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John Kiriakou

1 scored debate · standard met in 1 of 1 · 1 with distinction

2 challenges faced · 252 words scored

93
Debate integrity · one scored debate

Not a career average — Steelmanned has scored John once.

Where these scores sit

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John: 93 (v panel of 6) · shaded to our ±5–8 re-run band · all 22 scored performances shown

Inside our ±8-point re-run band of this record: Mehdi Hasan's 92, Peter Navarro's 94, Dave Smith's 90, Destiny's 89. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point100site 52–100
Argued clean100site 8–100
Dealt straight51site 9–89
Let them talk100site 72–100

John's strongest component is “Confronted the point” at 100. Across the 22 scored performances Steelmanned has published, that component runs 52–100.

A 100 on "Argued clean" means no fallacy points were charged, not that no fallacies were logged. The scorecard lists every logged event, including zero-valued ones.

The record

Piers Morgan UncensoredPanel debate0h 56m

Jim Hanson, Scott Horton, John Kiriakou, Jonathan Conricus, Peter Navarro | Anthony Fauci + Trump Vows Iran Revenge

MET THE STANDARD · WITH DISTINCTION · 85+Met the Engagement Standard, with distinction, earned at 85+ DIS — an absolute threshold, not relative to the other debater.Rubric v0.7
John Kiriakou
93Debate
Integrity
On a panel with Peter Navarro, Jonathan Conricus, Scott Horton, Jim Hanson & Piers Morgan
100Confronted
the point45%
100Argued
clean30%
51Dealt
straight15%
100Let them
talk10%

Confronted both challenges, affirmed common ground with Morgan that 'none of this works' before building an exit-strategy argument, and invoked the genocide definition that 'forced removal' qualifies 'without executing people'; no fallacies were recorded across 250 words and no interruptions.

2 challenges faced · 252 words scoredlimited evidence

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