Day four, the final and last day was again rough though we were finally able to function correctly despite the fact that we lost both of our matches putting us at a rank of 61 out of 100 and with a streak of 3-5 win-loss. We didn't do as badly as possible, but not as well as we had wanted. But no matter after we were done playing our matches we were able to watch the picking for our field Curie. Some weird things happened including a strategy called "scorched earth" which involved the top seed team in our division to be turned down by 4 teams (also in the top 8). There we so many ooooooooooooo's and ahhhhhhhhh's and snickering going on in the audience the entire time. After picking the team ended up splitting up to watch the other divisions due to the fact that there were more exciting matches to be watched. I headed over to Galileo is Casey and Collin when we got to watch Casey's old Minnesota team 2175 the Fighting Calculators and 2474 Team Excel which happened to be Ellie's, my good friend from Conserve, younger brother's team! The two teams that we were rooting for ended up in the semi finals playing against each other, but with 2175 winning out with the score of 156 to 117. It was so close every time and you never knew which team was going to win. Most definitely a nail biter and kept you on the edge of you seat the whole entire time.
After all of the fields finished holding their elims and found their top alliance everyone headed over to the Einstein field to watch some of the most high scoring matches that I have EVER seen live. Interestingly enough one of the matched involved a weird mistake where the alliance from Archimedes was supposed to go on to the finals but due to a miscount in the scoring Galileo went on to the finals and ended up winning the entire title! During the whole thing there was lots of dancing and cheering and air planes flying through the air from the nosebleed section of the dome. Someone actually managed to get a plane into the 5 point goal on the pyramid making the whole crowd go wild.
After the matches we battled the crowd in the rain over to the science center where there was an after party finale. Let's just say that I know how people on Black Friday feel. I have never wanted to get out a a place so badly. Also, the rain made it slightly more miserable on the school bus to and from because of the traffic and all the humidity building up in the bus. Apparently it has rained on the last day of comp for the past several years and is a bit of a tradition... weird right?
In the end I couldn't have asked for such an experience despite the multiple challenges that we encountered due to, perhaps, the curse of Curie that went on unbroken. Time to get excited for next season already!
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