Wow... this one is totally on me. I'm personally responsible for those rules, and until I just read this message, I had no idea we put UDT in the printed rules. You know how sometimes when you look at a common word so much you just completely miss it's got an error in it? That's what's happened here. If you had asked me 10 minutes ago I would have sworn we put UTC in the list. Looking through my notes, I can see that UDT was in the original list going back to at least May 2015, so it just propagated forward from there, even though there were quite a few people that reviewed the rules during the summer and any one of us could have caught it. I'll see about pushing out a clarification regarding this.jkang wrote: That was a typo because the rules committee didn't properly record what suggestions the national proctor gave them for topics. Thus UDT was added to the rules as a possible topic. although it isn't actually a thing. Kinda dumb but it's a problem with the Science Olympiad organization in general rather than just one proctor or tournament in my opinion.
Sorry that it caused you some concern, although to genius123's issue, everyone at NJ state's was in the same boat on this. All the teams had the same questions and thus the same opportunity to answer (most of which were likely wrong). I doubt it had an impact on who medaled or is going to Nationals.
