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64-year-old veteran skateboarder Judi Oyama pushes the limits, defies expectations
Judi Oyama, 64, has been skateboarding since she was 13 years old. In her 50-year professional career, she has traveled the world competing, and she isn't slowing down anytime soon. The veteran skateboarder, who is encouraging more women to pick up a board, is headed to the World Skate Games in Rome this...
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1. Teams are made up of 3-4 people each following a formal Lincoln Douglass style debate.
2. The 3-4 people are on the same range of beliefs regarding an issue.
3. The three-four people get split into 3-4 roles, first constructive, cross examination, and rebuttal.
4. Each argument point gets 3 days to post an argument.
5. The teams actively discuss possible ideas for each argument and the head of the role collects the ideas with his ideas as well.
6. Voters will judge the team effect of the argument based on the 9 point system as well as a 3 point system comparing individual arguments between first constructive, C-E, or Rebuttal.
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My experience of other debating sites, suggests that you will never get enough impartial members to vote.
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You would need to put some sort of mechanism in place to ensure fair and unbiased voting.
Having a predetermined group of Judges in place is a good idea.
Maybe also a pop up message that appears when logging on, asking members to view and vote on completed debates.
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The unexamined thought is not worth thinking.
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"Americanism not Globalism, will be our credo." ~Donald Trump
"A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill
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