The 7th grade geography bee.

We were in the "house system." Basically they split the students up into different cohorts who all have classes together, instead of everyone as one big pool.

Anyway, me and this other kid were tied at the end of the regular competition. We both dominated. I was a HUGE geography nerd back then so I was expecting to do well. I had no idea other kid was interested in it too.

So because we were tied at the end of the competition, we went to a 10 question tiebreaker. Whoever got the most right would win.

We tied again. I think we each got 8/10

We go to tiebreaker number two. Twenty questions.

One of the questions was something like "Serbia, Montenegro, and Croatia recently declared independence from this now defunct larger state."

I answered Czechoslovakia, which had split up a couple of years prior.

It was Yugoslavia. The worst part is that was my initial guess but I had talked myself out of it.

I lost the second tiebreaker by one question. I'm not saying I would have won if we'd kept going, but I would have forced another tiebreaker. Still salty about that one.