life is simple: eat, sleep and play water polo

The Nationals have started! Below are the results for the three games I have played:
HCI-ACSI 3-8
HCI-ACS Barker 11-3
HCI-Outram Sec 15-0
We lost to ACSI but won the other two games. Every game we win gives us 3 points on the ranking board and so far, ACSI tops the ranking board with 9 points and HCI and RI are tied with 6 points both. This means that the match against RI on this coming Monday is the most important match for us to advance to the finals because if we defeat RI, we will have 3 more points than them and be the second place on the ranking board, therefore allowing us to go to the finals. However if we get defeated by RI, we can only settle for a third place for this competiton. RI is a very strong opponent and their standards are on par with us. However, we have only realised that after RI played a few matches and the score was similar to ours when we played against the same teams. I feel that the RI team does not have sportsmanship because when they played a friendly match against us last time, we owned them 15-3 and now, they seem like they have improved a lot. The actual fact is that RI doesn't put in the first team and play their best during friendly matches so that their opponents would underestimate them, and then during the Nationals, they would surprise everyone by performing very well. In my opinion, this is certainly lacking integrity to some extent but I have confidence that we are going to defeat them.