Your Most Memorable PuFo round(s)

[ChristyLemur]

Since those of us that were not fortunate enough to go to nationals for debate will not compete in debate until autumn, let's take some time to reminice.

I want to know: What was your most memorable round? or rounds. These don't have to be your favorites. It could be your most frustrating, most confusing, etc.

Mine: I was at a tournament ((duh)) and my partner and I waited 20 minutes for the other team to arrive. When they finally did and the round started, the first girl slurred to the max. My partner attacked what little of the case could be understood. In my crossfire, the girls partner was incredibly rude to me:

"Why the French Healthcare system?"
Me:"Because it's better than ours by far."
"Yes, but why?"
Me:"Becaus-"
"Ok well you see-"
Me:"Please let me finish answering"
"NO we don't have much time and we need to fit in more questions"
Me:"Fine, what's your question?"
"I JUST ASKED IT AND YOU JUST ANSWERED IT."
Me:"Alright, so since we're so short on time, shouldn't you ask the next question?"

And in every speech, they stated they CONCEDED to all our points and then continued to argue.

What's really funny is later in the tourney, the girls left a round against our friends, and, while the door was still WIDE OPEN, the second speaker shouted "I HATE STUPID PEOPLE!" The best part is our school got all the Pufo awards at the tourney ((Stephanie and I coming in 4th)) and the girls, I was later informed by my coach, placed DEAD LAST

[thelukesituation]

Hmm... Definitely the round I qualled for Nats in this year. The girl asked my partner a question, he then tried to answer. She then yelled at him for "interrupting her" even though he waited for her to finish.

Also Sem's at the Chesterton tournament. The ballot read: "THIS ROUND WAS SO AWESOME IT DESERVES A STAMP OF AWESOMENESS:" and then stamped there were the words, "Sweet Tits." We got pi speaker points and our opponents recieved theta speaker points.

The most frustrating round was right after that for finals. About forty people watched and all two or three thought we destroyed the other team. (One of those three was my mom...) My opponents came out talking about how we raped them.

We lost on a 3-0.

Sigh...

Final round at state wasn't that memorable except for my opponents' final focus. These were my teammates and one of them was my best friend. He's the first speaker. His partner gets up to give the final focus, gives a decent first half, and then randomly goes off about how my partner and I are harming single mothers.

This was the alternative fuels topic...

[theClam]

It was my fourth round at our Novice tournament. It actually came as a surprise to me and to my partner, because we thought there were only 3 rounds. I went to check "just in case" for postings (since they didn't bother to announce when they posted the postings), and sure enough, as I approached, I saw "Round 4" in red.

We rushed to the room, and our fourth round judge happened to be our third round judge (I have no idea how that came to be). The other team's second speaker was at the restroom, so we all filed in the room first.

It was the end of the day, and we were all tired already...so while we were waiting, my partner struck up a conversation. "So how's your day been?..." That was funny :P

Their second speaker finally arrived, and as fast as it started it had already ended. I have to say, that round was probably the most relaxed I ever felt. And I was pretty proud too--I managed to address all their contentions and all of our points in my summary. Yay!

We ended up getting 2nd :).

[lightgreen22]

During the Grand Crossfire a parent judge made us take a minute of "time out" because she thought things got to heated

[Dker]

I was in a prelim round of Myers Park with alternative energy and 2040, and we were con after chosing 2nd,

so the pro team gave themselves a burden that if they proved just two alternative fuels good enough and ready and fit the resolution they win:

they went on to list 17 alternative fuels

So in my 2nd speaker constructive, I spread all 17 fuels

RFD:
Con Wins because Kerwin knew what he was talking about

[TheDebateHub]

team mates of mine once had to go against the national champions at a local tournament, so they decided to throw the round. with grace. The following summarizes there case.

Resolved: That, on balance, the rise of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) has had a positive impact on the United States.

