mikhailnikolaievitch vs. british_tea_company

Ame's Judgement
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mikhailnikolaievitch vs. british_tea_company

Debate Breakdown: Accidentally deleted it as I was saving it, if either Mik or BTC want input on what arguments I thought were strong outside of these couple paragraphs, feel free to PM me.
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BTC started off strong, presenting his team's strength in a clear and concise manner, while detailing a core strategy on how they could/would win.  The core win conditions that he presented were the utilization of his teams esoteric and kinetic damage, plus their range advantage to either one shot (Super Skrull) or whittle down (DuraBelle and Paragon) his enemies team.  Mik rebutted, by setting up his own team and arguing how BTC presented his teams characterization was incorrect.

This argument about how BTC's team was characterized took up much of the debate, in the end I think BTC missed the core of Mik's argument.  Mik took the position that BTC's characters were too dumb/naive/good/untrained to open with the strategy of "go all out -> retreat -> repeat" that BTC had presented,  while BTC argued, largely successfully, that his team would kill/use underhanded tactics, he never really countered the argument they would open with the strategy he described.  Mik provided multiple examples of their in character behavior, most of which didn't mesh 100% win with the aforementioned strategy.

Outside of the in character argument, major debates included the viability of Paragon copying BTC's team (mainly the range) and if Super Skrull was a threat or if he was nearly instantly taken out.  BTC's argument regarding Paragon largely weren't convincing that he wasn't a threat to his team members.  With Super Skrull while Mik managed to convince me that he could likely hurt Stellaris, his viability against the rest of BTC's team is eh.  BTC did a good job at pointing out how Super Skrull's impersonation and invisibility weren't as useful as presented.

Overall however, with Mik making a more convincing argument for BTC's strategy being OOC and presenting relative simple win cons himself, I have to give him the win.

Winner: mikhailnikolaievitch