can judge, I don’t have the time to debate right now :)

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12.28.2018 04:57PM

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Let me at it. ;) You haven't seen me tryhard other than in my debate vs bench and that still wasn't tryhard structure.

I will debate properly and brutally well-structured, you will fear me.

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12.28.2018 05:05PM

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@David

I’m interested... I don’t know if I have the time.

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12.28.2018 05:20PM

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@David

Resolved: The United States ought not provide military aid to authoritarian regimes.

How about changing this one to "Resolved: The West should never endorse military coups, even when they overthrow autocratic regimes (e.g., Zimbabwe"?

It'd be awesome to see that debated -- I quite liked that topic.

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12.28.2018 06:26PM

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@David

The last debate I hosted that you moderated, you moderated a bullshit vote as an adequate one, so I'm afraid I'm not interested at all in participating in any tournament you'll be moderating.

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12.28.2018 10:19PM

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/in

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12.28.2018 10:27PM

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To be clear my post earlier was an /in.

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12.28.2018 10:33PM

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12.28.2018 10:34PM

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@Tejretics

How about changing this one to "Resolved: The West should never endorse military coups, even when they overthrow autocratic regimes (e.g., Zimbabwe"?

It'd be awesome to see that debated -- I quite liked that topic.

This is an interesting topic and would love to debate this with you. While I definitely think we need to stay out of everyone else's business, I think there are some times when it's necessary to intervene such as in case of genocide.

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12.28.2018 10:35PM

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@David

I am of the opposite mentality. The optimal society/world is one where ALL (must be absolutely all) have no privacy at any given time. This would make crime and corruption impossible.

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12.28.2018 10:37PM

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@RationalMadman

Then that means absolutely no freedom. Do you really want the government to watch you take a shower or have relations with your SO? I don't think so.

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@David

To be clear I mean there be absolutely no government official or secret agent that isn't watched 24/7 by the central surveillance agency of everyone.

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12.28.2018 10:40PM

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@RationalMadman

Ah I thought you meant private citizens to be included. In that case I actually kinda agree with you on that.

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12.28.2018 10:44PM

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@David

They would all be included. You are not wrong.

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@David

It would be infinitely stupid to have government officials spied on while citizens are not.

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@David

I'm not interested in debating this myself, more interested in reading.

While I definitely think we need to stay out of everyone else's business, I think there are some times when it's necessary to intervene such as in case of genocide.

The topic has nothing to do with military intervention... it's about endorsing military coups (i.e., militaries taking control over governments).

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12.29.2018 12:31AM

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I will sign up as a judge for now. If I find that I have the time to debate, I’ll let you know.

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@David

Am I against Warren or are you randomising it? Will help me have extra time to negotiate a resolution with him if need be (or, I guess, I can do that with all if it is random, in advance).

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12.29.2018 01:30AM

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@RationalMadman

the brackets haven’t been finalized yet so you may or may not go against warren. If you do then you can pick the resolution and pick the side you want to argue

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12.30.2018 08:00PM

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Bump

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12.30.2018 08:30PM

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For those interested, I prefer philosophy to politic and would appreciate if we can arrange that instead of the suggested things but I'm alright with whatever.

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@David

I'm interested in debating

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@David

I'd be happy to participate too

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@David

Debate any of them.....asap....

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@David

Pretty sure WoA is signing up, to be clear about what he meant since he's not on your list.

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Bumping for one last time. This tournament will start on Wednesday. Sign up before then!