First MathCounts Training

Today was my first MathCounts training. We met at a room on UCI's campus. I got there, and I was one of the last few. There were 16 people, and we waited for a while for everyone to come. At around 3:00 P.M., we started. So we got our try-out tests back and we did some target round questions. There were 4 groups of 2 questions with 6 minutes for each question. We did an extra 2 from a different one too. After we finished the target round we did other things. The instructor (well the person who was running the MathCounts for our school) explained some questions too. Then we did countdown round questions, but instead of 2 people going against each other, it was everyone against each other. So we would read the question of the big screen in front, and if you think you knew the answer you would put you name on a folded piece of paper with your answer. You only got one try. So we did around 3 or 4 and I got maybe 1 (yay!). Turns out I'm a really good guesser. For one of the target round questions I guessed the question right, but I did use some reasoning. I guessed another question right too, and it turns out, I'm pretty good at guessing! Even the geometry ones. After that, we got our papers handed back and then we went home. It was pretty fun though.