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Re: Science Crime Busters B / Forensics C
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 9:13 am
by T-B
The new Division B event guidelines are out. Fibers, hair, and plastics are out; water testing is in. Lots of new material to learn. Does anyone know any links to learn about the water testing? I didn't even understand the writeup on it in the event guidelines. Guess we've got a lot of work to do here
Re: Science Crime Busters B / Forensics C
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 3:54 pm
by soobsession
T-B wrote:The new Division B event guidelines are out. Fibers, hair, and plastics are out; water testing is in. Lots of new material to learn. Does anyone know any links to learn about the water testing? I didn't even understand the writeup on it in the event guidelines. Guess we've got a lot of work to do here
hmm...interesting. im not spectacular at fibers and hair anyways but too bad they took out plastics. water testing?...so they really were seriously about combining enviro chem with SCB? aww...too bad...i like SCB the way it was. well this should be interesting.
Re: Science Crime Busters B / Forensics C
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 3:58 pm
by haven chuck
It actually is probably pretty minor though since combined, hairs, polymers, and fibers were hardly worth much, maybe 20% i think at most. There is still tons of other stuff, so this probably wont change the event concept, just be a new thing to learn.
Re: Science Crime Busters B / Forensics C
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 4:02 pm
by T-B
Water testing is only worth 10% and is a one-for-one swap with Hair/Fibers/Plastics. This is the scoring for this year: Unknowns 50%, Analysis/WriteUp 25%, Water Testing 10%, Physical Evidence 10%, Chromatography 5%.
Re: Science Crime Busters B / Forensics C
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 4:03 pm
by soobsession
unknowns? so there's still gonna be powders and stuff? or are they gonna change it a little so its like soil or something?
Re: Science Crime Busters B / Forensics C
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 4:08 pm
by haven chuck
T-B wrote:Water testing is only worth 10% and is a one-for-one swap with Hair/Fibers/Plastics. This is the scoring for this year: Unknowns 50%, Analysis/WriteUp 25%, Water Testing 10%, Physical Evidence 10%, Chromatography 5%.
Yeah, so its not too big of a deal. Also, they have really brought down the percentage for the essay. i remember one year (couldve been '08), it was like %40
Re: Science Crime Busters B / Forensics C
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 4:09 pm
by gyourkoshaven
soobsession wrote:unknowns? so there's still gonna be powders and stuff? or are they gonna change it a little so its like soil or something?
If you're thinking of the whole enviro chem thing, that was killed a couple months ago (In my opinion anyway
). And looking at the rules, I don't see anything.
Re: Science Crime Busters B / Forensics C
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 5:43 pm
by SOninja
How does testing water relate to a case....
Re: Science Crime Busters B / Forensics C
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 6:05 pm
by gyourkoshaven
gyourkoshaven wrote:
If you're thinking of the whole enviro chem thing, that was killed a couple months ago
When they released the updated projected events list, they dumped the enviro chem topic. If you remember, I ranted for about 2 pages on it in either the SCB thread or Enviro Chem. So this event is in no way related to enviro chem.
Re: Science Crime Busters B / Forensics C
Posted: September 12th, 2009, 6:08 am
by soobsession
gyourkoshaven wrote:gyourkoshaven wrote:
If you're thinking of the whole enviro chem thing, that was killed a couple months ago
When they released the updated projected events list, they dumped the enviro chem topic. If you remember, I ranted for about 2 pages on it in either the SCB thread or Enviro Chem. So this event is in no way related to enviro chem.
okay...right...then my question would be the same as SOninja's...
x_SOninja_x wrote:How does testing water relate to a case....