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islipscioly wrote:

"Yep thanks! I have to say whatever happens I hope my team is fairly proud of the effort we pulled off, we had to deal with A LOT. Most outside our region wouldn't know, but our coach got into an accident before winter break (thankfully he's okay but still recovering :/), the school stopped letting us work late in the school, pulling off our placing at Athens, helping decorate and run our first regional (props to Wantagh and division helping us out there I believe), and even just the usual stress of running tryouts (team members wanted change because of seniority issues and it isn't exactly easy to change things)...it's been a lot to handle and I hope/think we're pumped to take it to states. We didn't even have much for building in the absolute start of the year and I think we're doing a lot better now . But of course I'm not underestimating the other teams after the results we've seen, so going both ways we shall indeed see. We've also usually had the case of builds facing issues at the competition, so I'm curious to see how that'll go. I guess I made the coaches comment since we're mostly student run (heck I had to help get out permission slips to people for athens). Though I think we're also trying to at least get them slightly more involved."

I'm so sorry to hear about your coach! I hope that the recovery is a speedy one! I'm very glad that you were able to pull off a great year so far with everything that has been on your plates, including holding the first Regional for the split Nassau.

The beauty of SciOly is that it comes down to the students: if they are hungry for it, they will persevere regardless of the many obstacles that present themselves (and it seems like you guys had many of them this year unfortunately). The coaches can only do so much before it's in the hands of the team.

I think that the only reason that we were remotely successful this year was because of our student managers, with whom I cannot thank enough. And I'm sure that your coaches are eternally grateful for all the hard work that you and your team has put forth. Enjoy the rest of the Mid-Winter break.

caseyotis wrote:

Flavorflav wrote:I don't think you could really argue that S.T. is the least competitive region.

Meaning that it definitely is, or that there definitely is a less competitive region? I don't really know anything about the Adirondack or Lake Erie - Niagara region, so I wasn't sure. Are they less competitive? I'd be surprised.

Flavorflav wrote:

caseyotis wrote:

Flavorflav wrote:I don't think you could really argue that S.T. is the least competitive region.

Meaning that it definitely is, or that there definitely is a less competitive region? I don't really know anything about the Adirondack or Lake Erie - Niagara region, so I wasn't sure. Are they less competitive? I'd be surprised.

Sorry, missed an interesting conversation while I was in Florida. What I meant was that Lower Hudson and Adirondack were the least competitive regions, base don my subjective impression. Props to YUSO for putting some numbers to the question.

Flavorflav wrote:

caseyotis wrote:

Flavorflav wrote:I don't think you could really argue that S.T. is the least competitive region.

Meaning that it definitely is, or that there definitely is a less competitive region? I don't really know anything about the Adirondack or Lake Erie - Niagara region, so I wasn't sure. Are they less competitive? I'd be surprised.

Sorry, missed an interesting conversation while I was in Florida. What I meant was that Lower Hudson and Adirondack were the least competitive regions, base don my subjective impression. Props to YUSO for putting some numbers to the question.

JTMess wrote: Adirondack isn't very competitive at all. 11 teams compete from 8 schools and our team won with 27 points in 20 events.

caseyotis wrote:

JTMess wrote: Adirondack isn't very competitive at all. 11 teams compete from 8 schools and our team won with 27 points in 20 events.

Okay. We had 15 teams from 13 schools. .-.
What team are you on?

Flavorflav wrote:

caseyotis wrote:

JTMess wrote: Adirondack isn't very competitive at all. 11 teams compete from 8 schools and our team won with 27 points in 20 events.

Okay. We had 15 teams from 13 schools. .-.
What team are you on?

Has to be Plattsburgh. Many years ago all of the Adirondack teams came in near last at States, but Plattsburgh suddenly got good a few years back.

Believe it or not, there was a time when your region was clearly the most competitive. For a while there, M-E, U-E and Vestal were all placing in the top ten pretty regularly. I don't know if any other region has ever produced three top ten teams.