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YMonday, October 15, 2007
AC Games 2007 Labels: Musings
As it name suggests, during the two day span of AC Games, we go to school and play games.
AC Games is held during the blissful period between the end of exams, and the release of our results. At this point, we experience a whole jumble of positive feelings, from relief, to joy, happiness, and an innate desire to stop thinking and do stupid stupid things. Yet we experience none of the negative emotions as well, the Promo Exam results haven't come back to us, and our A Level exams are still (quite) comfortably far away.
AC Games consisted of 8 games, Bridge, Soccer, Floorball, Benchball (Modified Captain's Ball), Captain's Ball, Basketball, Ultimate Frisbee, and Stargate. I'm going to completely leave out all of them except Benchball and Stargate. That's mostly because everyone is familiar with all of them, and talking about them would be boring and unnecessary.
It's also because my class completely sucks at them. I don't really like to recall how we got beat down so badly.
Heck, we didn't even participate in a single Ultimate Frisbee game. And I was the captain. You could imagine my disappointment.
So... Benchball. Basically it's Captain's Ball except with a bench instead of a chair, 4 teams instead of 2, and whenever you score a point, another person gets onto the bench. Eventually, the team with zero players remaining on the court wins. For some reason, we were quite good at this game. We managed to get overall 2nd. Yay SB3.
Stargate. It's one of those games that you played while in primary school. It has been revived to satisfy the cravings of your deprived childhood. One team stands on a row of lines. The other will try to run through the 10 or so lines of defenders without getting tagged. The teams will then change sides. The one with the most people across wins.
Stargate is one of those games in which distracting your opponent is of utmost importance. Some of the girls would just keep screaming, and the defender would be too stunned to do anything but let them pass. It was quite a friendly game, if there was one attacker and one defender, you could just slow things down and have a nice chat. Other times, one would use questionable methods to get past defenders, such as saying things like "Hey baby, look into my eyes." And when they start laughing, just run past them. Heh.
I particularly enjoyed this game. That's probably because we got 1st overall. I don't know how that happened. It just did. We managed to beat an entire class that was made up of ruggers not from that class, and another very athletic class.
Overall I enjoyed AC Games. It was pretty fun, and a good time to relax with your class, share a few laughs, and just not think for a while. However, there were quite a few complaints about how AC Games was organised. Some were a little lost and confused about where to go for their games. Others didn't like the way the points were counted. There were even a few who thought it was quite boring, and a failure.
People, I think we need to lighten up. It's just a bunch of stupid games. It's for fun. That's all. True, on the first day things were pretty messy, with people not sure which court they must report to, but let's give the councilors a bit of a break. This is their first major event. It's not like they weren't trying. And on the second day, they were much better organised.
Then there was the rain. On the second day it rained in the morning. So games had to be postponed. Then it rained again. So games had to be postponed again. Many classes chose to stop playing and go home. Now this really isn't anyone's fault. None of us can control the weather. It was unfortunate, but that's how things are sometimes.
Those who found AC Games to be boring, I think you can only blame yourself. If you decided it was a waste of time, and chose not to take part in anything, of course it was boring. I had fun. Those people from my class that turned up had fun. Let's stop putting the blame on others, and start shouldering some of the responsibility.
It seems that we only know how to complain, complain, and complain.