In conclusion this activity has now come to an end and i will now evaluate my participation and this CAS activity in general.
This activity consisted of me participating in the ACE tournament. For two years now, i have participated in the badminton and table tennis sections of the tournament. However the second year, i have participated in the third part, chess.
First year, in 2013, i participated in table tennis, and badminton. For table tennis i failed to get to semi finals, as i had lost to a student form the elite school of UB. He however turned out to be the champion of the table tennis portion of the tournament, i will say that i was not better than him because of his amazing spins while in-game.
Badminton went better for me but not a complete victory. I had teamed up with a classmate of mine, called Misheel. He was a good badminton player and seeing as he was the only other good player than me, and as i viewed myself a good player i had asked him to join up which he agreed to. We lost the finals to another ISU team composed of Tsogt a grade 10 student and James a grade 12 student.
This year, i joined the same portions plus chess. My table tennis was good however ultimately like last year, lost and did not make to semi finals, while however making it to semi-semi finals.
Badminton this year i teamed up with Bandi, another fellow peer from my class. I would not consider him to be a excellent badminton player, however he proved me otherwise during the matches.
The final portion, which was chess i participated only to win my first chess match. This gave me disastrous confidence in my skills that led to my downfall in four losses in a row to other students from other schools.
Every year, there is a tournament called the ACE tournament in ISU, consisting of three different parts. A chess tournament, Table Tennis and Badminton. The first year i had joined table tennis and badminton as those were activities i was sure i was adequate at, and the following year i added chess to my schedule.
For table tennis, i had been playing since fourth grade. Not as a serious activity, but for leisure, which gave me above average skills as a table tennis player. However this was shown a reality to me as i played against other serious and good players and they had defeated me. This happened two years in a row and the only improvement i happened to show was that i made it to the semi-semi finals in the second year as i did not reach that far in the first year.
Badminton however was a sport i always enjoyed and was somewhat good at. I joined the first year with another good player called Misheel a classmate and came in second place, losing by a very close match. The second year i had teamed up with Bandi, a classmate and peer of mine whom i knew did not have much experience in the sport. However, both years i came second, losing to the same team consisting of one student in grade 10 and later, grade 11.
This year had gained an addition of sports, chess. I never played chess but i was familiar with the rules. Thinking this would be a good way to see if this sport would interest me. I participated only to win my first match. I would say i gained interest, only to be shown that there are those who take it seriously and i lost the next three matches. The last match however went so long, that my opponent and i just decided the victor with a game of rock paper scissors, which i lost even though it was the closes match i had ever experienced.
For table tennis, i had confidence in my skills, i believed if i focused i could beat anyone, no matter who. However the kids i never played against, who were actually good showed me the reality of the sport, only to show me that no matter how hard i try, i can still lose. The spins were amazing, it was a complete new thing i saw, that no matter what i did, could not hit back. Going even as far as to lose 11 to 1. However i believed i improved a little, as i faced the same kids and only lost 11 to 6 the second year.
Badminton was a sport i was always good at, the first year, i believe i played incredibly bad, making mistakes i usually would not, which i believe led to my ultimate downfall, or second place. The second year i kind of went back to my previous skills as a badminton player, and started to beat other teams alone. However i was with someone who had less experience, and did not rely on him at all, while at the first year i did. However, i was incredibly impressed, by my buddy Bandi, as he had gotten shots i did not even believe i could have gotten, which boosted my hope while sometimes i thought i was going to lose. I learned to trust others a little.
Chess was a new sport i decided to see if it was interesting, and it was. I won my first match which surprised me the most, but reality hit me as i lost all the other matches. I fought against the champion and a runner up, at which point i lost all of my confidence and it was further crushed when i lost to a 6th grader. However at the last match, i decided i should not give up, which resulted in a tie, an incredible game, which i lost after rock paper scissors. I believe that i played amazingly as i don’t play chess.
Learning outcome conditions
Increase our awareness of our own strengths and areas for growth
Planned and Initiated activities
Worked and collaborated with others
Engaged with issue of global importance
Considered ethical implications
For this activity, i believe that i achieved more learning outcome conditions than i should have, saying that this was in my opinion a very good CAS activity.
This was just a participation in a tournament. I believed i only came to develop new skills, showed perseverance, undertook new challenges and workers and collaborated with others. I defiantly developed my skills in all three sports, as i experienced defeat which i can work on to improve myself. I showed perseverance in all of my tournaments, even though i was going to lose, i still fought. Undertaking new challenges was probably the hardest learning outcome i had to undertake, as chess was incredibly crushing of the soul. A learning outcome i surpassingly feel like i accomplished is that i worked well with others. I first taught that my teammate, would only drag me down, only to be shown up and trust on him to get the hard shots.
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