We lost today. I knew it was a bad sign when we found out we were in Johnson's room again, but asdf. We were against Bryanna Noda's team, and I think we really either underestimated them or got overconfident from yesterday. The questions were so much harder -- I hardly knew anything -- and they were getting all the lightning rounds (basketball teams, song artists). It was even more frustrating, since Johnson and Masters are less-than-competent proctors, or whatever you call them. They took so long to ask the actual questions since they kept talking amongst themselves, and they kept throwing out questions for stupid reasons. And then at the end, they said we were tied. Johnson gave us one last question, Bryanna Noda's flag shot up and she answered "Julius Caesar," and it was over, and I just had this sick, sinking feeling in my stomach. When word got around, everyone was shocked, like that first day when we thought Ned's team lost, except this time it was real.During 5th, Kelly told me that apparently one of the bonus rounds -- the one that Bryanna's team had tied us on -- wasn't meant to have been scored as highly as it was, so there was still hope. We looked at the brackets after class, and there was an apology from Pioch saying he had personally counted all the points and that the correct teams were moving on, and there was a post it by our names saying to see report to his office tomorrow at break, presumably for a tiebreaker.
I had the matches recorded, so my team met up in the library afterwards, and we rewatched it, and Jasmine tallied up the points, and reported that we had actually won by a good 12 points. And then we went over to find Pioch and tell him this, and I forget exactly what he said, but he essentially said that he couldn't use the recording as proof because it was showing us favor over the other teams, and the other teams didn't have tapes to prove anything. So we were all kind of disappointed, but when I went home to rewatch the video, I tallied it up and we had tied after all.
