13th Nov, 2005: The Unbeatable SIUC TT Team

5am in the morning outside the SRC

Schedule of the day

battle against NIU, since I lose my match

10pc Chicken McNuggets for my lunch (paid by SIUC)

vs. Maryville University

Gameover

Our team couldn't beat IIT tech. That was the toughest battle of the day...

I got up at 5 am in the morning. No matter how sleepy I was, I had to get up. We took off at around 6 am and arrived in Champaign at 9 am. It didn't feel that long to get to there. We had 3 matches against other 3 universities in the morning. We beat them all without any question. We even beat the previous years rival UIUC. I played with the only female player in that tournament against UIUC. My teammates gave me pressure since she's a girl, I could not let people laugh at me. Of course I won. And during the battle against UIUC, our number one player beat the guy who wore the USA TT shirt. It's funny that SIUC beat USA!!!! In the afternoon, I didn't warm up so well and I hit too hard causing me temperory injured my chest. But that's fine. I picked up my pace once again after losing a few games. It's a fun day. We had our free dinner (SIUC reimbursment) on Green Street at a Korean Restaurant. We all had a great meal without leaving any space in our stomach. From this tournament, I found quite some weaknesses that I've not noticed before after switching to the penhold grip. I would switch back to shakehand grip from now to increase my chances of progression. I'll see how it goes.