![]() Once anger has been expressed in action they experience relief from the tension that has built up. This can have serious social and legal ramifications. For some young people expressing anger (verbally and physically) is experienced as a total loss of control and some young people harm themselves, other people, or damage property. It is possible for young people to act on anger in an appropriate and harmless way that relieves the pressure that has built up inside them. Until this moment the young person has not actually acted on their angry feelings. The fourth domino is tipped when the impulse to act turns into behaviour. Those around the young person might feel as if they are ‘treading on eggshells’ and waiting for an explosion. During this stage, young people might feel that they are on the edge and be person communicating (verbally and non-verbally) that their anger has escalated to the point of acting (ie: pacing, pressured speech). For some young people this impulse is indistinguishable from their angry thoughts and feelings. This impulse can be managed to prevent anger-induced actions that might be harmful or socially inappropriate. ![]() With this impulse the third domino is tipped. During this stage, these young people are likely to appear distressed, agitated and anxious.įeeling anger often provokes an impulse to act. Without the adequate skills to deal with angry feelings and accompanying thoughts, a young person may be overwhelmed and feel unable to control their emotional state. The second domino topples with feeling anger which is often experienced as a surge of arousal featuring a tensing of the muscles, increased heart rate and rapid breathing (see the physiology of anger – above). Generally the anger response is proportional to size of the threat, real or imagined. The first domino can be tipped over by particular events, experiences, thoughts and feelings that threaten a person in some way. Triggering threats, thoughts and feelings At Domino Effect 18, Ludo completed one of the Pacific Northwest's longest losers runs, where after losing in Winners Round 1 of top 32 to Solo, he beat Pokepen, Mystery Sol, embo_z, JDV, SPARKLE, and H4DS to win the tournament.An anger-related episode involves a progression through a number of stages, like a line of dominoes falling once the first has been pushed.ġ.Previous Domino Effect tournaments have also been for charitable causes, as Domino Effect 8 doubled as a canned food drive.Starting at Domino Effect 18, a large portion of the profits generated from tournaments have been donated to the Coalition for Rainforest Nations.Domino Effect has used at least 9 unique venues (not counting the house tournament era prior to Domino Effect 8) and alternated between venues multiple times, making it Washington's tournament with the most venue changes by a large margin (The runner-up being Port Priority, which has used 4 unique venue locations.).A future Domino Effect would be "sponsored" by Domino's Pizza, supplying an ample amount of Pizza for every competitor.Domino Effect's namesake came from an incident at the original Domino Effect where there was an inaequate amount of Domino's Pizza availible for the attendees, causing many of them to play hungry. ![]()
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