My First Easters

Thus ended my first Easters. It was one great tournament. Sure they could have served us more edible food but, what the heck. First, the summary of the debates. We were against Melbourne 4 and lost due to a strategic error. This was followed by a string of wins against UNSW 3, UQ 3, Monash 2 and Melbourne 2. After going against almost all unis, I commented to my mates that we haven't gone against the hosts. Lo and behold, we were up against Sydney 1. We lost that round but we felt we did good.
After the debates were done, break night beckoned. The listing of teams was made up of mostly UQ, Sydney and Melbourne. Then, we heard ANU being announced. I didn't hear the team number but everyone said it was ANU 2. I'd have to concede that I was depressed as I was, to a certain extent confident to break. Danni came by to congratulate me for breaking. I told him I didn't break. After sitting around thinking of my non-breaking, me and my teammate felt we should get some feedback from our silent round judge. After talking to our judge, we felt that we might have had good speaker points. There was doubt in us, so we went to the tab director to check on the breaking teams.
I was so shocked to find out ANU 3 were the ones who broke. I was repeating OMG! over and over again. We then went to sleep early in hopes of achieving something.
Next morning started well and we had to go against Melbourne 7. After 1 win and 1 loss against Melbourne, there was a 50-50 chance to actually win this octo-finals.
Unfortunately we lost to them for lack of engagement with the affirmative. Therefore, that ended our hopes of actually defending ANU's title last year.
Regardless of the loss, the experience helped a lot in my debating and getting to know people. The event was made great with some UWA girls doing a lot of crazy stuffs that even the ANU kids didn't do for scav hunt. Also watched a drinking game that was made so freaking funny as everyone were debaters. When people had to name countries, people started questioning about the legality of using Taiwan and Palestine. The game became a wacky game as as it turns out, people weren't tired of debating yet and would probably have done more if the game hadn't ended. In the end, the event was made great as I got to know people, even those from ANU even more as I have to admit that I haven't even met some of them before coming to Easters.

Till next time,

Ciao!

Comments

[Lutfi Belwael]

whoa.

[Shin Yau]

good job Afiq..i keep picturing u as the world's top debator one day...then i can proudly tell my children that I'm the friend of such a great person =D

[Afiq]

Thanks Yeam, I hope so too!