Accomplishments thread - Page 18

Mercutio · 03-02-2005, 07:59 PM

Our/my team won the state mock trial competition yesterday. We played the charter school (yes...since this is DE there is just one school known as "charter"

) in the final round; it was close and probably could of gone either way since judging is naturally subjective...but I am elated they picked us! I think what tipped the scale (and did the same two years ago when we played Charter in the finals and won) was their in-your-face court tv style. They got a little vicious. In the finals we are in front of DE Supreme Court Justices and others who are looking for someone polished, smooth, and polite, who would represent DE well in the national competition (in the prelim. rounds their style often works).

On to nationals in May!

***Rían*** · 03-02-2005, 08:51 PM

Wow! congrats, Merc!

Last Child of Ungoliant · 03-02-2005, 08:54 PM

my latest accomplishment: i am getting really good at making avatars!!

Janny · 03-03-2005, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mercutio

On to nationals in May!

This is probably a question showing my twee Britishness, but you say nationals? As in whole country nationals? As in America that huge country and the national finals thereof? That's pretty big.

jerseydevil · 03-03-2005, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janny

This is probably a question showing my twee Britishness, but you say nationals? As in whole country nationals? As in America that huge country and the national finals thereof? That's pretty big.

yeah - you first usually go through state Championship, then regional and then onto national.

Here is a thing on the Bands of America, where the various high school bands compete.

Quote:

90 Bands and Three Days of Excitement!

With performances by 90 bands from across the nation, exhibition performances and three days of special events, Grand Nationals is widely acknowledged by the band world to be the most exciting and prestigious marching band event. The three day event also includes an Expo, Student Leadership Workshop with Tim Lautzenheiser, Celebrate America!, the Indianapolis Public Schools Marching Band Tournament and other special events and clinics.

There are also things for cheerleaders and so many other groups, such as sports, etc - where you are determined the be the best in the country.

Congratulations Mercutio.

I hope you win nationals - unless there is a NJ team in the running that is.

Mercutio · 03-03-2005, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janny

This is probably a question showing my twee Britishness, but you say nationals? As in whole country nationals? As in America that huge country and the national finals thereof? That's pretty big.

yes.

almost all states send a team, as well as the Mariana Islands and Guam.

two years ago when we went we ran into the NJ team at the Philly airport, but we didn't play them in the competition. You play 4 power-seeded rounds and then they have the finals.

www.nationalmocktrial.org

Bombadillo · 03-03-2005, 11:45 PM

Hey, my school just lost in the finals!

Tell me how you do. I always was interested in the forensic team, but I'm not competitive enough. That is a big accomplishment. Congratulations!!!

sun-star · 03-09-2005, 06:41 AM

Er - I think I may be on my college's University Challenge team. How did that happen?

inked · 03-09-2005, 11:54 PM

Kudos and Congratulations, Sun-star! What does a Challenge Team entail at that fabled institution to which you have "gone up" and to which lesser humans merely aspire?

jerseydevil · 03-10-2005, 03:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sun-star

Er - I think I may be on my college's University Challenge team. How did that happen?

Probably because you're Janny's sister.

Janny · 03-10-2005, 06:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Probably because you're Janny's sister.

Thanks JD! Very flattered.

But don't you just hate it when siblings do stuff that you know you won't match.

Sunny, may I shed some light upon this one?
You took a test and did well in said test. Thus, you may be picked from the sqaud of 5 for the team of 4. Then, if your team of Hilda-beasts succeeds in qualifying from Oxford colleges, we may hear the fine words 'St Hilda's - sun-star'.

Hope this helps.

Oh, you have to use Mr Schmigglesworth as the mascot.

sun-star · 03-10-2005, 07:00 AM

Very lucid, Janny... University Challenge is a TV programme where teams from each university compete in a general knowledge quiz. Oxford (and Cambridge) colleges are allowed to compete separately, but we have to get through lots of rounds before you'll see me on TV

Last Child of Ungoliant · 03-10-2005, 07:21 AM

asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman

i love that programme, i'm not boring though

Count Comfect · 03-21-2005, 09:40 PM

YAY! I got appointed to be Harvard Model Senate CoPresident! Meaning I get to run the recruiting miniconference for our larger Model Congress. Not too much actual, you know, authority, but it sounds real good

Janny · 03-23-2005, 12:22 PM

I'm Head Boy!

