We were talking about our worst moments in the past year when I proceeded to tell my worst (and most rage filled) moment in quizbowl as such:
Around March of this year, our team was headed to a Jeopardy!-style tournament (very popular in NJ. If you don't know what that is, this post will tell you the basics. It's not quizbowl per se, but my point still stands.) that was around an hour away from our HS, so we were definitely hoping that we would come away with a trophy at the end of it. This was our first appearance at this particular tournament (which I will not name)
However, once we got to the first round, we knew it wasn't gonna be good. Legitimately one of the questions in that round was "What did Bernie Sanders Campaign for? Answer: Free College". This question made me gag inside at over how bad and

By some miracle (albeit a small one), we had made it out of the preliminary rounds in first place and, having beaten our first playoff round opponent, had made it to the finals. Little did we know, it was only worse from here.
Earlier on in the tournament, there was a question on Arrhythmia that was fairly normal and had no faults to it. However, in this final round there was ANOTHER question on Arrhythmia with legitimately the same clues as the last question, although they were worded only slightly differently.
We immediately protested this, as it shouldn't have come up in the FIRST PLACE. The other team (who got it right) agreed with us, and the student moderators proceeded to message their TD.
The message that they got back was astonishing. The TD came into the room, heard the protest, said "deal with it", and left the room. I found this to be HIGHLY unprofessional. I felt so degraded that I hardly wanted to proceed. In the end, the other team beat us by 10 points, the question being worth 50. We congratulated the other team, who again said that they agreed with us on the protest, and received a second place trophy (for which we were highly grateful of). We went home slightly agitated, slightly sad over what had happened. However, we did achieve our goal of getting a trophy, which was nice, but it was still my worst moment in quizbowl.
After telling that LONG story, what was your worst moment in quizbowl?