The third day of Imagine Cup was beyond intense for us. So many things went wrong we couldn't help but laugh. In fact, I'm going to make a bullet list of what happened:
We couldn't get our decorations to stay up during most of the showcase. Our mentor-of-sorts Edwin saved the day by bringing us some much need thumbtacks.
We had some minor game issues and glitches.
The arrow keys stopped working so we had to use WSAD for a bit until we finally fixed it late into the showcase. The judges had already seen us by then.
Oh, yeah, OUR GAME BROKE. Actually, it was not that much of a surprise, we knew bad luck would give us a nice slap in the face at some point and there it was. Not only did it break, but it broke in front of two of the judges. It was embarrassing but they were so understanding that they gave us a chance to fix it. We managed to get it to work again and they were kind enough to come back and re-judge. By the way, did I mention those judges were Gordon Bellamy and Peter Raad? I know, right? Such an honor to have them judge and play our game!
Of course, we saved the worst news for last. Unfortunately, Team ICsquared did not make it to the final round of judging.
Even though we didn't win, we're totally okay with it. This is our first Imagine Cup and we've working on our game for less than 5 months. The teams we were against had completed games whereas ours is still in its embryonic stage, so to speak and pun intended. We also didn't do to well on our presentation, we should have been much more prepared and much less nervous. Also, we tried to be creative at the end of our presentation but it back-fired on us. Add to that what we mentioned before about the showcase and you can see things really didn't add up for us.
But that's okay! This means we get to compete next year in Australia! Many of the teams actually compete in two or three Imagine Cups before they win, so we're so excited to finish Embryonic and compete in next year's Imagine Cup. Being in the Imagine Cup has been (and still is) amazing. We're so proud we've gotten to the finals!
Ah, and even though we didn't win, we want to say this:
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED EMBRYONIC!! WE LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH! Thank you for all the voting, moral support, and advice. We wouldn't be here without you! We especially want to thank the following amazing people/groups:
Ithaca College's Computer Science Dept.
Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School
Our Team USA friends, especially teams Note Taker, LifeLens, and Dragon!
All the other amazing people from the Imagine Cup!
Also, just because we didn't mean dosen't mean we go home! The Imagine Cup ends this Thursday so expect a lot more blogging to come your way! Updates coming soon about us being on ABC and NY1 News! Until then!
