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The FINAL.

Date: Sunday 22nd July 2012 (Tomorrow)

Time: 8pm Nigeria Time

Topic of Debate Remains-

God-fatherism in Nigeria Politics: The main cause of corruption and developmental crises (Case study include Tinubu, Obasanjo, Tony Anenih and Babaginda). Discuss


And it will be:

Newcca Vs Shymmex

and

Coogar Vs Breexy047


@ the contestants:

Please study your opponent's argument and prepare your rebuttals and as many question as possible for your opponents.

You all will have 45 mins from the start of presentation of your rebuttals to go at each other.


@ Judges:

Thanks very much for your time and patience. A modified template will be sent:

Individual participant will be judge on the following:

Content = 4pts
Delivery = 4pts
Logical Argument = 4pts
Factual Backup = 4pts
Persuasiveness = 4pts

Total possible points for each participant will now be 20pts from a particular judge.


@ALL

Get ready people, the FINAL will be much fun please keep a date with us.

A new thread will be opened for the final and we will post the link on this thread and on the 1st thread



NB

Please of any of the participants/judges have a problem with the timing, please let us know on time.

coogar: still wondering how a judge scored me 5!!! 5? is the judge greek or cantonese?
breezy is 4th not 5th!

Dont worry audience poll will be part of the final score

You are right breezy is 4th

jackbauersballs: I personally would like to know what grounds each judge based thier scores on...
I see cheddarking has 3likes on his post, some of the other posters have only 1, yet he comes in last?

Also, chucky's scores are 6 7 6 7 7 total 33
Cheddarkings scores are 7 7 8 7.7 7 total 35.7

so how is he sixth?

I personally thought cheddarking should be 1st sha...but there you go...

The judges judged individual on the following:

Content
Delivery
Logical Argument
Factual Backup
Persuasiveness

Audience likeness does not count, we hope to have a poll for the audience to participate in the final.

You are partly right with the total's computation

the standings should be:



Debaters---------------Total

Breezy047- 7 8 6 8 7 = 36 4th
Newacca- 8 9 7 7 7 = 38 1st
Chucky234 6 7 6 7 7 = 33 6th
Coogar 8 8 5 8.6 7 = 36.6 3rd
Shymmex 8 7 7 7.8 7 = 36.8 2nd
Cheddarking 6 7 8 7.7 7 = 35.7 5th

afam4eva: This is wrong. The first and second cannot battle it out i the semis.

We took also into consideration, those arguing for and against.

coogar: can the judges kindly explain what they graded? seeing 5 - 8 - 6 is a tad confusing.
oam4j, over to you!

5 judges pressent scores for each participant and the whole scores were added together to get the total scores

so what you have is

Participant name: Judge1 score, Judge2 score, Judge3 score judge4 score judge5 score TOTAL and position.

Cuddlemii: SCORES
Debaters-----------------Total
Breezy047- 7 8 6 8 7= 36 4th
Newacca- 8 9 7 7 7= 38 1st
Chucky234 6 7 6 7 7= 33 5th
Coogar 8 8 5 8.6 7= 36.6 3rd
Shymmex 8 7 7 7.8 7= 36.8 2nd
Cheddarking6 7 8 7.7 7= 28.7 6th

With this result, the final shall be between these four:

Newacca, Shymmex, Coogar and Breezy047

Get ready people, the FINAL will be much fun, the last four will be paired and they will have a go at each other.


For the Final, it will be:

Newcca Vs Shymmex

and

Coogar Vs Breexy047


Contestants please study each others arguments and prepare your rebuttals and questions for your opponents.

You all will have 45 mins from the start of presentation of your rebuttals to go at each other.


@ALL
Watch this thread, and keep a date with us.

Judges I propose we postpone this, yes or no?


To sagamite:

Those questions are not suppose to be asked now if you have gone through the same explanation made available to others. You singlehandedly mess this up. Am dissapointed.

Sagamite all these things were well explained before now na

Judge OAM4J on the ground.

