FML, fo real

So after the awesome beginning to the weekend with my hard drive crash on Friday, I went to volunteer on Sunday at the National Science Bowl. Why? Because I'm just that cool.

I was the scorekeeper and basically marked the score on this massive flipchart. The training session in the morning was pretty intimidating and it seemed pretty hard since there's a bunch of rules and different ways each question can be scored, but it wasn't that bad once you got the hang of it. I also figured out that coaches from both teams are also keeping track and there's an official "rules judge" who also keeps score, so you're not alone - and if you fuck up, people will let you know immediately. Out of 9 rounds, I only messed up twice, which isn't bad at all.

I'm not sure how the teams are created, but it seemed like every team had 1 or 2 good people, and the rest were just sort of there for the free trip. There was probably 1 person on every team who didn't answer a single question.

My favorite part of the rounds was definitely the bonus questions cause you heard them actually discussing the question. It was great when everyone on the team was just as clueless about the question as the audience ;)

My favorite team was The Meadows School from Las Vegas. Shoutout! I don't think they won any games, but they had the most personality, and they had 2 cute, but kinda dumb, Indian girls.

So the tournament was pretty fun and interesting for the first 7 rounds. After that, I was done. They only gave us food in the morning, so I had a massive headache and was really tired by Round 8. On the way home, I got into a car accident. I was getting on the highway when I hit a slick spot and my car turned 90 degrees and half of it ended up on the pavement. I was about to back out again onto the highway when an oncoming car hit me. Fun times. I'm fine though, and so is the other guy. But my car's done, and it's officially time to get a new one.

We're getting an estimate for the damage tomorrow, but there's really no rational reason to get it fixed since it's old and its time has passed.

It's been a great weekend. Hope yours was just as eventful!