Is this allowed?...(important)

[Jocool]

yeah in road scholar a lot of people were late because they had fossils the previous hour. they just waited for them to come and did not start til they did. they did not take any points. what hapened there with u is just wako.

[paradoxgirl]

wow. that is so messed up. i know i would be so butterfly off if i found out AFTER competition i got dq-d.

[Phenylethylamine]

Yeah, they're really supposed to tell you if you're DQ'd or even if you're just 2nd-tiered or something like that- but they don't always, and they pretty much get away with it (because you only have one stupid hour to appeal, and the kids don't even know the scores at that point- only the coaches do, and they don't know what to expect, so they don't know what needs appealing).

[Liv]

Wait but would'nt your coach tell you if you were DQed?

[Phenylethylamine]

Usually, but sometimes a DQ just shows up on the score sheet as a really high score (usually the number of teams plus one or two, I think) and so if a coach didn't know exactly how many teams there were, they might think they just got a really bad place, and not realize it was a DQ.

[Liv]

OH ok

[2win]

Thats mean...D:

Complain again.

Well, you couln't go b/c you had orch regionals, but the sixth graders got our medal for en.chem. and we got it back after ms.barta checked the scores

[sihT etupmoC]

But out of the 14 teams that participated in that event, we came in 14th. That's a whole lot of penalty points. Skink, you're right. Something like this happened to me last year too. In science word, they ''accidentally'' replaced our score(1st) with our school's other team's(14th) causing us to be moved to 2nd place instead of first.

Anyways, I too read the rules and there's no such thing(DQed for being late). I think that the other judges did it for their own reasons. :0

At our first invitational, me and my partner got a 99 in Science Crimebusters, which should have got us 6th place ribbon, but the supervisor missmarked and put a 9 instead of 99 which put us in basically last place. This was for our B team, so it didn't affect out A team even though I was on both.

[rocketman1555]

But out of the 14 teams that participated in that event, we came in 14th. That's a whole lot of penalty points. Skink, you're right. Something like this happened to me last year too. In science word, they ''accidentally'' replaced our score(1st) with our school's other team's(14th) causing us to be moved to 2nd place instead of first.

Anyways, I too read the rules and there's no such thing(DQed for being late). I think that the other judges did it for their own reasons. :0

At our first invitational, me and my partner got a 99 in Science Crimebusters, which should have got us 6th place ribbon, but the supervisor missmarked and put a 9 instead of 99 which put us in basically last place. This was for our B team, so it didn't affect out A team even though I was on both.

how were you on both your A and B team?

[sihT etupmoC]

Someone got sick the day before and couldnt go, and there were on the B team, so someone needed to take his spot. I was open the time slots he had, so my coach put me on that team doing two events, while I was on A team doing two events. Hey, as long as each time has 15 people, it's totally legal to do that