WEEKEND POST no2: 2nd Place, ECE Quizard

Friday, 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM

He he...
Maybe Something Fishy (read previous post) really had something fishy in their food that gave me good luck.

Yan ang team namin - Tanya, Ako, Allan. And WE are the BEST... ever! It really was TEAM effort that gave us the win, and of course the prayers. You cannot single out any person and say that he/she is the most deserving. We all contributed to get those medals and that trophy!

So what happened?
There were three rounds with seven, ONLY SEVEN, questions each. A question was either trivia/objective (5pts), or problem solving (15 pts). We were able to solve pretty much everything during the 1st round. We missed 1 objective beacuse we really didn't know the answer, and 1 problem solving due to some technicality (I changed our answer from 'C' to 'D' and the stupid things was, I didn't cross out 'C'. I wrote 'D' directly above it. I wrote it over and over so it'll stand it out. It did. But the judges can still see the 'C', and unfortunately for us, they did not consider.). Two teams got perfect and La Salle missed an objective question. There were like 20 other schools who were ahead of us after round1 because of that stupid question (it was worth 15 points).

We got perfect during the 2nd round. That put us inside the top 6 (the top six will qualify for the national final).

The third round was really hard. We only had 40 points out of 65. XYZ university scored 50+ but they were really out of the match since round 1. The good thing was, La Salle only scored 30! Adding our lead in round 2 (where they missed an objective question), we had equal scores and we were tied for 1st!

You know how the story ended. You know that we lost the tie break. But we did not feel bad about it. You see, we came from behind. UP Diliman came from the point of being defeated by ABC Colleges and XYZ Universities, to the point of fighting for the top spot. That alone, was an acoomplishment. I know that we could have been 1st (if only they considered one of our answers back in rnd1). But it doesn't matter now. Masaya kami kasi nakabawi kami.

To give credit dun sa reviewer namin, heto si Lyand! ha ha. Alternate siya pero 'di kami nagpapalit... He also got a medal.. :D

Sa mga magpapalibre, WALANG CASH PRIZE! They only had two sponsors! PERC review center as the major sponsor, and another review center as the minor. Get the picture?