Rules of the debate
- Text debate
- Individual debate
- 5 rounds
- 500 characters per round
- No reply speeches
- No cross-examination
- Community Judging Standard (notes)
- Forfeiting rounds means forfeiting the debate
- No images
- No HTML formatting
- Rated debate
- Time to post: 1 hour
- Time to vote: 2 weeks
- Time to prepare: None
Your argument must be built by making valid points, listed and supported by reason. Unnecessarily complicating an argument is poor play.