stannard67
06-18-02, 12:46 PM
Cross Examination Altercation Leads To Stabbing
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Detroit, MI -- A renewed experiment in alternate use prep time went horribly astray this weekend during preliminary rounds at the Wayne State "Zigga-what, Zigga-who" Debate Tournament. The alternate use rule, which gives each team 16 minutes they can use for both prep and cross examination time, was originally introduced at the Wake Forest tournament two years ago and has traditionally resulted in very short c-x and very long rebuttle prep periods. However, credit is due to Rizzo Sheridan of Weber State for optimizing his team's time allocation.
"The cross-x started kinda jumpy," said judge Allison Woidan. "The 1A (Sheridan) jumped up and started going off about how some of their link cards sucked, and the 1N got kinda feisty." Putting a new spin on understatement, Woidan continued: "After all that was over I could see veins popping out on everyone's necks and they were yelling pretty good. I thought about saying something, but it's against my philosophy to get involved in the debate."
After spending a good three minutes on the link issue and intermittently cursing each other's moms, the cross examination should have normally ended, but thanks to the new rule, Rizzo kept it up, according to area sources.
Patrick Miller, the second negative, continues the narrative: "Then he started asking about the status of the counterplan. That's when all hell broke lose."
"He just wouldn't tell him," Miller continued. "Paul (the 1N) was trying to explain our new standard of responality, but he just wouldn't listen. It was crazy. They were both yelling at each other for about seven or eight minutes at this point.."
Finally push came to shove and Rizzo stepped over the brink. Woidan describes what happened next: "He asked me how much time they had left. I said '8 minutes' and he stopped like he was doing some math in his head. I asked him 'are you done?' and he said 'no'. He turned and asked his partner how much time he'd need for the 2AR. The figured must have added up because then he said 'looks like I've got some time then'. They were both really going at it."
At this point Rizzo turned to Paul Sinclair, who he was cross-xing and stabbed him several times with a pen. He said, "Why don't you kick out of that?"
"Yeah, so then the 2A goes 'I'm up', so I stop prep time and he gives the order. I probably should've done something, but I try to keep it really tab. I have to say that if they hadn't had a nine minute cross-x this probably wouldn't have happened."
A sterling example for go-getters everywhere, the affirmative won the debate.
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Detroit, MI -- A renewed experiment in alternate use prep time went horribly astray this weekend during preliminary rounds at the Wayne State "Zigga-what, Zigga-who" Debate Tournament. The alternate use rule, which gives each team 16 minutes they can use for both prep and cross examination time, was originally introduced at the Wake Forest tournament two years ago and has traditionally resulted in very short c-x and very long rebuttle prep periods. However, credit is due to Rizzo Sheridan of Weber State for optimizing his team's time allocation.
"The cross-x started kinda jumpy," said judge Allison Woidan. "The 1A (Sheridan) jumped up and started going off about how some of their link cards sucked, and the 1N got kinda feisty." Putting a new spin on understatement, Woidan continued: "After all that was over I could see veins popping out on everyone's necks and they were yelling pretty good. I thought about saying something, but it's against my philosophy to get involved in the debate."
After spending a good three minutes on the link issue and intermittently cursing each other's moms, the cross examination should have normally ended, but thanks to the new rule, Rizzo kept it up, according to area sources.
Patrick Miller, the second negative, continues the narrative: "Then he started asking about the status of the counterplan. That's when all hell broke lose."
"He just wouldn't tell him," Miller continued. "Paul (the 1N) was trying to explain our new standard of responality, but he just wouldn't listen. It was crazy. They were both yelling at each other for about seven or eight minutes at this point.."
Finally push came to shove and Rizzo stepped over the brink. Woidan describes what happened next: "He asked me how much time they had left. I said '8 minutes' and he stopped like he was doing some math in his head. I asked him 'are you done?' and he said 'no'. He turned and asked his partner how much time he'd need for the 2AR. The figured must have added up because then he said 'looks like I've got some time then'. They were both really going at it."
At this point Rizzo turned to Paul Sinclair, who he was cross-xing and stabbed him several times with a pen. He said, "Why don't you kick out of that?"
"Yeah, so then the 2A goes 'I'm up', so I stop prep time and he gives the order. I probably should've done something, but I try to keep it really tab. I have to say that if they hadn't had a nine minute cross-x this probably wouldn't have happened."
A sterling example for go-getters everywhere, the affirmative won the debate.