Supplemental & Consolation Events
For supplemental events, we went to Green Valley High School, along with the rest of the Maine qualifiers. We all basically sat together. all the other Maine qualifiers sat together. I performed an expository speech about email spam and a prose piece called “What is the What.” Kim was entered in prose and poetry. She accidentally missed a round of prose and did not break with her poetry piece, so she was done after two rounds of competition.
My day would last much longer. Kim and some other Maine people passed the time with card games as I waited for postings after every round. I broke with both my prose and expository after round 2, and with my prose after round 3. If I was able to last one more round in prose, I would have been able to continue with it into Thursday. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen, but I was glad to last 4 rounds nonetheless. Between rounds, I was also able to hang out with some people from James Logan High School (the Skowhegan of nationals).
I didn’t get out until around 8:00, when we decided to go to the top of the Stratosphere. It is a really tall tower along the Strip, with some scary rides on the top. We avoided those rides, but we got to see the great view from the top of the tower. From that height, you can see all the desert lights.
During the next day of consolation events, Kim and I only lasted one round in our respective events. My storytelling piece was up against converted HIs and children stories, which was unfortunate. Kim was also stuck with really bad Vegas-themed impromptu topics. Oh well…
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Hi, I'm Neil! I'm passionate about building delightful products at scale, creating music, and performing in theatre and comedy shows.
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