PVG Challenges Your Best To A War Of Words!

Ravishing Rick Rude · 07-23-2002, 11:04 PM

Hey Guys,

Ok, Xantar and I have thought of the idea to make all of our members think, and what better way to make someone think? A Debate!

Simply Put There Will Be 2, 5 Member Teams, 5 that best represent Purevideogames.com, and 5 that represent gametavern.net

the PVG team has already been selected, it consists of:

Myself
Xantar ( of both GT and PVG)
Nitorious_1 ( Admin of PVG)
Jesterspawn ( Mod Of PVG)
and Indigo Montoya ( Mod Of PVG)

Now, Further Down This Announcment are the rules, when you want to submit your 5 man team, give Me a PM and i will add you.

Deadline is July 27th 2002, The Debate Starts On The 29th, and Ends On The 31st.

The procedure for the debate is as follows:

After Marc ( The Ibrox Fox) posts the question, the teams will have one day to prepare an opening
statement no longer than a paragraph. This opening statement will lay out in
general terms the team's position on the matter and their reasons for taking
that position. Teams are not allowed to address each other in their opening
statements or address each other's positions. To help this along, the opening
statements will not be posted by the teams but send as a private message to Marc who will post them all at once when he receives them all.

After the opening statements are posted, the teams may begin debating. This
consists of making posts as normal. The group of 5 must alternate
making posts. In other words, if a member makes a post, he cannot make another
one until his team-mate makes a post. Team-Mates are encouraged to communicate with
each other, and a member is allowed to address points directed at one of his team-mates

To keep the debate within reasonable limits (we all have lives, after all),
there will be a character limit on posts (30,000)

All the normal forum rules are in effect for this debate (i.e. no flaming,
post-cramming, advertising etc.).

Because some debates are very substantial and others are not so much so, the end
of the debate will be called by the moderator. Judges will then make their
decision as to which team performed best in the debate.

Judges will ignore the actual position taken by the team and concentrate solely
on how well it is argued in making their decision. A team that takes an
unorthodox position and successfully defends it will therefore be well rewarded.
The panel of judges will each vote for who they think had the best argument and
the teams will be awarded one point per vote that they receive

Thank You

* NOTE* One Member Cannot Be Selected Twice, Even if registered to both forums

Mushlafa · 07-23-2002, 11:10 PM

Wont the judges be a bit biased towards the forum that they use more? and how come you guys get Xantar

sounds like a good idea tho.. but i wont participate. Im bad at getting my point across and im not good at argueing so.. yeah

Joeiss · 07-23-2002, 11:41 PM

I would participate, but I was too lazy to read your long explanation. So unless you shorten that up, count me out.

Mushlafa · 07-24-2002, 12:13 AM

Its a debate... and they pick 5 people from each forum... and theres judges and stuff... and they get xantar

BreakABone · 07-24-2002, 12:14 AM

This sounds like an interesting concept thus far it sounds like it's gonna be an mental manslaught but eh that's just my 2 cents.

Now, I wonder who from GT will step up to the plate. Who will be the first to take a stand and lead their team to victory?

*Penguin stands up*

I got to use the bathroom.WHAT?

GameKinG · 07-24-2002, 01:12 AM

PE should. Hes a lot smarter then he seems.

I dont think he will want to though...*heads over to recruit AGB members*

So...any specific topic areas?

We should have DH, TheGame, Zen (he post...sometimes), PE, and Neo...

Now...how am I going to knock out Zen...

Angrist · 07-24-2002, 02:27 AM

Count me out.

I would have liked to join (I like argueing) but I'm on vacation at that time!

Try and get Ric, if he has internet again.

Jonbo298 · 07-24-2002, 12:04 PM

*Read Rules. Passes out trying to comprehend them* I would do it but it all sounds complicating to me

. meh

Jason1 · 07-24-2002, 12:07 PM

nahhh...Im not very good at that kind of thing...I think Quiet Mike should be on the team though, definately.

Bond · 07-24-2002, 01:12 PM

Justin and gekko would be good choices, since they have different views, but are able to express both of them very well. Even though some of them are wrong.

Ravishing Rick Rude · 07-24-2002, 01:40 PM

well if you know how to get to pVG ( Address is in my sig) we are now called the Gamesquad Network ( Only because we own the network :P)

and just go through some of the topics in our forum, and see what we are like

Perfect Stu · 07-24-2002, 04:56 PM

what about sdtpikachu?

BreakABone · 07-24-2002, 06:42 PM

I see that no one has decided to join this little party as of yet.

What is keeping everyone from doing it?

Are you folks scared or something?

Shadow_Link · 07-24-2002, 07:24 PM

I'm game. Oh, I suggest Pika joins too

, he'll be our weapon against Xanny

.

GameKinG · 07-24-2002, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BreakABone
I see that no one has decided to join this little party as of yet.

What is keeping everyone from doing it?

Are you folks scared or something?

I dont think Im very fitted for debate seeing as I failed debate class.