Summit Day 5

And finally, it was games. The whole reason for my coming to Summit... except for Megan and Alex... and whatever other girls I would meet this year. Blah, blah, blah happened and then games started.

First round, we were up against TNE (Team New England #2) and Grace Bible. We lost to team New England by one event. Had we not disqualified ourselves multiple times, we could have easily beat them since we finished before them pretty much every time.

More importantly, there was the blazingly fast girl who played for the other team on our line, Gold Country Baptist. She was also pretty so I asked the kids on her line who she was and they told me her name was Tana. So I cheered for her in every event she was in. She reset two records: sprint race and agility race, but her agility race time was bested in the next heat so she only kept it for a few moments. When my agility race came, I ran it so fast that people started asking me if I had just reset the record, I assured them that I had not since I missed it by .2 seconds, a lifetime in agility race. The best part is, I smoked the other two teams and immediately got up and went over to Tana and told her "That was for you". Now let's take a break and flash back to Summit 2006 in Chicago, Illinois.

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I was about to run the marathon race, which we found out I could set the record in, when Brian and I saw this really cute girl named Jodi sitting on the line with us. She was in a different heat, so I didn't have to play against her. When I got up to run marathon, I DQ'd on the first on the first pin so I didn't get to do it. I told her later on what I was planning on doing and she thought it was funny, but it would have been better if I had done it when I had run it.

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Back to 2008.

Second round, we went up against a couple of nobodies and man handled them, only losing 2 out of 9 heats.

Lunch came and we went out to eat sandwiches. Tana walked by and then, guess who I saw. Jodi. My words to Brian were "Oh my gosh! They're from the same church!" Brian goes over, then comes back and starts dragging me over. Then, announces to me in front of them "Their sisters you idiot." That's right, out of every girl at Summit for the last 3 years and I picked sisters. You know it would be my luck. However, that made an avenue and we all kept on talking. Until the next round.

Third round, we went up against BGBC (whatever that stands for) and another one of my favorite churches. Now a flash back to Summit 2007 in Denver, Colorado.

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I went to watch a fine arts competition and came out friends with an attractive girl named Megan and, consequently, her entire church. Their church was Olympic Bible Fellowship. Megan's best friend, Julia, was actually already friends with Jonathan, who is on my team, so that was another tie to their team. However, we had to face them in the third round of games and they knocked us out. Our team complained that their team had cheated, which I didn't argue against because neither team was in the definite right. Our team argued that the way OBF played tug "wasn't in the spirit of the game", which is grounds for disqualification. Had they not done that, we would have moved on. I argued that our captains made stupid choices, like putting in an injured person, which ended up costing us 9 points, which would have given us the victory. So I stayed friends with them because I didn't accuse them of cheating. Megan and I talked for the next 3 months until I lost internet access to my room and I couldn't stay up until 5 in the morning talking to her anymore.

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Back to Jacksonville.

Third round still. We went up against BGBC, a Hispanic church, and, who else but, Olympic Bible Fellowship. Brian freaked me out a little when he said BGBC was good. Then we promptly went out and stomped on their faces, absolutely obliterating them and knocking Olympic Bible into the third place bracket, where no one ever comes back from. They got knocked out in the next round and they wouldn't talk to me. I was pretty pissed at them because I didn't do that to them when they knocked us out. And we didn't even knock them out. We just knocked them into a lower bracket.

Fourth round we went up against God only knows what teams and we blew them away. It was like the rounds were getting easier and easier. Gold Country was on our circle again. After my basketball relay, I went up to Tana and said "That was for your sister." After her basketball relay, and came up to me and told me "That was for you." So then I ran my marathon medley. Dueing my second lap, I blew her a kiss after completely owning the other two teams runners.

Fifth round, we played versus a team from Cali that wore pink shirts and Arapaho Road, from Texas. Whoever won this round would go to gold and would get to play for the championship. Unfortunately, we messed up a few times and got some really bad calls from the officials. We lost to the pink team by only a few points, but laid the smack down on Arapaho Road which officially makes us the best AWANA games team in Texas! In addition, we fell a close second to the second best team in the nation, which puts us in the top 5 in the nation. This is the best that our church has ever done in the Summit era.*

We went outside and Gold Country was still around. They said they weren't going to watch the final round but they did anyway. They were taking pictures by the fountain so Brian and I went over to the fountain outside the gym and took our shirts off and ran around in it. After they got done with their pictures, Gold Country threw some of their team into the fountain, including Jodi, which Brian and I agree was the hottest thing we've ever seen.

We go back to the hotel, clean up, and go watch platinum round of quiz. Guess who was up there. Tana and two Gold Country teams. Guess who got 1st and 2nd. The two Gold Country teams. Tana's got second though, which was slightly sad, but she only got beat by her church's other team so it wasn't that big a deal to her. She didn't even care about quiz so she just blew it off.

There was a break between platinum round of quiz and closing ceremonies so Brian and I just stood around and talked to girls. Then we went back and sat with our team. Then closing ceremonies happened, and then there was a team meeting outside the door. I wanted to be back inside the door where Tana was, except for the fact that no one would let me. Alex showed up and I snuck back in to talk to Tana. Frank looked in and Everett came in so Brian and I dropped to the floor behind the chairs. Everett found me so I had to go back. Then Alex said she was leaving and got permission to go see her since I missed her the first time in an attempt to see Tana. I managed to get her as she was leaving (quite literally). Then I went back in and saw Tana as she was leaving, so I got a really bad picture of us together. Then she left. So I went up stairs and finished the meeting with my team. the meeting finished and everyone from our team, minus Brian and me, went out to eat somewhere. Brian and I went and hung out with people from Olympic Bible.

They were going up to the roof so Brian and I went to, then Brian stopped by some girls and started talking to them, then I went over and talked with them too. I was hungry so I asked if they wanted to come out to eat with us. Then Julia, from Olympic Bible, told me she was walking down to her room and asked if I would walk her down so I told her yes. So we went, and then came back to the roof. Julia went and hung out with her team and I went and hung out with the girls from the roof, who were Allison, Jill, Jill's twin (the name of whom I do not remember), and Brittany. We went to their room and ate food with them and their mothers/grandmothers, plus another girl named Kristen. We ended up playing "Settlers of Canaan" which is a take on the game "Settlers of Cataan", which is the best board game ever made. After the game, we listened to Brian Regan and listened until one of the mothers told Brian to turn it off because Brian Regan said "hell" too many times (5). So it was at this time that we took our leave and went back to our room.

This post should probably be called "Days 5 and 6" because we didn't leave their room until 2:30 am.