By Gabe Edelson (2L)
Greetings dear peasants. I, your King, bring you tales of triumph and heartbreak from that most noble of all law school tournaments, “Law Games.” Admittedly, I only became King after Law Games was over, and was presented with a caesar instead of a crown, but I was told I would get to call people peasants. This great power comes with great responsibility. Hence it’s my job to embarrass everyone who went, and inspire jealousy and regret in those who didn’t. I’m hoping this is pass-fail.
Law games is basically about three things: Drinking, playing sports while hungover and sleep deprived, and “networking.” Dalhousie were great hosts and Halifax was an awesome host city. I have no idea how they convinced the Westin to house 600 law students. Our hosts even thought of the little things. To help with networking Dal gave each of us two latex business cards in our welcome bags. I kept mine as souvenirs.
What can I say about the social events? No really I’m not sure what UV is allowed to print or what I’m allowed to say. This much is true: between a beach party (with 14 tonnes of sand), a pub crawl, a tight and bright, and a formal, I couldn’t even start to tell you all the stories. Cups were slapped, Kraken was chugged, bendy knees were flaunted on the dance floor. You’ll just have to ask the people who were there.
It is called Law Games so I guess I better talk about the sports. Dalhousie stopped the Sherbooke Machine and took home the sports award. We put in a good showing this year and I think we surprised a lot of schools. There were some close losses and some not so close losses. Thanks to our captains and our dedicated women we only forfeited one game. We competed hard and I’m pretty sure we won the unofficial prize for most concussions. Everyone left Halifax little injured but I didn’t hear anyone complaining.
I couldn’t write this and fail to mention our greatest achievement, winning the award for best lip dub. It took a lot of work but we were finally able to upload the videos from last year’s Follies. High production value and Brendan Stevens meant we didn’t leave empty handed. I was going to enlist the help of David St. Bernard to give me a rousing final quote about how drinking, sleep deprivation, and sports are actually the most fun you can have at law school but he was too busy talking to Canadian Lawyer Magazine. Instead I’ll leave you with this: not going to Law Games last year was my biggest law school regret, and even after building it up for a whole year I still loved it.
Only 340 days until the next law games. I’ll see you there.
