New Orleans Sputum Bowl!

My team got Second place! and the Fred M. Helmholz sportsmanship award! what an honor! there were so many great teams who also deserve it. I feel like the op few teams were really close and it could have gone any way. for example the CA practitioner team could have easily won. or my team could have won the student bowl, or Colorado, or Louisiana could have even. So much of it is luck. what questions are asked, buzzing way early and guessing the right answer.. or buzzing in a little early and getting it wrong.. or right.

Even the judging totally varies. We lost a game earlier, because apparently ribs 8-12 are "floating ribs" rather than 'false ribs' like it says on Egans 9th edition p. 158, decreasing ICP by hyperventillating isn't because high CO2 would raise it by causing cerebral vasodilation.. and the first point we get doesn't matter.. haha.

So yeah if we played one game against the same team we might lose, another we'd win, so getting to semi finals is what matters, beyond that it's 'mostly' luck. That said CA won for years straight. Just graduating is a huge advantage. If you took my team 5 months ago.. Yep we were so much better then. CO was smart about their team- assigning different topics and having students from different semesters. Honestly my team, we didn't break up topics and study them, didn't study for months or just graduate +/- a month. How well we did is totally because of how good our school and education is. Macomb Community College! Even though we started studying a little from only a week ago we still got 2nd place!

It was just such an honor to get sportsmanship. My teammates all agreed that it was the best to get; better than 1st place, or 2nd or 3rd.

New Orleans was a wild place. Good food and so many amazing people!

I want a job. Someone hire me please.