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I got third at a local contest...

You got second at a state contest...

You don't see me criticizing myself for it. I know I'm going to do much better next year, and will actually practice with the robot our team builds...

My team got first in a regional comp and third in a state competition. Not for writting or robotics, but for parlimentary precedure...for those who dont know what that is imagine taking a test on a book about as thick as brick and about as big as a chemistry text book and ahving to knwo it in and out, then doing a mock buisness meeting following the rules set forht in that book to a T...not as hard or easy as it may sound but still a pain in the ass....but I do congratulate Ex on his awesome writting ability.

Somewhere, there is a site I was on, and you spent all your time entering your writings into it...I should look it up, but I need the password first....mine doesn't work anymore.

I qualified for first in the local and second in state.

Before you bight my face off for being so down, here are the reasons I am a tad miffed at the whole ordeal.

1) I was expecting the state to be like the local oration contest, in front of four judges who really knew their history and are not necessarily the youngest in the world. Instead I was subjected to the harsh reality of standing in front of an ENTIRE BANQUETT! Two hundred or plus people in uniform staring holes at me. Do not give me wrong, I wrote my own grandfathers eulogy and read it out loud at his funeral. Over a thousand were there. It was the matter that I was content with the fact of delivering this speech in front of five people.

2) The guy that I ran against won state three times in the row. I apparently was incredibly close to winning, but fell short only by a few points. They basically admitted to me the reason I lost was because they wanted to send this figure to nationals again and I did an outstanding job. That augmented sense of accomplishment I was longing for became depleted. Normally I would feel ecstatic that I placed second in STATE, but some observations made by my mother robbed me of such experiences. He messed up during his speech for starters, he ran three times in a row and that was against the rules last time I checked, and above all he used that speech all of the three times consecutively. Here I stood first time contestant and I had to run against a figure who perfected his speech to the T simply because of repetition and redundancy.

Do not be mislead by my statement this character was not a bad fellow. I shook his hand afterwards and he said I did really well. His father even congratulated me. So with about ninety bucks given to me because of travel time, we went home.

I could not and cannot still feel a tad misinformed and weird about the entire scenario, but at least I have some experience with this under my belt.

I hate it when judges misgive points just because of their familiraty with a compeditor...

Same thing happens with our band at MSU compititions. That is, we get screwed over...

Sorry that happened to you. What I would do is go over to that persons house and kill him or her...