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i was kind of anticipating this year's fos since quite some time ago, because this is the only opportunity left for me to prove myself (as i screwed up quite a lot for the FOS in the past four years) as next year will be A'level :(. this year's fos is the most enjoyable fos ever, at least for me. for the past 4 festival of sports, though they were reasonably memorable, i had left many regrets behind as i failed do my best and thus did not perform up to my expectations.
But for this year, though we only got 4th in the end, it had already exceeded my expectations. and think of it this way, we are 4th out of 18 classes, which is like quite an commendable feat (at least for me:) Actually we still had a chance to fight for the 3rd placing, but since it was against AhBao's class, which is another artemis class, both of our teams just played in a laxing mode. somehow, ahbao's team won by a small margin. But if our team play seriously, i believe we have chance to win our artemis counterparts hehe.
there are two matches which i feel worth mentioning here, for memorial purposes. first was the match against hongsheng's class (which is another artemis class, sadly). their team was seriously quite tall, not counting mingyang, the shortest player there is like the tallest player in our team already. What made this match so memorable was that this was the match which excited our whole team. somehow or other, our artemis opponent played quite meng today, there were instances where some of the players got quite rough. first was xiaoyao's injury. though it was mostly due to his careless fall (i think) and sprained his ankle, his injury kind of show how intense the game was. Second was Calvin's outburst. I think he bushuang opponent's roughness quite a number of times and got damn frustrated and angry that he blurted out some, eh, unpredictable roars, like, "Do you hold pride in your class?". this was rather shocking and interesting, and i was like giggling away in that situation because it seemed quite funny. 3rd was hongsheng's scratch on zhenrui's face, which was like more than 6 cm long on his right cheek. this happened when hongsheng was fouled and don't know how, zhenrui's face was being assaulted at when hongsheng was falling down. So all these instances and in addition to the tight scores, every one of our team members became damn focused and united. everyone had a common goal, which was to bloody hell win the match. so, with this 拼出去的精神，we had overcome the initial deficit and eventually outscored them by two points (10-8). With less than 10 seconds left, we fouled hongsheng again, and the fate of our team depended on his double free-throws. with a little bit of luck, he missed the second free throw and our final score permanently froze at 10-9, which means we won. i couldn't resist my excitement then and produced quite a loud roar.
the second memorable match was against hongyao's class in the semifinals. that was our second time playing against them on the same day. the first time we played was a trashing one, with a loss of 22-10. well, that was nothing embarrassing about it since hongyao is the starting point guard for combined schools and nicktan and hongyao's fast break was really really good. During our second match-up, we changed our tactic a bit and to my surprise, 6c also changed theirs, with hongyao played inside more often than outside, which i think was to our team's favour. as i was responsible for marking him this time round, my burden was quite heavy. i had to stick to him like his shadow in order to limit his attacking and scoring. In the end, our whole team's effort paid off. this time round, we only lost to them by 5 points and we actually had the chance to equalize the game in the last 15 seconds. Though we did not grab the opportunity, it was a good fight overall.
In summary, the 5 of us had played 6 games in total which was very tiring. but then, my exhaustion seemed to be slowly fading away with each game played. maybe my muscles were getting used to the intensity with every game played or i 慢热，i felt more energized and excited as the games went on. overall, i am very satisfied with my teammates' and my performance.
我们打出男人的血性！