Instigator / Pro
16
1495
rating
6
debates
33.33%
won
Topic
#1018

The Democratic party is the party of fascism,intolerance and racism.

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
6
15
Better sources
6
10
Better legibility
4
5
Better conduct
0
5

After 5 votes and with 19 points ahead, the winner is...

Ramshutu
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
5
Time for argument
Two days
Max argument characters
30,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
35
1764
rating
43
debates
94.19%
won
Description

No information

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Better arguments
3 point(s)
Better sources
2 point(s)
Better legibility
1 point(s)
Better conduct
1 point(s)
Reason:

RFD in comments

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Better arguments
3 point(s)
Better sources
2 point(s)
Better legibility
1 point(s)
Better conduct
1 point(s)
Reason:

Nearly a full forfeit, and pro plagiarized almost his entire argument.

Arguments: cons ended up being non-contested, and pro's were thrown out.

Sources: con gets this for identifying the plagiarism (effectively stealing all value that pro could have had there had he made proper citations). He would have gotten it anyway for unending high quality sources every round.

Conduct: see first paragraph.

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Better arguments
3 point(s)
Better sources
2 point(s)
Better legibility
1 point(s)
Better conduct
1 point(s)
Reason:

60% forfeit on Pro's part with plagiarism as the majority of the case. Conduct to Con.

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Better arguments
3 point(s)
Better sources
2 point(s)
Better legibility
1 point(s)
Better conduct
1 point(s)
Reason:

The instigator's Round 1 argument is copied from Dinesh's book: Hillary's America:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gIq0CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT14&lpg=PT14&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false

Simply pick any sentence. Use CTRL+F on the link I just gave and find the sentence he plagiarized.

The instigator also forfeited 2 Rounds out of 5.

If plagiarism is not worthy of a bad conduct point it should be added to the rules.

With plagiarism and 2 Rounds forfeited the contender gains the conduct point for not forfeiting for plagiarizing.

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Better arguments
3 point(s)
Better sources
2 point(s)
Better legibility
1 point(s)
Better conduct
1 point(s)
Reason:

I'd like to thank both opponents for this debate.

POOR CONDUCT

Pro forfeited 3/5 rounds, that's poor conduct!

Not only this but since they FF the majority of the rounds they technically didn't respond to Cons arguments and Con's arguments still stand.

Moving right along,

PLAGIARISM

Pro plagiarized several arguments he made, that's poor conduct!