[Little_GTO]

I have no idea. Was the debate even scheduled at that time? If so, does that mean $35K will buy anyone into the debate? Anyone? If not anyone who pays $35K, then what criteria do you use to pare the field?

What does schedule have to do with debate participation criteria?

I'm sure a person of your intelligence could come up with better criteria then what they used. I have a few criteria in mind, but you go first.

[Little_GTO]

see post #179

**Crickets**

AIT add him to your list.

[Jokelahoma]

No, thank you. I'm happy with what they chose, and I'm not questioning it. If you would choose to allow anyone who paid their $35K to participate, it's you who needs to find reasonable criteria for paring the field, not me.

And the schedule means a lot. If they don't have the debate scheduled (or this year, the primary itself) it's rather hard to determine what other primary within which a candidate must finish in the top five, since you don't know what primary will immediately precede yours. Plus, it matters because that's the question you asked.