2026 Crossman Invitational Day 2 (IEs/IPDA/LD)

El Camino College - Oct 18 | Status: Completed

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  B. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    I always tell students that it is what you learn after you know it all that counts. --Harry S. Truman Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. --John F. Kennedy I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. --Franklin D. Roosevelt

  2. Speaker 2


    Do your best, history will do the rest. --Harry S. Truman Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. --John F. Kennedy We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” --Franklin D. Roosevelt

  3. Speaker 3


    I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another. --Harry S. Truman Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. --John F. Kennedy Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. --Franklin D. Roosevelt

  4. Speaker 4


    Criticism is something [a president] gets every day, just like breakfast. --Harry S. Truman A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. --John F. Kennedy A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. --Franklin D. Roosevelt

  5. Speaker 5


    It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; is a depression when you lose your own. --Harry S. Truman Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. --John F. Kennedy Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. --Franklin D. Roosevelt

  6. Speaker 6


    Men make history. History does not make the man. --Harry S. Truman Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain. --John F. Kennedy Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. --Franklin D. Roosevelt

Round 2 at 2pm

  1. Speaker 1


    You can't always get what you want, but if you try, sometimes, you might find you get what you need. --Rolling Stones. You Can’t Always Get What You Want I’m addicted to the ‘if only. --Taylor Swift. I Look In People’s Windows To live and not to breathe is to die in tragedy. --Green Day. Tales of Another Broken Home”

  2. Speaker 2


    Lose your dream, you lose your mind. --Rolling Stones. Ruby Tuesday People throw rocks at things that shine. --Taylor Swift. Ours I walk a lonely road. --Green Day. Boulevard of Broken Dreams

  3. Speaker 3


    Wild horses couldn't drag me away. --Rolling Stones. Wild Horses Everything you lose is a step you take. --Taylor Swift. You’re On Your Own Kid And there’s nothin’ wrong with me. This is how I’m supposed to be.” --Green Day. Jesus of Suburbia

  4. Speaker 4


    Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste. --Rolling Stones. Sympathy for the Devil And if you never bleed, you’re never gonna grow. --Taylor Swift. The 1 I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies. --Green Day. Holiday.

  5. Speaker 5


    Your mouth don't move but I can hear you speak. --Rolling Stones. Rocks Off I’ve never been a natural. All I do is try, try, try. --Taylor Swift. Mirrorball On my own, here we go. --Green Day. Brain Stew

  6. Speaker 6


    I will be your knight in shining armor, riding across the desert with a fine Arab charger --Rolling Stones. Emotional Rescue Hell was the journey, but it brought me heaven. --Taylor Swift. Invisible String, It’s not over ’til you’re underground. It’s not over before it’s too late. --Green Day. Letterbomb

Finals

  1. Speaker 1


    You will meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.- Lester Bangs in the film Almost Famous (Favorite of Mark Crossman) I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw. - Willie Mays (Favorite of Diana Crossman)

  2. Speaker 2


    Sometimes you are the Louisville slugger, sometimes you are the ball. - Mark Knopfler (Favorite of Mark Crossman) The best man for the job is a woman. - Golda Meir (Favorite of Diana Crossman)

  3. Speaker 3


    What one person can do, another can do. - Line from the film The Edge (Favorite of Mark Crossman) You’ll have to choose-time or money. - Roy Davenport (Favorite of Diana Crossman)

  4. Speaker 4


    If you let the round get close don’t blame the judge when you lose. - Mark Crossman When a door closes, a window opens. – attributed to Alexander Graham Bell (Favorite of Diana Crossman)

  5. Speaker 5


    Every now and then, somewhere, someplace, sometime, you are going to have to plant your feet, stand firm, and make a point about who you are and what you believe in. - Lee Riley (Favorite of Mark Crossman) As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields. - Tolstoy (Favorite of Diana Crossman)

  6. Speaker 6


    Good work is the key to good fortune. Winners take that praise, losers seldom that blame. - Neil Peart (Favorite of Mark Crossman) There is always someone who knows better than you what you meant. - Osmo Wilo (Favorite of Diana Crossman)

  7. Speaker 7


    Be curious, not judgmental. --Ted Lasso (Favorite of Mark Crossman) Every cloud has a silver lining. - John Wilton (Favorite of Diana Crossman)