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Dean Withers

1 scored debate

13 challenges faced · 12,443 words scored

70
Debate integrity · one scored debate

Not a career average: Steelmanned has scored Dean once, against Nick Fuentes.

Where these scores sit

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Dean: 70 (v Nick Fuentes) · shaded to our ±5–8 re-run band · all 46 scored performances shown

Inside our ±8-point re-run band of this record: Owen Shroyer's 70, Andrew Wilson's 70, Andrew Wilson's 69, Will Chamberlain's 71. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point88site 52–97
Argued clean59site 6–100
Dealt straight28site 0–87
Let them talk86site 75–100

Dean's strongest component is “Confronted the point” at 88. Across the 46 scored performances Steelmanned has published, that component runs 52–97.

The record

BANNEDPanel debate2h 26m

Nick Fuentes and Dean Withers Debate, Hosted by SNEAKO & Adin Ross

Dean Withers
70
DIS ±8
Opposite Nick Fuentes · their score 64
CRUX45% · N=13
88
CLEAN30% · 12,443W
59
DEALT15% · N=13
28
TALK10% · 345 TURNS
86

Confronted 13 challenges (26.3 of 30 weighted), named common ground that 'we should have a more industrialized economy' and answered directly that 'objective truth in the context of morality doesn't exist'; recorded 26.0 weighted fallacy points including calling Fuentes 'spineless' and an 'incel RNC droid', with 8 interruptions across 17,167 words.

13 challenges faced · 12,443 words scored · rubric v0.11

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