Texas State University down in San Marcos has been running a hostage negotiation competition.
Now, I was not aware hostage negotiation was a competitive sport. My first question was, “How do you judge this? Number of ‘dead’ bodies at the end?”
During the competition, which continues today , each team works to resolve the same hostage scenario, and judges grade each team using the same criteria, which include composure while negotiating and ability to get terrorists talking during phone calls.
So this is like Olympic gymnastics without the Chinese judges. Good to know.
I’m waiting for next year’s event to show up on ESPN 8, “The Ocho”.