One scene that I thought worked really well this year was the 'Spirit of the Law' trial scene. I saw it run four times. Two of my teams answered it in less than two minutes (one guilty, one innocent!). But they weren't role-playing at all and neither of them advanced.

My other two teams took considerably more time. One actually did a 'Six Angry Men'! At one point they were 5-1 in favor of guilty, and the lone hold-out was able to convince them all to switch their vote, back to 5-1 innocent, and finally 6-0. (I was a prick and told them they had to be unanimous.) This team made it to the semi.

My last team spent a good fifteen minutes arguing this, all in character. It was Miles and Shu Mei standing against four 'innocent' votes. I didn't have to do anything but answer an occasional question. And I LOVED it! Watching the arguments going back and forth between the characters (NOT the players!). Shu Mei was stuffing money into the man's pockets while apologizing for her guilty vote! They couldn't be swayed, so the judge declared a hung jury. Sure, they didn't get the points for finding him innocent, but they got lots of role-play points out of it. I think they came out ahead! Some of their core members made it to the final, and placed 5th (Tuskernana!).

Scenes like this really show the true role-playing teams.