What Comes Next?
For my last post here, I want to give a quick wrap of what I have done so far and explain what I have planned for next year.
This year, I got to compete on three different teams as a charachter witness named Maddox Vaughn. I got to travel to Columbus and for some reason I went to Boston twice. My first team came top 5 at our first tournament. My second team won the Mumbo Jumbo tournament and my last team came in 3rd at our regional competition.
All in all, a pretty successful year.
Now I am captaining a team for our fun season. We aren’t competing against any other colleges, just scrimmaging with other Penn State Teams. The fun part is, we are running joke theories and goofing around. If you would like to hear me talk about blaming a perfectly identical monkey for murder, I implore you to check my last post.
After we have our fun tournament, our season is over officially. However that isn’t stopping us from planning for next year.
Next week elections for executive positions will begin. People have already started campaigning and it is intense.
Our election process is a bit confusing. First we have the A-level positions. These are positions like President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasuerer, and Tournament Director. Then we have the B-level positions, like Social Media Chair, Fundraising Coordinator, Education Coordinator, and Judging and Alumni Coordinator.
People are running for A-level positions next week, and then the people elected for A-level positions nominate people to serve on B-level positions.
I am not running for an A-level position. I am not insane and I would not enjoy that. However, I know someone running for Vice President, and it has been hinted that I might be nominated for Fundrasing Coordinator. I am meeitng with him tomorrow, so I’ll know for sure then.
Other than potentially being on the executive board, I do have plans for next year. Since I am getting experience captaining now, I think I might apply to be a captain during our competative season next year.
If I do get accepted into that, I would be a part of the selection committee during the audition process. At the begining of the year, all new members have to prepare an audition and present it in front of a panel. I did that earlier this year and made it through to the rest of the season. If I am selected to be a captain for that part of the season, I would be one of the panelists.
All in all, I am so glad that I joined this organization. I met so many of my friends through this and some of my favorite memories happened because I joined here. I do take a very sarcastic tone with these blogs, but I mean this with full sincerity: I cannot imagine what I would be doing with my life without this organization. It helped me find friends at a campus far away from home. I got to make a new home here.
I know not everyone is interested in these types of things, but if you are even vaugely interested, please reach out to me. I would be more than happy to help you apply for next year.
In general though, I implore all of you to join something new, you never know who you’ll meet! If you have an idea of something you want to do, go do it! If you explore the world around you, you’ll find more things you love.
Captain O Captain
As a little treat for making it through the school year, our team likes to throw a bit of a celebration.
We take a case from years past, and goof around with it. We aren’t giving genuine, intelligent arguments for the case. We are doing everything as chaotically as possible just so we can have a few laughs.
Even though none of us are taking this seriously, we are having a competition! We were split into 4 teams. In late April, we will all compete against each other to see who comes out on top! Our graduating seniors are judging the tournament, so they know that we aren’t doing things traditionally. They will simply be judging us on vibes alone.
I am on Team 3, and for some reason I was selected to be a captain alongside one of my best friends! I have no idea why I was selected for this, but I am very excited to have been given this opportunity.
She and I are meeting tomorrow to discuss how we want to run our team! I made a google form to find out what my team members want to do. Do they want to be a witness, an attorney, or both? What type of witness do they want to play? Do they want to be partnered with anyone?
After everyone sends us their information, my co-captain and I will decide which witnesses we call on each side. We have nine witnesses to choose from, but we are only allowed to call three per side. Once we figure out what people want to do, we can start creating our theory.
So in past posts I have mentioned some crazy theories that people have used in real cases. Our goal is to double the insanity.
The case we are taking this year is about a trained monkey attacking a man live on set during the filming of a TV show. The TV show is suing the monkey trainer for having a bad monkey.
Our current suggested defense theory is that someone stole the trained monkey right before the show started and replaced him with a completely identical untrained monkey. Therefore, it was this mystery monkey who they should be suing instead of our client.
I know another team is calling the monkey trainer to the stand. However, one of their team members owns a monkey suit. So they are calling the monkey himself instead of the trainer.
Everything that happens at this point in the season is simply for fun. We are here for a good time, we spent the rest of the year working hard. This is how we relax.
I know I am a captain in the joke part of the season, but I am still very happy that I get to have a leadership position in a lower stakes situation. Then next year, I can captain a team during the regular season!