Brazil: they're nude beaches are a threat to our nations family values.
Russia: The matryoshka doll can be used to hid things. The Russian must have something to hid, clearly we cannot trust the Russians.
India: They are destroying America's families with there dinner time telemarketing calls.
China: There fire drills our a threat to our security.

the judge loved it

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll)

[demonofthekeys]

Just two weekends ago at Chesterton, after we finished Grand Crossfire, our judge preceded to crossfire us. :confused: At the same tournament, we debated a kid (2nd speaker) who literally went on for his entire 2nd speech about his diabetes and how it caused his grades to drop. My partner used a 20-second analogy in her Final Focus about her doing chores as a child. We lost. On our ballot, the judge had written for my partner, "Don't spend so much time on personal story."

[XxConquitoxX]

NFL Quals - Joe Hernandez jumped up on the table and then danced, and rapped. AMAZING.

[theconman9]

2 great stories:

1. OK first off, when we were waiting outside the room this random girl (student) was like "Can I watch your debate?" so my partner and I are like "sure whatever." Then we were in a round, 2nd speaker. So they got up there in their constructive and said 2 contentions. Fair enough. Then we do our constructive. Their second speaker gets up there for the rebuttal and says ONE SENTENCE about our case (which had 4 arguments), then says "I will now continue our case." and presents 2 more contentions. So we obviously point it out to the judge that they can't do that. So we go through the debate basically owning them. Then when we finish, the girl who was watching stands up and says "OK now I'm gonna give y'all some tips" and spent about 5 minutes giving both teams critiques. The judge looked like she had seen a ghost. Plus this girl said to us, "Y'all said they continued their case in the rebuttal but it's really the second constructive" and we're like um no and she's like "judge aren't I right?" and the judge was like "no it's the rebuttal". WHen I left the room I died laughing.

2. OK then our next round we were facing these really good people who were totally owning us, shooting down all our points and defending theirs perfectly. My partner and I knew we had lost so we just decided to have fun with it. With regards to the Taliban in Afghanistan, my partner made the analogy, "Just because some apples are rotten doesn't mean all the apples in the bushel are rotten." Then in grand crossfire the other team was like "well those rotten apples could go to Pakistan, get some nukes and kill us." Wanting to have some fun I said "You know what happens to rotten apples? They decompose. They die. That will happen to the Taliban." I kept laughing in the round and it was so funny yet so embarrassing. Then we get our ballot.......we won.

[Just the Fax]

So at the district qualifier last year my partner and I entered PFD because we got 2nd at State but since we both broke at Harvard I was looking to qual in FX and he was looking to qual in DX. We competed in finals in extemp around the same time our second to last PFD round went off. We finished our speeches and went to the PFD round and ended up waiting for one of our opponents to finish his FX sems round where he was one of the last speakers. We won the PFD round which meant our next round was the qualifying round. They wanted all three debates to start they're qualifying rounds at the same time so we waited another hour for the quals round. Our coach runs up to us saying "Guys guys! You didn't fill out pref qual sheets. If you qual in PFD you will be forced to go to Nats in PF." he then told us we had both qual'd in extemp. We both decided to throw the round. The round went like this from first speech on.
Case:
Since the Cold War was officially addresses by Ronald Regan but never officially declared over we are still in a nuclear stand off with Russia.
sat down
Rebuttal:
My opponent's case is extremely resolutional, resolutional to the point where I think he made up his sources. Nobody is that resolutional.
Sat down
Summary:
I would like to point out my judges time signals have been extremely biased. We have yet to receive any.
The time, who was also a close friend from a neighbor school said "Your speeches are 10 seconds long Josh, sit down."
Final Focus:
My opponent's have shown no focus. They havent even been flowing our speeches. How can you even listen to a focusless final focus?

We won 2-0, one judge refused to make a decision and his ballot was claimed as an ND.

