So what have I become, a maniacal debate blogger who can’t post about anything aside from the latest tournament?

Hopefully not.  However, I find that speech and debate has become an inevitable part of my life (and not an altogether bad one).  When life hands you a lemon, just…have some more root beer, right?

(I did not just quote Veggie Tales, y’all.  Really.)

Down to business.  The tournament was pretty uneventful on my end of things, so don’t ask.  I have the distinguished honor of being one of two ARC members not to recieve any sort of award, the second being my twelve-year-old sister.

So let’s talk about the cool people.  As a club, ARC came away from this tournament with seven first-place trophies–that’s seven of twelve events.  My sister Toni competed in three events and won first in all three (talk about coolness).  Then, of course, lots of other cool people pictured above won various awards in various events, and all of them worked hard to do it.  I can’t believe how fabulous everyone did!

The road trip there and back was undoubtedly a huge part of the whole event.  We took the back seat out of our fifteen-Weary travelers in McDonaldspassenger van, creating an eleven-passenger van with a good amount of storage to get eleven people and a good amount of luggage to New Mexico.  The experience shed a new light on the expression “packed like sardines in a can.”  Needless to say, we all grew very close during the trip.  I learned that leg room is expendable, laughing is a must, and Enya is great for the middle of the afternoon when you feel like falling asleep.

And…that’s about it.  Let’s hope this blog won’t suffer during the National Open tournament next week.

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