The Society for the Discontinuation of the Pentathlon

[sewforlife]

Well our team is just lucky to has smart/althetic kids.

you really don't need to be athletically able. as long as u can do simple tasks ur fine....
the trivia questions count much much more.

[Phenylethylamine]

Actually, the only thing that matters in your score is total time to finish the entire thing. You have to get the questions right to move on, and you have to complete the physical tasks to move on- so essentially they count equally. Of course, in practice, the questions probably have more impact because the physical tasks are so easy.

[sewforlife]

Actually, the only thing that matters in your score is total time to finish the entire thing. You have to get the questions right to move on, and you have to complete the physical tasks to move on- so essentially they count equally. Of course, in practice, the questions probably have more impact because the physical tasks are so easy.

well, in my state competition, we didn't need to complete a task right to move on. if we answered the question wrong, which I did, your team can still move on. our Pentathlon didn't even matter in the end, because the scores didn't count to our team score.

[TheFossilsGuy]

In the New Jersy state test each team only got like 5 questions. Penthathelon ended up not counting towards the scores because the poeople who were running the event had the wrong answer for one of the questions.

[sewforlife]

In the New Jersy state test each team only got like 5 questions. Penthathelon ended up not counting towards the scores because the poeople who were running the event had the wrong answer for one of the questions.

really? what question was it?

[soobsession]

In the New Jersy state test each team only got like 5 questions. Penthathelon ended up not counting towards the scores because the poeople who were running the event had the wrong answer for one of the questions.

seriously? wait, which school are you from?
lols. thats just sad.

[Livurlife13]

tell me about it, pentathalon is my least favorite event because there is no true way to prepare and the level of the questions are subjective to each competition and its proctor. unfortunately, my SO coach would never go for dropping this event because we r in it to win it and one no show could cost us the competition

[genius3point14159]

the athletic abilities needed in pentathalon really aren't that great. if a super athletic person and a not-as-athletic person both balanced a golf ball on a spoon while walking across the floor, there really wouldnt be that much of a difference. but i do see what you mean by there not being much of a way to practice...

[doctor]

one way to practice: run around the hallways and throw frisbees at each other
or throw tennis balls and ping pong balls at each other suddenly and yell pentathlon practice!!!

[Phenylethylamine]

We set up a couple practice events (and someone made up a random trivia packet for the kids doing Pentathlon). They got all mad at the girl who set up the first practice event because she made them do a kickline as their group task
I was surprised, though, at how stupid some of the smart kids on my team are- one couldn't remember the density formula (as in mass over volume... elementary school stuff there), one didn't know that baking soda and ammonia are basic... Our Pentathlon team is two kids with common sense/intelligence, and two with absolutely no common sense (maybe some intelligence, but evidently they don't use it on the event).