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We locked in.§

After our chaotic-filled rehearsal yesterday, we met today at school and dedicated 7 periods to the Nukkad. We locked in.

Let me explain.

What happened was that we were rehearsing for 3 periods without electricity, relying only on portable speakers and mics to practice. We practiced a lot. It was actually looking ~5% better than when we started, though all the sessions were filled mainly with fun and not much maturity or seriousness towards winning.

After recess, we all met again in our usual spot; the dance hall. One of the members started with a lecture. This time, the lecture was the solution. We eventually agreed on doing a play on the Neet paper leak, and taking a political turn.

I take back my words. The team has insane potential.

For the first time I believe that we can actually win the entire competition by a landslide.

Fun fact. We have 4 days before the Competition, factoring out tomorrow, and the competition day, which leaves us with just 2 days.

2 days to pull out the single greatest comeback anyone's ever seen.

As I said during practice:

Let us cook fellow team mates. Let us cook.

And cook we will.

I made a mistake.§

A big one to say the least. I changed the website's skin for a meaningless cause. That cause I cannot fully disclose because of what happened. That something that happened affected trust. Something which had already became difficult to give to people after "The Incident."

That rare commodity had been given to someone. It had been used, and later thrown away.

With that said, I feel much lighter.

I also need to thank 2 people.

Manask, a close friend of mine and a dude with nothing better to do than to get to the point in brawl stars in a matter of a couple of weeks. It took me a couple of months to get to that stage...

Mansak told me that the first thing that he does after waking up is that he checks my website. He reads everything. He critiques everything. That little gesture of just telling me that he read my work, made my entire day. I had been thinking of a way to thank him but I never figured out how, until now.

The other person is Ramya.

He told me that the website was amazing. He approached me, unprompted and told me: "I went to your website. It's cool."

That gave me a feeling, that I had never felt before. It was a mixture of pride, accomplishment, happiness, euphoria and sadness.

Sadness I do not know why I felt, but I felt it.

Can't forget about Dev either. Thanks Dev. Your support means the world to me.

Thank you. Thank you both.

3 people left.§

Multiple people want to leave. No unity, no compassion, empathy, or understanding. This is the current state of “The Team.” Nine days before the competition, and “horseplay” is still the only play we seem to be making. The only reason I haven't left is because I respect my teacher too much. If I had the freedom to leave the team, I probably would have walked away already after slapping them and yelling profanities. At least two people are absent every day, and we're losing roughly one student a week from the group. And honestly, this isn't about claiming I'm better than anyone else. I'm not. But people aren't even making the slightest effort to help or coordinate. Nine days left.

— Vihaan Vaghela