Instigator / Pro
2
1417
rating
27
debates
24.07%
won
Topic
#3475

(Joke debate) Chuck Norris is the most powerful man in the universe

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Winner
2
2

After 3 votes and with the same amount of points on both sides...

It's a tie!
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
2
Time for argument
One day
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Winner selection
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
2
1731
rating
167
debates
73.05%
won
Description

rules:

chucknorrisfacts.net is a valid source for this debate.
saying any fictional character is stronger than Chuck Norris is okay.
joking is okay.

DO NOT MAKE THIS DEBATE POLITICAL.

Whoever makes the funniest arguments wins

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Very tempted to give pro the win for con taking this so serious he defended Superman's whole underwear thing...

Ultimately, the gish golloped nature of the long list of Chuck Norris facts, made them more a pain than a boon after the first few (this got way worse in rebuttals which excluded what they were responding to). And then the defenses, I didn't find funny (the unicycle one for example just went on too long trying to sound like a Chuck Norris joke, while losing the elegance of those jokes).

In contrast, con immediately started demanding citations, only to pull a fictional character, and refused to make jokes about said fictional character (even the simple he unified the galaxy, and saved us from the Jedi could have carried it)...

Overall, I'm calling this one a dud.

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

I wasn't going to vote, but RM is missing the point of the debate.

PRO mentioned in his description:

Whoever makes the funniest arguments wins

So thus, no matter the logic involved, whichever one was funnier is the winner.

Since PRO had the funnier arguments, they win.

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Pro never once gave a coherent definition of power or how to measure it.

Con retorted point by point of why that doesn't necessarily matter for Chuck Norris.

I am not sure to count the Palpatine point for Con or not, this debate was quite... odd.