If you were in this situation, what kind of crazy theory or joke would you try? I know I mentioned our defense strategy, but how would you accuse the monkey?
Characters
Earlier this week, I met up with some friends in Mock Trial. We were talking about what makes a good character witness. Essentially, we talked about what makes a good actor.
The biggest challenge people have with creating a persona for a character is finding a good balance. Let me introduce you to the Goldilocks principle
When building a character, you don’t want to do too much, or too little. You want to find a balance that is just right. It seems complicated at first, but let me break it down for you.
“Too much”
This is the one end of the extreme that is always enjoyable to watch, but doesn’t score well. These types of characters are putting new meaning to the concept of “extra.”
To be fair, these types of characters typically take a lot of acting skill to be able to pull off, but that is better suited for a stage, not a fake courtroom. If they toned it down a little, they would be more competitively viable, but they are so fun to watch.
I once watched someone play a Luchador witness. I physically could not contain my laughter when he very intensely asked the jury if “they had ever thrown a grown man through a table” because he used to do it on the daily.
Words cannot express how much fun that was, but considering it was a murder trial, some judges had some issues. When you make a character, they still need to be believable. In this specific activity, your character needs to seem like a real person you could meet. Sure they can be eccentric, but reel it in a little.
These types of characters are also hard to maintain. In mock trial, you only get to prepare half of your performance. The other team gets to question you, and you have to answer on the fly. You can be extremely charismatic at first, but if your energy dips and you run out of jokes, your character seems like an act. You don’t want people to think you are acting.
“Too little”
Character witnesses need to stand out. Given the nature of court, these are the only opportunities a team has to bring some sort of humor and lightheartedness to their case. Character witnesses are people who just happened to be there and witnessed something.
You have creative liberties, but some people don’t use them. You still want your character to be recognizable and unique, not forgettable. Teams who do to little get forgotten. It is hard for me to describe an example, even though I have seen many, because none of them stood out. You can have fun and build up a character, just don’t go overboard.
“Just right”
Characters that are just right are unique but not overzealous. They should seem like real people you could interact with in your day to day life. Some people like to build backstories for their characters. As long as they are believable, you are doing your job right.
Criminal and Conventional Opportunities
In my criminology courses, my professors have started bringing up the concept of opportunity.
People like to think that anyone has the opportunity to commit crime, but to be completely honest, very few do. I mean, people like to try, but if you don’t know what you are doing you are very likely to get caught.
Think about it, how much do you know about crime? Do you know how to break into a house? Do you know how to launder money? Could you pick a lock? The answers to these should (for legal reasons, do not say yes) be no.
My professors define opportunities by separating them into categories: conventional and criminal.
Conventional opportunities are opportunities provided by the overworld and are socially acceptable. Going to college to earn a degree is a conventional opportunity. As is going to work and earning a paycheck.
While conventional opportunities are open to most, they are not open to everyone. There are people who cannot afford to go to college or lack the schooling to get a good paying job. Even if they are qualified for these opportunities, they might not have the means to travel to the opportunity. It can be incredibly hard to survive, let alone thrive, if an individual is deprived of conventional opportunities.
Without these conventional opportunities, people end up turning to criminal opportunities. Criminal opportunities are opportunities that are provided by the underworld and obtained through illicit means.
However, not everyone has access to criminal opportunities either. There is a strange notion that crime is easy and doesn’t require skill. That is deeply incorrect. I have heard a lot of people boast about how they totally could get away with a crime if they wanted to. Firstly, they are drastically underestimating surveillance and forensic evidence, but most lack the knowledge of the skills required to commit (and get away with) crime.
If you want to be a successful criminal, you need to know what you are doing.
Firstly, you need to obtain technical skills. Drug dealers need to know how to make drugs. Thieves need to know how to crack a safe. Money launderers need to be familiar with accounting and how to hide money from authorities. These are integral to most crimes, if you don’t know how to do it well, you’ll likely get caught.
You’ll also need interpersonal skills. You have to have contacts in the underworld that you can buy and sell things with. Stolen goods can’t be sold at regular pawn shops, they need to be sold at shops with owners who don’t mind. Drug dealers also need to be in contact with their clients and know that they actually have a market.
