#Goodbye

One of our contributors who helped DART through voting and creating debates is now officially leaving the site for good.

His name is Slainte.

Please use this thread to say your goodbyes and express appreciation.

I'll formally announce his resignation from The Tournament within a week in-case he changes his mind.

It was fun while it las-

na, it was stressful and addictive.

But fuck me, it was an emotional journey few can fathom a simple tiny website could give you. This trained my brain in multiple ways. Thanks for that.

Wylted, you are a prick I have no respect for but I was truly outplayed by you in that election by your slimeball dogshit strategy and I thank you for humbling me. You are a force to be reckoned with not because you are smart but because you see things others don't, you see logic where others see chaos and mystery. You must have had an interesting brain to experience in life, fellow madman.

Barney, you are the true alpha male of this website, even Wylted knows it and is working well with you I see.

The rest of you were not worth mentioning, know that and earn your relevance. Good luck.

This time I have really gotten bored of debating, I'm not quitting because I'm addicted to debating but because I'm bored of it. I just posted a round of simple argumentation to one debate and that's it I am done here.

I know what you are thinking but I just wanted you to know that I am done with debating and that I never joined this site to 'rise to the top' in and of itself, I came to be the best at debating even if the Elo didn't show it. The competitiveness was for show and in reality I am more humble than a lot of you realise but that's fine by me.

I think it has gotten to a point where I enter a debate, know the ways it can pan out and get too bored to 'type it out' and passionately fight to the end.

Even if I tried and then lost, even that loss no longer seems to be based on an actual error of logic on my part but instead an error in grasping how voters perceive strength of arguments and what matters more vs less, this even applies to rap battles and songs.

I do appreciate what spending (not wasting) my life debating on this website has done for me and I may come on now and again as a forum chatter. I guess Trump losing and some other things going well for me IRL have led to me finally understanding that I don't need to argue my way through life in actuality, even if I'm right. People really are capable of seeing truth at times and when they don't it's not really my duty to 'prove them wrong' other than those that really matter to me and seek my wisdom and vice versa, no one's duty to convince me of the truth if I believe a lie.

I think that true strategy dictates that we avoid the need to debate as much as possible, even if we are lawyers. Instead the superior strategist uses evidence and relies on 'common sense' notions which (if wrong) they gently nudge but don't brutally say is 'wrong'. These are the people who actually go furthest in life and prove people wrong in any true sense.

I can sit here all day typing and what have I achieved? In the past, I gained wisdom but it seems that I'm no longer learning 'how to think' or 'how to debate', just 'how to angle the debating so that voters back me up'. It's not fun, it's not rewarding and I also never really got over how David/Virtuoso and Ragnar betrayed me the way they did and never once admitted they were wrong. 

If I combine everything together, this is a place I no longer gain wisdom, joy or even anything close to friendship from. That's why I am done regularly engaging here. You can think whatever you want about me and 'bet when he will return'. I seriously don't see me coming back to actually debate, I may come back to post rarely in the forums because I feel like sometimes there really is information to garner from someone who's more researched in a political, theological or whatever else realm and challenging them is a good way to open your mind based on their reply. Other than that, there's not much keeping me here, I have to finish off the fantasy football league but that doesn't require me to use this website. I think I'll get fourth there, out of ten. Which isn't that bad considering how little I knew of the sport or the game structure of fantasy football to begin with.

I may get sixth though, who knows? Thanks for giving me wisdom and a hobby for a long while in my life.

I've realized that this site is taking up far too much of my time. I don't have the motivation to continue. I'll be leaving as of now. I may log in briefly later to say a few final goodbyes. Thank you all very much for being good to me for the few months I've been here. I am sorry to have to quit in the middle of the mafia and Survivor games. I to thank you all for being good friends to me. Thank you for putting up with my bad jokes and laughing at my satire. If I have offended or wronged any of you, I sincerely apologize. I wish all of you the very best. As a final request, learn to forgive others. The recent events on the Political Engine server have created a lot of drama and controversy. Don't bear anyone any grudges for it. I don't think I have made any enemies while I'm here, and for that I'm glad. If I have done so unintentionally, please accept my complete apologies. I do not know if I shall be gone forever or if I will someday return.

Again, I am very thankful for how you have all treated me. May the grace and mercy of our God and of His Son Jesus Christ be with you all.

First, I must confess that I have actually been on this site before, as well as debate.org. I didn't get a 13, turning 14 winstreak for no reason. I have done over 50 debates including BearMan. I have another account on this site, which I asked Ragnar to close. 

Second, I must thank everyone on the site, regardless of their relationships with myself. I would like to thank the mods for running the site, as well as the users. I would also like to thank MisterChris, seldiora, Intelligence_06, Ragnar, oromagi, and ILikePie5 for just being wholesome people.

Thanks for having the debate with me about the term "All Lives Matter", I learned a lot about the social movements, and thoroughly enjoyed the debate.

Thanks for being good mods, that's all I have to say.

The importance of debate is not to accumulate wins, but to learn how to debate. Rather than going full brute force at a debate, go from a side angle, which will lessen your burden of proof and make you more likely to win. Also, you have to learn better format. Develop your own, use Ragnar's, or mine. The only reason I got from a very low place on the leaderboard to 18th was because of format.

bruh why are u so good? 

I can understand why. That said:

And with that, I am out. At least until the end of today.

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