Hello, None of yall prob recognize my name cause this is my first post. Im a junior at a hs in dallas. i just played in my first varsity tourney today and had some major problems with this tournament. My team consisted of 3 jr's and 1 soph (and we're not that good) and i was really disturbed at how arrogant some of the qb players can be. In our 3rd match at a Chip format tourney we played a large public school team consisting of 5 seniors who were obviously very good. After the warm up round it was quite obvious that they were going to win and they did very well in the bonus and 60 second round categories; however, my team did not. In the stump the experts round when they probably had a 250-300 pt lead on us they spent tweny minutes arguing a math question that chip gave the wrong answer for and did not lodge the protest in a manerly fashion. Not only did they waste 25 minutes here (because the reader had to go ask somebody else for the answer). There was one person who answered and then obviously stalled for 3 or 4 seconds and then our coach shouted out STALL at him and then so did my team; after this he started arguing with my coach (a very large and intimidating priest) about how us calling stall prohibited him from thinking. The other thing they did was make rude comments and cracked jokes after every single question. As you can tell from reading this, i was quite angry after facing the most arrogant team i had ever seen. I wanted to know how often something like this happens and some tips for handling these type of people. Thank you, Mukund
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