Instigator / Pro
16
1266
rating
119
debates
15.97%
won
Topic
#187

Alliteration Battle

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
6
9
Better sources
6
8
Better legibility
3
4
Better conduct
1
4

After 4 votes and with 9 points ahead, the winner is...

RationalMadman
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
3
Time for argument
Three days
Max argument characters
30,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
25
1687
rating
555
debates
68.11%
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:

After some thought, I decided to judge this by how much you guys could alliterate while still delivering a coherent message of some creative skill. I figure it's pretty easy to just machine-gun a bunch of alliterated words out from the dictionary and throw them together. The challenge as I see it is balancing alliteration with meaning.

So I give this to Con even though Pro adhered more strictly to constant alliteration. Meaning and theme seemed less clear with Pro, with less continuity of message from one line to the next. He hops from the Illuminati to bouncing boobs to Jacque Fresco. Like "wet willy wank whacking wenus washing weak wimps" just looks like a bunch of random words thrown together to me. In contrast I thought Con did have nice continuity of message, putting descriptive insults and personal history to poetry. His R2 was pretty amusing.

I considered this a contest of creativity rather than an argument from facts or data, so I found sources N/A. Conduct point goes to Con because Pro forfeited a round. Grammar tied.

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:

RationalMadman has a brilliant mind.

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:

Pro FF a round, so conduct to Con. Both had good alliterations.

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:

RM does not follow the alliteration format where every word must be alliteration. He switches off causing to subjectively vote for Type as his alliteration was more straight forward and followed the rule. This is not a rap battle, and RM sets it up as a rap battle where barely anything alliterates, so PRO wins