Immortal Platypus

Unpopular opinion…when they’ve told you that’s how they’re judging you, I think that’s a great idea. I think that brilliant content is worthless when presented incompetently (not saying you’re incompetent, just using both extremes). Effective communication is both crucial and undervalued, which is rather ironic.

May you do better next year o7

that's not an unpopular opinion, as far as I'm aware. It's just not how I personally think most debates should be judged. in this case, it's the whole point of the tournament, so it makes sense. in most cases, I think content is far more important that presentation. Presentation plays a major role, because if your judge can't understand you, you don't win, but it shouldn't be what most things are primarily judged on.

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no, that's not newbie judges. That's how it's supposed to be judged. it's the Reagan Great Communicator Debate Series. I think it's a fine thing, it's just not how I debate and I'm not good at it. there is some judging on content, but it's more about how you present your content than the content itself

Oh- I know you weren't talking about newbie judges; I was just going off on a little side tangent there 

Ohhh I see

Well huh

*hug*

I'm sorry you didn't do too well