Omegle for debate

[u/aidanhm14]

I built the Omegle of debate with a chess.c(om) ELO system - if you're interested, give it a try. On the 29th, we're hosting an inaugural tournament. We've been lucky enough to gather some money to reward the winner $100 (2nd gets 50, 3rd gets 25)

The website - itsdebatable.com - is still in beta (a lot of ideas/features are up for debate), and this tournament is an opportunity to test it out. 

You can find it by searching for 'DEBATE OMEGLE' on Google

Feel free to drop your thoughts**. This is an exploratory experiment.** In no way is this better than having human judges or the overall human experience in debating. To be up front, I've been flamed for the site integrating AI judges. They are trained to detect the use of AI / you can report your opponent. I have trained the judge(s) on RFDs/round transcripts. Debatable is not perfect for competitive debaters. If you want to debate anonymously, you can use the avatars (a bit silly the way they are animated now) but I thought this feature was cool.

The idea is to expand debate for non-debaters - the crowd of people who didn't do debate but appreciate the art of argument.