Ok, so The scoring for our greek week was really screwed up this year. They decided that EACH Olympic event was worth 5 for 1st, 3 for 2nd and 1 for 3rd. What the IFC and Panhel social chairs (either did or didn't) realize was that if you could win all the athletic events, you could WIN GREEK WEEK WITHOUT SHOWING UP TO ANYTHING ELSE!.
So my group, the smallest on campus and the one who never wins ANYTHING, kicked ass this year. We got 2nd for our Tshirts, 2nd in Harmony night, 2nd in Banner, 1st in Lip Synch, then we managed to get 3rd in Volleyball, 3rd in Soccer, and 1st in tug o war.
My points of contention- 1) We were ALWAYS paired in the SAME bracket as the largest sorority on campus, every. single. time. There were three houses that we never even got to play!
2) If you went to the consolation round, then you automatically got 3rd, with no chance to play for 2nd.
3) We were supposed to play a consolation round for dodgeball, but the IFC Social chair told us we were done and to go home, SO WE DID! Grrrr
So at the end of the day...a fraternity that had poured a POUND OF SUGAR and gotten almost entirely NAKED on stage at lip synch WON GREEK WEEK, even though they hadn't won anything else. The rule of only having 3 varsity athletes in any event at any one time had to be suspended for them, because they were ALL varsity athletes.
the sorority that won was the one we KEPT ON PLAYING over and over and over again, and losing to because we don't have athletes. Incidentally, one of the girls had heard one of them say after we won lip synch, "We could be in first too, if people felt sorry for us." GRRRRRRRRRRR
But during flag football (and following our recruitment chair getting nailed in the eye with the football by my big!), we decided to say, "eff this" because we weren't going to win, even if we got 1st place. So we decided to do a kickline instead of kicking off, and do some of our inside jokes and singing Margaritaville at the top of our lungs instead of actually playing. Perhaps a little snarky, but we were covered in mud and having a damn good time.
If they had kept the scoring like it had been for every greek week up to this one, we would have won. Instead, we got 2nd, and you know what, no one should ever feel sorry for us.
So I propose that next year our shirts say, "Tau Delta: Don't feel sorry for us, we're having fun while you're just bitter."