Single-elimination tournament

I have always enjoyed contributing to, and bettering my community. Most of my free time during high school has been taken up by Key Club and Robotics. What extra time I have is devoted to helping my friends complete their work to the best of their ability. I have been an active member of the Fridley High School Key Club for all four of my years in high school. Key Club is an international volunteer organization overseen by Kiwanis. Robotics has been my other passion for the past three years and i’m

The FIRST Iowa Regional Robotics Competition was held in the UNI Dome and McLeod Center just a few weeks ago, from March 23 through March 25. FIRST is all about combining science, technology and fun. High school students work in teams to design robots and complete complicated tasks under strict regulations in just six weeks. The competition offers a taste of real-world engineering as students are challenged to build a team and brand, enhance teamwork skills, raise funds, build and program a robot

as individuals and as a team. Personally, I had never really been a confident person. In school, if I saw that someone had a different answer, I would assume that I was wrong. For class presentations or even just conversations, I had to have every single word planned out beforehand. I hated being the center of attention and never participated in class. I was cynical of others, lacking faith in them because of my own self doubt. As a team, we had failed to advance to finals the previous year and it

send Belrose into a sudden death semi final with East Campbelltown this Sunday. East Campbelltown booked their semi final place after surviving a massive scare from Cabramatta before eventually being too good for the Two Blues 38-26 in the first Elimination Final at Campbelltown Stadium last Sunday. The Two Blues – who scraped into eighth spot in the last round of the regular season – came out breathing fire in taking it right up to the Eagles. Winger Jake Webb got Cabra off to the best possible start

preparation for the Toledo regional Mathcounts tournament held in February. When the day of the tournament finally arrived, the four-man, McCord varsity team, comprised of Frank Lee, Pravin Jayatissa, Krishna Saraiya, and me, woke up at an outrageously early time. The four of us met up in a common room found in the University of Toledo and sat around a circular table while consuming a few bagels topped with Philadelphia cream cheese which the tournament organizers had provided for us. We talked very

Twelve Sentence Story Today was the big day, we've worked and waited all year for this, the Tri State Finals. Me, Mike, Josh and Tanner were not willing to accept anything other than a win, we have tried before and this will be our last chance, since we were in the eighth grade. The only problem is that Mike our leading scorer was deathly sick, We didn't think he would have enough time to recuperate. So we prepared for the worst, Me and tanner decided, If mike can't participate it's Our job to lead

:::The Goal::: I glare at the goal, while the goalkeeper focuses on the ball right on the tip of my shoe. I could hear the heavy breathing of everybody in the whole stadium. I swung my leg and kicked the ball as strong as I could. The crowd cheered, but I didn’t know what happened. “And the Wolves win with the points 3 to 2” the announcer well… announces. I couldn’t believe my ears, I stood there, frozen. My teammates come running to me, yet I was still frozen. I huge monster suddenly came out

go to semis, and we were all excited especially me since it was my second year playing soccer. We all got into the field and put on our gear. We finished putting on our gear and got on the field, there was 10 of us on the team since it was a 5v5 tournament. We were standing waiting for the ref to blow the whistle since the other team barely got on time. As soon as the team finished getting on the field, the ref blew the whistle and the game began. We started the

fans refer to it as NCAA March Madness. Because it is a one-and-done, single elimination format, it’s packed with excitement. Adding to the intrigue are the smaller schools, known as Cinderella’s, who endear themselves to the hearts of college basketball fans. Former Ohio State University coach Harold Olsen initiated the idea back in 1939. From what was originally an eight school tournament, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament has ballooned to 68 Division I schools. Deciding who is worthy, from

is the annual NCAA college basketball tournament. Why is it madness? This tournament is a single elimination tournament that features sixty-eight teams from across the United States competing to survive and be crowned national champions. Only sixteen teams of the sixty-eight will make it past the first weekend! Millions of fans from all across the nation will tune in on March 13th and watch as teams begin to compete to be the last one standing. At tournament time each year, millions of people fill