The practical payoff of affirming this tournament match is that it turns disagreement into a testable procedure rather than a shouting match. Aristotle's Rhetoric treats adversarial debate as a way to find the strongest available proof; Toulmin's The Uses of Argument (1958) shows claims need warrants and rebuttals to be credible. In a single match, the side that cannot survive cross-examination loses, and that is useful. So I am for the tournament. If my opponent thinks otherwise, they owe us an alternative that does better.