Allright, well let's just say I don't want to talk about the rest of the tournament much either, but they say confession is good for the soul. To put it plainly, we discovered a little to late to do much about it, that the tournament had been created for the sole purpose of qualifying kids who go to school in the not-so-great-Houston area or H-Crap-Town, for short. I lost my semis round to a freshman with out a brain or an xpando, at least that is what the judge from HIS OWN SCHOOL SAID...and since my "panel" mysteriously disappeared before the round, that's all we have to go on. Needless to say, I did not get my nationals bid and I don't think I'm a big fan of Houston anymore. [Jeremy, Joy, and Casey - sorry]
As far as extemp goes, my speech was allright, but I lost first place to an extemper from the co-hosting school, and parli really sucked. Josh and I CLEARLY DESSIMATED the team from the co-host school in semis, but the assistant - tournament director didn't seem to think so. In fact, this is something he made quite clear on his ballot after he had
1) started my prep time in extemp FINALS without me &
2) made our parli panel disappear too...
So, I end up with 3rd in LD & 2nd in Extemp. Josh and I get our 3rd place Parli trophies, and Layne won Communication Analysis...but there were only two people...still cool though - props Layne! He also got the top novice award in Communication Analysis and Brandon Smith got the top novice award in Extemp. Then we went to IHOP and oh well.
Funny story: when Jeremy Gordon told the U of H Coach he was our assistant coach...very funny indeed
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