Welcome to my humble abode. Today we’re catching up on the greatness that is Destination Imagination. You can read more about it here. To sum it up in a simple form, it is essentially a tournament where kids form teams and compete against each other in their age groups and challenges. The teams can have a maximum of seven people on them and each team must present their own understanding of the challenge by using a story. The challenges each have a specific task that the team must complete. I was on the improv team and you can watch video about what we had to do here. Every group must also compete in an instant challenge which is basically a challenge with a certain time limit. The teams were scored based on teamwork, creativity, and how well they did the challenge. Our class practiced a lot of instant challenges and my group had a common Kim Kardashian theme.
Each group is required to have two team choice elements. The team choice elements are meant to shine in your performance and must represent a group’s interest. My group (named Easy 20/20) had Robbie learn how to play the flute in order to represent our passion for music. Our other team choice element didn’t really shine through but I attempted to make the hope diamond out of clay which I’d also made but it ended up being a blue blob in a container.
Each team competes at regionals and if they qualify will then move on to provincials, which is the qualifying competition for globales. This year, regionals took place at St George’s and at first it was challenging to navigate around the school but it got better as the day went on. At regionals, all the teams needed to be there for 8am and at 8:30 all the groups presented in the gym with their posters. At 9:30 my group watched the grade 8’s present and other than being short on time, did really well. Our instant challenge was at 10:45 and I think we did really well but we could’ve improved on our teamwork. Then at 1:00pm came our challenge, which was very interesting. As you know, we must present 3 skits with the same plot but the stock character and genre changes each time. Our first skit didn’t go too well, to say the least. It was probably the most agonizing three minutes of our lives. The second skit wasn’t bad but there was some room for improvement. Then, we have the third skit. This was the legendary skit that saved our group from last place even though we were the only group competing in our age group. Something we could’ve done differently would definetly be practicing in front of an audience just before the competition to get into the rythme of improv. I think that it went really well in general and you can watch the video of our presentation here. We have provincials in about a month which will be held in Surrey. See you then!