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Ah... I just took a refreshing nap after our day at science bowl.
This morning we were still trying to pull off magical last-minute studying. Not sure it helped, but yeah.
So, we were in the auditorium, and I was falling asleep! And then there's that photographer lady running around snapping like 10 of the same picture of everyone. Our team wasn't drawn for a looong time, and we were down to two slots. One was to play with 2 horrible teams and 2 teams that we haven't heard of before, and the other was to play with our great Irvington buddies and their assortment of Harker, Los Gatos, Los Altos, etc. We were safe, and I think I yelped out with joy. Art supposedly heard me 10 rows up.
First round was our lucky bye. We go scouting, and find that the round 1 questions were reeeaaally easy, and one of the teams we watched (lowell?) had a crazy captain (oh yeah, it seems like the captains of other teams always seem to be really good. Or at least faaar better than the rest of their team). We're feeling optimistic, and go to our first round.
A group of white guys, we see. 3 tall and a shorty. We're feeling good, and the competition starts. Unfortunately, The white kids of alcalanes were really fast, and good at guessing to boot (buzzing in at "which of the following is the most question" at w!). We lose and hope to death that Lick is a horrible school.
At least that school was noob. In the beginning one of the other team's members answers "what is 'b'" so they have to be noob.
After that we played Monterey. We beat them by a lot, and they start randomly guessing. Another point for us.
Third round is Vacaville! Let's just say, we were pathetic. We were probably overconfident, reckless, and so on. Luckily, we won.
Woooo. Lunch time! I eat up two sandwiches and a brownie. Really wish SLAC had provided as much food as last year though. This year the freebies bag was ehhhhhhhhhhhh-mpty (like no freebies, and the shirt is still kind of ugly). We chill for the rest of the hour.
Well, after lunch we play our first elimination round against Kennedy. w00t. They were all sophomores, and we were playing as we should perform. After the first half, the only points the other team got were in part due to our interrupts, and we win. Blood starts pumping.
Can you say "de ja vu"? Our following round is against Alcalanes 1 again, and in the same room too! We know we can beat them (at least we had to tell ourselves that), and sit in for a very close 20 minutes. After Alcalanes answers some questions wrong, they must have gotten nervous, as they started trying to dispute all of our answers. "No, 1 root is not 1 x-intercept." lol. that guy deserves to get slapped. Well, both of our teams buzzed in pretty fast, and we come down to the last second with Alcalanes trying the bonus for the win. They answer incorrectly and all our Irvington people celebrate. We're so close! Or we would have liked to believe.
Last round was full of random questions and terms that we had never heard of before, and we lost to Lincoln school of San Fran. Sigh. Day over. All the ride home Siarhei wants us to party... asian host by the way... at Avalon at midnight. Agrawal's replies, "my parents already think I do drugs." I don't think any of us are going.
Oh well, props to our other Irvington team. 2 wins against a tough field plus almost beating Harker? Also, it was also nice that only one moderator this year seemed kind of clueless.
And slops to SLAC's lack of funding.
This morning we were still trying to pull off magical last-minute studying. Not sure it helped, but yeah.
So, we were in the auditorium, and I was falling asleep! And then there's that photographer lady running around snapping like 10 of the same picture of everyone. Our team wasn't drawn for a looong time, and we were down to two slots. One was to play with 2 horrible teams and 2 teams that we haven't heard of before, and the other was to play with our great Irvington buddies and their assortment of Harker, Los Gatos, Los Altos, etc. We were safe, and I think I yelped out with joy. Art supposedly heard me 10 rows up.
First round was our lucky bye. We go scouting, and find that the round 1 questions were reeeaaally easy, and one of the teams we watched (lowell?) had a crazy captain (oh yeah, it seems like the captains of other teams always seem to be really good. Or at least faaar better than the rest of their team). We're feeling optimistic, and go to our first round.
A group of white guys, we see. 3 tall and a shorty. We're feeling good, and the competition starts. Unfortunately, The white kids of alcalanes were really fast, and good at guessing to boot (buzzing in at "which of the following is the most question" at w!). We lose and hope to death that Lick is a horrible school.
At least that school was noob. In the beginning one of the other team's members answers "what is 'b'" so they have to be noob.
After that we played Monterey. We beat them by a lot, and they start randomly guessing. Another point for us.
Third round is Vacaville! Let's just say, we were pathetic. We were probably overconfident, reckless, and so on. Luckily, we won.
Woooo. Lunch time! I eat up two sandwiches and a brownie. Really wish SLAC had provided as much food as last year though. This year the freebies bag was ehhhhhhhhhhhh-mpty (like no freebies, and the shirt is still kind of ugly). We chill for the rest of the hour.
Well, after lunch we play our first elimination round against Kennedy. w00t. They were all sophomores, and we were playing as we should perform. After the first half, the only points the other team got were in part due to our interrupts, and we win. Blood starts pumping.
Can you say "de ja vu"? Our following round is against Alcalanes 1 again, and in the same room too! We know we can beat them (at least we had to tell ourselves that), and sit in for a very close 20 minutes. After Alcalanes answers some questions wrong, they must have gotten nervous, as they started trying to dispute all of our answers. "No, 1 root is not 1 x-intercept." lol. that guy deserves to get slapped. Well, both of our teams buzzed in pretty fast, and we come down to the last second with Alcalanes trying the bonus for the win. They answer incorrectly and all our Irvington people celebrate. We're so close! Or we would have liked to believe.
Last round was full of random questions and terms that we had never heard of before, and we lost to Lincoln school of San Fran. Sigh. Day over. All the ride home Siarhei wants us to party... asian host by the way... at Avalon at midnight. Agrawal's replies, "my parents already think I do drugs." I don't think any of us are going.
Oh well, props to our other Irvington team. 2 wins against a tough field plus almost beating Harker? Also, it was also nice that only one moderator this year seemed kind of clueless.
And slops to SLAC's lack of funding.