OK so...
For those who don't know how MagMaR is formatted, there is an individual round, a wild round (also individual, but the speed requirement is two problems per minute), team round, and blitz round (similar to guts round).

And my team consisted of me, willwin4sure, Redsoxfan, ilikepie2003, and Emc2014

Our scores for individual round and wild round ranged from acceptable to mediocre, and our team round score was actually tied for second behind Flame Math (which had the legendary OpalSeaDrag0n9 and hghghghghghghg), with Jonas Clarke Middle A (Which have the legendary janabel and benstien and is all around legendary (anyone in the MA are will have heard about this team)). But then came lunch (in which we attempted to prove this statement: "If are positive integers, and where and are simplified fractions, then ), and then the blitz round. And allow me say, we bombed the blitz round. WE BOMBED THE BLITZ ROUND. The results were absolutely horrifying, and after that I really felt like smashing a chair (or a person for that matter). Then results came. So when they were announcing the team rankings, we got third. But then I was like "NO WAY!", scratch that. All of us (besides Emc2014 who had left before blitz (which means yes, we were technically one person short during blitz, thus giving us a slight disadvantage)), went like "NO WAY! IMPOSSIBLE!", but we still got up and were about to accept certificates. Expect it turned out they printed the wrong certificates (although I will cut them some slack seeing that they were just some MIT students running a live tournament for the first time ever). So then I was like "they must have calculated the score wrong or something, because third place isn't us". And combined with our past statements about the impossibility of us being third, the admins "recalculated" the scores, and it turns out that we were not third place, or not anywhere in the top five. SOOOOOO we were like...OK THEN, THANKS FOR GETTING OUR SPIRITS UP. So I was kinda depressed when I got home and whatnot.
















































MAJOR PLOT TWIST:
So we were still kind of in disbelief that we hadn't placed in the overall team rankings, seeing that my team isn't thaaaaaat bad. So our coach emailed for another "recalculation" and it turns out that they just printed the wrong certificates, so we were third place. HUZZAH! So in the end, we did hit our goal, seeing that we knew Flame math and Jonas Clarke were too legendary.
I feel waaaaaay better now.

The moral of the story?
Have faith in yourself.
(i.e. never let the admins of contests hear you doubt yourself)