[BrockSondrup]

Round ten at nationals last year. My Partner and i walked in already having lost round nine so we needed to win. After we did the coin toss my partner began looking for our case. it turned out we had left it at the hotel. My partner reads case and was freaking out pretty bad, so i walked over to him handed him a stack of our evidence and said "good luck". We won on a 3-0

[Grant Johnson]

Since I have only ever competed in two competitions I really don't have many rounds to pick from, so it was pretty easy.

it was this months topic and some kid on the opposing teams speech was about how debating sensitive religous topics in debate could lead to another religous holocaust..... The parent judge thought it was a clever connection and he won, it was kind of silly.

[DyBry13]

So at the district qualifier last year my partner and I entered PFD because we got 2nd at State but since we both broke at Harvard I was looking to qual in FX and he was looking to qual in DX. We competed in finals in extemp around the same time our second to last PFD round went off. We finished our speeches and went to the PFD round and ended up waiting for one of our opponents to finish his FX sems round where he was one of the last speakers. We won the PFD round which meant our next round was the qualifying round. They wanted all three debates to start they're qualifying rounds at the same time so we waited another hour for the quals round. Our coach runs up to us saying "Guys guys! You didn't fill out pref qual sheets. If you qual in PFD you will be forced to go to Nats in PF." he then told us we had both qual'd in extemp. We both decided to throw the round. The round went like this from first speech on.
Case:
Since the Cold War was officially addresses by Ronald Regan but never officially declared over we are still in a nuclear stand off with Russia.
sat down
Rebuttal:
My opponent's case is extremely resolutional, resolutional to the point where I think he made up his sources. Nobody is that resolutional.
Sat down
Summary:
I would like to point out my judges time signals have been extremely biased. We have yet to receive any.
The time, who was also a close friend from a neighbor school said "Your speeches are 10 seconds long Josh, sit down."
Final Focus:
My opponent's have shown no focus. They havent even been flowing our speeches. How can you even listen to a focusless final focus?

We won 2-0, one judge refused to make a decision and his ballot was claimed as an ND.

That has got to be the greatest PF round story i've ever heard.

My personal favorite round story has got to be at MLK this year. My partner and I had just gotten off of winter break, where neither of us did any case work (surprise surprise), so we said, "**** it, let's run a K" (This was the college cost vs. benefit resolution). We get into our round and see our judge, decked out in Cal gear and obviously a student there. After the round, he decides he wants to give us critiques (irony). He then proceeds to cuss us out for being good debaters and not running an actual case, tells us we won the round, but voted us down because, "We went against the spirit of debate". I didn't even care we lost, but to be cussed out by a judge for being too good is always fun.

[MissInterpretation14]

I have definitely had my share of awesomely hilarious debate rounds. However probably the funniest ones were rounds that I actually watched.

Novice debate always seems to add some element of humor at some point. My team actually has a quote book going :P
On the college debate topic:

Opponent: You shouldn't go to college because you could get raped.
Teammate: I'm sorry, what?!
Opponent: You could get raped!
Teammate: NO ONE PAYS TO GO TO COLLEGE TO GET RAPED! WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?!

Opponent: You said you can research colleges, but can you name a single website where you can go and find out which colleges are safer?
Teammate: ...Google.

Opponent: You shouldn't go to college because it's too stressful.
Teammate: Well then I suggest look up some stress management classes!
Opponent: Where?
Teammate: GOOGLE!

And my favorite so far has actually been in senior division, on Pakistan:

Opponent: So you're saying the Constitution is stupid?
Teammate: No, I'm saying that the Constitution is not applicable in this situation.
Opponent: So you're saying the Constitution is trash.
Teammate: No, you said that.
Opponent: No, you said that.
Teammate: No, you definitely just said that.
Opponent: .......what?
Teammate: Exactly. *sits down*

hahahah.

[Rae]

I did PFD once or twice my sophomore year about alternative fuels (we'd never done it before and haven't since), and I will always remember this one:

Opponent: Are you aware that a large portion of money from petroleum funds terrorist organizations?
Us: In some isolated incidents that may be the case, but--
Opponent: (looking straight at the judge) Clearly, the opponents today are terrorist-lovers.

We lost... but it was SO worth it.