UBC Debate Tournament Part 1

On Friday I left at 2:30pm for the UBC Debate Tournament! Most of our teams bused with Mr. Hauck and we got to the place in about 30-40 minutes approx. Anyways, we checked in at one  building, and then moved to another building. We weren't exactly on schedule because there were so many things that the committee had to take care off! There were more than 400 people there and over 100 teams, and some of them were even from the NorthWest territories and Manitoba! I knew right then that it was gonna be an intense and fun tournament. After approx. an hour of waiting we finally got our code: Shannon. My team was Shannon D. We were sent off to debate in other builders and different rooms. Our first round was.so.EASY. We debated on "be it resolved that schools cut funding to the arts" and we were on the opposition side. Our opponents were two guys and we totally CRUSHED them. Our team was awesome because our reasons were reasonable and supportive. Lucky for us, our opponents modeled the "cutting funding to the arts" as totally ELIMINATING the arts. When they said that I was like YESSSSSSSSSSS! We are so gonna win this round! Anyways, we totally ruled that round.

After the first round we returned to the main building for dinner. I had three slices of pizza and pop. Then we got our new opponents and new debating rooms. Our opponents were Eric Hamber mini-school students. But------here's the funny part. The two teams got together because we were trying to find our room. But our room was on the other side of the building and the entrance was LOCKED. we went outside again and checked different entrances and they were all LOCKED. So we returned back to the building and wandered around the building trying to find the room. Then we asked this janitor dude and he opened the door so that we could enter the other side of the building and we finally found our room----but it was LOCKED as well! Both teams were in the danger of being disqualified. The thing was, the committee ppl put down the wrong room number! We tried to guess the rooms...but didn't have any luck. But there was one judge who was missing one team so my team and our opponents went instead. That was a pretty close debate! The guy speaker was really good. The girl was a bit...well, not as good as the guy, but overall it was just a fun debate and it was definitely better to face opponents like them, who are more worthy and fun!

After the second round we went home and by the time I got home it was like 11:00 and I was absolutely TIRED. I went to sleep right away so that I could prepare for Saturday's rounds.