Scholar's Bowl

So, on Thursday, we had a Scholars Bowl meet.  I really enjoy them, because I love trivia.  But I just decided I had to share some stories about this one.
Basically, for those of you who have never been in Scholars Bowl or who know little to nothing about it, there are many teams who go to a host school and are pitted against each other in various rooms.  There are up to five people on each team and often, each person will specialize in a topic.
You are taken to a room with a reader, a scorekeeper, a timekeeper, and a buzzer-keeper....  The reader will read a question and if you think that you have the answer, you will...well...buzz in.  You wait to be acknowledged, then answer.  If you get it correct, your team gets ten points.  If you get it wrong, the only team allowed to answer the question is the opposite team.  If you interrupt the reader, and get it wrong, you are docked points and the next team is free to buzz in with an answer or interrupt the reader as they reread the question from the beginning, with no consequences if they answer incorrectly.  If you get it correct, you get ten points, as usual.
It was the very last round and we were against a team to win first place.  Around question five, the enemy team interrupted and got it wrong.  Then, our team interrupted and also got it wrong.  Both teams were docked five points.
At the very last round, we were tied.  35 to 35....  It was time for a tie-breaker question.  Then, the enemy team coach said, "Hold up, I looked in the rules, and you shouldn't have docked them.  It should be their team 40, my team 35."  And because of her honesty...we won.
Call me stupid, crazy, whatever...I really wanted to get first place.  All the other meets I'd gone to, we placed third and I just really wanted to place first.  Really bad.  So I was praying that we'd win first...and because of her honesty not only did we win first, but she got acknowledged at the end with the awards, because my team's coach told the officiator guy.  I also told her thank you.  It would have been so easy for her to have just let them read the tiebreaker question and her team could have one off of that.  But she was honest...and that cost her team the match.  They did get second, overall though.
Then, we went to Freddie's for some food.  I um...forgot to take money....
We have two people on our team, Reed and Ryan, and their parents come to every match.  Kind of the way my mom and stepdad come to all my choir and singing things.  They said that because we won first, they were going to treat everyone to supper!  Their dad wouldn't even let me get a mini shake...he made me get a large...which is still in my freezer...sitting...with just enough to make up a mini shake gone from it...because I couldn't finish it....
But the entire time we were at Freddie's I was just all like, "God...thank you so much!  You're just looking out for me all over the place!"  In short, that was the best Scholars Bowl meet I've ever had and one of the best days of my life.

~Katie