In this same vein, criminals need to know how to deal with other criminals. Conventional opportunities are protected by the legal system, criminal ones are not. If someone breaks into my house and steals things, I can report that to the police. It would be kind of stupid for a criminal to report that their stolen goods got stolen from them. Since these issues aren’t solved by the courts, they have to find a way to protect themselves from the competition.
Finally, criminals need perceptual skills. They need to be able to spot cameras and identify good targets. If they can’t do that, they are highly likely to get caught.
In conclusion, crime is not as easy as you think it is.
What I Personally Do
These past few posts have been quick summaries of what my teams have accomplished at tournaments. This time, I want to show you what I specifically do when I compete.
I have played many witnesses over this season, but I played Maddox Vaughn the most often.
If you remember from my earlier posts, Maddox Vaughn is a good friend of the defendant and claims to have seen the defendant on the other side of town when the fire started.
Maddox provides an alibi to the defendant, which makes the prosecution a little unhappy. As such, they like to remind the court that Maddox was around 7 drinks in the night of the fire and has a lot of bias toward the defendant.
Essentially, the prosecution wants to make Maddox seem like a lying drunkard. The worst part is, with how the affidavit is written, they are not inherently wrong.
An affidavit is usually between 8 and 12 pages long. Maddox wrote 3 pages and contradicts themselves in it.
In one line, Maddox says (in reference to the night of the fire) “I don’t remember much from the night before.” Then Maddox immediately backtracks and says “So, I figured, I was basically sober. I can remember everything that happened on July 31st and August 1st, 2020.”
If someone would like to explain how you can simultaneously not remember much and also remember everything, I’d love to know. None of us figured out what Maddox meant by that, so I just had to roll with it.
Remember this contradiction, it’ll come up later.
We brought a camera to one of our competitions, which means I have footage of my direct and cross examinations. If you want to watch all of it, be my guest. But don’t worry, I understand that not everyone wants to watch ten minutes of a girl from Yale questioning me as I pretend to be an alcoholic. I’ll give approximate time stamps of when interesting things happen.
Direct Examination:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CsA6jTXppwVLe9XowSFrD8h9ze-9ekUU/view?usp=sharing
This was a pretty standard direct examination, nothing too insane happened during this. The man questioning me is Mohammed, he’s one of my teammates and he was my attorney for this competition.
At about 1:20, we finish up my personal introduction and start talking about Dakota. This is where we try to show that Dakota really cared for the bar. We are trying to imply that Dakota loves the bar too much to have burned it down.
At 2:23 we start talking about what Maddox was doing on the night of the fire. This is to establish where I was before we introduce the alibi. I cannot directly state that Dakota wouldn’t have enough time to drive back to the bar, so I have to say that if I were driving, I wouldn’t be able to make it in that amount of time.
Direct examinations are supposed to be quick and easy, so not much happened here.
Cross Examination:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18lDdEe9PLrzw7781v83V_M0XBywVVJi1/view?usp=sharing
0:56 The crossing attorney starts listing the drinks I had that night 1 by 1.
1:15 Remember that contradiction I mentioned earlier? Here it is. When she first brings it up, I try to give a middle of the road answer that shows that I don’t remember much and also remember everything. This was in a hope that she wouldn’t fight it.
That was wishful thinking. She started pressing me, but I knew I could fight it if she brought my affidavit out. I looked at Mohammed and saw him nod. I went for it.
When the attorney brings my affidavit up to me, she is trying to “impeach” me as a witness. She’s calling me a liar, but professionally. Unfortunately for her, I know my affidavit well and cited the exact line that contradicts it.
I have never felt so smug in my life. My scores were significantly higher than hers because of that.
🅱 Team
After my competitions with Team Fuego, we moved into our stacked season. Our teams were once again rebuilt, but this time, we were simply sorted into A-E teams.
If you missed my last post, our A team is made up of our best members, so the closer to the beginning of the alphabet your team name is, the higher you are ranked.
I ended up getting a spot on B Team! I was so excited when I found this out, but I was also a little nervous. I was the only freshman on this team, so I was a little overwhelmed.
Luckily, switching teams up a lot was frowned upon, so about 60% of B Team was made up of people from Team Fuego. I was lucky enough to still have the same directing attorney. This meant I didn’t have to learn a new character or new direct questions. I was still playing Maddox Vaughn and Pat was my directing attorney.
