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Froggie wrote:
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JasperKota wrote:
Yeah, for my team "drop" meant that we wouldn't compete in the event and it wouldn't count towards our score
>tfw you competed in PA and all events counted towards the team's score
They do?
Even trial events?
I wasn't including trial events. Some states such as NY allowed teams to count trial events towards their team score if they dropped other events (although I think this was discontinued).

As it were, trial events weren't a thing at our regionals, so...
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EastStroudsburg13 wrote:
Froggie wrote:
EastStroudsburg13 wrote: >tfw you competed in PA and all events counted towards the team's score
They do?
Even trial events?
I wasn't including trial events. Some states such as NY allowed teams to count trial events towards their team score if they dropped other events (although I think this was discontinued).

As it were, trial events weren't a thing at our regionals, so...
Yeah that's what I thought..
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Tfw instead of studying for a history test you read Assassination threads
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Darn, being an adult seems hard :(
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The benefit of our SO team not getting much funding from the school means that we aren't dependent on outside funding, and therefore are less affected when budget problems arise.
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Unome wrote:The benefit of our SO team not getting much funding from the school means that we aren't dependent on outside funding, and therefore are less affected when budget problems arise.
The downside of our SO team not getting much funding from the school means that we can't afford to attend as many invites as we'd like because we'd have to pay for it all out of pocket.
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antoine_ego wrote:Darn, being an adult seems hard :(
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daydreamer0023 wrote:
Unome wrote:The benefit of our SO team not getting much funding from the school means that we aren't dependent on outside funding, and therefore are less affected when budget problems arise.
The downside of our SO team not getting much funding from the school means that we can't afford to attend as many invites as we'd like because we'd have to pay for it all out of pocket.
Same here, would be nice to be able to afford another out-of-state (though undoubtedly you all have it harder in NC).
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Unome wrote:
daydreamer0023 wrote:
Unome wrote:The benefit of our SO team not getting much funding from the school means that we aren't dependent on outside funding, and therefore are less affected when budget problems arise.
The downside of our SO team not getting much funding from the school means that we can't afford to attend as many invites as we'd like because we'd have to pay for it all out of pocket.
Same here, would be nice to be able to afford another out-of-state (though undoubtedly you all have it harder in NC).
I can't name a team that gets funding from their school tbh
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