How does your state do awards?

[SOPomo]

Hey all, just a general curiosity question for ya.

In NorCal and SoCal, the only tournaments I've been to personally in five years of SO, we always have done medals and trophies slightly different. In individual medals, the top five regardless of school get the award. This leads to some schools medaling multiple times in some events. But with trophies, they've always done it so that only one team from a school gets a final team trophy. So, if an A and B team from the same school both finish in the top 4-6 depending on the tournament, only the A team gets a trophy and the B team is kind of skipped over for the next school.

Until last night's Sac regionals, where the Bs and Cs were eligible for trophies, just like with individual medals. Which is what led me to ask, as I'm curious how common each practice is. Let me know!

[Unome]

Hey all, just a general curiosity question for ya.

In NorCal and SoCal, the only tournaments I've been to personally in five years of SO, we always have done medals and trophies slightly different. In individual medals, the top five regardless of school get the award. This leads to some schools medaling multiple times in some events. But with trophies, they've always done it so that only one team from a school gets a final team trophy. So, if an A and B team from the same school both finish in the top 4-6 depending on the tournament, only the A team gets a trophy and the B team is kind of skipped over for the next school.

Until last night's Sac regionals, where the Bs and Cs were eligible for trophies, just like with individual medals. Which is what led me to ask, as I'm curious how common each practice is. Let me know!

The way you describe it is the most common nationwide. If it's always been that way, the occasion at your regionals might be a result of a misinterpretation by the TD (as happens sometimes in Georgia).

[SOPomo]

Hey all, just a general curiosity question for ya.

In NorCal and SoCal, the only tournaments I've been to personally in five years of SO, we always have done medals and trophies slightly different. In individual medals, the top five regardless of school get the award. This leads to some schools medaling multiple times in some events. But with trophies, they've always done it so that only one team from a school gets a final team trophy. So, if an A and B team from the same school both finish in the top 4-6 depending on the tournament, only the A team gets a trophy and the B team is kind of skipped over for the next school.

Until last night's Sac regionals, where the Bs and Cs were eligible for trophies, just like with individual medals. Which is what led me to ask, as I'm curious how common each practice is. Let me know!

The way you describe it is the most common nationwide. If it's always been that way, the occasion at your regionals might be a result of a misinterpretation by the TD (as happens sometimes in Georgia).

Nah it was the same guy who's always run our region. I'm fine either way really, they did do the work to earn the place, just was a different end to awards, thought I'd see what others do.

[UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F]

Hey all, just a general curiosity question for ya.

In NorCal and SoCal, the only tournaments I've been to personally in five years of SO, we always have done medals and trophies slightly different. In individual medals, the top five regardless of school get the award. This leads to some schools medaling multiple times in some events. But with trophies, they've always done it so that only one team from a school gets a final team trophy. So, if an A and B team from the same school both finish in the top 4-6 depending on the tournament, only the A team gets a trophy and the B team is kind of skipped over for the next school.

Until last night's Sac regionals, where the Bs and Cs were eligible for trophies, just like with individual medals. Which is what led me to ask, as I'm curious how common each practice is. Let me know!

The way you describe it is the most common nationwide. If it's always been that way, the occasion at your regionals might be a result of a misinterpretation by the TD (as happens sometimes in Georgia).

Nah it was the same guy who's always run our region. I'm fine either way really, they did do the work to earn the place, just was a different end to awards, thought I'd see what others do.

If I remember correctly, Pennsylvania Regionals and States allow one team per school

[jimmy-bond]

Invites in HI are top 3 for events, regardless of school. No team trophies. Same with regionals, except two teams from the same school can get trophies but get one team at states (I heard at other regionals only one team from each school gets a trophy so I guess some communication errors went down). For states, they're doing top 5 for our normal 18 events (hype; it was only top 3 prior) and top 3 for the trials (hype; we don't get trials).

[Galahad]

Invites in HI are top 3 for events, regardless of school. No team trophies. Same with regionals, except two teams from the same school can get trophies but get one team at states (I heard at other regionals only one team from each school gets a trophy so I guess some communication errors went down). For states, they're doing top 5 for our normal 18 events (hype; it was only top 3 prior) and top 3 for the trials (hype; we don't get trials).

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[EastStroudsburg13]

The way you describe it is the most common nationwide. If it's always been that way, the occasion at your regionals might be a result of a misinterpretation by the TD (as happens sometimes in Georgia).

Nah it was the same guy who's always run our region. I'm fine either way really, they did do the work to earn the place, just was a different end to awards, thought I'd see what others do.

If I remember correctly, Pennsylvania Regionals and States allow one team per school

This is correct. PA is somewhat unusual in only allowing one team per school at regionals, but I personally like it since it prevents the top spots from getting clogged up by multiple teams from the same school. Some of the schools that earn 3rd and 4th place event medals would go without medals if reserve teams were also competing.

[jimmy-bond]

Invites in HI are top 3 for events, regardless of school. No team trophies. Same with regionals, except two teams from the same school can get trophies but get one team at states (I heard at other regionals only one team from each school gets a trophy so I guess some communication errors went down). For states, they're doing top 5 for our normal 18 events (hype; it was only top 3 prior) and top 3 for the trials (hype; we don't get trials).

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Same thing

[Tailsfan101]

Our state is small enough that only top 3 get individual medals, as well as overall trophies. Our mini-invites didn't give out any medals, but then again, this was the first year they were run.

[pikachu4919]

Indiana will let any school take multiple teams to regionals but will consider only one of how ever many teams they send to regionals for a state spot (i.e. if multiple teams from the same school place in the top however many go to state, then that lower team gets skipped over in consideration for state qualifications. So only one team per school at state here as well. Medals and trophies vary between regional tournaments and state is always a standard of top 5 individual medals and top 5 overall trophies (for both divisions)