When Mastery Starts a Debate, It is Hard to WIn

My argument:Winning one debate is never harder than winning another. Especially on this site with its voting system. Debates are won by a majority vote. http://www.debate.org...This means that it is not necessary to convince a professional jury. It would actually suffice to have a bunch of friends whom you point to the debate and who will then vote for you.It is highly important to find people willing to vote, which is why a forum thread exists for this here: http://www.debate.org...And while voters SHOULD not vote based on their sympathies, it would still be sufficient for an easy win if they did. So, winning is easy, even if not morally sound.This means it is always equally easy to win a debate on this site, regardless of your or your opponent's skill. The difficulty in winning reduces with the number of loyal friends you have. In the particular case of Mastery, if I follow your own link, I see that there have not been a lot of votes on his debates. So winning against him should be fairly easy, as opposed to winning against someone like Mikal ( http://www.debate.org... ) who has up to 35 people voting on his debates ( http://www.debate.org... ). In that case, you would need a high number of friends voting in your favour.Logically, it is never hard to win a debate. Simply connect generally accepted facts to a chain of proof and find a contradiction in your opponent's chain. Just stay true to the closest approximation of truth possible, and you "win" by simply delivering the best argument.Rebuttal:In your initial resolution, you wanted to debate only a particular set of debates that Mastery started:"when Mastery starts a debate, it is hard to win, because although con gets to "choose the topics", Mastery himself narrows it down".So we are discussing his "Opponent picks topics"-series he has begun as of late.When I asked you to state your case, however, you EXPANDED this to include all debates he started. I will not accept these additional cases, especially since they do NOT contain any "crazy rules": http://www.debate.org...As for these debates:At this very moment, Mastery is LEADING in only ONE of these debates: http://www.debate.org...In this debate, his opponent forfeited. This means this debate is NOT evidence that it is hard to beat Mastery, as it was only easy to lose to him, by simply not responding.In the other cases, Mastery has fallen behind since your last post. This was easy to achieve: I voted him down, and justly so (see below). So, it was quite easy for his opponents to be on the road to victory: All it needed was my vote. As you can see, Mastery has won only 9 of his 20 debates.Of the ELEVEN debates where his opponent chose the topic, he has so far won only ONE, which is still in the voting period like six others, the rest still being in the debating period or the challenge period.He WAS leading in three more of these discussions before I voted, but he was in ALL cases only in the lead because his opponents forfeited. This means he might still have been easily beaten in a finished debate. So your evidence is not conclusive.As for his debating skills: I voted against Mastery, because his "crazy rules" - as you put it - contained a clear mistake, making it actually impossible for him to win, had the other voters read his rules:"3rd round-Pro Argument & Rebuttal.Provide your arguments and rebuttal in this round. Again, please cite research provide evidence for arguments.3rd round-Con Argument & Rebuttal.Provide your arguments and rebuttal in this round. Again, please cite research provide evidence for arguments.""YOUR arguments" is his OPPONENT, not MASTERY, as he refers to himself as "I" in the same post.He has forbidden himself from providing arguments beyond round 2, yet he kept posting, thus breaking his rules, resulting in a clear 7-point-loss as he himself demanded.Mastery has confronted me about this. I was able to point him to this contradiction, and he conceded: "I'll be fixing that in the next version."He has thus admitted that it was a mistake on his part, or else it wouldn't need "fixing".I have thus beaten Mastery in a debate, causing him to admit defeat in four debates. I didn't break a sweat.Hence, it is proved beyond reasonable doubt that winning against Mastery is fairly easy.As for your appeal to probability: that is a classical fallacy.Mastery is so far winning only ONE of his debates where his opponent picks the topic, he's losing 8 and tied in 3 of 20 debates, marking him as an average debater at best, and he has conceded a critical mistake in ALL of his previous "Opponent picks topic"-debates, which means he's actually lost all of those.And I wasn't even officially debating him.So, it is evident that winning against Mastery is not a hard thing to do.