Formal Debating

DebateIsland.com enables anyone to debate online utilizing the Traditional Formal and Lincoln-Douglas debating formats. Through these formats, users can debate online against one opponent in a time-limited and structured debating format. In both Traditional Formal and Lincoln-Douglas online debates, users can choose the time per round for their debate, ranging from Blitz (15 minutes per round) to 48 hours per round, but unlike Traditional Formal's ability to customize the number of rounds (1 to 3), Lincoln-Douglas online debates have a prescribed number of rounds. In order to win these debates, debaters must receive the highest number of votes during the debate voting period (occurs after the last round of DebateIsland Formal online debates). In addition, users can improve their debating and writing skills with the help of our Debra Artifical Intelligence Argument Analytics. Learn more about DebateIsland Formal online debating.