Ready for the big clash!

coogar and others shld not worry, its not min of 1000 words, but 1000 is a limit we don't want epistles. also we will strive to give nough time to all, more if need be.

for those interested in being a part as dbater get. ready, we might admit more debaters by 6pm if some of those already listed should get scared of sagamite and coogar boast and fail to turn up.

am on d road now, will soon be home to settle down with u all.

its gonna be fun!

Roland17: Having carefully read through the guidelines and procedure for the debate, i must say am very impressed with cuddlemii and everyone involved in the planning of this debate, but i need some clarifications with regards to Round 1 of the debates..

(1) Would there be a sequence for submiting papers? or would participating debaters submit their arguments all at once, if the latter is the case, am worried there would be too much information on display at once for judges..

(2) Lastly, if participating debaters are allowed to pick opponents for rebuttals it might end up lobsided as some debaters might pick interest in a particular opposing argument, i would suggest the plannning crew pitch contestants against each other based on the side of coin they support, thus they are aware of their opponents and do not have to scramble for one opposing argument.

Good Job guys..

Looking forward to 2moro.

1. They will all submit at the same time withing a frame of time. The Judges will be given enough time to read through.

2. We thought same, so we resolved that we will do the pairing when the time comes.

Thanks.

Thank you all for your patience. Here is the structure for option 2:

Debate Structure:

There will be 3 rounds and the whole process should last 2 hrs and maximum of 3 hrs

We propose that the debate should start by 6pm Nigeria time

Depending on the final number of participants that show up:

First round will include 14 participants
Second Round will include 8 participants
Third/Final Round will include 4 participants


Round 1

Exactly 6pm the debate thread will be opened, we will supply the link on this thread.

We expect each participant to have composed his arguments before 6pm, so all the participants are to post their arguments between 6.00pm and 6.10pm

Between 6:10 and 6:25pm, all participants are to pick at least 1 opposing participant and oppose/rebut his arguments.

*The chairman will signal the beginning of each stage
*No member of the audience will be allowed to post between 6pm and 6:25pm
*Any post from the audience will be hid at this time

From 6:25 – 6:40 Audience are now allowed to post and can comment on the arguments of the participants, while the judges scores each participant

Each of the judges will mail his/her scores of all the participants to the chairman who will collate the scores and post the final scores on the thread latest by 6: 45

Only the Top 8 candidates will proceed to the next round


Round 2

Round 2 will start by 6:50

Between 6:50 and 7:10 the top 8 candidates will at this time defend/react to as many rebuttals as possible from the previous round

Again
*The chairman will signal the beginning of each stage
*No member of the audience will be allowed to post between 6:50 and 7:10pm
*Any post from the audience will be hid at this time

From 7:10 – 7:20 Audience are again allowed to post and comment on the arguments of the participants, while the judges scores each participant again and the chairman will again collate all the scores and post the final score on the thread latest by 7: 25

The top four candidates will proceed to the final round

The final 4 contestants will be paired even if they are arguing on the same side


Final Round

Final round starts by 7:30

From 7:30 – 7:40, any of the judges can post questions for any of the participants; also each opposing pair will post questions for his opposing pair

7:40 – 8.00: The final four are to respond to all the questions asked and freely exchange banter with each other and with any other participants in the final four (This is the climax, and we may give more time if need be)


And Again
*The chairman will signal the beginning of each stage
*No member of the audience will be allowed to post between 7:30 – 8:00pm
*Any post from the audience will be hid at this time

From 8:00 Audience are again allowed to post and be part of the polls that will be set up for the final 4 participants, while the judges also send in their final scores for all the participants.

The chairman will collate the final scores from the judges and post, also at the end of the 20min poll, the % for each candidate on the poll will be divided into 2 and added to the judges’ scores to determine the final positions of the top 4 participants


Judging:
There will be 5 judges
Each judge can score a participant maximum of 10points at each round
Each participant can score a maximum of 50points in the 1st and 2nd round and 100points in the final round (maximum of 50 points from the judges and maximum of 50 points from the audience poll)


Words Limit:
Maximum of 1000 words for each participant post at any time.


Good luck to all participants, you can start preparing now.