the moment of the last question that would determine if we won or lost caused a chill to course through my body. They dragged the moment on with challenges by us and the other teams, but eventually, we made it to the final question. Our team buzzed first. But when Kate( our latin person) said our answer, the moderator went to the next team. We had lost. He waited for the other teams to give their answers, shook his head, and gave us the point. We wouldn’ t have won without Izzy. She wasn’ t on our team, but she was on our other Virginia team that hadn’ t made it to semis. Throughout the round, she would be the only person chanting“ VA! VA!” over the screams of the Pennsylvania delegation. That little piece of spirit gave us the confidence to keep going. Our Coach was so hard-working( although he denies it), and was instrumental in our 2nd place overall. Coach Wilusz later told us that it was his first time individually coaching a team. When we were strategizing, he would point out how some teams had really good or strict coaches. Well, in all of our opinion, he was the best. He stayed up all night before the finals despite it being in the