unfair advantage in debateing

And giving me quite a challenge. Apology: I apologize for using personal examples. I did not realize it was wrong. I will stop using them. Rebuttal: 1)Instigator is more likely to forfeit: It is unclear the prevalence of forfeitures and therefore as my opponent says it is up to the voter. I will point out that what needs to be taken into account is the size of the gap between contender wins to that of instigator: 65.4%:34.6%. Can that be attributed to forfeitures alone? 2)Contenders are more experienced: A strong point negating my statistics. It does over lap the previous point somewhat as more experienced debaters are less likely to forfeit compared to. Never the less it is a strong blow to my statistical evidence. I can only point out again the largeness of the gap to be filled. And that as I pointed out it is also reasonable logical that there would be a last word advantage for 3 reasons: 1) psychologically: These are the last words that the reader read and they are freshest in his mind. 2) Instigator cannot respond to inaccuracies made by contender in last round. 3) The contender had a chance to respond to all statements made by his opponent while the instigator has not. It is therefore probable that the last word effect is at least partially responsible for the large gap. 3) Contender knows what he is up against: This is another reason for the statistics. Ditto to the above. Regarding my cases I will drop them as they seem to have been somewhat improper to include personal debates. I apologize profusely for including them. summary: I made a resolution that contender is at a disadvantage bec. The contender has the last word. I used a 2 prong approach: 1)reason. 2)statistics. 1)Reason: a) Psychologically: These are the last words that the reader read and they are freshest in his mind. b) Instigator cannot respond to inaccuracies made by contender in last round. c) The contender had a chance to respond to all statements made by his opponent while the instigator has not. It is therefore probable that the last word effect is at least partially responsible for the large gap. 2) Statistics: contender wins much more often than instigator: 65.4 to 34.6. With regard to my the statistics Ore_Ele pretty much disenabled them from being used on their own but combined with my reasoning it is logical assume that the last word factor is contributing to that large gap. With regard to my reasoning my opponent touched on it in round 2 I responded in round 3. And he seems to have dropped it in round 3. I have tried to ask him about this in the message box but have not yet gotten a response. In case it is not considered dropped I will point out that it alone does not negate my reasons as it is not a total response as my opponent himself wrote in his argument in R3 the word "most" indicating not always. To repeat those 3 reasons which are now the corner stone of my debate are as follows: 1) Psychologically: These are the last words that the reader read and they are freshest in his mind. 2) Instigator cannot respond to inaccuracies made by contender in last round. 3) The contender had a chance to respond to all statements made by his opponent while the instigator has not.