Rap battles on DDO should be freestyled on the spot

Con only quoted half of what I said. I said "Freestyling on the spot demonstrates that you can creatively rap about a diversity of things within seconds and use it to defeat your opponent." What i mean is that freestyling allows for you to rap about many subjects vs. simply one (1). I'll quote Wiki: "There are two types of freestyle. There’s an old-school freestyle that’s basically rhymes that you’ve just thought of on the spot that may not have anything to do with any subject or that goes all over the place. Then there’s freestyle where you come off the top of the head"Anecdotal is used only in the context of empirical evidence, not in this debate where we speak strictly on music tastes. Inductively, you could conclude that i freestyled. but the point is not to prove that i freestyled, the point is to show why you should freestyle. Con says that people draw inspiration from different things, but never proves that people should not freestyle. Con's assertion that it cannot be known that i freestyled is just as baseless and irrelevant as saying that other DDO users took the time to create their lyrics. I was trying to prove that freestyled raps are "better" than raps conducted over a period of time. Freestyling allows you to use your surroundings to create lyrics from. It also increases your ability to write lyrics faster. Freestyling forces you to adjust your voice to the rhythm in your mind or to the beat, improving flow and creativity (2) if you are on cam. If you simply want to stick to writing then i suppose freestyling could technically be considered a form of free-writing. Free-writing has several benefits such as opening up to new ideas, being more creative, get past writer's block, coming up with originality, forces you to open up to new topics, etc. (3). One way to know if someone is not freestyling is if there's no lyrics is if they have lyrics already written down, thus making it predictable. If their eyes are constantly focused on the cam as if they're reading off of something then they're probably not freestyling. If they're in a dark room and you see them staring at their monitor light then they're probably reading off of lyrics. Finally, there should be a difference between freestyling and regular writing. The two should not be equally as good. If you compare alleged freestyles with their regular lyrics and find the two are equally as good then it's probably not a real freestyle. Freestyle rappers should also be able to point out things in their environment quickly (4). Finally, Con could argue that it still wouldn't prove that rappers freestyled as they could memorize their lyrics on cam but how likely is it for them to be able to come up with creative lyrics for say 5 rounds, memorize them, and peform in a 5 minute battle? If someone does it beforehand, either way, they are still more likely to lose the battle as their raps are static. For example, in my "Atheist/agnostic rap battle" i made a rap rebuttal on my opponent's insult towards Christian living ("Huts of deer skin? In the near East, clay houses were innovated! Why did I do that? To show this fool is ignorant and uneducated!). If that were to happen then i could just diss them on how their garbage raps never improve, brag about how i can beat them with few words or time, how it's like i'm interacting with a brick wall, etc. The point is that with freestyling, there's more fluidity and creativity which can be expressed while if someone prepared it all before the battle, there probably isn't. There's also interactions in rap battles (I diss your face and you respond back to it). If the person doesn't do it, they probably aren't freestyling. Considering all these variables, it's highly unlikely for someone to rap and not get caught "cheating" when it comes to freestyling. Con assumes that by doing 15 minute battles that they will forfeit but he presented no evidence. I never said that freestyle battles had to be 15 minutes, they can be set to 2 days to accommodate people's schedules, but at the moment of rapping, they should freestyle on the spot. I did not concede. I refuted Con's statement that battles "would clog the site would low-quality debates and detract from a number of exceptional members have brought to the site via intellectual debate and discussion." Con's argument before was " you would likely need time to conduct research which significantly enhanced and provides a new dimension to the battle which would be virtually impossible if you were merely freestyling" but now he says that i can't prove that rap would be better if both debaters researched. "He discusses warm-ups and suggests that people freestyle on paper before battling. This is all fine and good except you can't "practice on paper" if you're freestyling with five to ten minute rounds, so once again, Pro refutes his own points."Con fails to quote the rest of what i said. I will repeat myself: "On the contrary, encouraging freestyle would help newer rappers practice. I never said that they had to freestyle during a rap battle. Like any practice, "warm ups" are essential. Wikihow recommends that you freestyle on paper before battling."Con also makes the assumption that newer members would be intimidated by freestyling, which members? Has he interviewed a newer rapper in order to verify his claims? Con did not cite any sources to back them up. "Pro then concedes again the there is a necessary trade-off between time and quality, and concedes that this may result in including filler words" It's only because you presented a biased scenario in which you have no choice but to use filler words. This is also under the assumption that the person freestyling will create a bad freestyle in the time available which has no basis, so I did not concede. "The homepage emphasizes intelligent banter and research, both of which require time and effort." Con ignores what i said about implementing what you already know based on research freestyling during a rap battle. "The site moderators work tirelessly to delete troll debates. " No they don't, Airmax (moderator) himself has participated in a rap battle with me long ago (5). This refutes the implication Con has that rap battles are troll debates which should be deleted. "The study also said that freestyling decreases activity in parts of the brain that "control and suppress," which suggests that people will be rasher and say dumber things they may regret later whilst rapping " Con doesn't quote the article which leads him to believe that "people will be rasher and say dumber things they may regret later whilst rapping" therefore he has no evidence that's what the study concludes. Conclusion: I have presented evidence for why freestyling should be encouraged in the DDO community during rap battles. Sources: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org...2. http://lordlav.com...3. http://www.lewisempire.com...4. http://www.venturearticles.com...5. http://www.debate.org...