smallest amount of sleep on tourney night

[Pulp Fictionist]

Mine's 2 hours...tournaments can be very demanding, I wish they could be spread out over days and not start early....what's everyone's elses?

[xxLusciousZechxx]

People sleep at tournaments?

I can't count the number of times I've just stayed up the entire night and went in the next day with no sleep.

I think it's the best way to do it.

Because then, if you don't break, you won't be upset.

Because now you can totally sleep.

[jman255*]

People sleep at tournaments?

I can't count the number of times I've just stayed up the entire night and went in the next day with no sleep.

I think it's the best way to do it.

Because then, if you don't break, you won't be upset.

Because now you can totally sleep.I know the Friday before Nats I am not going to get any sleep...Our flight leaves at 6 in the morning, so we have to leave the school at 4...We are just gonna stay up and have some fun "nationals bonding" time...(-;

[ria]

i think the least i've ever gotten is about 2 hours before a local tournament. but that was, i think, my sophomore year. then i got a complete, full night sleep and did way better, and started forcing myself to get at least 5 hours, if not more than that. and i had to force myself to eat breakfast, too. i always do better with plenty of sleep and at least a marginal amount of food in my tiny stomach.

[xxLusciousZechxx]

People sleep at tournaments?

I can't count the number of times I've just stayed up the entire night and went in the next day with no sleep.

I think it's the best way to do it.

Because then, if you don't break, you won't be upset.

Because now you can totally sleep.I know the Friday before Nats I am not going to get any sleep...Our flight leaves at 6 in the morning, so we have to leave the school at 4...We are just gonna stay up and have some fun "nationals bonding" time...(-;

My mother, her boyfriend, and all the kids (my little brother and his two kids) are leaving for Illinois to visit family on the tenth.

We leave for Nats on the eleventh.

So I'm just going to stay up all night that night and party until I have to go to the airport.

It sucks that they're gone while I'm gone and get back the night before I do.

That means my sister gets the entire house to party in for the entire week.

Man, **** Nationals and it's inconvenient timing.

[ria]

well, see, tuck, i have to eat or else i....well, i pass out. when i was a beginner, i couldn't keep food down for anything, and i wouldn't eat at all until after the tournament was over. but then it got to the point where i just had to eat.

[Cinderella]

That's how it was for me too. For all of my novice year I would get nervous stomachaches and i wouldnt eat, and then it would just burn me out and i'd get dizzy. So now I HAVE to eat, even though I still don't eat enough...like at CFLs my stomach was bothering me so I ate very little (and I didn't sleep like AT ALL the day before the break rounds) and I ended up getting dizzy in the middle of my quarters performance and literally fainting during awards

[Jimbo Jones 2017]

A guy on my team takes a "good luck poo" before competition...yea...sorry didn't mean to kill the moment.

[Forensicatur]

My record is *ahem* somewhere along the 60 hour mark with no sleep. For those of you who don't believe me grrr but its honestly true. FFL States my novice year, friday no sleep, saturday no sleep, and sunday i crashed after i ran out of no dose pills. After that i stopped taking them becuase i was unhappy all weekend.

[ria]

yeah, that's kind of unhealthy.

[Theatreguy]

the least amount i have gotten is 1 hour, the most is 8.... i think.... (wow that night with 8 was nice).... it was a really simple tourny... other wise i get kinda nervous......
meh i dont know
food is a must.... ussually it sucks though.... i ate 5 chickfila sandwhichs one tourny..... woot

[timjanas]

i remember this past april at the ny state championships, my team arrived in albany in the afternoon, the day before competition. by 9 pm, we had absolutely run out of things to do, cuz there's nothing to do in albany, and some of us were very queasy after some uneventful chinese food, so we all went to sleep at around 10, and got 9 hours of sleep. good times :D

[sassafrassz]

Oof, I can't ever eat at tournaments. I eat just enough to like, you know, not die, and that's about it. When I do it just makes me sick. Nerves or something man, no idea what's up.

that's exactly how I am.

[jman255*]

I know I drink a butt load of water....I probably consume more water than I do food...I know that every weekend a different parent brings like sandwich meat and bread and chips, etc...so we don't have to eat the junk that they sell overpriced. That's about the only time I eat.

[Pulp Fictionist]

usually what i do is try to get a decent breakfast to hold me through the day....i wasn't gonna eat at CFL's, but **** those burgers were actually pretty good....but yea, i normally really dont eat during a tourney...or talk much...it's a mix of nerves/concentration, but i hate doing too many abstract things.

[Chewie]

I think a lot of people don't eat at tournaments for the same reason you don't see professional athletes eating turkey on the sidelines.

Debate is a physical event, and eating just makes you sluggish. You never think about how hungry you are while you're doing an HI or out jogging, right? Running around yelling and screaming for 10 minutes after just having a big meal may make you wanna upchuck.

[MauldinDebater]

Well, I was at lacrosse camp today and I beg to differ.

Debate is not in the sweltering heat of summer with pads on in the sun for 4 hours at a time.

Now I'm sunburt too :(

[ria]

or how much your head hurts. which happens to me a lot. had a splitting migraine the day i won first place for the first time. i thought i was gonna implode.

[Nocturne]

Our team normally goes out after a day of compotition/bus riding, so we normally don't get back to the hotel till about 12. So on average we get about 6 hours of sleep a night. If you don't break the next day, you get to sleep in until finals.

I remember at Nat Quals, I roomed with the guy on my team who enjoys talking about nothing for hours on end. It was about 2:00 am when I finally told him to shut up. But it wasn't that polite. :shock:

also..

I go to the bathroom about 3 times more then I do when I am at home (when at invitationals) Maybe it's because I consume alot more water, or some sort of stress. By the end of every round, I am most likely running to the bathroom.

[Cinderella]

By the end of every round, I am most likely running to the bathroom.

Haha, yup, that's me

[Theatreguy]

i guess im odd cause i eat?? lol i USED to be fat thats my excuse....

[oosweetnesssoo]

mine was 45 minutes.

It was the night before the Glenbrooks tournament this year and I just did not feel like my OI was right at all. So, I switched my Prose at the last minute. My friend stayed up with me til about 1AM to help me cut it. After that I cut the rest of the piece, re-typed it so it fitted into my binder, wrote an intro, and practiced a few times for focal points/tech/and whatnot. And I ended up getting to Semis in OI. I dropped with my Prose. But it's okay.

[Chewie]

Well, I was at lacrosse camp today and I beg to differ.

Well, some of us do interp, too, Maudlin. :P But seriously, my point was just that during any physical activity, Lacrosse or a good HI, you don't feel like eating during or right before either one. I don't doubt that 4 hours of lacrosse is more physically taxing than an hour or so of interp performances w/ 3 or 4 hours of rest.