The two-minute page · 120 seconds
A real stem, two minutes, and the page. Then the stem disappears and the page is marked - not your answer, the page. Getting ? and ★ down under a clock is a separate skill from answering well, and it is the one that fails first.
The opener · 40 lines
One sentence per theme, said before the story starts. A panel seeing twenty-five people in a day remembers the reframe, not the case. These commit you to nothing, so they are safe to say while you decide which story to tell.
Name the story · 5 seconds each
Thirty prompts. Five seconds to name a story - not tell it, name it. If you hesitate, that’s a gap. More than six blanks and everything else can wait.
CV quickfire · 60 seconds each
Eighteen questions, sixty seconds flat. Trains compression - with a CV this dense, over-talking is the recorded failure mode.