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While I don't believe it is the most competitive, Fossils is definitely an event where you have to know lots in depth to succeed. Having a general knowledge of all the areas typically seems to not get you very far in my experience over the past year. You have to know a great deal about all covered topics to succeed and medal.

Least competitive in my opinion this year was most likely Crave the Wave. However, since I wasn't in this event tell me if you think otherwise. It just appeared that no one wanted to participate in this event- at least at my school.

Electric Vehicle - placing scores are usually over 195/200 and can be fractional points between places.

JoJoKeKe wrote:While I don't believe it is the most competitive, Fossils is definitely an event where you have to know lots in depth to succeed. Having a general knowledge of all the areas typically seems to not get you very far in my experience over the past year. You have to know a great deal about all covered topics to succeed and medal.

Least competitive in my opinion this year was most likely Crave the Wave. However, since I wasn't in this event tell me if you think otherwise. It just appeared that no one wanted to participate in this event- at least at my school.

People want to participate...
but it's not competitive in nature.
Usually the tests aren't too in-depth.

I'd say Heredity is the most competitive -- I competed in that event last year when we still hadn't really covered any genetics in school. Nearly everybody I competed against had some prior experience with the topic, and therefore knew more than I did at the time. Even then, once you start to grasp the topics, the event is a breeze. The only thing I really had trouble with was memorizing the names of the phases of Mitosis/Meiosis - they just don't stick with me well.

Fulgorid_weevil wrote:I'd have to say Anatomy though. 6 Candidates fought for a full blown month regarding who was going to coach. :/

Competitive in regards to wanting to coach... at our school, not really competitive with the students, though it was the most popular event. True story: after having classes with the chosen coach for a while, most people stopped caring about that event and gave up. Myself included (until state). It doesn't help that most of the people who did it didn't want to be there - it was more the fact that their parents are/were in the medical field.

Meteorology is also a pretty competitive topic - again, easy material and once you know it, everything comes naturally to you. From prior experience, I know that most of the scores for the events are only fractions of points apart. Usually it's the tiebreaker that can distinguish 1st place from 3rd or 4th.

I think the least competitive event I've ever been in was Solar System last year.. because it was fairly new and hardly anyone knew what would be on the test.

What do you guys think about the competitiveness of Ento?
I've found that nobody really wants to do it because they're either scared of bugs or bored by them.

SOnerd wrote:What do you guys think about the competitiveness of Ento?
I've found that nobody really wants to do it because they're either scared of bugs or bored by them.

In our school, no one really wanted to do Ento.

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SOnerd wrote:What do you guys think about the competitiveness of Ento?
I've found that nobody really wants to do it because they're either scared of bugs or bored by them.

In our school, no one really wanted to do Ento.

In ours, no one even wanted to coach it. It was so bad that our head coach ended up asking a freshman still competing in B division to do it, which appeared a bit awkward for the upperclassman on the event. (But screw that, lol.)

samlan16 wrote:

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SOnerd wrote:What do you guys think about the competitiveness of Ento?
I've found that nobody really wants to do it because they're either scared of bugs or bored by them.

In our school, no one really wanted to do Ento.

In ours, no one even wanted to coach it. It was so bad that our head coach ended up asking a freshman still competing in B division to do it, which appeared a bit awkward for the upperclassman on the event. (But screw that, lol.)

Well, at least you have coaches; Chattahoochee doesn't even have that

JoJoKeKe wrote:While I don't believe it is the most competitive, Fossils is definitely an event where you have to know lots in depth to succeed. Having a general knowledge of all the areas typically seems to not get you very far in my experience over the past year. You have to know a great deal about all covered topics to succeed and medal.

Least competitive in my opinion this year was most likely Crave the Wave. However, since I wasn't in this event tell me if you think otherwise. It just appeared that no one wanted to participate in this event- at least at my school.

That might be because Crave the Wave is a difficult event in the sense that its sometimes difficult to conceptualize the physics behind waves and the tests can be real killers. It also takes a lot of prep time to be GOOD but one can "make due" with basic knowledge from a physics course in school if there is a simple enough test. I also disagree with the above statement that tests aren't generally difficult because if you go to Ohio invitationals such as Wright State or even West Liberty the tests were extremely difficult and the awards people even acknowledged it.

I also disagree with the above statement that tests aren't generally difficult

Where did I say that? |:?