Youth Scrabble

Shall talk a bit of the last 2 days..

Friday:
Quite a short day (lesson-wise), but a super long day for me. PE owns, cos Mr. Loh wasn't here and Mr. Quek took over. After the quick height and weight session, where my reading was 180cm and 55.2kg, we went on to soccer.

And yes, soccer rocks. Right at the very start, we and Faizal played with slick passing, but someone one of us always screw up the finisher (most of the times was me >.<) But then, towards the middle of the game, Faizal took a throw in. As the ball arced high through the air, my 180cm frame outjumped keeper Kenneth Ngoh's hands, and I headed the ball into the goal.

GOAL!! Header!! Haha 2nd time I scored like this in RI (first time was sec 1, but I was only like 160cm)

After school, I had to complete the orchestrating of our RE composition, because Jon Shin just happily went to Germany during this time, and will be back on the 10th when all the fuss dies down. Stayed in the artspace (design centre) PC lab from 1pm to 9.30pm, and the damn thing still wasn't complete. Will be going back on monday.. zzz

SATURDAY
National Youth Scrabble Competition

After winning the National Schools, I haven't touched a single Scrabble set until today.

1st round: Played Woodgrove secondary. Really easy match. I played legitimately and won with a spread of 400++. Kenneth, Xuewen and Renwei just took advantage and spammed illegitimate bingos. Haha, kena scolded by Mr. Austin after that.
Bingo count: 3

2nd round: Played Marsling team 6. Still quite an easy match, but newbie renwei lost. Still won by quite a lot.
Bingo count: 6

3rd round: Played Victoria School, National Schools 2nd place. So its literally a fight between 1st placed and 2nd placed. They had 4 players, so Xuewen sat out. I played their pro-est guy, and I hate myself for forgetting what was SATIRE G. So damn out of practice!!! But still, after being down by 80 points, I had 2 bingos, and then closed the board like crap. No where to place any more tiles, so I won the game by like 39 points.
Haiwei and Renwei lost. Overall: 3-2 victory
Bingo count: 8

4th round: SJI. I got sabotaged to play their strongest guy again, Keith, whom I must admit is a decent player but not an exceptionally strong one. I just had super bad luck. I'm sure after having a rack of TINES, after 5 turns still cannot bingo. Super bad luck, really. Keep drawing random consonants, or stupid vowels like II and UU. When the bag was empty, my 7 tiles on my rack showed a bingo. I was down by 40 points, meaning if I clear, I win. But crap, there wasn't any place to put my BEAVERS. Lost by 13 points, yes I'm really not convinced, my luck was really bad.
Bingo count: 11

Final round: St. Nicks. (My sister's ex school, kenneth's sister's school, Thomas' sister's school) After winning the first 4 rounds 5-0, 4-1, 3-2, 4-1, we came against St. Nicks, the team which me and Kenneth played last year to a 1-4 devastating defeat, dashing our hopes of entering the finals.

We just sat around randomly (Kenneth chose to play Renyue, i wonder why O.o). She reminds me of Cheriel and the other GEP girls in primary school, so talkative >.< My opponent was Virya, not sure of her nationality. Her name certainly doesn't look Singaporean.

I had a small lead at the start, until she played her bingo. I waited quite a long time to get mine, managed to catch up a bit. I hate myself for being so out of practice. I forgot my 2 letters, 3 letters, and stems. Challenged her words like 6-7 times, most of them were 3 letter words, and they were all accepted. Gave her like 15 points free, and in the end I lost by 11 points -.-

Okok, it was a painful loss, but this time I only got myself to blame for not mugging and practicing more. 2nd game I lost in 2 years, first one was the unconvincing loss to Keith from SJI. I manged to beat St. Nicks last year!?! Haiz...

Bingo count: 13
Dang! what an unlucky number.

The 1-4 result from last year was unchanged, this time it was Haiwei who won..

After this morale-diminishing defeat, Xuewen, Kenneth and Renwei (who lost by 200 points to someone who didn't know how to swap tiles) left for home, even though I offered them a free lift when my dad comes later. Surprise surprise, we got 4th. So Haiwei and Me had to act like retards and go up to stage and collect the prizes.

Congrats to St. Nicks for getting 3rd, and thanks to Virya for letting me know that PYA is a word and many more..

Lastly, congrats to the RI sec 1 team who got 1st. You guys gave up your spot to let us sec 4s participate in the nationals, where we got first, so this time we return the favour to you? Haha congrats.


Crap.. I really hate myself. Hopefully I can do better in the Rubik's cube competition (One-handed category) in September if I choose to participate.