I end­ed up los­ing all my match­es yes­ter­day. Out of 18 games, I won three. Two match­es should have been easy wins, and one was tied at 2 games, 12 points. I get too ner­vous when I’m play­ing new peo­ple. I’m not quite used to the entire idea of com­pet­ing, espe­cial­ly for rank, espe­cial­ly with oth­er peo­ple depend­ing on me. My team­mates told me that it was notice­ably affect­ing my per­for­mance because it seemed as if my shoul­ders were stiff and I was try­ing too hard. I’ll be accus­tomed to every­thing even­tu­al­ly.