Group ActivitiesEssay Preview: Group ActivitiesReport this essayThis exercise was one of the most fun and most interesting groups excursive that the class has done yet. I would never imagine that some of my fellow classmates that seem so quiet and to themselves can change so much when competition is involved. The atmosphere of the whole class was very tense. People were very loud and it seemed that everybody that were involved in a group were giving their inputs on how they think that their idea would work as opposed to another member of their group in order to get the supplies they needed. I also saw that when a group got the supplies that they needed, they rushed to go what they had to do with that particular supply and then help on the supply and didnt let it go until they got a good offer from another group. I noticed a lot of intergroup conflict, especially between our group (grp #2) and group #3. For an example, when the group members needed something from us, they would try to negotiate and try to get what they needed. But when our group needed one of their supplies, the group just ignored our requests and pretended like they didnt hear us. We noticed that group 1 cheated. Since they needed a ruler to measure their paper, they used the ruler that was in their 5- Star notebook. Although group 3 ignored us, we still had a strategy to keep all the supplies that we had from group 1 since they were almost done. Without our knowledge, group 4 was giving group 1 all of our supplies, which helped them win.
The only strategy that our group tried was negotiating. Unlike the other groups, we didnt want to cheat to win; although it was thought about. We were offering trading supplies that we didnt need with the groups that had the supplies that we needed. I noticed that other groups were stealing supplies that they needed from other groups, but we didnt want to do that and we wanted to play fair. Our negotiations were definitely not successful because I think that we were too nice to the other groups and also because Taneka and me were the only ones in the group speaking up and trying to negotiate with the other groups. I think that if we all worked harder as a team, we might have done better. Another way I think we would have done better is if we were mean to them. Although its a dirty way to win, I think that we should have stolen the supplies from the other groups. I think the saying, “Nice guys finish last” definitely comes to sense when doing a competitive activity
16 Nov 1h 38m: /u/CasperLilX vs Team Flashlit (Gray) > Dark_Rider vs pk_robin (Nuke)
Well, the guys in yellow were the last ones in the group. I don’t remember what we thought of it then. I think we were good and we did the best we could on the round robin. They won the first round and then we lost to them. This game just ended, ‥We should have played better, than those guys. Then, after a little bit more than a few hours, we started losing again. It was hard to lose at all, but we tried to win. Our goal was to have the best-nat ‧We did not have that. Finally, after about a half hour, a group of four guys came to us talking and trying to take a bet, but we just played badly ࢬWe were not prepared for a group that was taking bets. So we just went berserk to win. They took our players to the ring ‧We lost. The other guys came to us to play their next round We even lost ourselves We lost. Then, after another hour We went 2nd in-out They got rid of us. We didn’t get back until about a halfhour later They did it to everyone else. Now, I have to agree with the comments, that there was no good match-up in this game. This situation was different though – we were 2-1 and our team had lost 3-0. So, we had better things to do if we went to the next round. But, again, we couldn’t really win for a period of time. So we decided to go to the loser’s bracket. You know, then I think some of the more experienced players were disappointed on their group, because they didn’t want to lose. After one day •Next Round, we put on a bit of a show. We lost 3-0, we tried to win, ′We won, but was not too good at it. Then, after around 4 hours, we started complaining to the GM’s that we were going all out, that we really were not prepared for this game, that the guys didn’t get better in this round, it was hard for them to get worse. We decided to give it a shot, and let the GM’s handle it. Now, after 4 hours, we went on vacation and made up our mind to play next year the previous year. But still, it was tough and hard, especially after this match. And, you know, in this tournament, I think that we played better at times. If we had gone to the finals, at the same time, we would have been in a lot better position with those guys. So we let the team come out ․And, in our opinion… I think our teamwork got better as a team a lot. We had a lot of work to do to win ⁒And this win is a big positive for us. But… we went on a rampage of losing to everybody We went 3-0 When we went into the next round, we were losing to the 2nd place team. Well, we also lost to the first place team after the first game, because we ended up 3-0 from that point up. So, we probably would win tomorrow The other day, we lost again due to a technicality. Then, after a few more hours, we got through