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Re: Hanson & West

On Mon, 8 Jul 1996 tjewell@unm.edu wrote:

> I've got my own Hanson & West story.  It was at the Louisisana State
> University Tournament--where nats was held that year.  My second team was
> a freshman/sophomore combination of a couple of creatures from Hobbs, New
> Mexico (Sean, "Satan" Ford and Roland, "Thanotos" Juarez).  We had
> carefully embedded a "social control" card in one of our "value
> objections" hoping affirmatives would blow it.  Hanson and West bit hard
> and at the end of the round had won everything but what really mattered.
> The Hobbs boys knew barely enough to make the argument as important as
> they knew it was supposed to be.  Hanson & West knew they had blown it
> but had a judge they didn't know except that he was adamantly against
> revealing decisions.  They conned the Hobbs boys into asking the judge
> how he voted, and "surprise", instead of getting mad he told them that he
> voted neg on social control (but we didn't bother to let Jim and Mark
> know.
>
> Partly as a result of that round, Jim and Mark barely made the
> double-octos, but went on to win the tournament (and get my ballot for
> the first time in sems), but I never saw two debaters hussle harder (or
> behave quite so "slimely" [my word, I guess]) to get a decision.  Mike's
> story is a good indication of how hard those two would work to win a
> round.  They were one of the most enjoyable teams I ever judged.
>
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