101 ways to get kicked out of a competition
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Re: 101 ways to get kicked out of a competition
22. Taste the water in Water Quality in attempt to determine salinity (it's been mentioned, but not sure if it's happened)
the next few involve the factor that your supervisor is the Woz. Definitely bound to happen.
23. Being the last out of the lab/staying overtime (I've been yelled at multiple times for that...)
24. Defogging goggles in the lab
25. Accidentally taking equipment (or in one case, the hair sample in forensics) that is not yours out of the lab
the next few involve the factor that your supervisor is the Woz. Definitely bound to happen.
23. Being the last out of the lab/staying overtime (I've been yelled at multiple times for that...)
24. Defogging goggles in the lab
25. Accidentally taking equipment (or in one case, the hair sample in forensics) that is not yours out of the lab
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Re: 101 ways to get kicked out of a competition
+1. Almost got DQ'd in chem lab for 24 (and because I rolled up my sleevespikachu4919 wrote:22. Taste the water in Water Quality in attempt to determine salinity (it's been mentioned, but not sure if it's happened)
the next few involve the factor that your supervisor is the Woz. Definitely bound to happen.
23. Being the last out of the lab/staying overtime (I've been yelled at multiple times for that...)
24. Defogging goggles in the lab
25. Accidentally taking equipment (or in one case, the hair sample in forensics) that is not yours out of the lab

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Re: 101 ways to get kicked out of a competition
Someone actually tasted something in Crime Busters a couple of years ago and didn't get DQ'd.
26. Dress up as a cat and go around meowing at random people.
27. Chemistry insult the supervisors (e.g. Is your atomic number 67? Cuz you're a Ho! You are a total bismuth technetium hydride!).
28. Dance-off in a lab event.
26. Dress up as a cat and go around meowing at random people.
27. Chemistry insult the supervisors (e.g. Is your atomic number 67? Cuz you're a Ho! You are a total bismuth technetium hydride!).
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Re: 101 ways to get kicked out of a competition
29) If the test uses a computer to enter answers, hack the software
30) While waiting for your partner to be done at Write it Do it, wait outside the room and loudly insult your rival team with another group from your school
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30) While waiting for your partner to be done at Write it Do it, wait outside the room and loudly insult your rival team with another group from your school
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Re: 101 ways to get kicked out of a competition
31) Snort the powders in Can't Judge a Powder in attempt to get high
32) Steal food from other teams' stations
33) Run around in a horse head photo bombing people
32) Steal food from other teams' stations
33) Run around in a horse head photo bombing people
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Re: 101 ways to get kicked out of a competition
34) Mess with the school computer system, locking out the network for the next few days and causing a panic for the teachers and faculty that actually work in that school.
That's not so much a way to get kicked out of a competition as it is to get Science Olympiad banned from ever hosting a tournament at that location again.
Seriously, that happened at the New York State tournament for Division C last, which was held in a high school. Apparently some kids were fooling around with the computers and crippled the entire computer system for the school, the school told the state directors that we were never welcome back into their school.
So yeah, don't do that.
That's not so much a way to get kicked out of a competition as it is to get Science Olympiad banned from ever hosting a tournament at that location again.
Seriously, that happened at the New York State tournament for Division C last, which was held in a high school. Apparently some kids were fooling around with the computers and crippled the entire computer system for the school, the school told the state directors that we were never welcome back into their school.
So yeah, don't do that.
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Re: 101 ways to get kicked out of a competition
JUst started reading this. I may try this next time I get put in an event where I am ill prepared
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cccrist wrote:Number them as you go, extra points if you've actually done them or seen them happen
1. If you're doing an event alone start singing, "All by myself"
2. Start talking to the spirits
3. Ask inanimate objects for help
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Re: 101 ways to get kicked out of a competition
35) Repeatedly insist that the supervisor must have wired a circuit lab station incorrectly
36) Unplug circuit lab components to measure resistors and to measure battery voltages using your tongue
37) Use an actual sniper rifle to align your scrambler
36) Unplug circuit lab components to measure resistors and to measure battery voltages using your tongue
37) Use an actual sniper rifle to align your scrambler
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Re: 101 ways to get kicked out of a competition
That last one sounds fun. That's like using riot gear to be eye protection in Mission.JTMess wrote:35) Repeatedly insist that the supervisor must have wired a circuit lab station incorrectly
36) Unplug circuit lab components to measure resistors and to measure battery voltages using your tongue
37) Use an actual sniper rifle to align your scrambler
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