Speech Tournament Number Two

The last speech tournament of the year.
And my second one.
It's also the first one for a bunch of kids in my class...including two friends of mine who are doing a duet together.
The bus is going to be so crowded tomorrow. I would guess that between thirty and forty people from my school are going.

I already know that my first round is at ten o'clock, so I might go watch an eight o'clock round...except that it's a bit weird to watch a preliminary round, just in general. And the suggestion is that one practice and not go watch...but one also doesn't practice for an hour and a half or two hours solid.
However, perhaps one practices for forty-five minutes and does homework/socializes for forty-five minutes? It's possible.
Or I could always watch my friends practice their duet, because I think their first round is at ten o'clock, also...

Today after school I was talking to a friend of mine that was on Academic Team and is also in Advanced Speech, and he said that the senior who is Debate president at my school and has qualified for regionals in Domestic Extemp (DEX) and Poetry (PO) (with first places in both, and then with first places in Champs division in both) is glad that I'm coming. So I asked why, and my friend's response was, "He knows you're smart."
First of all, what does that have to do with anything? And second, how on earth did he find that out?
Of course, here I am talking to my friend, who probably told this other student. So...*shrugs*

I cannot believe it has been three weeks since the last tournament...can I have been this excited for the past three weeks? But it also seems like it was so long ago, because I've worked so much on the piece...
I hope I break to semis...I hope I break to finals...