Why would Crowder agree to this in the first place if he was afraid? He gets challenged to debates all the time by lower-rated Youtubers. Clearly no one would care if he just ignored it.

Why doesn't Potholer agree to one of these "unreasonable time slots" and see what happens?

Sounds like he really just wants to show Crowder is dodging him.

I think Crowder just sees little value in this whole thing, so he's not trying too hard to make it happen.