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Subject: Debate Tournament

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This has nothing to do w/ Halo 3, and will probably be locked ... .sorry, try the Bungie general forum...

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  • 12.09.2007 10:25 AM PDT

Would be really cool...but not exactly right for Bungie I don't think.

  • 12.09.2007 10:26 AM PDT
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It actually does have something to do with Halo 3 because the topics would be on Halo 3. But I do see your point.

  • 12.09.2007 10:27 AM PDT
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I just thought of a kewl idea. Have Bungie create an individual area in the forums section called "Debate Tournament". In this section we will each sign up and have our own debate rank. We will then each be paired up with one other individual and given a topic to debate on. The actual debate will only be allowed to have no more than 20 posts and then at the end someone will judge and see who wins. The more wins you get the more you rank up on your Debate profile. and then the further you rank up you are given prizes or awards ( don't know what they would be exactly but would deffinitely be related to Halo) Waht do you think?

  • 12.09.2007 10:24 AM PDT
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I can already tell you who will win. Sesquipadelian (or however he spells it). If you haven't seen his posts, then you're in for a rude awakening.

  • 12.09.2007 10:28 AM PDT

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they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"

I would like this idea; however, the those people who'd participate inappropriately would undermine the project.

  • 12.09.2007 10:45 AM PDT
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Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

I don't see how this could ever work. There would be far too many people participating to adequately judge individual debates. And who would judge? In many cases, it would become a popularity contest rather than a competition to see who had the better points. As far as ranking goes, when it comes to Halo, I've learned through long hard experience that whenever you have ranks, people will do whatever they can to cheat to get them. If there were a way to cheat at this in order to "rank up," they would find it and exploit it.

I think it's great that you thought of this -- intelligent debate is much better than the kind of discussion that normally takes place in the Halo 3 Forum. Frankly, I like debating topics here on these forums, and I'll happily jump into pretty much any contested subject as long as the discussion is mature and intelligent. I do not need any further incentive or a separate forum to "debate," and so I must respectfully disagree with your idea.

  • 12.09.2007 12:12 PM PDT

This is a great idea for a private group. The only problem would be visability, but you could always post the final debate threads in The Flood. I think a lot of people would be interested in this, and it would be very easy to keep mature discussions going (just blacklist people who seek to undermine the idea).

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  • 12.09.2007 1:42 PM PDT
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I thought that the Halo 3 Forum was the Debate Tournament forum.

  • 12.09.2007 1:45 PM PDT

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Forum Tutorials --- WATCH THEM AND LEARN

The internet isn't really a debating place, so much of a "NO I'M RIGHT YOU -blam!- DIP -blam!- GO -blam!- DIE WITH YOUR STUPID IDEAS AND OPINION I HATE YOU" place. It just doesn't work nicely.

  • 12.09.2007 1:51 PM PDT