Intervaristy Games 2012

It has been a very tiring.four day journey away from home, away for the yearly Malaysian Intervarsity Games. It took a rough estimate of 15 hours bus ride to reach the venue. The game I was to play in was scheduled to be on the second day while the first day, the female volleyball team were to compete first. Since I had nothing better to do, I sat down and cheered for the female team while spotting for any pretty gals to approach. Me and my mates were practically making a fool of ourselves by randomly shouting stupid cheer remarks. At the meantime, I bullied my male juniors by making them give me a shoulder and neck massage from time to time. 1st day passed pretty uneventfully and the second day came, the day we have been training hard for all year round. We did fairly well, playing at our best performance. We manage to beat the team we feared the most - the one we knew that we would have to fight against to bag the gols medal. The male tournament started at 8 in the morning and since the female semifinals and finals were to occur before the male could have theirs, our male semifinals were postponed to a very late time. We only started our.semifinals at around 8pm. We were afraid that the finals might be postponed to next morning which will be a hassle for us as we have players that will have other games to attend the next morning. So during the semifinals, despite going against a fairly weak team, we went on full force and did a massacre which in my POV was a pretty bad show of sportsmanship. By the time 3-4th placing started it was close to 10.30pm and there was no other competition going on elsewhere. Hence, most of our university players came to cheer on our finals. Though we were all slightly annoyed by the long match the 3-4th placing match had to use. When we finally got to play, it was fairly late and our predictions turned out accurate, we were going against the university we thought that is going to be in the finals with us. During the earlier clash we had with them, we manage to emerge as victors with 2 clean sets and I think that gave us some sort of advantage. We manage to produce a very nice and entertaining match for our supporters who gave up their rest time to cheer for us and deliver the gold medal.