SIFE World Cup 2009 DAY 3

Today is an even more important day. And in fact, there was a whole load of goings-on as it was the official Last Day of the competition.

Let's begin off the top: SEMI-FINAL ROUNDS.

An even more critical point as we have to make it through this to take on the world stage. In all honesty, winning the World Cup is just a bonus, what we really wanted was to tell the world Our Story.

Semi-final round was even more nerve-wrecking. Bigger room, more judges.

Not too long after our presentation, we had the semi-final round results ceremony and immediately after that the four winners of each league will do their Final round presentations...on the World Stage. The announcement was even more nerve-wrecking than before.

Unfortunately SIFE UMS lost to Canada's SIFE Memorial in the Semi-finals and thus we didn't get to compete in the Finals. It was quite disappointing actually because as we've said it before, we really truly wanted to tell our story to the world. What made it worse was that when we saw some of the final presentations, we truly believed that we did so much better. But that's the way competitions go, and we bet it's a typical feeling in everybody who didn't make it too.

Whatever it was, I would say that we are still extremely proud of our achievements at our FIRST participation in the World Cup. We missed the one final step but as far as first-timers go, we've already had a very successful journey.

From all of us in SIFE UMS: Congratulations to SIFE French University from Egypt, SIFE World Cup 2009 Champion.

SIFE World Cup 2009, another memorable event. We'll be back next year :) See you in Los Angeles!

Breaking chains for change.