Your worst/saddest fail

[Pizzacats]

Not studying for state trial event

[Things2do]

At a Georgia invitational, my Crave The Wave partner and I recognized the test we were given as one off of the test exchange from several years before, and which we had in our notebook. We had our answers to it, which were about half incorrect and not yet graded, and we were disappointed that the answers were not there. After spending half the time looking for the answers, we did our best on it. We got outside, explained what happened, and his mother flipped the binder open, right to the answers. We went on to get 5th at State, after a lot of studyin'. The es didn't even change the school name or date on the test.

[qlf9]

At states in 2015, my partner and I were doing Green Generation, after getting 1st at regionals. We attempted to answer all the questions as best as we could, and we guessed on the ones we didn't know. It was only after we turned the test in that we noticed that there was a 1/2 point penalty for every question we got wrong...

We got 15th.

[wellOKthen]

hmmm probably when I had to LITERALLY RESORT TO CREATIVE WRITING in dynamic planet...it was not pretty

[Birdmusic]

The soldering on our Hovercraft fell off at State on our second run and the supervisors were from the high school we're going to. We couldn't figure out how to fix it in time. Now I know who's on our high school's Science Olympiad blacklist...

[PM2017]

In our rookie year as a team, freshman me decided to get lazy and literally print out 3-4 articles for each of the DSOs for astronomy 2016. I still don't know what albedo is, and can't answer simple exoplanet questions. had I done something like that this year, I would have likely been kicked off the main team.

I also managed to get 3,3,28,28 at states, so I guess those 28s could count...

[linzhiyan]

I waited until a week before state before starting to work on the Dynamic Planet Cheat Sheet (which is 4 pages front and back). I managed to finish the morning of the day before, but also managed to leave off a section of information... And then at state, I forgot to bring my calculator into the testing room and of course, that was one of the first times in which I'd gotten a math problem on the test. Just my luck

[Benewcomb]

I think I got last in forensics once. Note to self: don't do binder events with 3 hours of preparation.

That’s what happened to me too, except my partner thought he knew a lot (but he didn’t), and I was ploped into herpetology as a filler. I later found out we had NO HERPETOLOGY BINDER AT ALL.

Yeah so we made a binder for state.... it didn’t help

[pumptato-cat]

Bombed scrambler at states last year. Was so upset at how badly it went that I proceeded to fail the next two events as well.

[onshape]

WIDI at regionals last year. We got 30th (aka disqualified) because we didn't get the proper materials to do it virtually even though we had practiced like 5 hours beforehand (yes this is a lot for my school).