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Debate rooms with a judge built in.

Book a round in any format, seat students, AI sparring partners, or both, and debate it live in a room that runs the real rules. The judge hears every word and hands back a ballot with the quote behind every number, minutes after the gavel.

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WSDC · PF · LD · BP · CNDF · H2H · every format, real rules

01 · The room

The room runs the round.

Nobody chairs, nobody side-times, nobody argues about whose minute it was. The room conducts the round, and it conducts it the same way every time.

FormatsThe format runs itselfSpeech order, clocks, protected minutes, prep time, crossfires: conducted by the room, enforced for everyone.
POIPoints of information, for realRise on a point, offer it, take it or wave it off. Refusals and expiries surface in the room and on the ballot.
AI seatsAI opponents on demandAn empty seat is filled by an AI debater, so a student always has a sparring partner: full rounds or 1v1 drills.
AudioEvery voice on its own trackEach speaker is captured separately. The judge always knows who said what.

02 · The ballot

Every score has a receipt.

A real ballot from a circuit round: every number anchored to the exact words spoken.

Head-to-Head · judged Open the round it came from →

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PropositionWinner

30/ 40

Opposition

25/ 40

The decisive clash

Proposition built a cleaner two-pillar case (economic growth, human rights) and used its rebuttal to directly reframe and re-win the Singapore and security clashes, while Opposition's constructive case was structurally sound but its own POI answers conceded ground on its central security claim ('Evidence shows that crime is often lower in migrant communities' [u54]), and its rebuttal, while substantive, was fighting from a weakened position.

The quote behind the number
“it impossible to track individuals entering a country. It removes vital checkpoints that protect sovereign states from criminal and terrorist”

Opposition · claim

Read the full ballot →Speaker-by-speaker scores, findings, and evidence inside.

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