My first mooting experience

In February this year, my law school announced that they would conduct internal championship rounds for 1^st and 2^nd year that will compete against each other. I teamed up with two of my close classmates who are quite smart and knowledgeable. When the mooting season starts, the books in the library go missing or are often issued early or kept in places where people cannot find. The proposition was about government contract, which was puzzling in the beginning; obviously, it was a topic, which as 1^st year students, we had no knowledge about. When I did a random check on the internet, I found the exact same case and we were quite happy that our petitioner’s side was sorted as we already had good arguments. We got a shell memo, to begin with and were late in drafting the memo and until the last minute, we kept drafting. We had to change the entire jurisdiction in one night because we realised we were filing the wrong writ and had to redo many things We exceeded the time within which we had to submit the memo and when we went to get the print out there was a power cut. (Such unfortunate events happened )when the oral rounds began surprisingly on the first day where we had to argue for the petitioner's side I did quite well but the 2^nd day we went against one of the best teams in 2^nd  year who were already famous within law school for their moot achievements. We sat thinking why our team had to go against such a strong team but the funniest part was they were quite bad in establishing their arguments though they were good speaker’s .we were grilled and picked up on for the small points we made and our super seniors who were our judges were very stringent to give us marks. During the moot prep time, we had many internal reservations about each other often got angry on each other’s mistake but after the moot was over, we reconciled and laughed at the memories of the moot. Those 10 minutes you get to argue passes by so fast that you will not know what you have spoken. Though we did not get qualified, it was such an enriching experience.