A Tournament System on debate.org should be implemented.

Thank You for taking this debate, as you may have seen from the comment section, a tournament system will be implemented, but still, the debate continues, should this happen. May there be good arguments on both sides to hopefully makes this tournament idea a success. "i believe it cant work"--> The relevance of this argument seems to be lacking. It not being able to work is more of an argument on if it's a good idea, but even an idea that's not good can still be implemented. But besides that, it is a good idea and it can work. Sure it may take time and a few fixes but it will work, but I'll save that in rebuttal's. "On debate.org, people don't even have the chance to choose a side"--> This argument is simply not true. People do have the choice on whether to take a debate or not. You chose to take this side of a debate, besides that, if you wanted the side that I was on, you could of started a new debate. In this tournament, there may be one resolution with forced sides, but you still have the right to refuse debating that side. There is always a choice. "you don't even know if people out there have the time and the courage to do this."--> Off of this argument, I simply would like you to look in the comment section. There are all sorts of people eagerly awaiting this tournament system to start up. I've also seen other people talking about it in OTHER debates. The Chuck Norris profile pic guy supports it along with a person he debated. It is wide spread and the support could not be higher. In fact, you are the first person that I have heard that opposes the idea. "What incentive does debate.org has to read about more than hundred people's cases and make decisions at the end of the day?" Answer: I would suggest that debate.org should create a pool of unbiased judges willing to take a tournament off in order to judge a tournament. I, for one, wouldn't mind judging for a few tournaments. I've seen a few others that I would trust to judge also such as littlelacroix, karlynjane, yraelz (and the whole clan of "debate is my hobby" people), the debate webmaster, and clsmooth to name a few. With a pool of judges, it could be done really easily. Of course I would want to be in some of the tournaments, but eventually you may need to take your turn judging. "how are you going to allow the new debaters to join the tournament once it has started?" Answer: Certainly there are several new people joining this site, however, there will be more than one tournament. They may have to wait a while to be able to enter one, but eventually they will be able to enter (in the mean time, they may be able to get used to online debate)... Again, I would hope that we would be able to run at least one tournament per month. I would say that there would be debate "resolution" submitted for each month that will be debated on both sides by all debaters. The elimination process is up to debate.org itself but I would certainly hope for a final round in order to see the best in action. "i don't see how people would be able to debate in a tournament and to have a normal debate at the same time."--> They would have a choice to make on where to spend their time of course. "are people gonna have the same topic?" I think the same topic would be a good idea. Although, a good idea would be to hide each of the debate rounds from other people within the tournament. I personally wouldn't take arguments from other people because I like arguing my own argument ideas because they make more sense to me. But these debate rounds within the tournament don't have to be broadcasted live like they are in normal debates. Maybe after they are done, but then it would be too late as people would already of developed their own arguments anyway. "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?"--> I don't know exactly how debate.org is going to do it, but the webmaster said I was pretty close in hitting the nail on the head so my suggestions may be fairly close to what it is. But the amount of prelim rounds will probably have to be determined by the amount of people entered. After a while, when we got the feel for how this is going to run (as this is the first site to ever try this as far as I know) they will be able to set it more appropriately. "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." Again, this is the first time that this is being attempted as far as I know. It will not be the same as the live tournaments people are used to. But it still should be implemented. There will be some getting used to, but we all must move together. Lower in this paragraph you talked about people forfeiting rounds... I hope there will be less forfeiting, but it is still their responsibility to post in time. "secondly you said that Tournaments would make online debates more important and paid attention to... not necessarily my dear" Certainly I think that the final round debates will have more focus on them. It will separate some very talented debaters on this site that usually go overlooked by the normal person. I will definitely be reading all final rounds unless I am restricted to somehow. "You also assume that more people will join the debate...just not true" Although this sounds like an assumption, it is not. I wouldn't doubt it if I could get 10-20 people to join this site JUST for the tournaments. I wouldn't even be to surprised if I could get coaches from my circuit to join so they could get into some of their own debating in the off season. There might even be coaches reading this right now waiting to try their hand in a tournament. Once this tournament system is up and running, I am going to be telling everyone on facebook and at school about it that I can. "I believe we should keep to the status quo and people can debate anytime they wish to." Unlike Barak Obama, I want change, but I'm not afraid to say how. Change is often times a good thing, we can't be afraid of it, and we can't be afraid to tell others how we want it, this is the change that I want it and this tournament system should be implemented. Vote Pro if you want but this debate was more of a discussion. Thanks for this round. Final suggestion- In every event, there is always the "big event"... why not for online debate. I would say that once a year, there would be a huge tournament to last maybe a little longer to determine the champion of that specific year. It would be cool anyway. Thank You!