Tulare State

From the 8-10 of January, 2016, I went to Tulare for Joad State Indoors and the regular, State Indoors.  This is set up like the normal indoor tournaments, but this time they were trying something new.  They made the scoring like a test.  Instead of two people scoring on paper with pens they are now using scantrons. Before it used to take hours on hours to sort and rank all the archers by physically finding them.  Now with the scantrons it take within minutes and now you can see your rank before the tournament is even done.  On the first day Friday was the Joad shoot, we got to shoot 60cm targets and I scored a 287 and a 291 which gave me first place.  Then on Saturday I was a little below my average but I was still first for the day.  I did worse because instead of a giant 60cm target we had to shoot on the smallest 40cm targets.   On Saturday I scored a 271 and then the next round shot a 275.  I was in first by one point and everyone knew because of the new scantron system.  The next day I was pumped because I knew there was still next week people could beat my scores and I wasn't shooting to my full potential.  I came in and I was on fire, I almost scored a 292 on the small target but sadly I dropped my mental game and shot a 23 one end to drop 7 points.  Now the maximum score I could get was 285.  I ended with a 283 that round and the next round I got a 285.  So every round I ended up increase g my score.  Out of 1200 I scored a 1114 and first for the first week.  Hopefully no one beats me the second week.