Sarah and Clara's Mock Bingo

This bingo card has a free space and 80 words: It will take us months to settle on a theme, We will spend a lot of time in a meeting trying to generate a theme, Josh will ask what our most important fact is, emphasize that that's the most important not making it catchy. We will instead be busy with alliteration and metaphors and the Rule of Threes, Josh asks what our theory of the case is. We spend the entire practice talking about it and do not leave with a theory of the case., “Nickel words not quarter words” -Josh and/or David, “You can’t move once for each witness” -David (Or other comments about moving during an opening or closing), “Does this have a time problem?” - David, “Someone put a clock on it.” -David, “WHAT?” YOU HAVE TO SPEAK UP” - David, Josh makes tons of references to alumni we’ve never met. Michelle gets nostalgic, “What you should instead do…is repeat the question…slower.” -Josh, Right after check-in: someone, “I have a small question”*45 minutes later*, The captains ask a Winsor-specific check-in question and the coaches get mad, Check-in question which leads to Josh telling a very distantly related childhood story, “Where’d you learn to do that?” - Josh, Someone gets made to stand in a corner, Some of the crosses get utterly neglected, Very few people sign up for the working groups, A really hilarious scrimmage or moment in one, Roles get switched around (not as much as last year but still a lot), We convince the coaches to come to our plays, Wisecrack of Sarah’s freshman Garden City, Wisecrack about Clara’s saying “the defense rests”, “What do we want to run?” *silence* *Josh makes a wisecrack (e.g. about how wonderful it is that his attorneys are so eager to receive feedback)*, David doesn’t get something that everyone else has moved past, After roles are sent out, they tell everyone to come to the coaches if they have any objections or comments, Random song lyrics in emails from Josh, digs at Elliot from Josh, David randomly yelling something out, One of our crosses is about what the witness didn’t do, Notepad thing in the closing, David compliments Ms. Elizondo’s snacks at every meeting, David gets up to peer at the snacks while someone’s running something and we think he’s coming towards us. We quickly stop whispering, which we have been doing, Criticizing the first draft of a direct for being married to the affidavit, Feedback on a draft of a direct results in completely rewriting and reordering, We call the witnesses out of order for at least one side, 5.0 for something, Random special guest, Zoom practice over winter break or on a snow day, Someone does a deep dive into what an expert is an expert on, There will be a name (or multiple) that everyone mispronounces for months, Josh lets Michelle be a witness and she is thrilled, We cross Josh, “May I proceed?” Josh: “Yes” David: No”, “It looks like your reading from the computer which will improve once you have it memorized and aren't reading from the computer” or something of that sort (on version 1.0 of a direct?), Michelle sends an email with an (actually pretty good) pun as the subject line, We have way too much food on Sundays and only snacks on Fridays, We get pizza approximately once (if we’re lucky), Silence after running something for the first time and no one’s sure if the coaches hate it, “I think it’s pretty good” -David, Running something for the first time: “I like it” - David. David and Josh proceed to tear it apart, reorganize it, and change the way it's delivered over the next 30 minutes. David then says. “but good start” and gives a double thumbs-up and a si, We pass David after running something, he mouths “good job”, “No one wilted” -David after a scrimmage, Josh tries to compliment us with a metaphor but ends up insulting us (see “40% of the way to an A”), We use a teacher or alum as inspo for a witness character, One direct is full of evidentiary issues, Something exceeds its time limit by 2+ minutes, Something is 1+ minutes short of the time limit, Josh makes a movie reference that <10% of the team gets, Someone reads for a role they’re not doing and gets hyperspecific comments, Josh checks the quotebook on a weekly basis, The coaches ask us a trick question, Someone mispronounces something from the case law, We begin running something at approximately 7:45pm on Friday, “You need multiple arrows in your quiver”, Josh powerpoint presentation that has us rethinking everything we thought we understood about evidence, Josh does a random exercise to prove a point (e.g. taking away the computer, answering every other question, starting all your answers with the letter l, having multiple witnesses read in unison)., The coaches object. Someone completely breaks lawyer-character., Someone says “good morning YH” on a Friday or “good evening YH on a Sunday”, “SLOW…DOWN…” -Josh to a witness (with hand gestures), Coaches randomly whispering while something is going on, 5+ people have the same check-in answer, Notes are given to the timekeeper, Josh leaves comments on a Google Doc for an opening or closing, Michelle responds to an email within an hour, Ms. Elizondo carries the team (free one), Josh and David disagree strongly on the most tiny detail (see “or rather” vs “rather”), We watch a video about what not to do, “May I proceed?” *silence* “oh yeah sure go ahead” - David and 7+ quotes get added to the quotebook in one meeting.

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