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jacobxc wrote:I don't know why all you CyWoods people are placing yourself so high. Because if you look at past invitational rankings CyFall, Kingwood, Clements, and Katy has ranked better than you in more invitationals. Also Austin Area Homeschoolers and Westwood are pretty good too. So I am not trying to sound rude, but from looking at the stats i feel CyWoods would not be in the top 5.

You have no idea how awesome being name dropped as a second year team is.

Xanthien wrote:

jacobxc wrote:I don't know why all you CyWoods people are placing yourself so high. Because if you look at past invitational rankings CyFall, Kingwood, Clements, and Katy has ranked better than you in more invitationals. Also Austin Area Homeschoolers and Westwood are pretty good too. So I am not trying to sound rude, but from looking at the stats i feel CyWoods would not be in the top 5.

You have no idea how awesome being name dropped as a second year team is.

Are you from Westwood?

jacobxc wrote:

Xanthien wrote:

jacobxc wrote:I don't know why all you CyWoods people are placing yourself so high. Because if you look at past invitational rankings CyFall, Kingwood, Clements, and Katy has ranked better than you in more invitationals. Also Austin Area Homeschoolers and Westwood are pretty good too. So I am not trying to sound rude, but from looking at the stats i feel CyWoods would not be in the top 5.

You have no idea how awesome being name dropped as a second year team is.

Are you from Westwood?

No, I'm AAH.

Well he's right, making states as a second year team in a very competitive state, and doing rather well in other contests is impressive. Props to you guys!

I know, looks like the State capital is finally putting up some competition.

19 days guys here's hoping for a good run up and a highly competitive meet.

jacobxc wrote:I know, looks like the State capital is finally putting up some competition.

you mean against LASA or in general? because LASA is from Austin too... but with the regionals system we've never actually seen them...

Barker wrote:

jacobxc wrote:I know, looks like the State capital is finally putting up some competition.

you mean against LASA or in general? because LASA is from Austin too... but with the regionals system we've never actually seen them...

I didn't know LASA was from Austin

two questions for texas teams:

1) how do you cope with such a late state competition? you have no time to prep for nats, do you?

2) what the heck is this "texas event" stuff? isnt it kind of ridiculous and it hurts teams that only prepare for the official national events, as they have to compete in them, no option.

Texas events basically means the five trial events that Texas offers at state. All teams must compete in 23 events, but including the trials, they offer 28. Each team has to choose 5 events to not compete in and they receive 0 points for that event, so a team could choose not to compete in any of the Texas events. So in the end, each team competes in only 23, but they might not necessarily be the same as another team's 23.

As for having states so late---I guess teams that have a shot at nationals try to keep the same people on events so if they do make it, they don't have to completely start from scratch.