Makashi is the best of the seven forms of lightsaber combat as recognised by the jedi order.

Thanks to Pro for the debate.VaapadPro basically begins his final speech by saying that he failed to do his due diligence last round in terms of understanding the source material, resulting in him presenting arguments that were false and/or non-canonical. This admission, of course, seriously undermines everything Pro has said up until this point, because it is clear Pro was spitballing rather than making fact-based arguments.As for the claim that my source on Vaapad is non-canon, Pro misunderstands why Wookieepedia has two separate pages, which requires a bit of explanation on my part. When Disney bought the franchise, it stipulated that all material from the Extended Universe became non-canon, to make room for a new chronology based on the new movies that Disney would make. This meant that Wookieepedia, the online wiki, had to essentially re-write or re-classify it's entire database of articles. Much of this re-writing is still taking place (and is burdened by the fact that they are writing additional, new articles to keep pace with the new canon, including books, TV shows, and movies, that Disney is producing), and hasty substitutes were used to fill gaps until articles could be fleshed out. Much of the old canon is being re-canonized in order to please fans who had come to love certain aspects of the old canon and also to provide logical context for things occurring in the new canon. For example, Thrawn, who had been removed from the canon, was subsequently brought back by Disney. The constant, in-flux nature of the canon makes it difficult to discern what, before Disney purchased LucasFilm, has remained canon, so it's a bit misleading for Pro to make the kind of absolutist claims he does. Certainly, the grey area here is expansive.Pro claims that the Vaapad article I cited is "almost entirely non canon." This is false. Since much of the material included in the article is not from the Extended Universe, the information remains canon even though it has not be transferred yet to the canon wiki. For example, the claim that Vaapad can redirect energy, including and particularly Force Lightning, comes from the movies and the still-canon book versions of those movies [3]. Had Pro made this argument earlier, I could have clarified this earlier. Instead, Pro chose to make a new argument (generally not allowed in debates) in his final speech, leaving me this one opportunity to clarify the issue.Ultimately though, there are three reasons to reject Pro's argument here: (1) it was new in his last speech, (2) Pro's assertion does not apply to all of the information I used in my case, and (3) Pro already conceded (in round 3), that Vaapad was faster than Makashi and that Makashi was falling into obsolescence. Whether or not these concede points are canon is irrelevant insofar as Pro's concessions make them true in the context of this debate. Pro's discourse on the force is interesting, but it's not clear what impact it has on the round. How does any of what Pro said in that paragraph support why Makashi or Vaapad is a better or worse form of lightsaber combat? Pro never makes the answer to this question clear, so everything he said there can be disregarded for this purposes of adjudicating this debate.MakashiPro makes the following statement: "if you watched the battle between Sidious and Mace Windu you'll note that Windu's strikes aren't very fast at all, instead his speed seemed to mostly match Sidious' movement speed." The reason for this is cinematographic. It was not possible to speed up the movements of these actors while still keeping intact the ability of the audience to follow the action of the duel. In other words, the action sequence was deliberately kept at a viewable pace in order so that, well...it could be viewed. Pro must make allowances in the movies for the realities of filming a movie for popular release, while working with real-life, non-animated actors.In the novel, which remains canon, it was noted that indeed Windu was moving at speeds which made it virtually impossible to watch with the naked eye: "While observing the duel between Darth Sidious and Mace Windu, Anakin Skywalker considered Windu's Vaapad bladework to be 'an oblate sphere of purple fire' which contained dozens of blades attacking from every angle." [3] So yes, there is definitely canonical evidence of the speed and ferocity of Vaapad's attacks.My opponent's claim that he himself is evidence is entirely absurd and unfair, because there's no way for anyone to verify these claims before the debate concludes, and my opponent, however good he might be at sword-fighting, is not a canon star wars text, he is a person who is trying to win a debate, and so clearly has a bias in the information he is presenting. My opponent makes a TON of claims which require him to cite sources, but he never actually does cite any sources.Pro writes: "Dooku was not defeated because of the 'forceful, staccato strokes'...Dooku was defeated because Anakin and Obi-Wan started the fight taking basic combat stances and then changing forms to...Djem So and Soresu...not to mention there were two Jedi there versus the lone sith." There are several problems with Pro's analysis here. First, djem so, which Pro claims was used by the Jedi, is primarily a form to defend against blaster bolts. [8] This form was never applied against Dooku himself in that combat sequence. The use of Soresu, an exclusively defensive form designed to outlast and opponet, is also dubious, since both Obi Wan and Anakin would have been motivated to quickly rescue the Chancellor and escape, before reinforcements could arrive to stop their egress [9]. Moreover, both Obi Wan and Anakin clearly were trying to engage offensively with Dooku during their bought. In other words, there is no evidence that Obi Wan and Anakin were changing forms at all. [7] Second, Dooku had already eliminated Obi Wan from the battle when Anakin defeated him using the forceful, stacco strokes I identified (these kinds of strokes are the hallmarks of Vaapad and Juyo). So, Dooku was effectively eliminated in one-on-one combat, since Obi Wan was out of the fight when Anakin and Dooku went head-to-head.DropsPro dropped a ton of arguments in this debate. Pro never responds to the three reasons I gave (in round 2) for why Windu never fell to the dark side. Pro repeats his original claim that Windu fell in round 3, but he never does anything to respond to these specific and compelling objections to that original claim.Pro dropped that it doesn't matter whether or not Windu fell to the dark side, because that has no bearing on whether or not Vaapad is an effective form of lightsaber combat (at most, it is relevant to whether a Jedi should use it, but that is a separate question altogether).Pro dropped that Makashi is "not the kind of movement designed to create high levels of kinetic force" and that Makashi struggles to work against blasters.SummaryUltimately, makashi is a one-trick pony. Pro loves it because it has helped him win his Ludosport duels, which is great. But in a Star Wars universe where more people use blasters than lightsabers, Makashi is woefully inadequate. Insofar as Windu was able to defeat Sidious in combat, Vaapad is clearly also effective in lightsaber combat, but without the same disadvantages as regards blasters. Makashi lacks the speed and ferocity of Vaapad, and, unlike Vaapad, cannot redirect Force Lightning. Therefore, Vaapad is a better form of lightsaber combat than Makashi. Finally, Pro's utter lack of sources and the new arguments in his final speech should be counted against him. Please Vote Con.Sources8 - http://starwars.wikia.com...9 - http://starwars.wikia.com...