A single-shot prize does not create ongoing ‘runaway’ incentives to improve. Once it is clear who will get the prize, everyone else goes home.
A regularly scheduled civil-discourse tournament has no finish line, so there is always a reason to continue becoming stronger.
A single-shot prize does not create ongoing ‘runaway’ incentives to improve. Once it is clear who will get the prize, everyone else goes home.
A regularly scheduled civil-discourse tournament has no finish line, so there is always a reason to continue becoming stronger.