New York 2013

[NYCSCIOLY]

Anyone from the NYC area and have the regionals at Grover Cleveland High School?

[icyfire]

Does anyone know how the team numbering system works for States? Like, which regions winners get which states team numbers?

[syo_astro]

Does anyone know how the team numbering system works for States? Like, which regions winners get which states team numbers?

Well, I think it was said above that you wouldn't really know your team number...I mean, I think it works like the better regional placing you get the lower states team number you get, but I'm not 100% sure on that, so wait for others to confirm. Since knowing your team number just goes to what events your team will be doing (unless you could say an alternate reason), then that was noted earlier. Either way, you won't totally know what team number you'll get, so hedging bets on that is never best.

[Flavorflav]

Does anyone know how the team numbering system works for States? Like, which regions winners get which states team numbers?

Well, I think it was said above that you wouldn't really know your team number...I mean, I think it works like the better regional placing you get the lower states team number you get, but I'm not 100% sure on that, so wait for others to confirm. Since knowing your team number just goes to what events your team will be doing (unless you could say an alternate reason), then that was noted earlier. Either way, you won't totally know what team number you'll get, so hedging bets on that is never best.

That is not quite accurate. At some point they will put out a table of team numbers, but it is not in any readily apparent order. I suspect it is manually scrambled with an eye to spreading the teams from each region through the three blocks but with no particular system. The only list I can find online comes from 2010, but that year the regional ranking of teams from ELI in order of team number from lowest to highest was 6, 1, 4, 5, 7, 3, 2.

[juicemanman]

Anyone know when the regionals schedules are coming out? Our coach said sometime in October, but October's almost over.

[Flavorflav]

Anyone know when the regionals schedule is coming out? Our coach said sometime in October, but October's almost over.

Hard to say, but the answer will depend to a large extent on which region you are in.

[caseyotis]

Anyone else here from the Westchester region? I'm from PEARLS Hawthorne school and we keep getting almost up there in the regionals; last year we got in seventh, and in the previous years, we got eighth and ninth. Hopefully that streak doesn't keep; hopefully we can skip 6th at least!

Does anyone have any info on Triple E, though? I'm in it this year, and I know it's a trial, so there isn't much on it. I am interested to know what everyone else's approaches are to that.

[thehydrogenpoptart]

Have you seen the rules for Triple E? They're here:
http://newyorkscioly.org/SOPages/Triple_ENYB13.pdf
Hope that helps!

[caseyotis]

Well yes, I have that. I have the guidelines for all of the events.
But I'm curious about the binder. It says we can bring in our own binder, with endless information from anywhere. If that's the case, and we are put at stations, what's the point of memorizing anything? Why don't you just go online, print a whole bunch of facts from the provided websites, and make it easy to get to?

[thehydrogenpoptart]

My friend did Forestry last year, and I asked her pretty much the same question--if you have a field guide, can't you go in there without having to study? Her answer was that she only had about 50 seconds to identify a tree, and that's not enough time to flip through a field guide. I mean, you could make super ultra organised notes, but still, truly studying beats that.