Ohio FPS State Bowl

[theishinator]

Hey everyone. I'm a first-time poster here, in my second year of FPS at the senior level (junior in high school). I was just posting about the Ohio FPS State Bowl

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[hortonhearsawho]

I'm from Ohio! Man, oh man, that whole ten teams thing was sad, sad, sad. I know at least for my school, we have tons of intermediate and junior people because that's when you do it as part of the gifted program, but then that program ends and you have to keep it up on your own in high school, which most people don't do.

This year I wrote a scenario as well as was on a team. While I don't want to announce my home town to everyone and their mother on the Interwebs, we're a senior team and won first for skits (four minutes of Broadway medley, so it was basically the best thing known to man) and second for packet. That was the first time since sixth grade I've qualified for IC in FPS, and I am sooooo pumped. I've gone for CPS three times, but I want to see the other side of competition. I won second for scenarios as well, which is fine and good with me. I've never wanted to do IC scenario competition. Write a story in two hours with three strangers is very much not my thing. I did get to go to IC when I was in sixth grade for the sole

[theishinator]

Ahhh. Actually, I think I know exactly who you are just from that.

I was the kid who sang "Tomorrow" during the skits. XD

[hortonhearsawho]

Oh I know you, too! I thought I recognized your team as being from Solon when you were doing your skit, but I wasn't sure. I always see all these people at States that I know I recognize from other bowls, but I have no idea who they actually are.

I liked your skit quite a bit. (And it also made me glad that we didn't do "Tomorrow" in ours, which was a definite possibility. ;) We were surprised there weren't more Rent songs, actually, considering the movie's release.)

What was your CPS project, again? I was zoned out from exhaustion, which happened way too often and I didn't even realize they were awarding Senior skits until they had called the third place people, when the beginning of the description was read, so I was seriously confused for the rest. I'm sure it was awesome, especially since you won first, so congratulations!!!

[theishinator]

Ah. Our CmPS project was "Quilting Our Community Together." XD It's somewhat very very girly but I do most of the computer stuff. I do quilt as well, though...

I'm glad that both teams get to go to IC though. ^^; There are no hard feelings now, which I was worried about, knowing there were only two senior teams for it.

And, pointing that out, I was the only male in both of the CmPS teams... XD

Haha. I'm very glad you didn't do "Tomorrow," too. The whole time we were worrying that someone else would. I really wish we wouldn'tve been forced to go last, though... we wanted to go first.

And your skit was very very awesome! I thought that most of the skits were very good... lol, the Star Wars themed ones were great. I actually considered doing that. lol.

[hortonhearsawho]

Ok, it's totally awesome that you quilt, so be proud! ;) I'm remembering more of what it was, now. It's quite cool.

Our other Senior team didn't get to go to IC, or place for skits. They were the ones where the girl just totally blanked at the end and the rest of her team for some bizarre reason didn't help her out with the words. It made sense though, after we talked to them. They had just finished writing that song and no one knew it very well. I felt awful for her

[titaniawaking]

We felt so bad for the girl who blanked. I was right in front of her and was trying to look encouraging, but she just looked like she felt so bad

[hortonhearsawho]

Our comment-posting timing is clearly lacking, here, as I said a whole bunch of things to you at the same time you did this. ohhh... that is how it goes

[titaniawaking]

We had just finished writing our songs, so we were mumbling them feverishly under our breath while other people were performing

[hortonhearsawho]

I was totally singing to myself the whole time, despite having gone over it again and again. We all were. Hah. Ohh skits

[theishinator]

Haha. I got my own room at the hotel (the one that was attached to the lame mall. :P The Comfort Inn.) because I was the only male. :P But then we all came into my room for the skit, so I ended up sleeping next to a bed full of props. XD

[titaniawaking]

Hahahaha, thanks about the banner. Here's what happened - we had a nice, normal felt banner like everyone else that we've used for the last couple of years, but when Mrs. M left her old room over the summer, she took it with her. The woman who is teaching in there now is our former middle school gifted teacher, who, although she is extremely nice, is - to quote Brian - "bat shit insane." Well, Mrs. M left the banner on said crazy teacher's desk with a bouquet of flowers last fall, with extra felt for us to fringe it if we wanted. I'm certain she did. She's always on top of things. We forgot to go pick it up earlier last week, so when we remember Thursday night, we decided to just swing by the elementary school and pick it up as we were leaving. Mr. Coach called just to make sure she was there, and she announces to him that no, she doesn't have the banner! She never had the banner! So, we make a zillion phone calls trying to track Mrs. M down to ask her about it. We finally do, and she's sure it was there. We go over, and Brian and I

[titaniawaking]

yeah, we thought of star wars, but we figured that everyone would do that. we kept calling it sith syndrom too. we meant to throw in a joke about "stith happens," but we forgot.