I have some memories from high school.
I was part of an Informatics class, generally, the colleagues were better educated.
In the high school, there was, among others, another class, with students more focused on sports.
We typically played football in the high school’s stadium.
Yet, at the very end of high school years, we went outside town, and played in a real stadium, with real football gates.
The stadium field was sometimes muddy, but it was huge.
The other team was better than us, yet we won once, and I really remembered that time, it felt like we were on top of the world.
I have other examples, of high school Olympiads and contents, for example, but this memory, of winning a game against a team of generally better players than us, stayed with me.
And, unlike the contests, it was a group memory, typically in contests, it was me against external people. In the game, it was “my team” against “their team”.
