Debate format.

[Benton]

I've moderated local election debates. They were always civil. Sometimes you'd have an issue with people running over their time limit, but we had the mic (everyone used the same one) on a switch. We'd notify them at 1 minute, 30 seconds, 10 secobds and stop. If they didn't yield, we just cut the mic.

Personally, I think organizers are happy to have the no holds barred format.