RE: If you run, you should be included.
If this is the case, how do we fit them all in a debate stage?
Have two debates and draw numbers for placement.
Someone suggested the two debates happen one after the other so that the same questions can be asked. Or they could ask different questions.
If a candidate were just a party-crasher candidate I could see excluding him. But that is not the case. The early debates should allow room for everyone. Then later polling done multiple times and averaged may have some validity.