Personal Thoughts on WSC 2009

I confess, siging up for WSC was not my original intention. I had intended to try out for DI. However, after being "too stone" at the DI auditions, I decided to try my luck with WSC hearing about it from Herman. I was a little apprehensive about the demands of the competition at first, but I have grown to love it. I signed up for this competition in part because of my seniors (Joshua Chan and Jeremy Teoh) having talked about how fun it was.

I hope to gain more exposure to worldwide competitions through WSC. One major benefit that I think I will have is the content exposure. I hope to learn much more outside the RI curriculum from this competition and meet fellow WSC paricipants from around the world.

I am quite concerned about what we will be facing at the World Finals. I do not know the quality of the other teams and I am not very sure about the competition we will be facing. I also feel that we are behind time as we have not finished reading our notes.

My team members are Herman and Chng Jin. I think we can work well as a team as we have complementary personalities, as Chng Jin is quiet, but has a lot of mugging power whereas Herman is outspoken and our debate point man. Chng Jin is well-versed in the notes and is very hardworking. Herman is good in debates( I think) and quite knowledgeable as well. However, Chng Jin can be quite quiet at times and thus might affect the debates. Herman also does not have as much mugging power as Chng Jin. For me, even though I can speak fairly well and I have GK, I'm a slacker. I'm sarcastic and work-averse, to be honest. However, I think our team is a very strong team and we can cover each others' weaknesses by helping each other out and I believe that we can OWN this comp.

My ultimate objective for WSC is to win the thing :) I would really like this opportunity to bring glory to the school and match up with other schools from around the world. I firmly believe that winning this competition is perfectly possible and I will strive to achieve it.