Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is with great pleasure that I officially announce to you the topics for the ILP v. ILO Debate as well as the date of the formal start of the Debate which will be January 5, 2009 at approximately 10:00p.m. EST. From that point, the first participant will have forty-eight (48) hours to post his/her teams thesis/introduction.
Before I get to the topics, however, I would like to very briefly reiterate the basic rules here. More detail on the rules already exists in other threads and will be available upon request.
1.) I would like to have it set up where only myself, the other two judges, and the debaters themselves (at their own respective websites) are the only ones who may post in the actual debate thread. I have already been assured this will not be a problem at ILP, but if an ILO moderator would PM me regarding the feasibility of this, I would be most appreciative.
2.) This is a 4-on-4 debate with each debater posting once per topic. If any debater posts more than once in the Official Debate Thread, that team forfeits that topic.
3.) There will be three total topics to be debated on. The winner is based on a two-out-of-three format. In the event that a team wins the first two debates, the third debate will still happen.
4.) The teams will decide on their order the debaters go in amongst themselves. Neither team is required to state who will go in what order ahead of time.
5.) Ad Hom=Forfeit.
6.) ILP posts first in the first debate, ILO posts first in the second debate, the winner of the first debate has the right to choose which team posts first in the third debate.
7.) A team may not post twice in a row, they must wait for the other team to post.
8.) I will not accept PM’s from Judges/Debaters from January 5, 2009 until the conclusion of this debate, you can send them, but they will not be opened.*
- The one exception to this rule is if someone needs to request a time extension for any reason, in which event, the headline of the PM should be, “Request for Time Extension.”
9.) The next topic will start nearly twenty-four hours after the previous topic has been concluded and judged.
ILO is bringing:
O.G.? Gift Please
SilentSoliloquy
SomeoneisAtTheDoor
Gamer (ILO Team Leader)
ILP is bringing:
Carleas
Smears
Tabula Rasa
Xunzian (ILP Team Leader)
Without further ado, I have randomly selected the order in which the topics will be debated on, and here are your topics.
Phaedrus’ Topic:
Consciousness: Does the Brain House the Mind or Does it Create it? (ILP first post)
I have decided that ILP will defend the former and argue that the Brain Houses the mind.
PavlovianModel146’s Topic:
Voting: Did Women and African-Americans Win the Right to Vote, or Was It Given to Them?
(ILO First Post)
KrisWest has decided that ILO will defend Women/African-Americans winning the right to vote.
KrisWest’s Topic:
Government: Which Government System Better Takes Care of its Poor, Socialism or Capitalism? (First Post Will be Chosen by Winner of First Topic)
Phaedrus has decided that ILP will argue in favor of Capitalism.
1/5/2009. Mark it on your calendars, ladies and gentlemen, that is when this debate will be kicked-off.