The stakes of this season were high. In order to move on, we had to earn a bid. Essentially, we had one REALLY important tournament we had to score well at if we wanted to continue our season. If we messed up here, we would be done for the rest of the year.
We had one tournament before our regional tournament.
Anything that could have possibly gone wrong at this tournament went wrong.
To start our first round, we found out that our one witness, Grace, was not going to be able to compete at all that weekend. Then about an hour before the competition started, we got news that Grey was hospitalized. (He’s okay now!)
We were down two team members and had to adjust on the fly. One of our friends on C Team was free, so he covered for Grey. Laura wasn’t competing on the defense side, so she covered for Grace.
Despite all these odds, we somehow got third at this competition.
Tired from a weekend of sheer chaos, we began preparing for our regional tournament. While we were able to pull something together at the last tournament, we were at a pretty big disadvantage. We were going to use that tournament to see if we needed to switch anyone around, but with all the changes we had to make day of, we were unsure how things would work with our original assignments.
Things were tense during our regional tournament. We had some strange judges that made up rules. We were able to adjust and adapt for the most part. I really enjoyed the one judge’s ruling. Because she wouldn’t allow opposing counsel to ask any questions about prior convictions, the attorney crossing me was unable to ask half of her planned questions. This caught her off guard, which meant I got to mess around on my cross examination. She was so flustered she forgot how many drinks Maddox had that night. Instead of grilling me on the 7 drinks Maddox had, she was only able to get me to admit to having a single Vodka Redbull.
During tournaments, we are allowed to know our win loss record. Going into round 4, we had a record of 4-2 (4 wins and 2 losses).
In order to get a bid, in order to continue our season, we needed a record of 6-2.
We had to have a perfect final round.
They will only reveal how we did during round 4 during the awards ceremony.
I’ll let our reactions speak for ourselves.
Time Crunch
In the last post, I attached a picture of one of the teams I have been on this semester.
I have been on three teams so far, and I am up for a spot on a fourth later this semester. We restack teams to ensure we have the best people in the top positions. By the end of the year, we try to construct our “A team” of our best members.
Team Pascal was unstacked, teams were picked for fun, not competitive success. Up next is our pre-stacked teams. There were five teams I could have been on, Team Aag and Team Fuego were for higher scoring members while the other three were for lower ranking members.
Much to my surprise, as I have been doing Mock Trial for mere months, I was placed on Team Fuego. Even more surprising, immediately after finding out I made the team, I was told we had four days before we competed.
It took us a month to finish preparing our case for Team Pascal. We had to prepare everything in just four days!?
When I walked into my first Team Fuego practice, I met my new team members. We were all excited that we made the team, but the time crunch was killing the vibe.
Luckily, I was able to keep playing the same witness I played on Team Pascal. One of Pascal’s captains, Dan, spoke to my new captains about my portrayal of Maddox Vaughn. He thought I did a great job with it and suggested that I keep my part.
My new captains agreed and had me keep my role the same. This made my life so much easier as I just had to adapt my work, not create something new.
After our first meeting, we decided our defense theory. We were going to blame the fire on Skylar De Jong, an employee the defendant fired.
This was a fun theory to run as it required an alternative suspect. One of my teammates, Evan, played Skylar. He got to go on the stand and make himself seem as guilty as he could without flat out admitting to the fire. Unfortunately but understandably, there are rules against that. It would make the job of the defense much easier to have a witness admit to the crimes of the defendant.
Evan had also played this witness before, so he already knew what he was doing. We were able to patch our roles from our prior teams together to create a case we would know.
The four days passed and we were stressed. We got into our cars and started driving to Boston. On the ride there, we were still writing parts of our case! Even in the face of so much pressure, we still managed to have a good time! If I had to summarize the trip, I would say it was half stressful and half enjoyable.
The actual competition went a lot better than we expected it to. When we got to the awards ceremony, we were all on the edges of our seats. Did our five day old team actually score well?
Somehow we did. We left with a record of five wins, 2 losses and one tie. We got third place overall at the tournament! All of that stress was worth it!
Court Procedures Explained
Now that you have a basic understanding of the case, I want to explain how the competition works.
The goal of the competition is to convince the judges of your argument, but that is not how you win the trial. Trials are won based off of a point system. Performances are scored between 1-10 points. Each team member typically has a couple opportunities to earn points for their team.
