Rational_Thinker9119 is possibly the smartest debater on DDO

R1) Debating Skills"I was only pointing out that Rational Thinker was extremely versatile, not only good in normal debates, but also good at troll debates."There are a number of debaters who do lots of great troll and serious debates, including, Imabench, xXCryptoXx, Mikal, and Jifpop09. Versatility is not a characteristic unique to RT."Although RT did ignore the fact that there was a 5 minute argument time limit, he could simply be unobservative. Unobservative does not automatically mean stupid."Again, I am not, in any way, trying to argue that RT is stupid. I'm just pointing out that he's been tricked before, so that lowers the chance of him being the smartest debater on DDO."Even in the (serious) debates he lost, he provides lots and lots of information about the topic he provided and supports his side with loads of argument, making him incredibly hard to lose against"Uh, so do pretty much ALL the debaters on this site... that's the whole point of debate...Examples of argument-loaded debates:J.Kenyon vs. Daniellehttp://www.debate.org...RoyLatham vs. Mikalhttp://www.debate.org...Having a variety of arguments is nothing special among good debaters.R2) Self-Refutations / Baseless Assertions by Pro..."High elo does not equal good debater--one great example is Mikal. He may have the highest elo in all of DDO, but even he submits to others..."I fail to see how this supports Pro's case... So he's saying RT's high elo does not necessarily mean he is a good debater?Or is he saying RT is a much better debater than his elo suggests? If Pro's opting for the latter, he's going to have to provide some very compelling evidence of that."And how many times do I have to stress this: being an amazing debater does NOT mean being super smart."Pro is refuting his own case again... he just finished talking about how good RT is at debating, and then goes on to assert that being good at debating does not imply having high intelligence. Unless, of course, Pro is implying that RT is much smarter than his debating skills suggest. Again, Pro will need to provide VERY compelling evidence for this; otherwise it is just a baseless assumption.R3) RT's Knowledge"It can be seen because of the amount of knowledge RT knows that he is very knowledgable, and thus, very smart. (which supports my statement that RT is possibly the smartest debater on DDO"Again, having lots of knowledge is not that unique among the site's top debaters. I already showed some examples of debates where other debaters were able to discuss much more complicated topics than RT does. Let's take a look at a few of RT's losses to illustrate the point that, while RT's knowledge is no doubt greater than that of most people, he almost certainly does NOT HAVE THE MOST ON THIS SITE.All 3 of these lost debates were against Sargon (who RT has never been able to beat).http://www.debate.org...In this debate, RT plagiarized his argument for an entire round, showing that either he didn't know the topic well enough to put it in his own words, or that he didn't have a good enough sense of judgement to avoid plagiarizing. http://www.debate.org...In this debate, Sargon actually convinced RT of his side so well, that RT conceded the debate!http://www.debate.org...In this debate, Sargon ONCE AGAIN convinced RT of his side so well, that RT conceded the debate!CONCLUSIONS:R1 - Pro's arguments concerning RT's debating skills are weak R2 - Pro is either a) refuting his own arguments concerning elo and debate skills, or b) making baseless assertions that RT is much smarter than the evidence suggests R3 - Pro's arguments attempting to show that RT has the greatest amount of knowledge on the site are easily debunked by the examples I provided.Back to you, Pro.