Sir.Lancelot

Welcome, competitors.

The end of June is approaching which means The Entry Stage has officially begun. 

Here are all those involved in The Round Table Tournament so far.:

Here are the Judges I have chosen.:

Here are the rules.:

Something very important. If you win or lose a topic, it becomes off-limits and you cannot debate it again. The Finals start August 10th.

We should be banning books. 

Books are a threat to Western Culture because they promote critical thinking, open-mindedness, and independent thought. 

These are all virtues that we, as a Society, should openly reject. 

Libraries threaten the Status Quo and they must all be shut down in accordance. Prompto!

There are many complaints that DART is a former shell of itself and nothing like DDO. Calls to action have been made to return DART to its glory days by banning the following individuals: YouFound_Lxam, Kaitlyn, Best.Korea, Greyparrot, TWS1405_2, and IWantRooseveltAgain. 

The latter two are the most controversial for several reasons. TWS because of his beef with the mods and fights with the community in general, IWantRoosevelt because of his constant baiting of right-wingers/republicans/conservatives and as one of the former president’s nemeses.

Difference between the two is that TWS sometimes comes across as a triggered reactionary for the right, whereas IWantRoosevelt is just a wannabe troll for the left.

Neither of these two rise to the level of being ban-worthy.

Firstly, let go of the delusion that DART should be like DDO. That ship has long sailed. 

But that doesn’t mean it’s completely a lost cause, it’s just Damaged Goods with Wasted Potential. 

Your first mistake is in assuming that these individuals are responsible for driving away new blood and scaring away potential people. (Which is stupid because of big platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Quora.)

Common denominator is the transparent lack of firm leadership, vision, and purpose. 

The actual reality is few people know that DART even exists. 

Mike could very easily turn this around if he actively led his community instead of letting his community make the choices. Wylted could have very easily been the man for the job and he’s right that DART is a shithole, but he assumed the title of responsibility for fixing it and he gave up. So that failure is partly his too. 

Bootlicker could be what’s needed for the site to change, but I’ve seen no convincing evidence that he is even capable of such, aside from his perpetual ranting and raving. He should return to lurking in the shadows where he’s the most useful.

Instead of confusing the position of President to think he has anything remotely insightful to say. 

But I want to touch on something more important about the current state of DART where there is a clear, simple solution.

We have one side demanding Absolute Freedom of Speech and the other demanding Total Censorship. 

The solution to this problem is to separate the two by allowing certain categories to have more unregulated discussion and then to enforce more rules in other categories about what kind of subjects/topics are taboo, so people have a place of acceptance.

Instead of allowing such dialogue to cross interfere in one channel. Let the white nationalists/binary people have their channel outlets to freely criticize anything they want, (nobody has to visit their category, engage them or read their posts if they don’t want to.), and then let the leftists/progressives have their channel to have civil discussion so they have a medium for acceptance. There’s no reason both sides cannot co-exist, regardless of the hatred between the two. That is if only, the mutual goal is to move DART forward.

The Round Table tournament will be a system that gives a chance to test who the site’s best debaters are. The Round Table will be divided in two separate stages.

Default categories for this debate will be Politics, Science, History, Religion, Sociology, Fiction, Pop Culture. (Possibly more.) But where this tournament differs from the rest is that topics/subjects will be personalized to match each competitors’ strengths in order to ensure they are operating under the best circumstances possible. (Like an algorithm.)

If pitted against an opponent where both are out of their depth, the topic/subject will be altered to meet in the middle. 

The listed topics for The Entry will be assigned a certain amount of points, with the easiest topics being assigned the least and the hardest topics, the highest points.

But there’s a catch.: Once you debate a topic whether you win or lose, it is off-limits to you for the next debate.

Entry Stage may last anywhere from a month, with possible extension if required.

The tournament specifically tests on four things: Versatility, Knowledge, Persuasiveness, and Research Ability. 

10 slots remain available for participants. If you wish to sign up, type /in

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For The Finals, only 5 official judges can be chosen to vote on the debate to avoid risk of voter tampering. (Judges cannot participate in the tournament.) If you wish to register as a judge instead, type /spectate.

For The Entry, judges can be the five official judges chosen or any of yours and your opponents’ choice.

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Additionally, type which categories are your favorite (or you’re best at.) if you decide.

Sign-ups continue until we get 10 participants and will run until next Tuesday. Extended, if necessary.

Most of my debates so far have been me defending Socialism. 

I want to try defending Capitalism, so I’m proposing an open challenge.

I suggest the resolution, “Capitalism is better than Socialism.”

I will be Pro.

It will be an on-balance debate.

Title, definitions, and rules are negotiable. 

Name your terms.