History Bowl

This Saturday I went down to Dowling Catholic High School to compete in a history bowl.  Going down there I really had no idea what to expect.  I was kind of thinking that were just going to straight up get dominated and not even answer a question.  On our way to Des Moines we went over a lot of sample question and had no clue on some of them. This made me a little bit worried because I thought that the other team would nail those questions.  We were also curious about what Central Academy was because they had four teams.  We looked them up on the internet and it is pretty much a school with only AP classes in Des Moines.  Also they have their own Wikipedia page.  Central Academy has also won a lot of money from other science and math competitions. Kind of intimidating. So when we finally got there it was slightly nerve racking and I wasn’t sure what it was going to be like. 

The bowl started off with a meeting where this guy gave us our random seed in the tournament and direction on what to do.  After this we went into our designated room and got ready for the first round.  In the room we learned that we were facing one of the Des Moines Central Academy teams.  We thought we would get killed.  But once the match started it was a lot easier than expected.  Also a lot of the questions we didn’t know they also didn’t know.  In the beginning It was a fairly close game with us trailing by a little bit.  Until the final quarter when they answered a lot more.  And we ended up losing our first round. 

The second round turned out a lot better.  We pretty much dominated the team and hardly let them answer.  The third was insane.  They had a kid on their team who answered most of the questions before we even had an idea of what it was.  His teammates answered like two questions without him.  Without that kid we would have probably won.  The fourth was exactly like the first where they didn’t pull ahead until the fourth quarter.  The finally the fifth round we completely dominated the team again and beat them pretty bad.  Although our record was 2-3 we didn’t make a spot in the playoff rounds and went home before the competition was over.

Zombies

I’m really not sure what to blog about and I’m really tired so I might as well just talk about what I was doing that kept me up this late.  As many of you know I had just recently bought the new map pack for call of duty so I decided to play it with some bros.  Bice came over at like 830 and we started gaming right when he walked in.

We decided to play Ascension which is the new Zombie map from the First Strike map pack.  Me and bice didn’t really want to go at it alone so we decided to play with parker for a match.  We started off pretty strong but then when we got pretty far we completely fell apart.  We lacked any real strategy except just kill as many as you can. So we were kind of just setting ourselves up to fail. 

But anyway after we died we stopped for a bit then jack wanted to play with us so we decided to play.  Instead of playing ascension again we went for the older map, Kino Der Toten, because we can get a lot further on that map.  We have a pretty solid strategy and it goes a little like this.

 We start off in the main room where ever one has their own window.  When we get to around round five we buy the upstairs door then go down to the room with the speed cola.  In this room we have two people watch the upstairs passage and then the other two people take care of the windows.  Then whenever it gets to be too much or we just get bored we go out to the stage where we pretty much do the same thing.  But we usually come across the box so it’s a lot easier.  Then when we get a lot of money we turn the power on and upgrade our guns, if we haven’t spun the box yet.  Then we pretty much just teleport and take a couple of laps.  While trying to get the ray gun and then what ever else you can get.  So it’s pretty much the best strategy and has gotten me to twenty eight before.