Hooray for my school's second past the post politics system!

Count Comfect · 03-23-2005, 12:55 PM

Congrats Janny! That's cool news.

sun-star · 03-23-2005, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janny

I'm Head Boy!

I hope this will be incorporated into your title in some way...

Head Boy of the Blobbits?
Blobbit Head Boy?
King, lord and master of all Blobbits and all Mooters everywhere, in perpetuity and throughout the known universe?

Well done Blobby. You can charge extra for those Janny burgers now

**Nurvingiel** · 03-23-2005, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janny

I'm Head Boy!

Hooray for my school's second past the post politics system!

Nice one Janny!

Second past the post? I thought you were head boy? (Or did they EAT you!

)

Janny · 03-23-2005, 05:01 PM

Thanks CC, Nurv and smelly.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Nice one Janny!

Second past the post? I thought you were head boy? (Or did they EAT you!

)

There was no eating of me, of that I can assure you. By second past the post I mean... well...

The prefects got to vote... don't ever believe 17 year olds can do anything maturly without a popularity contest. So a minor twiddle and 'the vote was very close' later, I was declared winner.

I do feel ever so slightly guilty, apart from the fact that the other guy with loads of votes didn't want to be it.

**Nurvingiel** · 03-23-2005, 05:30 PM

Oh it's not like Harry Potter then...

heh...

03-02-2005, 07:59 PM	#341
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Our/my team won the state mock trial competition yesterday. We played the charter school (yes...since this is DE there is just one school known as "charter" ) in the final round; it was close and probably could of gone either way since judging is naturally subjective...but I am elated they picked us! I think what tipped the scale (and did the same two years ago when we played Charter in the finals and won) was their in-your-face court tv style. They got a little vicious. In the finals we are in front of DE Supreme Court Justices and others who are looking for someone polished, smooth, and polite, who would represent DE well in the national competition (in the prelim. rounds their style often works). On to nationals in May! __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

03-02-2005, 08:51 PM	#342
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Wow! congrats, Merc! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

03-03-2005, 11:45 PM	#347
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	Hey, my school just lost in the finals! Tell me how you do. I always was interested in the forensic team, but I'm not competitive enough. That is a big accomplishment. Congratulations!!! __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

03-09-2005, 06:41 AM	#348
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Er - I think I may be on my college's University Challenge team. How did that happen? __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

03-09-2005, 11:54 PM	#349
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Kudos and Congratulations, Sun-star! What does a Challenge Team entail at that fabled institution to which you have "gone up" and to which lesser humans merely aspire? __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

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Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	my latest accomplishment: i am getting really good at making avatars!!

03-10-2005, 07:00 AM	#352
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Very lucid, Janny... University Challenge is a TV programme where teams from each university compete in a general knowledge quiz. Oxford (and Cambridge) colleges are allowed to compete separately, but we have to get through lots of rounds before you'll see me on TV __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

03-10-2005, 07:21 AM	#353
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman i love that programme, i'm not boring though

03-21-2005, 09:40 PM	#354
Count Comfect Word Santa Claus Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 2,922	YAY! I got appointed to be Harvard Model Senate CoPresident! Meaning I get to run the recruiting miniconference for our larger Model Congress. Not too much actual, you know, authority, but it sounds real good __________________ Sufficient to have stood, yet free to fall.

03-23-2005, 12:22 PM	#355
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	I'm Head Boy! Hooray for my school's second past the post politics system! __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

03-23-2005, 12:55 PM	#356
Count Comfect Word Santa Claus Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 2,922	Congrats Janny! That's cool news. __________________ Sufficient to have stood, yet free to fall.

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