DEWA ATHENA IX

Hello! Today I'm going to tell you about one of the events that is held in my school, Dewa Athena!

Dewa Athena is a sport competition held in SMAN 3 Bandung by the members of OSIS Sie 7. Dewa Athena is actually an abbreviation in Indonesia for "Olimpiade Siswa/Siswi Ajang Untuk Bakat dan Kemampuan" or "Olympic for students' talents and abilities" mostly focused on sports. It was held on 23rd - 25th of March and then followed with 1st of April and 8th of April. The 23rd - 24th of March is for the 11th Graders, while 25th of March and 1st of April were for the 10th Graders. Last is the 8th of April which is exclusively for the Grand Finals. There were 8 sports that were competed, which were; Futsal, Basketball, Volleyball, Dodgeball, Relay, Tug of War, Badminton and Gobak Sodor.

I myself am a committee of the event. I were at the logistics division, and I was the person-in-charge for the Tug of War in the soccer field. The first two days were the seniors' competition, so I didn't really know a lot of people besides my OSIS seniors, good thing is that I wasn't the only 10th Grade committee, a few of my friends were also present at that time.

The competition for the 10th Graders were at Saturday, 25th of March. This was where the fun began. Well, I didn't really know how the opening was and etc. because I came late teehee. My friends said that there were like Olympic torches igniting sort of thing to imitate a real Olympic event. I personally registered for 3 competitions which were Dodgeball, Basketball, and Gobak Sodor. Oh, about Gobak Sodor, its kind of like a tower defence with humans, where the person defending needs to touch the person invading the territory.

As I arrived, my friends said that they have won several competitions; Female's Futsal, Relay, and Tug of War. I was really happy because they said that so far, they have won every single competition. However, when we just finished Tug of War, we got bad news from the Male's Double for Badminton, that they had lost. It was our first loss of today, but we still have a lot of upcoming matches so that doesn't put our spirit down. But then, after the Tug of War and Badminton there is this Male's Futsal, and we were against a really good competitor, X IPA 6 which has past winners of Futsal competitions in their Junior High School. Sadly, we lost, but that is also anticipated because we all know that they would have won anyways.

The next competition was Volleyball. We were up against an also good competitor, but we ourselves have good players for the Volleyball. However the problem is that both Male and Female are mixed, and because our Female players are not as good, it was quite difficult. But we won anyways yay. And then after this, the Dodgeball match follows. My class were already tired, its even hard for me to persuade them to play. I joined the match this time, and we lost. But no worries though because there is still 3 more competitions left for today.

Moving on is Female's Futsal, again. We have 2 good contenders who can actually play futsal, but on the other team, there is this one girl who is crazy good at playing sports. We put up a really good fight, but we lost. And at this point we were starting to lose our spirit. The next competition was Female's Badminton. I'm going to be honest our team has the best player for Female's Badminton, but again this is a Female's Double, and since her teammate is not as good, it kind of put us up on stake aswell. Our opponent is really good, I mean, both of the players are well balanced at playing Badminton, so it is really nervous to watch it. Aaaaand we won! Well it was a mixture of luck and the fact that one of our players is just really THAT good, but we almost lose btw.

Last competition was Basketball. But, it was scheduled at 15.30 or 16.00 so we all are like, "Ugh, lets just be disqualified for this one competition" and so no one showed up at the time of the competition, and we had to pay Rp. 100.000 as the sanction for not being present. That was all about Dewa Athena, the next competition is at 1st April, we are going to play Gobak Sodor, moving up in relay, female's badminton, and volleyball. Hope my class can win it all!

That's all from me today, thanks for your attention, Goodbye!