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Re: Invasive Species B/C
Posted: February 19th, 2017, 6:13 am
by Joycegu99
Shout out to Upenn for putting sounds on their invasive test yesterday!
definitely threw a lot of people off
Re: Invasive Species B/C
Posted: February 19th, 2017, 6:33 am
by windu34
Joycegu99 wrote:Shout out to Upenn for putting sounds on their invasive test yesterday!
definitely threw a lot of people off
Wow that's rare. Care to elaborate (which species)?
Re: Invasive Species B/C
Posted: February 19th, 2017, 7:06 am
by Joycegu99
windu34 wrote:Joycegu99 wrote:Shout out to Upenn for putting sounds on their invasive test yesterday!
definitely threw a lot of people off
Wow that's rare. Care to elaborate (which species)?
Nutria (I think? Haven't looked at the answer key yet) and Asian tiger mosquito
Re: Invasive Species B/C
Posted: February 20th, 2017, 8:39 pm
by Derek
Yep, Nutria and Asian Tiger Mosquito were correct! Thanks for coming to SOUP. Hope you guys enjoyed the test!
Re: Invasive Species B/C
Posted: February 20th, 2017, 9:41 pm
by Random Human
Derek wrote:Yep, Nutria and Asian Tiger Mosquito were correct! Thanks for coming to SOUP. Hope you guys enjoyed the test!
What? The specs say that you can have sounds understood. But how are you suppose to study this? We never encountered sounds before, this is interesting. What if they pull this on us at nats? Anyone have any ideas?
Re: Invasive Species B/C
Posted: February 20th, 2017, 10:20 pm
by Derek
Try going through all the species on your list and see if you can find a sound for them. A lot of them don't have sounds (actually most of them don't). Most of the animal sounds are distinct enough that you shouldn't have any problem IDing.
Re: Invasive Species B/C
Posted: February 21st, 2017, 4:26 am
by maxxxxx
Random Human wrote:Derek wrote:Yep, Nutria and Asian Tiger Mosquito were correct! Thanks for coming to SOUP. Hope you guys enjoyed the test!
What? The specs say that you can have sounds understood. But how are you suppose to study this? We never encountered sounds before, this is interesting. What if they pull this on us at nats? Anyone have any ideas?
Well when the first slide with a sound clip came up, everyone in the room rushed to put down Nutria before the sound even played. And for the other one, the questions helped for context, as someone(who ended up doing very well on that test) excitedly pointed out to me after the test.
Re: Invasive Species B/C
Posted: February 21st, 2017, 4:28 am
by windu34
I don't see how you could include sounds in a station-run format and nats will almost certainly be stations
Re: Invasive Species B/C
Posted: February 21st, 2017, 4:40 am
by John Richardsim
windu34 wrote:I don't see how you could include sounds in a station-run format and nats will almost certainly be stations
A couple of years ago for Crave the Wave the ES played the audio files for all teams at the very start of the event before we began the regular stations.
Re: Invasive Species B/C
Posted: February 21st, 2017, 8:50 pm
by Skink
windu34 wrote:I don't see how you could include sounds in a station-run format and nats will almost certainly be stations
Oh, that's easy. Get any MP3 player (handheld device, PC, or whatever) and a pair of headphones, maybe two with a splitter. I think teams really enjoy AV stations because they're changes of pace; I ran one at State last season for a different event, and the results were fantastic. I have, in the past, done the "demo" station John noted with sets of speakers, but I'm less fond of that set-up. You're at the mercy of the acoustics of the room.