World Tournament

   A few weeks ago my school organized an event called "World Tournament". It was an English-based event with pirates theme. I was so interested in this event because I love English in general. Although at the same time, I was really lazy to come because it was held on Saturday. I was (and still am) so tired of all of the studying on the weekdays (especially with "special" math which is extremely hard) and I really wanted a break, but my school kept organizing a bunch of events. I just want a bunch of sleep! Ah, anyway, we have to dress up as a pirates to fit the theme. My class planned to wear t-shirts with striped motifs and if possible, pirates props. Unfortunately, I didn't have any striped t-shirts so I wore a black and white semi-dress, jeans, boots, and props that I've made, which were a sword and a skull belt.

My props

   The day has come. I saw a lot of people with impressive costumes and I was amazed. But in my opinion the best outfit that I saw on that day is Achmad's. He cosplayed as Jack Sparrow from "Pirates of the Carribean". I was fascinated by his effort. Keep in mind that this event was announced one day before the event started (although Mrs. Wiwin has told us some clues about the event). He even made a bird out of aluminium foil! Kudos to him. And what a surprise, he became the center of the attention quickly.

Jack Sparrow of SMAN 3 Bandung

  Before the game started, there were a ceremony to explain World Tournament's techniques. Basically, there are 4 kinds of members on the ship (the ship was each classes), which were captain, soldiers, treasure keepers, and crews. The captain is the one who lead the ship, soldiers protected the ship from bandits, treasure keepers kept the treasure, and the crews must help each other. We were given a map that told us about the way to reach the treasure. There were 4 games and we would be given pictures to solve the treasure. Oh yeah, and throughout the game we must compete with other class. We were competing with X Social. Before we leave, the commitees told us that throughout the game there would be a lot of "bandits" that would throw water baloons at us, so be careful, because if we were splashed with them, we would be "dead", or in a less-spooky word, disqualified from the game.

  The first game begun on 8 AM from what I remember. In that game, we must solve a code, which according to the commitees, was a code for another game. The commitees also ordered 5 people from each class to find clues to solve the code. 10 codes, to be exact. They gave us a paper filled with numbers. We thought that it was a generic number code, so we used that code to crack it but the word didn't make any sense. We were so confused until Akmal came and told us that this is a backward number code, which is a code were the number 26 means A, 25 means B, etc. He knew this because he saw a note in wall magazine that said "A = 26". Smart thinking! We were able to solve the note quickly after that. The codes are filled with a lot of pirates references, such as "steal", "bandit", and much more.

   The second game was spelling game. But wait, on the way we were chased by bandits. They were throwing water baloons at us and we ran for our lives. They were gone quickly though, thank God. After that, the second game began. Each class must have 5 people to represent their ship. 1 person would be given a word and they must spell the word correctly to 3 people in a chain. Then, the fourth person who got the code must told the last person the code so that the last person could write it down on the board. I joined this game and I was the last person. At first I was so confused by the code that was given because I never heard of it. But I was able to write it.

  In the third game, each class must have 3 people to play the game. The commitees would say a number and we must said a word that has the exact alphabets as the number. For example, if they said "3", we can say "egg" because it had 3 alphabets. Not much to say here beside that I admired how fast my classmates thought about the words.

  After that, we were chased by bandits again, but in this time, there were much more bandits that before. The next game was on Taman Musik which was outside the school, and to reach it we must walk through the canteen. And on there, we were greeted by bandits, ready to throw their water baloons. We ran quickly and fortunately none of us were dead.

   When we reach Taman Musik, the commitees were there and explained how this last game worked. It was a quiz that was related to pirates. 5 people from each class must join this game. I didn't know much about the questions because I didn't join the game. Although there were 2 questions that stood out, the first was about an Island in Assassin Creed, and the second one was "What is Mr. Krabs' enemy's name?". And apparently the answer must be his full name, so our class' team asked the rest of us. I quickly answered "Sheldon J Plankton" and apparently I was right. I didn't expect it to be right. I don't know, I memorized that name on my brain (yet I couldn't remember logarithym formula, ugh). Maybe because I watched too much SpongeBob as a child.

SHEEELLDOOOONN

   We returned to school and must solve the treasure, which was a puzzle. We solved it, but we didn't win because other class solved it first. Our class won "Best Costumes" though, as hoped. Before we went home, another ceremony was held and in the end, the bandits returned and they threw water baloons on all of the ships. To make the game fair, we were given water baloons as well, although I prefer to not play the game by hiding on the school's park because I was afraid to be wet.

The squad's costumes, sorry y'all but my face is sacred

  And that's the whole World Tournament. I really enjoyed this event, it was really fun! Although in my opinion there could've been much more games to held, but that's not much an issue. It's more of a demand, haha. Thanks SEF to make this event possible!!