Your EvC Debate Dream Team - Fantasy Debating

X writes:What a country!

X writes:Me too.

X writes:Well, for me, the Big Problem is getting around having to pick me.

Crash writes:Is a four-person team a debate standard? I don't know much about the organized sport of debate.

Crash writes:Anyway, cleaving to the established "four person team that you have to be on yourself" protocol I would take Modulous, Schraf, and Dan Carroll.

RAZD writes:The next question would be whether we set up a Team Great Debate and what the topic would be

X writes:Should Straggler's point about taking opposite sides on an issue be embraced?

Link writes:Australasia style debates consist of two teams who debate over an issue, more commonly called a topic or proposition. The issue, by convention, is presented in the form of an affirmative statement beginning with "That", for example, "That cats are better than dogs," or "This House", for example, "This House would establish a world government." The subject of topics varies from region to region. Most topics however, are usually region specific to facilitate interest by both the participants and their audiences.Each team has three members, each of whom is named according to their team and speaking position within his/her team. For instance the second speaker of the affirmative team to speak is called the "Second Affirmative Speaker" or "Second Proposition Speaker", depending on the terminology used. Each of the speakers' positions is based around a specific role, the third speaker for example has the opportunity to make a rebuttal towards the opposing teams argument introducing new evidence to add to their position. The last speaker is called the "Team Advisor/Captain". Using this style, the debate is finished with a closing argument by each of the first speakers from each team and new evidence may not be introduced. Each of the six speakers (three affirmative and three negative) speak in succession to each other beginning with the Affirmative Team. The speaking order is as follows: First Affirmative, First Negative, Second Affirmative, Second Negative, Third Affirmative, and finally Third Negative.

Percy writes:No, what I said was that creationists don't even agree on the basics, like the age of the Earth, and that is because they don't agree on any theory within whose framework they can interpret the evidence.

Mod writes:For clarity, position 3 is, "I am very uncertain, but I am inclined to believe".

Omni writes:Straggler: ......., Drinks.

ZD writes:Thanks for the vote of confidence, but if anyone was going to "stack the deck" consider a team with both Straggler and myself ... working together to tear down the opposition ... it would be a massacre.