National Test Discussion

[chalker]

Hi Chalker,

Could you tell me the top 6 scores for Invasive Species Division C? If not, could you say the difference in points between 1st and 6th? I want to see how close the top six scores were.

Thanks!

11 point spread

Thanks, Chalker! Also, do you have the 6th place score for Hydrogeology?

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[chalker]

"Chalker could you tell me the difference between my first in Dynamic and 0th place" - When I see all those score requests.

I think I deserve 0th place in all events. Shall we put that up for a vote?

Not asking a question here or reviewing a test, but OHMIGOSH 2 points for 12 to 6? I guess the scores are only out of 100, but that's INSANELY close.

FYI, to make it easy on me I'm generally rounding the numbers I report to the closest whole number, unless there is some reason not to. Keep in mind that It's About Time is a device event where the scoring generates tenths and hundredths of a point in some cases.

[ampy1234567]

"Chalker could you tell me the difference between my first in Dynamic and 0th place" - When I see all those score requests.

Hmmmmmmm...didn't you get first at Dynamic...?

[John Richardsim]

I'm just waiting for chalker to lie down a huge plot twist: he's been making up all of these numbers the entire time. (C'mon, if that were true it would be pretty funny...or at least if he pretended for it to be true).

[awesome90220]

I'm just waiting for chalker to lie down a huge plot twist: he's been making up all of these numbers the entire time. (C'mon, if that were true it would be pretty funny...or at least if he pretended for it to be true).

It would be pretty funny, and the answers do suggest it is possible, but I feel like chalker has better things to do than trolling scioly kids thirsty for their event results(although the concept of that is very appealing)

[awesome90220]

I guess I might as well review the tests:

Wind Power(11th):
The test was relatively difficult. Relatively. The other tests I took were very easy, so there isn't much of a comparison. It went over the rules fairly well, but then again the rules are pretty vague, so idk. On the total power from our devices, how were you supposed to calculate without swept area? Not sure if I did it right, but I just assumed max radius.

Time(20th):
Eh. The test was pretty easy, state level, although, like above, the Indian calendar and gravitational time dilation/other questions we may have missed may not have necessarily been from just general difficulty, but just unluckily not having remembered/looked over the information for the topic(Although those two mentioned are some things we REALLY should have looked over). On a side note, I know this event won't be back for my lifetime, but what does everyone think about the time-keeping devices that, in general, were very loud? While I know this wasn't the purpose of the devices, and I was lucky enough to not have any in my section, I feel like a constant loud ticking while I look at a weight swinging back and forth for 4-5 minutes might have made me pass out.

Experimental Design(16th):
I've been doing this event for 5 years, and I honestly don't know how to improve on my placing. I'm assuming my interpretation of the rubric, as many others(varunscs11 ), may not be the same as the national supervisor? I don't know where on the rubric we could be going wrong, but it's obviously somewhere, as the scores chalker gave seemed to be pretty low. Regardless, this year's materials threw me off somewhat, because, like varunscs11 said, the event begs for a quantitative experiment, and the materials at first seemed to be begging for a qualitative experiment, with the multiple biological ingredients(I think that's what they called them?). I really really hope that we didn't get any point deductions for having linear data, because I've developed experimental design as my rock event over my 5 year SciOly career and really hope I can possibly get a medal in the remainder of my high school career.


As a whole, I thought the tournament was very well planned. The activities Friday were amazing and the events were very very easy to find. I could tell the ceremonies had a lot of thought put into them, and the work put into it was evident(Madilyn Bailey was pretty awesome too). As a single complaint/request, may there be air conditioning at the opening and closing ceremony next year(pretty please)?

EDIT: So this post kinda had some technical difficulties and I realize now that it was a double post. So, uh, sorry? Idk what happens now. Do I go to jail?

[appleshake123]

"Chalker could you tell me the difference between my first in Dynamic and 0th place" - When I see all those score requests.

I think I deserve 0th place in all events. Shall we put that up for a vote?

Not asking a question here or reviewing a test, but OHMIGOSH 2 points for 12 to 6? I guess the scores are only out of 100, but that's INSANELY close.

FYI, to make it easy on me I'm generally rounding the numbers I report to the closest whole number, unless there is some reason not to. Keep in mind that It's About Time is a device event where the scoring generates tenths and hundredths of a point in some cases.

Because of the rounding, could you give a precise number difference between 12th and 6th in Time?

[John Richardsim]

As a single complaint/request, may there be air conditioning at the opening and closing ceremony next year(pretty please)?

Can't help but dig this back up now:

Info from here and here.

Interesting articles, but despite the implication "Brrr...", Wisconsin will not be particularly cold in mid May...

[chalker]

Because of the rounding, could you give a precise number difference between 12th and 6th in Time?

I could, but I'm not because it will set off a whole new round of questions by people asking me to more precisely answer what I've already responded to. Plus I'd have to actually do math to calculate it instead of eyeballing it from the spreadsheet. And MATH IS HARD!;)

I'm just waiting for chalker to lie down a huge plot twist: he's been making up all of these numbers the entire time. (C'mon, if that were true it would be pretty funny...or at least if he pretended for it to be true).

No no no.. I would never make up numbers - that gets delegated to all the National Event Supervisors during the tournament. I'm far too busy partying at the exclusive club we codename "The Scoring Room";)

(Just kidding of course before someone freaks out and thinks there is even a kernel of truth to this)

[UnprunedShrub]

Hello Chalker,

Sorry to be bombarding you with score requests but my friend REALLY wants to know how close she was to getting a medal in hydro (she got 9th).
Thanks for putting up with all of our unending requests! I hope this isn't sucking you away from your job at the ohio supercomputer center.