Earning a 10 means your performance was excellent. A score of 1 is the exact opposite. Judges typically average scores at 7, but I have been in rounds where people have scored incredibly low. I once watched an attorney yell at a witness playing Alex Silva (if you remember from the last post, this is the best friend of the deceased). Screaming at a woman in mourning is a very good way to earn a 1.
This is the ballot judges use to score us. I’ll explain each section in more detail, but this is how we find out our scores. In total, a team can earn up to 140 points. Individual members have the opportunity to earn between 20-30 points total. Witnesses can earn 20 points; 10 for a direct examination and 10 for a cross examination. Attorneys can earn up to 30 depending on their specific role. Two attorneys on each team get to give a speech, which is 10 points. However, every attorney can also earn 10 points for a direct examination and 10 for a cross examination.
AMTA_Ballot (scroll to page 5)
Pre-trial
When we first sit down with our judges, we start what is known as pre-trial. Like the name implies, this portion of the competition happens before the trial starts. Since this is before the round starts, no points can be earned. However, first impressions are everything. A neat and well rehearsed pre-trial script will do wonders with judges.
This portion is used to explain any relevant rules and stipulations to the judges. An attorney from each team introduces themselves and their co-counsel to the judges. Then, they bring up the relevant case documents. After both sides finish, we can move on to the actual trial
Trial
First, the prosecution gives an opening speech then the defense gets to give their own. Opening speeches introduce the argument each side is bringing to debate.
The prosecution case doesn’t change much, they’re arguing that the defendant is guilty. There aren’t many unique ways to say “they did it.” On the other hand, the defense gets to argue why the defendant couldn’t have done it. Teams can use the alibi Maddox provides for Dakota and then blame someone else for the crime. I have seen teams blame Kiran, Skylar, or even Maddox! Once I watched a team argue “Where was the bank?” They were trying to convince the jury that someone from the bank Dakota owed money to came to repossess the bar at midnight, and accidentally dropped a lit cigarette and burned down the bar (they lost). The defense has a lot of creative freedom, which can be a good thing, or a catastrophe.
After this, the prosecution case in chief begins. The prosecution calls three witnesses. They get to direct examine each witness. This is when a prosecution attorney prepares questions with their witness and they get their information across. Then the defense gets to cross examine the witness. A defense attorney gets to ask them as many questions as they want. This gives the defense to bring some information to light and poke holes in the prosecution’s case.
Then, the defense gets to have their case in chief. They get to do exactly what the prosecution did, but the other way around.
Finally, closing arguments begin. An attorney from each team gets to argue their case one last time. This is a chance for each team to respond to the theory the other side has. For example, the defense will argue that Dakota has an alibi, the prosecution is lying to you. In response, the prosecution will remind you that Dakota’s alibi, Maddox, was seven drinks in and very close friends with Dakota.
After the speeches finish, the trial is over! The judges will give some general comments, but then you get to prepare for the next round!
Court is in Session
Each year, the American Mock Trial Association (lovingly known as AMTA) releases a PDF around 200 pages long. This document is organized the same way genuine criminal trial documents are, except all of our information is entirely fictional.
They try to keep the crimes interesting for us. Last year, the case was about a bride-to-be being poisoned the night before their wedding. A few years ago, the case was about an animal actor monkey mauling a man on a movie set.
This year’s case is about a struggling business owner and volunteer firefighter named Dakota Suttcliffe. Dakota bought a bar called Chuggies in 2019 and wanted to completely renovate the place. They took out a million dollar loan and got to work. However, the pandemic started just a few months after the renovations finished. Without any income, Dakota was unable to pay the bank. The night before the bank was supposed to repossess the bar, Chuggies burnt to the ground. During the fire, a firefighter named Jaylen Williams was crushed to death under the rubble.
That’s right, my first every collegiate mock trial case is an arson case.
Each side gets to call three witnesses total, but they get to chose who they want to bring. The case file AMTA gave us contains the affidavits (sworn statements saying what they saw the night of the fire/what they know about Dakota). Witnesses pretend to be the person who wrote the affidavit; we get to build personas of these people. I’ll give a brief description of the witnesses involved in this case.
