March 23 marked the first day of the highly anticipated Clash of the Halls 2015, opening up with a limbo contest during midday and talent show in the evening. Although no participation points are being taken for the dress-up day or events, a big crowd still gathered in the old cafe to watch representatives from each hall compete in a limbo contest.<\/p>\n
Ms. Julia, Dr. Eysturlid and Dr. Kiely were this year’s judges for the talent show and they had some memorable remarks about the acts:<\/p>\n
1502 – “The beginning was okay but the rest was just mediocre<\/em>”<\/p>\n 1506 – “I’ve never been to Rio before and after watching that, I’ve still never been to Rio<\/em>”<\/p>\n 1505 – “My head hurts and my ears are bleeding – on a scale from 1 to 10, that was -11<\/em>”<\/p>\n It was evident that lack of time really affected the quality of the acts. Because preparation time was limited to 9 – 10:30 pm on weekdays for all clash events, talent show preparation took a hard hit as drill was given more precedence. Many have argued that COTH is just ‘not the same as last year’ and to some extent, that is true. Last year, I remember that the line outside the auditorium wrapped around two hallways by 6:30, a complete hour before the start of the show. This year, the hallway was pretty much empty until 7. However, the general level of energy and spirit was undeniable – a reminder that Clash can be fun despite the numerous additional rules. 07 and 03 had exceptional\u00a0performances, and 01 impressed with a clean, creative act.<\/p>\n One notable point of disagreement during the show was the time limit – at a 5 minute cap, some halls felt pressed for time. Both 05 and 06 had to stop mid-performance, which was disappointing for performers. After talent show, another spirit event took place. Each hall was handed a stack of cards with one word on each card. In two minutes, each hall had to write down a rhyme for as many of their words as possible – although the spirit challenges will not be counted for points, they are still very fun.\u00a0Overall, while many people expected this year’s CoTH to be a let down, today’s events were a reminder that we have the choice to keep this tradition alive. Here’s looking forward to the rest of the week!<\/p>\n RESULTS FOR TALENT:<\/p>\n 1st – 07<\/p>\n 2nd – 03<\/p>\n 3rd – 01<\/p>\n 4th – 06<\/p>\n 5th – 02<\/p>\n 6th – 05<\/p>\n 7th – 04<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 23 marked the first day of the highly anticipated Clash of the Halls 2015, opening up with a limbo contest during midday and talent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019],"tags":[1616],"coauthors":[2295],"class_list":["post-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imsanews","tag-clash-of-the-halls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14506,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions\/14506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}