: The biggest challenge in creating such an organization (or special chapter) won't be so much in finding people to do the debating as in finding people to write the rules. Who should write them? People trained in formal debating methodologies who have the time, patience, and charisma to enable them to teach many people over the Internet how to do it right (and that means teaching people not to resort to cheap shots and snide remarks and outright blatant lies when they cannot win an argument).

If you can't find anyone to instruct on argumentation in a debate setting, I would suggest you establish a set of orders. Something that almost every organization does (or should do) is to use an already existing set of orders. One of the best, (IMHO) is Robert's Rules of Order. The most current version released and very agreeably priced version is "The New Robert's Rules of Order" (Mary Ann De Vries, et al.). It is parlimentary based, and I have found that to be one of the best methods of defined debate. There are other order systems available, but, perhaps because I competed using Robert's, I found the others more cumbersome to follow.

-RR