My thoughts on…the recent Champs war
Well it’s that time of year again, time for the VMBS/ISSA Boys & Girls Athletic Championships, aka “Champs.” It begins in only 2 days, and already we’re beginning to see the signs: schoolers proudly waving their school flags, graffiti on buses and popular teen hangouts, random displays of school spirit, etc. For those who don’t know what Champs is (and by that I mean most of you), it is the biggest event on the Jamaican high school calendar. Think high school March Madness plus track and field and other Olympic-type events and minus the basketball.
But in the midst of all this excitement and anticipation, a war is being waged between rival boys’ schools in the Corporate Area. Calabar, Jamaica College, Kingston College and Wolmer’s Boys’ are the rival factions. Wolmerians (being the gentlemen that we are) have not participated in the war, but we may be drawn into it since we’re a force to be reckoned with. The war has already claimed a few causalities. On Wednesday, a brawl broke out between students of Calabar and KC, resulting a member of each school being stabbed. The KC student was sent to hospital and a 17-year-old Calabar student was charged in connection with the incident. You might be wondering “Why would they do such a thing?” Well, for one, Jamaicans are a very passionate people. When we believe in something, we believe it strongly! We’re not “flip-floppers”. And we don’t just wear our school colours, we bleed our school colours. Our school’s honour is very important to us, and we will defend it to the death. I’m not excusing the actions of the students, just trying to make you understand the situation here.
We even have “territories,” places where rival schools are not welcome, at least not in frequency or numbers. Cross Roads is “owned” by KC and Wolmer’s. We share an uneasy truce since our schools are close to each other. Half-Way-Tree is “owned” by JC and Calabar. There are even “hunting grounds,” girls’ schools or co-ed schools that we get our females from. A school’s “hunting ground” is usually within close range of it. Usually these rules are pretty lax, but get more strict as Champs rolls around, as members of each school sense the opportunity to reign supreme over their rivals. I like this friendly competition. It makes interscholastic events more exciting. But when it becomes unfriendly competition, that’s where the line must be drawn.
First of all: Wolmerians, “the gentlemen that we are”??? Scoff Scoff. I think that title has already been taken, and consistently held by us Campionites, i.e., Campion College. You won’t see us stepping down the ladder to join in these immature high-school fracas. No way! As for the KC slash Calabar melee, I think they should both kill each other, for what its worth. Now, that’s entertainment!! It’s a veritable stupidity having underaged precoccious high-school students engaging in dog-pissing territorial markings. Ahm..What??!?! Once again, something you won’t see us Campionites doing. Secondly, this is a yearly event, the violent rivalry which associates Champs, and I always wonderdered what would motivate someone to love their school so much to be a jingoist and want to kill those of other schools in the name of their own school. Hell, for me, I find it impossible to have that much veneration for one’s school. I’d prefer to kill people in my own school instead. And no, it’s not passion, it’s high-school “idiocracy”. Bear in mind, by the way, these are the same persons giving oral sex to each other at these same events. Wolmers included, being the ” gentlemen that [they] are.
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So you’re from Campion huh? I was hoping this post would reveal which school you were affiliated with. Yes, Wolmerians are gentlemen. In fact, we’re the best behaved boys schools in the island. And yeah, its immature, I agree. The whole “stabbing in defense of school glory” thing. But maybe you’re just angry because when Champs rolls around, you have no one to cheer for, since Campion isn’t really a contender. Am I right?
Lol K-do I detect sour grapes?My cousins went Campion and Calabar so I got to cheer those too:)
Ha ha! Campion does in fact participate in Champs. Maybe not at the same saturated level as Wolmers, JC, KC and Calabar etc., but we do. We also complement with our competitiveness in other areas. It may be too embarassing to you if I were to slap Wolmers with a sample of our academic results sheets. I were to do that, it would totally flatten you.
Wow, so you do have some school spirit. True, Campion tends to do better at academics, but Wolmerians tend to be all-rounded.
Lol..
What a fiesty yute..