Air Hockey Tournament

Morgan Davis the 1st South RA, hosted Edwards' first official annual air hockey tournament on Tuesday. 12 or so student entered the competition and let me tell you, the players came prepared. While the tournament bracket was being created everyone began their pregame rituals. The strikers stretched out their arms and felt the stability of their elbows as if they were inspecting an old injury. The defensive specialist like myself were zoned out and focused on the table, watching an invisible puck bounce around the arena, trying to read how the puck would react hitting off of different angles. Lastly, the mind gamers, those are the guys who try and joke around a lot in attempt to loosen you up so they can take advantage of your loss of concentration. They moved between each cluster of men speaking loud, laughing, and asking all kinds of irrelevant questions. Then, as if a surprise to all... the bracket was set and the first match was announced. After everyone put down their pizza and drinks the competition began. tough battles including long rallies and heart wrenching goals were fought. The puck itself seemed to crush under the pressures of the competition at times and it flung itself across the room. One by one competitors fell until there were only two men remaining, Eric Schumann and yours truly Drew Corbin. The final would be decided in a best 2 out of 3 match. The first game seemed too easy for Mr. Schumann, his endurance from weeks of practice really showed. He won in a quick 7-4 victory. Switch sides. The second game lasted a bit longer but Eric seemed to have troubles against my refocuses defense. In fact, a rare and incredible shutout occurred, I won with a 7-0 victory. Although I was happy with the victory I was unsure if a shutout was really what I wanted. Eric seemed to have fire in his eyes. Switch sides. THE FINAL GAME! points went back and forth, up by one, tie, up by one, tie... when the score reached 4-4 both opponents took a minute to recollect themselves and acknowledge each others skills and pit stains. As they got back into it the shots started falling for me and soon the game and tournament was over. A victor had risen... DREW CORBIN WINS! haha please come back next year and try and take my title. Respect to all competitors, it was a great time.

Sing Song Sickness

Sing Song is sick for 2 reasons:

1. As many of you have/are experiencing, everyone seems to get sick. But even if you are barely able to get out of bed don't give up! It is less than a week away and you have already put so much time and effort into it.
2. Sing Song is also sick because of how freaking awesome it is! Not just for the performers but for the people in the audience as well. It is such a fun and unique competition/show that I'll guaranty you will get the chills up and down your back at least 3 times.

It should be a great show this year and it seems the competition is tight between all of the categories. I encourage all of you to go and if you want to find a group to go with ask around the hall or contact myself and let do it!

Winter Blizzard '11

As we all know, we just got 4 snow days in a row making it a 7 day weekend. One of the greatest weeks of my college experience so far...and by far. Because of the limitless amount of time on my hands I took a moment to observe how interconnected our human actions and attitudes are with good ol' mother nature. It seems when the whether is nice, people are nice. When it is hot and sunny, people play sand volleyball and chill by the pool (thanks Grove). And now that the weather is snowing and cold everyone is making snowmen and soup. I love the connection and I love traditions. In fact my favorite tradition I observed was in the common room on first east aka "The Man Cave". It is the tradition of hunkering down and gather all the friends and blankets you can and make a fort! Here are a couple of pictures of this awesome man cave (which also welcomes girls) created by non-other than Andrew Morrison, Austin Anderson, Nick Tatum, and many others. This are the kind of awesome memories being made here at Edwards.