Losing with pride.

You must be wondering, how to lose with pride? Let me tell you.
Not giving up when you're losing.

IVP final was yesterday. We were at NYP at 730am only to know that our first match against ACIS was a walkover. So we had to wait till 330PM to start our first match. Damn it was long. Spend the time eating, watching matches, joking and warming up. 330 came sooner than we expected. Time for the showdown.
We went in with strategies, and gave it our best. But our best were not good enough against SMU. Went down 6 -2 for the first half. Spirits dampened, morales were low. But Captain Nick and Benedict gave us a motivation talk.

"Guys, I know we're trailing. So I have to do what's best for the team. I'll put our strongest 7 into the match and when either side reaches 8 or 9, we'll have fun. You guys didn't come down all the way here to sit at the sidelines. So we'll have fun, you can bring a can of 100plus into the match and tell the person marking you "You're defending me? Ok." and then huck the disc. I don't care if we lose, we'll have fun and give it our all! Let's go TPU!"

Ok, so it's not EXACTLY the things he said. But roughly it's like this.
Gave our all was what we did. We went from 6-2 down to a further 9-2 down. Not a problem. Spirits were still high after the talk and we started believing in ourselves when we scored the third point. Here comes the interesting part. I forgot which point it was, but when Yongsheng(Told you, you were going to be mentioned) HANDBLOCKED the guy, we all SCREAMED! It was outside end-zone, so we had one chance. Ziwei took the disc and looked around as the opponent stall count her. She kept her cool, one throw...... Yongsheng caught the fucking disc! He was in shock and I ran in to carry him and soon the whole sideline joined it. People pulled his hair (Tsk, Jiaxin...) and the rest carried and screamed. Opponent heads hung low, spirits dampened. We were happy like mad! Then we continued the streak. We went on to score 2 or 3 in a row. In total, we scored 4 in a row. Before SMU win, Gerard jumped damn high to catch a disc. Once again, we screamed. But we didn't score that point. (It's ok Gerard, you did well!). The game went on to 11 - 6. We were proud of ourselves. We did great because we believed in ourselves. We gave SMU hell of a match.

As TPU circled up for the last team talk, both of the captains were happy. In fact, we were all grinning from teeth to teeth. We did one last cheer for the team before ending going off to watch the finals. Awesome day it was.
Let's go TPU!