I'm here to express my utmost dissatisfaction with the results of my choir competition.

Our school kinda messed up the second half of the second song, but besides that it was great. And not just great, but really really great. Really! And I don't even think we messed it up that bad.

Okay, let's not just talk about how my school did. What I am most disappointed and upset about is the selection of the school for third place. The host school got the spot, and in my honest opinion, they really don't deserve it. I won't be half this angry if it was some other school which got third place. No, I don't have a personal grudge or anything against that school. It's just that their choir performance was barely like a choir, their harmony was terrible, you couldn't hear the layering, there were no dynamics and the singers practically just shouted the song at some points.

So, of all schools, the question I wanna ask is "Why this school?". My friend is kinda convinced bribery was involved, though I thought it was a bit far-fetched. I think it's just a simple case of being biased. Let me tell you how they supposedly decided the final winners.

The judges only placed all of the participating schools in a listed order in which the school they thought was best was put at the top, second put second on the list and so on. Then... someone, whom I have no idea who it is, decides the final places. When they announced the third place winners, everyone got a shock, and I'm not just talking about the participants from my school. Even the judges' faces portrayed disbelief and dissatisfaction. Obviously they didn't like what they just heard either.

Actually, before the actual results were announced, our supervising teacher got a glimpse of the papers on the table where they announced stuff. She saw that our school was listed second and she smiled really wide and gave a thumbs up to... herself? It wasn't really for anyone, it was just a thumbs up to show how happy she was. At that time we didn't know what she was grinning for, but we could tell good news was on the way. Well, apparently we were wrong, eh?

But what's passed is the past, and what's done is done.

Like the title of this post suggests, it is not the end. There is yet another competition in August, and we will dominate that one. Just wait and see! I think today's events has got everyone really determined to do ever better.