Welcome to Jared Knowles's home on the web, debateman.com This web site serves as a place for me collect all of my information and work in one place and provide others with easy access to it. It is a simple web site and I hope you find the navigation and use of it quite easy.

A few people ask me where the name "Debateman" came from and what it means. Anyone who knows me will know that in high school I was a very active member of my debate team, and have continued debating in college. Debate has been one of my great passions and I enjoy it thoroughly. With that said, during my junior season of high school debate I came up with the idea to start drawing little cartoons during the rounds after my work for the round was done. These cartoons featured a stick figure, much like the one in the banner above, doing various debate related things. They became a sort of mascot for my debate partner and I as we went through a very successful season together. The people on my team who weren't debaters were also fascinated by the Debateman cartoons and I started hanging them up in our team practice area for people to read. It was only a short while after that that people began giving me the nickname "Debateman" and it stuck.

My senior year of high school my new partner and I dressed up as "Debateman" and "Policy Boy" for a local charity Halloween event. From there I decided to register the domain "debateman.com" to be my personal home on the web. That was 2004. Flash forward a few years later and I have finally found a use for the web site (it has served many temporary uses between then and now, but this looks to be much more permanent). In the future I may make up some short flash cartoons of debate man and post them here to give people just a little flavor of the craziness of Debateman, but for now the website's main function remains a place for me to collect all of the information about me and put it in one place.