Okay, well I decided to put that little nerd dry humping interlude
between my two debate stories so that we could have a little comic
relief before I plowed into that greatest nerd pass time of all time
– recounting their lame nerd activities and not knowing that no one
else cares. That being said, here we go. After my first defeat I had
a few minutes to familiarize myself with the judges gift case and
throw out my useless 'evidence' cards and the weeks worth of work
they represented. When I went into my next round I was armed and
ready and waded into battle properly armed with someone else's words
and reasoning. I won easily now that I knew how to play the game
there were three more rounds all of which I won. By late afternoon I
was hooked on debate and the thrill of victory and writing my own
case. They were handing out trophies and I won first place at my very
first debate tournament. That sounds really impressive unless I were
to let you know that it was an amateur debate tournament and they
gave first place trophies to exactly twenty five people but I feel
like a detail like that would paint me in a less flattering light so
I am going to keep that to my own self. After handing out the scads
of trophies they started handing out awards based on the secondary
metric of debate the speaker score. That category only had one one
first place and I did not earn that. They handed out gavels for the
top five speakers and I was fourth. It was the first time that I had
won an award for something that was not science, or writing so I
thought that these people must be rather good at detecting and
rewarding intelligence and I decided to join their tribe.
