Hot-blooded

I have found that I enjoy direct elimination tournaments more than pod tournaments. Pod tournaments, I see now, are like removing the burning blood from competitive tournaments, which is sort of boring.

Only when you get past the nasty taste of having rigged all the pods against all the little children can you really begin to enjoy the full glory of the direct elimination tournament. When Forrest first saw he was in a pod against Dylan, first he thought it was a joke, then he thought we were insulting him, and then when he found out the truth he felt all bad for having beat Dylan. I agree, it is a cruel aspect of the tournament, but a necessary one. Otherwise, the direct elimination brackets would be all screwy and bizarre. You see, the second best person will be kicked out when he meets the best person, right? So therefore it should be arranged so that the second best person will meet the best person in the final round of the tournament.

Speaking of bizarre and screwy, it was pretty bad today. This was mostly caused because one of our directors flipped the outcome of one of the matches so that Annie beat Matthew instead of the other way around, which was how it actually happened. Therefore, Annie placed in the top 8. Her first match she lost, though, so therefore Dylan, ranked below 8th, advanced to the second round and made the matchings all funny. It also meant that someone better than Dylan who should have been in that spot was kicked out in the first round. SAD FACE!!! :(

Another weird coincedence was that all the aggressive fencers were on one half and all the defensive fencers were on the other half. One half had Elliot, Quinn, Aaron, Alex, Forrest, Etc. The other half had Dylan, Annie, Emerald, David, Etc. Jacob was in with the defensive half and at one point asked me why that was. I just stared at the brackets for a while and said something non-obligatory. Whatever.

The best part that was by the time you got to the final four matches, there were only the four best fencers, who today were Elliot, Jacob, Quinn, and David. The matches were hot-blooded and manly and full of fighting spirit and stuff. Twas epic.