(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Josh and David disagree strongly on the most tiny detail (see “or rather” vs “rather”)
One of our crosses is about what the witness didn’t do
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).
7+ quotes get added to the quotebook in one meeting
Someone says “good morning YH” on a Friday or “good evening YH on a Sunday”
Silence after running something for the first time and no one’s sure if the coaches hate it
Josh powerpoint presentation that has us rethinking everything we thought we understood about evidence
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
We get pizza approximately once (if we’re lucky)
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.
Random special guest
Something exceeds its time limit by 2+ minutes
“You can’t move once for each witness” -David (Or other comments about moving during an opening or closing)
Someone mispronounces something from the case law
5.0 for something
“No one wilted” -David after a scrimmage
Notepad thing in the closing
“Someone put a clock on it.” -David
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
Wisecrack of Sarah’s freshman Garden City
“Does this have a time problem?” - David
“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)*
Josh makes a movie reference that <10% of the team gets
Roles get switched around (not as much as last year but still a lot)
We cross Josh
“Nickel words not quarter words” -Josh and/or David
Michelle responds to an email within an hour
“WHAT?” YOU HAVE TO SPEAK UP” - David
Josh makes tons of references to alumni we’ve never met. Michelle gets nostalgic
“You need multiple arrows in your quiver”
Criticizing the first draft of a direct for being married to the affidavit
We will spend a lot of time in a meeting trying to generate a theme
Notes are given to the timekeeper
“What you should instead do…is repeat the question…slower.” -Josh
Josh lets Michelle be a witness and she is thrilled
After roles are sent out, they tell everyone to come to the coaches if they have any objections or comments
We pass David after running something, he mouths “good job”
It will take us months to settle on a theme
The coaches ask us a trick question
“May I proceed?” *silence* “oh yeah sure go ahead” - David
“SLOW…DOWN…” -Josh to a witness (with hand gestures)
Check-in question which leads to Josh telling a very distantly related childhood story
We convince the coaches to come to our plays
Someone reads for a role they’re not doing and gets hyperspecific comments
One direct is full of evidentiary issues
We have way too much food on Sundays and only snacks on Fridays
We call the witnesses out of order for at least one side
Michelle sends an email with an (actually pretty good) pun as the subject line
The coaches object. Someone completely breaks lawyer-character.
Random song lyrics in emails from Josh
We begin running something at approximately 7:45pm on Friday
Josh leaves comments on a Google Doc for an opening or closing
Josh checks the quotebook on a weekly basis
There will be a name (or multiple) that everyone mispronounces for months
Someone gets made to stand in a corner
Right after check-in: someone, “I have a small question”*45 minutes later*
Zoom practice over winter break or on a snow day
“Where’d you learn to do that?” - Josh
Coaches randomly whispering while something is going on
A really hilarious scrimmage or moment in one
Wisecrack about Clara’s saying “the defense rests”
Something is 1+ minutes short of the time limit
The captains ask a Winsor-specific check-in question and the coaches get mad
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
“I think it’s pretty good” -David
Feedback on a draft of a direct results in completely rewriting and reordering
5+ people have the same check-in answer
We watch a video about what not to do
David randomly yelling something out
digs at Elliot from Josh
Josh tries to compliment us with a metaphor but ends up insulting us (see “40% of the way to an A”)
“May I proceed?” Josh: “Yes” David: No”
Some of the crosses get utterly neglected
We use a teacher or alum as inspo for a witness character
“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?)
David doesn’t get something that everyone else has moved past
David compliments Ms. Elizondo’s snacks at every meeting
Very few people sign up for the working groups
Someone does a deep dive into what an expert is an expert on
