About The Format

We will shape our event to your needs. If you have a specific issue you wish to address, or if you have your own moderator, well, that will work just fine.

BUT, We have our own format that we can use if you have no such moderator or specific needs. It is designed to keep the debate current, fast, and interesting. In short, we debate what you tell us to debate, with no advance warning or notice.

How it works

FIRST, as people come in, they are given cards on which to ask questions to the debaters. All these cards are placed into a bin

A VOLUNTEER from the audience is selected (or a moderator is preselected) to be the “Timer and Topic Picker”. He is given a stopwatch, the bin of suggestions, and one instruction: “Don’t let us go on for more than 7 minutes”.  The volunteer picks a card, reads it, and starts the stopwatch.

THE DEBATERS debate the issue in a respectful but forceful manner until they reach an impasse or the volunteer announces that 7 minutes have passed. At that time, the next topic is chosen from the bin, read aloud, and the stopwatch is reset.

IN THE END, after an hour of constant debating, the two gentlemen summarize, shake hands, and smile.