Finished the debate late last night. I thought Austin did pretty well against Dave. Just looking at it objectively without bias I would say that Austin won, not by a landslide, but still had the upper hand and most of the people watching felt the same way. Although Austin was not able to answer everything Dave threw at him, Dave was not able to answer more of what was thrown at him. Austin was also more professional and straight up stumped Dave on a couple points which is why I gave the edge to Austin in the debate. Dave mostly threw playground type insults and tried to counter everything saying it was "word salad" and Austin called it out and called out the gish galloping as well. Dave Farina's tone and countenance even changed towards the end and he kind of looked "lost."
I'm kind of upset because Austin was supposed to show a working FE model and the host even acted like they were and I was all excited but then the debate got off on another tangent and it was never brought up! The live comment section was pretty funny and outright hilarious in some spots if anyone paused the debate to read any of it. The host was kind of annoying but tried I suppose. I would have liked a more formal debate with equal uninterrupted speaking times.
I need to finish watching the debate with Dave Farina and David Weiss but it was hard to get through with Weiss's "effeminate" voice, but every flatter basically says that Austin did way better than Weiss. Austin has other debates on his channel as well and about to watch this one...