Under the advice of @Sir.Lancelot I have decided to start up the tournament now since I did not know that the other would take so long. Here are the guidelines for the tournament:
RULES:
- Topics for the debates will be given with each round of the tourney. Topics will include social, political, and religious issues. Each round will have a theme that the potential topics will be written around. If the two people paired against one another cannot agree on a topic, arbitration will be carried out by me.
- Debates can be 3-4 rounds, with a 20,000 maximum character limit. You are free to use a link-shortening service and provide sources from a Google doc to meet come under the threshold.
- There will be 4 judges per debate, 2 nominated from each person. You can nominate me to judge. However, it is not required. Argument times will be three days to allow for adequate research. Voting period will be set to one week.
- Not accepting a debate challenge from your opponent after you agree on a topic and judges, or a failure to communicate with your opponent in a timely manner will lead to an automatic loss. This can be voided with adequate reasoning.
- You are allowed to concede the debate at any time for an automatic loss.
- You can nominate judges from other people in the tourney. However, any proven collusion or alleged collusion with probable cause will result in being kicked from the tournament.
- Additional rules can be provided at my discretion when needed.
Tournament Format:
- There will be a total of 4 debaters in this tournament. If you cannot make it through the totality of the tourney, you are free to nominate a substitute to take your place. If you cannot nominate a sub in an appropriate amount of time, you will automatically lose the debate. You cannot nominate a sub in the knock-out round phase of the tournament.
- The tournament will begin as a round-robin. This means that everyone will debate against each opponent once. After that, the top 2 debaters will the best record will proceed to a knock-out round. The winner of the knockout round wins the tournament.
- Brackets will be randomly determined and seeded.
- If this goes well, I will start a bigger tournament in the future.
Cheers! Good luck to every debater!
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