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2018 State was by far the best tournament that I've had up to date. Like we have done in our previous tournaments, we won all of our Prelim Matches. We selected teams Gromit's Grommets and Insert Name Here, both of who were fantastic partners. We managed to make it to the Tech Division Finals, where we lost the first match, won the second match, and tied the third match, moving onto the fourth. Unfortunately during the fourth match, our chain broke and we weren't able to get

Since this was my second year of DECA, I signed up for different events as last year, with the exception of Financial Services Team Decision Making (FTDM). I also participated in Independent Business Plan (EIB) and Marketing Communications Series (MCS). While I had a lot of fun during the non-competition portions of SCDC, competing was stressful but extremely engaging. At the awards ceremony, my partner and I got called up for both FTDM and EIB. We had been hoping to get 3rd

At Super Quals, Overcharged went into Prelims with an undefeated record, ranking 1st place. We picked Mechanical Maniacs and Stellar Pixels heading into Elims. Both of our alliance partners had disconnection based issues, which none of us had predicted. Due to these issues, we unfortunately lost in the event finals, which is quite far. However, during awards ceremony, we got nominated for nearly every award and ended up winning Inspire again, which was not expected during thi