Building Event Efficiency

[Flavorflav]

I actually heard of one competition where they had the stack of papers for one event sorted backwards, so they announced the last five finishers instead of the first five. I think they had to take the kids' medals away.

[andrewwski]

I'm not against the publishing of scores at the end of competitions. As a matter of fact, I'd like it.

I don't mind sharing my scores at all once I've competed. But until then, I won't.

[dudeincolorado]

Ahh so its the out of the blue vs the taget thing. Ok I get it. If i tried my hardest that all I can do thats my theory.

I'm not against the publishing of scores at the end of competitions. As a matter of fact, I'd like it.

Yup... WOOD GLUE!

[Sheogorath]

Where's the best score for It's About Time? Like seconds off at 300seconds?

[rocketman1555]

I'm not against the publishing of scores at the end of competitions. As a matter of fact, I'd like it.

I don't mind sharing my scores at all once I've competed. But until then, I won't.

I agree with andrewwski, and i would love it if regional and states would let us have copies of our tests to help us better prepare, i hate not knowing what i've missed

[jazzy009]

Where's the best score for It's About Time? Like seconds off at 300seconds?

I'm sure there has been a perfect in this country by now... if not, for the clock portion i've seen 49.8 and numbers like that.

[Aia]

Here's a cool thought:

For the building events, have a live-time, online update on the 10 highest scores for every building event, with breakdowns of nationwide and statewide scores.

Of course, it's completely hypothetical, but wouldn't that be amazing? If nothing else, it'd be neat to see the scores people are achieving.

[croman74]

Here's a cool thought:

For the building events, have a live-time, online update on the 10 highest scores for every building event, with breakdowns of nationwide and statewide scores.

Of course, it's completely hypothetical, but wouldn't that be amazing? If nothing else, it'd be neat to see the scores people are achieving.

That would be really cool to do because it lets you know how you're doing based on how others are doing. Sounds really hard to accomplish though.

[jazzy009]

I would be forever indebted to whoever would make this...it would be nice to know top scores in the nation. that would also make the competitions much more difficult, if everyone tried to beat the top scores.

[captbilly]

Here's a cool thought:

For the building events, have a live-time, online update on the 10 highest scores for every building event, with breakdowns of nationwide and statewide scores.

Of course, it's completely hypothetical, but wouldn't that be amazing? If nothing else, it'd be neat to see the scores people are achieving.

In most competitions they refuse to give out scores so I don't think the issue is keeping track of the data, it's getting the data in the first place. I am not sure I understand the reluctance to give out scores, but out of the 12 competitions I have been to only Team Scrambler (at Nationals) will actually give out scores. They do a great job, actually put the scores up on a big screen in real time so everyone knows where they stand and how they were scored (so they can correct any mistakes in scoring right away). In some competitions the coordinator will tell the individual competitor their raw scores (like weight of a structure or time and distance error for scrambler, etc.) but nobody but team scrambler gives out the scores of other competitors. I have heard coordinators give competitors cryptic hints sometimes, like you are in first for now, or you are in the top few places, but never the actual score of another team. I know that at some competitions it is a matter of policy that no scores be given to anybody, even the team that is competing. For example, if you want to know how your trajectory did you need to guess your graph score and measure the distance error and calculate the score, but as a matter of policy the coordinator will not tell you what he/she is recording for the distance or total score.