A Tournament System on debate.org should be implemented.

My name is sano and i oppose your idea of having a tournament on debate.org because i believe it cant work and i am gonna give you my reasons. Lets first analyse your suggestions. you said that debate.org gonna set up the tournament and then you gonna have a close voting system. On debate.org, people dont even have the chance to choose a side, like in this one, i was forced to oppose you and i dont know how debate.org gonna solve that problem in the first place. secondly, you dont even know if people out there have the time and the courage to do this. You are talking about hundred of people signing up for a tournament and i dont even see how efficient will this be. What incentive does debate.org has to read about more than hundred people's cases and make decisions at the end of the day? My second question is, how are you going to allow the new debaters to join the tournament once it has started? because i believe we have new people signing in almost everyday. If no, what would those people be doing then because they wouldnt want to read about people's debate if they had no vote to make. And even if normal debate gonna go on as you said, i dont see how people would be able to debate in a tournament and to have a normal debate at the same time. My third question is, are people gonna have the same topic? if yes, then people can just copy arguments from each other because they will be posted on the web. I dont see how that is going to help. If people are able to make many profiles so that they can vote for themselves as you said, i dont see why they wouldnt be cheating then by taking arguments from others. So as a matter of fact, your suggestions can not work. now lets look at your arguments. Another problem with your case is that there is no clear mechanism on how debate.org is gonna do this. you use word like there is gonna be some sort of prelim, how many rounds? we dont know. 1- First of all you said that Tournaments are the ultimate form of competition but i believe that tournament can only be efficient if all the participants are in the same place, have the same motions, debate at the same time, judged by different adjudicators at the same time. That is just impossible here my dear. I am in Thailand for instance and i dont even make it to debate.org all the time. I might come once or twice a week and it will not be fair to forfeit my debate if i dont make it on time. 2. secondly you said that Tournaments would make online debates more important and paid attention to. You mean more people will be then reading topics on the site just because it is a tournament.. not necessarily my dear. How happen then when people are eliminated? what happen when people lose a debate? where should they go? who should they ask for justification? i believe people wanna know why they win or lose. This might even make people lost faith in debate.org and we dont want that i guess. 3. You also assume that more people will join the debate...just not true. I believe we should keep to the status quo and people can debate anytime they wish to. people can still learn if they want to. we can all debate with different peiople. we can even invite people to debate against us. the tournament model will not do much here because cheating is not prevented. people dont know who their judges are. people are not able to have dbeates at the same time and so on. Thanks man and have a nice day. Akim