Poorly Run Event Stories

[MadCow2357]

The event supervisors decided that "The information may be removed during the event" in rule 2a meant that the ES could take everyone's binders away. So they did. Many people spent the event in tears.

How did they misinterpret it so badly?!! The rules mean that you are allowed to take your notes out of the binder, not that the ES can take away your notes.

[PM2017]

The event supervisors decided that "The information may be removed during the event" in rule 2a meant that the ES could take everyone's binders away. So they did. Many people spent the event in tears.

How did they misinterpret it so badly?!! The rules mean that you are allowed to take your notes out of the binder, not that the ES can take away your notes.

What did they even hope to gain by doing that?

[TheChiScientist]

OOF!
WHAT! THAT IS... THAT IS...
*walks away in disbelief*

[PM2017]

Time for NSO to rewrite to something like "Competitors may remove information from the binder during the test."
Honestly, I thought that state tests were better (at least they are at SoCal.)

[TheChiScientist]

Oof. Either this ES was super evil or REALLY misinterpreted the rules.

[farmerjoe279]

MO State Thermodynamics.

[TheChiScientist]

What is it with Thermo and State competitions? What's next? Nationals Thermo gets thrown out?!?!

[knightmoves]

It seems like Thermodynamics is often run badly. Is that because there are lots of details you have to get right to run it successfully, so it takes more preparation by the ES than most events? It seems like maybe it's easy for the ES to think they know what to do without understanding how important all the timings are.

What happened in MO?

[TheChiScientist]

Something with their thermometers and how teams could cheat out their predicted score or something like that. Dxu46? Care to clarify?

[PM2017]

Something with their thermometers and how teams could cheat out their predicted score or something like that. Dxu46? Care to clarify?

Is that really a poorly run event then? I get that it went wrong, but from your description, unless there was more to the story, it wasn't the ES's fault, and therefore, not a poorly run event.