[AlexCoventry]

These students are probably intellectually gifted, they're just playing a stupid game for the sake of an item on their resume.

[namaria]

I question the intellect of anyone engaging in silly games with the sole purpose of impressing other people.

[bardan]

Seems like a competition that started reasonably and mutated into nonsense over time as the rules were exploited (and never modified, I guess). If it's an established debate style and offered to kids as legitimate you can't blame them. Kids do what is available to them.

[namaria]

Everyone has choices to make in life.