"Woe! Woe to me! I have to do my funny piece after a tragedy!?"
I hear it all the time.... Students doing dramatic material bemoan the fact that funny wins. Students doing funny material hate walking into a room where judges are wiping away tears. If Dramatic Interpretation and Humorous Interpretation are separated into different rooms, the conflict doesn't occur, but I maintain that there is room for every place on the emotional spectrum in Open Interpretation...