Illinois 2020

[chrroh]

The first invite of the season has passed! Check out the results below!

Overall Scores: https://app.avogadro.ws/il/palatine-inv ... ts/overall
Division Scores: https://app.avogadro.ws/il/palatine-invitational-c/

Here's a brief summary of the results

Division AAA
1. Stevenson Green
2. Naperville North
3. Stevenson Gold
4. Neuqua Valley Blue
5. Marquette

Division AA
1. Lisle
2. Hersey
3. Niles North
4. Warren Township Gold
5. Huntley Red

Division A
1. Oak Park River Forest Orange
2. Hinsdale South
3. Crystal Lake South
4. Oak Park River Forest Blue
5. Cary Grove White

Good luck to the teams competing at Neuqua Valley and Conant in two weeks!

[nat-hoo]

IMO, some interesting results from this invite. Anyone know why New Trier didn't make top 5? Seems weird that they didn't do better in Anatomy & Physiology, Ornithology, and their build events. I'm also surprised that Lyons Township Varsity didn't get at least in top 15 overall, given how well they normally do at state and regionals. Naperville North Varsity performed really strong at this invite, so it will be interesting to see how they do at others later in the season. It looks like they will give Stevenson and New Trier another run for their money at state. Any thoughts/predictions?

[TheChiScientist]

IMO, some interesting results from this invite. Anyone know why New Trier didn't make top 5? Seems weird that they didn't do better in Anatomy & Physiology, Ornithology, and their build events. I'm also surprised that Lyons Township Varsity didn't get at least in top 15 overall, given how well they normally do at state and regionals. Naperville North Varsity performed really strong at this invite, so it will be interesting to see how they do at others later in the season. It looks like they will give Stevenson and New Trier another run for their money at state. Any thoughts/predictions?

Quite simple reasoning behind this. New Trier, Lyons Township, Crystal Lake Central, and many others went in using unstacked teams.
Only stacked teams would appear to be Stevenson and Naperville North. It will not be until UChicago where more conclusive results can be drawn.

[hippo9]

IMO, some interesting results from this invite. Anyone know why New Trier didn't make top 5? Seems weird that they didn't do better in Anatomy & Physiology, Ornithology, and their build events. I'm also surprised that Lyons Township Varsity didn't get at least in top 15 overall, given how well they normally do at state and regionals. Naperville North Varsity performed really strong at this invite, so it will be interesting to see how they do at others later in the season. It looks like they will give Stevenson and New Trier another run for their money at state. Any thoughts/predictions?

Quite simple reasoning behind this. New Trier, Lyons Township, Crystal Lake Central, and many others went in using unstacked teams.
Only stacked teams would appear to be Stevenson and Naperville North. It will not be until UChicago where more conclusive results can be drawn.

I mean if Stevenson "stacked," they still got both of their teams in the top 3, while NT got none in the top 5...

[TheChiScientist]

IMO, some interesting results from this invite. Anyone know why New Trier didn't make top 5? Seems weird that they didn't do better in Anatomy & Physiology, Ornithology, and their build events. I'm also surprised that Lyons Township Varsity didn't get at least in top 15 overall, given how well they normally do at state and regionals. Naperville North Varsity performed really strong at this invite, so it will be interesting to see how they do at others later in the season. It looks like they will give Stevenson and New Trier another run for their money at state. Any thoughts/predictions?

Quite simple reasoning behind this. New Trier, Lyons Township, Crystal Lake Central, and many others went in using unstacked teams.
Only stacked teams would appear to be Stevenson and Naperville North. It will not be until UChicago where more conclusive results can be drawn.

I mean if Stevenson "stacked," they still got both of their teams in the top 3, while NT got none in the top 5...

From my understanding they mixed their team very throughly. It probably won't be till Solon or UChicago where they show their true strength.

[ericlepanda]

Quite simple reasoning behind this. New Trier, Lyons Township, Crystal Lake Central, and many others went in using unstacked teams.
Only stacked teams would appear to be Stevenson and Naperville North. It will not be until UChicago where more conclusive results can be drawn.

I mean if Stevenson "stacked," they still got both of their teams in the top 3, while NT got none in the top 5...

From my understanding they mixed their team very throughly. It probably won't be till Solon or UChicago where they show their true strength.

We brought more freshmen to Palatine this year, and in some events we just got kinda unlucky. We were throughly unstacked -- barely any events had more than one varsity member from last year. I'm pretty sure we usually get beat at Palatine; IIRC both Stevenson teams beat us last year too, but usually our varsity team gets to the level where we're on par with them. However, we did only get one first place overall, which is somewhat worrying.

How do you guys feel about the tests? I honestly thought that Protein was my best shot at a medal but we got 6th in it. The test was also kinda weird, there were parts with ambiguous wording and at least one typo.

[nat-hoo]

I didn't take protein modeling, but my partner and I thought that disease detectives was pretty weird/more difficult than we had expected. The only other study event I had was fossils, which wasn't too bad imo. I think it's too early in the season to conclude which schools are the best at ping-pong parachute though, and that was a pretty bad event for most teams. Once people get more testing done, I think that event will get some better results.

[TheChiScientist]

I didn't take protein modeling, but my partner and I thought that disease detectives was pretty weird/more difficult than we had expected. The only other study event I had was fossils, which wasn't too bad imo. I think it's too early in the season to conclude which schools are the best at ping-pong parachute though, and that was a pretty bad event for most teams. Once people get more testing done, I think that event will get some better results.

Hehehe. Let just say we could have run PPP better than it went. Sorry for the 1 hour delay whoops. Had some depressurization issues so I had to stop launches and reset. I will say top scores were about 7+ secs but I expect that to improve. Very few teirs overall. Probably will improve later in the year.

[BigBootyBason]

seemed kinda litty this yr at palatine .:/

[BigBootyBason]

I didn't take protein modeling, but my partner and I thought that disease detectives was pretty weird/more difficult than we had expected. The only other study event I had was fossils, which wasn't too bad imo. I think it's too early in the season to conclude which schools are the best at ping-pong parachute though, and that was a pretty bad event for most teams. Once people get more testing done, I think that event will get some better results.

Hehehe. Let just say we could have run PPP better than it went. Sorry for the 1 hour delay whoops. Had some depressurization issues so I had to stop launches and reset. I will say top scores where about 7+ secs but I expect that to improve. Very few teirs overall. Probably will improve later in the year.

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