I managed to have a debate on part of this. Sadly the intended contender turned out to be unwilling to debate, and the stand-in denied agreeing to debate: https://www.debateart.com/debates/803
Auto-loss for forfeits.
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@bsh1
How would this work for 3 round debates?
I'm in favor of a 1 round forfeit = automatic loss.
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@3RU7AL
for 3 round debates, if the first round was forfeited, the debate is automatically awarded to the non forfeiting side. If the first is posted by both, and the second round is forfeited: it isn’t an automatic loss. Only if the final round is also forfeited does the loss kick in.
the purpose is really just solely to reduce the annoyance of waiting for a debate to finish when one person hasn’t shown up. But there’s a balance between doing that, and awarding a 5 round debate to one side because they forgot to post a final round.