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I, Sir.Lancelot, am hosting the 2023 Round Table Tournament.
It is my pleasure to be collaborating with whiteflame on this. 
As most tournaments will sometimes grow inactive because of people’s IRL schedule conflicting with their participation on the site or hosts becoming inactive. None of these will be a problem.

I am completely determined to see this tournament through to the finish. And I want the topics to be interesting and for the tournament to accommodate everyone’s schedule and availability. If availability is a problem, please disclose and me & whiteflame will work around this.

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.

  1. The Entry
  2. The Finals
  • Within the Entry Stage, debaters will have the opportunity to accumulate as many points as they can. 
  • Those who meet the bare minimum amount of points will qualify for The Finals and from there, it will be strictly elimination. The last participant who remains will be nominated for the HoF. 

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.
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Happy to help out with this. Also, /spectate.
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You guys are invited to join. 
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I'll join.

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How long is the argument time?
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2 days to a week. 
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I'm /in
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(Can't decide exactly which categories as of right now)
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Slainte- I get that you’re busy IRL, so you don’t have to register as a participant if you don’t want to. You can be a judge if you decide, but that’s entirely up to you. 

SkepticalOne & Best.Korea- Both of you are invited also. 

(If any of you choose to be a participant, comment your favorite categories/subjects.)
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@Sir.Lancelot
With 2 weeks debate time, I think I can do this.  However if it is better for me to stand off and be a judge I can do that as well.

For topics, Science (Physics, medicine, cosmology, quantum), Law, Politics (public policy,  foreign policy), I think a comedy or creativity challenge could be interesting)

Slot me however you want Sir Lancelot.

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@Sir.Lancelot
With 2 weeks debate time, I can debate.  I'm not opposed to judging if there is a need also. Let me know what you need/want there, bossman. 
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Good. Both of you are in as participants. 

Argument time is officially extended from 2 days to 2 weeks. 

SkepticalOne- If you have favorite categories/topics, feel free to list them. 

(As today was this last day to register for The Tournament. Signups are now closed) 

The Entry starts this Friday. 
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@Sir.Lancelot
I'm going to be out of country this Friday, so I might be a little late to the party. 
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SkepticalOne- If you have favorite categories/topics, feel free to list them. 

  • Religious views - agnostic atheist
  • Political views - left/progressive leaning
  • morality- subjective, non-absolute, non universal, secular 
  • Abortion - pro-choice, 
  • Wall of separation - for, anti-religious nationalism, anti-religious privilege, anti religious founding of America
  • misc views - Old round-ish earth, yes - evolution, yes - big bang, yes, death penalty, no, vaccinations, yes....
I don't mind doing some research to debate also...

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@TheApprentice
Would you like to join? 

For The Tournament to operate, there must be an even amount of participants. AustinL joined after signups were closed but I did promise possible extension time. 

AustinL will be included but only if we get one more person. 
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@AustinL0926
If I can find one more person, I’ll include you in the signups. 

There has to be an even number because I would feel bad if I started The Tournament and one person was left behind because they couldn’t find an opponent.
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@Sir.Lancelot
Oh rip, I didn't notice, sry. Hope there's a chance I can still get in.
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Yea, sign me up.
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You’re both in! 

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@Sir.Lancelot
Is this still a thing?
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Yes. 
The Entry start date is to be very soon.