Over the weekend there is a Canton Invite for gymnastics. This meet is going to be extremely difficult to come home with. Although, my team is currently second in the state, so this meet won't be too hard to place in, but we will be competing against the other teams that rank in the top ten spots. Pretty much the meet is going to be like a mini state.
The meet will begin around 8 with open warm-up; we will not start to compete until 9:15. Since the invite is so big, there are 18 teams competing in it. Meet can take almost all day just for ten teams, now double it, it’s going to take awhile. If you are not competing, you have to sit in the stands and cheer on your team. This gets pretty boring. In the stands we normally just listen to our iPods or talk. We are not allowed to have our phones in sight. If we do then our team gets a point deducted from the final team score. A point may not seen like a lot, but the difference between the first place and second place team last meet was only a tenth, a point taken away would have made it a huge win.
Although, so it is not as boring, there is a food room for all the gymnasts, which is where we spend the most of our time, when we are not competing. In the food room we are the team that you see that has all the food on the table. Other teams don't bring as much food as we do, but we eat all the time at the meets. Though, most teams only will eat what they bring during the judges break (or for the gymnasts lunch), or when they are not competing. Our team is really large compared to the other teams, so we always have girls sitting out, though the other teams have to put all their gymnasts in to be able to have a team score at the end. There is always someone at the food table.
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