We were the earliest team to arrive at the area where we were supposed to gather, so someone suggested we go take photos with every single flag! Haha lame but we had fun running down the row and posing with all the flags and signs :P We didn't take a photo with our OWN flag and sign though 'cause we already did earlier.. it proved to be a mistake! Just before we went in for the opening ceremony we realised our flag couldn't be opened. :( Shan't dwell too much on what happened 'cause it's rather depressing.
Catching a photo with the beauty bears! It was very funny 'cause they were trying to keep up with the rest of the Japanese team and take a photo with us at the same time. Hence the blurry photo. So anyways, after the opening ceremony it was time to compete! I was super uber nervous before our turn, watching the teams before us compete and seeing the many many spectators. It suddenly dawned on me that we were competing at a world championships and omg that's freaking scary.
So then came our turn and all our stunts kind of went up except double cupie. Kind of went up 'cause they weren't exactly done very nicely like my arabesque was super low and I didn't manage to straight away pull my bow and arrow etc etc. I didn't feel too horrible after that routine though 'cause I was kinda relieved that at least the other stunts didn't fail. I think my confidence level was so low that day that I expected it to be worse =X
Straight after we performed the routine, we waited at this area for our score which would be flashed on the big screem. Reminds of me gymnastics competitions I used to watch on tv where the gymnasts did something like that too! And they'd be very nervous while waiting for the judges to flash their score. So cool that we got to experience that too.
I think we were all pretty surprised when we saw our score - 93.5. Think it was not too bad!
Here're the scores of the 7 groups that participated. We were right in the middle at fourth place after the first day!
After we competed we headed up to the stands to watch the other teams perform.
The bambis had their names embroidered on their team jackets! I also want!
Japan mixed team showing their support for the all girls team!
It was great watching all the countries perform. First time watching the Europeans cheerleaders and they all seem to have a certain style different from the Asians. Japan was unbelievable as usual, thailand's routine seemed less thai this time, china put up an amazing performance despite being one man down, and for taipei it was just such a pity... :(
Some girls asking us for a picture outside the stadium! :)