The Society for the Discontinuation of the Pentathlon

[dontsenditinthemail]

And also, just because people "want" to be part of science olympiad doesn't mean they deserve an event that is like 20% science related. I "want" to be a varsity football player and to help my team out, doens't mean the athletic association is going to make football games one quarter longer so that us less talented folk get to play as well. Unfotunetely, life doesn't work that way. At the end of the day the scientific field is a competative one, and while Science Olympiad should spur interest in the sciences, it must also stay true to its fundamental purpose - to be a science competition.

[Uncle Fester]

Here's how the boycott will turn out.

OPTION ONE: Student decides to refuse to do Pentathlon, and tells Coach "You can't kick EVERYONE off the team!" Coach replies, "No, I only have to kick ONE kid off the team!", and student gets the boot. Immediately afterwords, rest of the team falls into line, and four Pentathlon volunteers are quickly found. Added benefit: for the next five years, mere mention of STUDENT solves any and all attitude problems amongst the team.

OPTION TWO: COACH looks into the whole boycott thing, and decides that's the way to go. My team's head coach (hey, that's me) concurs with COACH, decides to join, and keeps encouraging COACH to "keep up the boycott". On competition day, my team does an about face, competes in Pentathlon, and takes the Gold. In short, if you don't do it, someone else will, and a Pentathlon Gold counts the same as Crave the Wave or Scrambler.

Boycotts don't work. Even the oft-touted Chavez grape/Gallo boycotts took over a DECADE. I this case, there are too many teams out there lacking medals.

Also, as far as the stupid questions and stupid activities go, blame the event supervisor, not the event. I concur 100% that the event tends to be poorly run and grossly simplified; a better complaint/strategy would be to complain (politely, of course) for better event content. I have a few "emergency" tests set up and filed away-- I guarantee you won't find my questions/activities easy.

[eyeball138]

You're exactly right on the boycott thing Uncle Fester. But, how is it the event sups fault if the physical activities in Pentathalon are stupid? Last year, it was a trial event at my regionals and my states. I didn't get to watch it at states, but at regionals the activities were stupid. Although the event sup does get to decide on what the physical activities are going to be, he/she can't choose something that only the best athelete would be able to do. They have some restrictions. I think that Pentathalon calls for physical activities, that according to any moderatley good athelete, would be stupid.

[vikrammissouri]

I think that you are wrong. You are an unatheletic person who only comes for Science Olympiad because of the Science part. You should give others a chance to not only express science, but also atheletics.

[eyeball138]

Are you saying that I'm wrong? I don't know why you said that I'm unathletic because you've never met me or seen me. In fact, I consider myself at least a half-decent athlete.

You didn't say why I was wrong either. Why am I wrong vikrammissouri?

[haven chuck]

I think that you are wrong. You are an unatheletic person who only comes for Science Olympiad because of the Science part. You should give others a chance to not only express science, but also atheletics.

What other part of science olympiad is there. If you are an athelete, do a sport. If you are into science, do science olympiad. It's not supposed to be some sort of hybrid between science and athletics. 22 of the events are pure science and one event is half athletics. Are you saying that Science Olympiad is attraacting sporty nerds because of the half of an event that is psuedo athletics? If anything, it would dissuade people from science olympiad because how more nerdy it looks to be pushes a bottle with a broom and calling it "athletics". All in all, you dont do science olympiad for athletics. Period.

[dontsenditinthemail]

I think that you are wrong. You are an unatheletic person who only comes for Science Olympiad because of the Science part. You should give others a chance to not only express science, but also atheletics.

Oh please tell me that was a joke.

[EastStroudsburg13]

I think that you are wrong. You are an unatheletic person who only comes for Science Olympiad because of the Science part. You should give others a chance to not only express science, but also atheletics.

What other part of science olympiad is there. If you are an athelete, do a sport. If you are into science, do science olympiad. It's not supposed to be some sort of hybrid between science and athletics. 22 of the events are pure science and one event is half athletics. Are you saying that Science Olympiad is attraacting sporty nerds because of the half of an event that is psuedo athletics? If anything, it would dissuade people from science olympiad because how more nerdy it looks to be pushes a bottle with a broom and calling it "athletics". All in all, you dont do science olympiad for athletics. Period.

How many times are we going to have to say this?

[croman74]

I think that you are wrong. You are an unatheletic person who only comes for Science Olympiad because of the Science part. You should give others a chance to not only express science, but also atheletics.

What other part of science olympiad is there. If you are an athelete, do a sport. If you are into science, do science olympiad. It's not supposed to be some sort of hybrid between science and athletics. 22 of the events are pure science and one event is half athletics. Are you saying that Science Olympiad is attraacting sporty nerds because of the half of an event that is psuedo athletics? If anything, it would dissuade people from science olympiad because how more nerdy it looks to be pushes a bottle with a broom and calling it "athletics". All in all, you dont do science olympiad for athletics. Period.

How many times are we going to have to say this?

It's all one big deja vu.

[sadistic_cottoncandy]

haven chuck wrote:
What other part of science olympiad is there. If you are an athelete, do a sport. If you are into science, do science olympiad. It's not supposed to be some sort of hybrid between science and athletics. 22 of the events are pure science and one event is half athletics. Are you saying that Science Olympiad is attraacting sporty nerds because of the half of an event that is psuedo athletics? If anything, it would dissuade people from science olympiad because how more nerdy it looks to be pushes a bottle with a broom and calling it "athletics". All in all, you dont do science olympiad for athletics. Period.

if 22 events are pure science, how is Write it Do it Science? it involves technical writing skills, I'll admit, but that could be applied to journalism or another form of communication....therefore, NOT purely science. i agree that you shouldn't join Science Olympiad for athletics, but it looks to me that no one here is really saying that they joined science olympiad "just for athletics." and i am going to ask you...what happens when you're into both science and sports? im into both, and a lot of other people on my team are too. in fact, a couple of my friends and i all got the jocks at our school to join science olympiad, and that was before we even knew about pentathlon. (our coaches call everyone who wants to do science olympiad together at the beginning of the year, and then they tell us the events that are going to be done for that year). lots of people are interested in both. i think that science olympiad should be taken seriously, or else people shouldn't sign up for it. i agree with that. but what i don't agree with is that it should be so serious that when they incorporate a little physical talent into it, people get angry and start a "society for the discontinuation of pentathlon." if you are so serious about science olympiad, you should probably stop complaining and start practicing the event- because it is an event, whether you like it or not.