Friday, October 24, 2014
So yesterday we lost the bucket. I'm really not a very competitive person but when I heard the words "second place to the seniors", I really lost it. I think every Groves student looks forward to being a senior and winning the bucket as the seniors always do. But the Class of 2015 sure did make history. Being the second senior class to ever lose the bucket to the juniors really does not feel great. I think the main upset lies with the whole concept of "seniors always win the bucket" rather than just losing a competition. I didn't get to stand on top of my friends car with the bucket in one hand and our class flag in the other and I will never be able to do that. It seems dumb to care about something so trivial but the idea of a senior year without winning the bucket is excruciating. Congratulations to the juniors because they obviously deserved it if we didn't even do well enough for a senior win to be viable by the people that could have rigged it. I can't wait to see the juniors holding the bucket in Instagram photos next year with their captions "two wins is better than one." Do I seem bitter?
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I'll be honest, I laughed when they announced that the seniors lost. It was funny to me, the idea that our class managed to lose a game rigged in our favor. We were so hopeless they couldn't even rig it in our favor (no offense to anyone who participated, but the numbers speak for themselves). Sure, it's too bad we lost, but some seniors really overreacted after that, acting like it was the end of the world, burning their shirts (why? All you get after is a burnt shirt), tearing down the juniors' hallway decorations (kind of petty) and various other counts of minor vandalism that may or may not be true (sources are iffy). All in all, this is something no one will remember in a year or two, so.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I did not think of it as a big deal really. I thought of it as more of a game and if we lost i mean does it really matter? No one is going to look back and say oh wow we lost the bucket so our senior year is over and if you ask me that is how a lot of people reacted. Not to say that is doesn't suck to lose the bucket because it would have been awesome, but it is not something that is going to take away from our senior year except for that one day. Also i think we lost for a reason and that is because not enough people were interested in winning, obviously, so in my opinion the juniors are more deserving of the bucket.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anybody wins from the Juniors winning this year. What makes the bucket so special is that you have to lose three times to get it. Just look at last year when we stormed the floor with the Seniors when the decision was announced. We were that close to the bucket, that it made this year so special. So obviously we don't get it, so it sucks. However, the Juniors lose in this scenario too. They won it this year, so what makes next year special? They didn't have to go three years of losing to get it, they just went through two. Now when they win it next year, it won't have nearly the same meaning.
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