My First Fencing Tournament Ever!

So Saturday was my first fencing tournament ever! It was really fun and exciting!
We left on Friday around 6 or 7, because it was at Smith (about 1 and 2/1 hours away) and the tournament started at 9.
We stayed overnight in North Hampton and got up bright and early (6) the next morning for a quick breakfast and then checking out of the hotel and going to happy fencing land, aka the Smith gym, which is big and new. We hung around there, got our equipment checked (they almost didn't pass it because it had dents in it! But I love my dents!) and set up our strip and hung around some more and looked at hot hot hot fencing men and ran around the track and stretched and then it was time for our pools. There are 5-7 people per pool and you fence everybody in your pool and get ranked by how well you do. Then you fence in DE, direct eliminations, where if you lose one bout you're out. The pool bouts are 5 point bouts, but the DEs are 15 point bouts and I was fencing a lefty. I got kinda behind in the beginning, but I was catching up toward the end.....then time ran out and I lost because I had the least amount of points. But I'm proud of myself for almost evening the score (11-14). Then we stuck around for the rest of the day and waited for people to finish bouting. And one of our epeeists came in 3rd out of everyone (many of the new england colleges were there....so that was a whole bunch of people!)
Happy Halloween, happy daylight saving.....hope you all had a good weekend!