Pentathlon Practice!!!

[eyeball138]

It's also different this year though. Because it was a trial event, it was tough to find supervisors for it. Therefore, it was not run very well. Also, it was a different topic and probally easier physical tasks also.

[Pleiades]

It seemed like with my team the academic tasks were causing problems. The academic tasks that we had were: Find the length and width of a table, pour x mL of water into a graduated cylinder, find the density of a cube, find the temperature of water, and then the group one, which i was running, was to build a pyramid using 4 blocks. Almost every single group spent the max 2 minutes at each academic station. For the most part the physical part was no challenge except for one group that spent 7 minutes trying to throw a ping pong ball into 1 of 3 jars from 6 or 7 feet away.

[eyeball138]

The challenge with the ping-pong ball sounds much more difficult than anything that I saw. At my regional tournament, I know that the topic for the academic questions was general science. These questions were more like, What is the Metric unit of Weight? I don't know exactly how this worked with a time limit because it only takes a second to respond to a question like that. The academic tasks you described are very different than the ones I saw so I don't really think I could even give you an estimate of time.

[honey7]

What the heck do u mean by timing? Also, has anyone competed in the event yet? I know that some people's regionals is this weekend, but others might have had theirs already.

[dudeincolorado]

Regionals?! already? we just had our first meeting today!

[zorbak5044]

for the athletics just practice basic sports, endurance, and most importantly, gangsta basketball moves

[haven chuck]

What the heck do u mean by timing? Also, has anyone competed in the event yet? I know that some people's regionals is this weekend, but others might have had theirs already.

First of all, there aren't any regionals until at least Febuary.

The challenge with the ping-pong ball sounds much more difficult than anything that I saw. At my regional tournament, I know that the topic for the academic questions was general science. These questions were more like, What is the Metric unit of Weight? I don't know exactly how this worked with a time limit because it only takes a second to respond to a question like that. The academic tasks you described are very different than the ones I saw so I don't really think I could even give you an estimate of time.

When this event was a trial, they would ask a QUESTION and you would have to give an answer and if you were wrong, you would get another question. Now, it is more of a TASK, where it is not as though know the fact, but i think you have to DO something. At least that was my impression.

[bob3443]

First of all, there aren't any regionals until at least Febuary.

i have mine sometime in January.

[jellymuffins]

But last year Pentathlon was only a trial right? So there might be harder academic & physical challenges this year.

[haven chuck]

There could be harder challenges, but the trial rules were just as unspecific as these except this has examples. So i think it will just depend on the event supervisor and how he/she interprets the rules.

I have mine in January

Oh.