Alex Silva is a firefighter and the best friend of the deceased Jaylen Wiliams. Silva has worked with Dakota for years. While Silva thinks that Dakota is a great firefighter, they did hear Dakota say some concerning things the night of the fire. Before anyone knew where the fire was going to be, Dakota loudly shouted “Sure hope it’s not my bar!” After hearing that Jaylen died while fighting the fire, Dakota screamed “This can’t be happening, it was all planned out! I just wanted to make this money pit better!” (If you haven’t noticed yet, Dakota is very subtle about the whole arson thing)
Kiran Sighn works at a hardware store across the street from Chuggies. While restocking on the night of the fire, Kiran noticed Dakota leaving the bar. About 15 minutes later, Kiran noticed Chuggies had burst into flames and called 911. However Kiran’s testimony might be biased. A few years ago, Kiran tried to get into Chuggies while underage. Dakota caught them and called the police. Is Kiran’s testimony motivated by revenge?
Skylar DeJong used to work at Chuggies bar before Dakota fired them. On the night of the fire, Skylar was taking a walk down town where they noticed Dakota walking from Chuggies to the fire-station moments before the fire alarms went off. Did Skylar actually see Dakota or are they testifying out of spite because of what Dakota did to them?
Tobin Johnson is a loyal employee of Chuggies. They have nothing but praise about Dakota as a boss. However, they saw Dakota start to panic as their debt amounted. Dakota even once referred to their 1.5 million dollar fire insurance policy as a backup plan. Is Tobin here because they truly think Dakota is innocent, or because Dakota offered them their job back if Dakota is able to reopen the bar?
Maddox Vaughn is a security guard at a nearby apartment building and a regular at Chuggies. On the night of the fire, Maddox saw Dakota at the Marina 20 minutes before the fire started, which is over an hour away from Chuggies. However, Maddox had 7 drinks that night and owes Dakota a lot. Maddox has three DUIs and the only reason they aren’t in jail currently is because of Dakota’s testimony at their trial.
While this is a brief rundown of an incredibly complex trial, I am curious to know what you think. Based off of this information, do you think Dakota did it?
Welcome
While I am very interested in the legal system and criminology, I am not here to bore you with lectures about the validity of crime statistics, or lack thereof. This website is essentially a journal of stories about my journey to learn about crime.
There are three places these stories will come from. Some will be about things I heard during lecture that caught me off guard. Others will be about my work as a research assistant in the criminology department. However, most of these will probably be about my role in the Penn State Mock Trial team.
Last semester I took Criminology/Scociology 12, which is an introduction to criminology. This semester I am taking Criminology 100, which is also an introduction to criminology. I have yet to see the difference in these classes, but I will let you know if that changes. I have also taken Criminology 197H, which is a special topics class about hate crimes. I absolutely loved this class and you will be hearing about it a lot in this blog. I am also in Criminology 249, which is a preparatory course for the major.
One of the reasons I love criminology is because of the professors. I’ll walk into a lecture about crime statistics and suddenly I’m hearing about a murder that the professor got to work on. I am rarely ever bored in these classes. If I hear something fun, you all will get to hear it too.
After I finished the class about hate crimes, the professor offered to let us to research with him. I immediately emailed him to find out more. I am unsure how much of the project I am allowed to share, but I will be gathering data from the FBI and collecting it into a spreadsheet to analyze later. When I find out how much I can share, I will tell you more. But for now, expect posts about this project to be about my frustration with data collection.
I auditioned for the Mock Trial team at the beginning of the year and it has kept me very busy. With the way our season works, we are about to enter our regional competitions. I’m going to have a lot to write about here.
Before I get any further, I should explain the basics of the program. At the beginning of the year, a fake case gets published. This contains rules of evidence, witness affidavits, and evidence. Every team is required to prepare both a prosecution case and a defense case. When we go to tournaments, we switch sides each round.
Teams are made up of attorneys and witnesses. Attorneys are rather self-explanatory; they pretend to be the lawyers. They give speeches, direct their witness, and cross examine the other witnesses. They also get to object to things the other team does.
I play a witness. We read the affidavit provided in the case materials and then pretend to be that person on the stand. In real court, witnesses are not as well prepared as we are. We work with one of our attorneys to prepare a direct examination, then we have to respond to the other team’s questions on cross examination.
The case we have this year is detailed enough that it deserves its own post. After that, I’ll tell you stories about our matches against other teams. But this is all the information I have time for now.