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Skink wrote:I was being generous including WIDI, admittedly. The best way to do it is just as you said only on steroids; some teams have "WIDI closets" full of boxes of materials collected for doing what you're saying but in a slightly more organized way. That's how the (arguably) best teams do it, anyway. I use some old tournament models for inspiration, as some supervisors really are creative and think of materials and ways to assemble them that might have eluded me.

Fermi Fast Facts, and to some extent Game on can be included. Like you really can't study in Fermi without practice problems (unless someone has some magical method, in which case can you share with me?)

lol I just have a random bank of stuff i got for WIDI and we just build new stuff every time and practice often with inspiration from past setups. One side of my room is widi junk. so many boxes...

JionPark wrote:So who is SciolyDex?

nvm

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Skink wrote:I was being generous including WIDI, admittedly. The best way to do it is just as you said only on steroids; some teams have "WIDI closets" full of boxes of materials collected for doing what you're saying but in a slightly more organized way. That's how the (arguably) best teams do it, anyway. I use some old tournament models for inspiration, as some supervisors really are creative and think of materials and ways to assemble them that might have eluded me.

Fermi Fast Facts, and to some extent Game on can be included. Like you really can't study in Fermi without practice problems (unless someone has some magical method, in which case can you share with me?)

When I did Game On I really never looked at past tests, we would just shout to the rest of the team to say a random topic (we like chose for ourselves the game type based on what we needed practice in at the time) - Yale and Princeton both had disappointingly boring game types, and idk if test sets we traded for even included Game On game type suggestions.

This is a bit late and I stopped checking the forums seemingly just before this "trading" business blew up, but I just have to ask:

Why the heck are people scamming people of Science Olympiad tests!? I mean, I've traded virtual items worth a hefty lot, so I know there can be value in digital items. But trading on Scioly tests??? Is there a way to actually convert tests/resources to cash, or do these people just not have anything better to do?

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Zioly wrote:This is a bit late and I stopped checking the forums seemingly just before this "trading" business blew up, but I just have to ask:

Why the heck are people scamming people of Science Olympiad tests!? I mean, I've traded virtual items worth a hefty lot, so I know there can be value in digital items? But, trading on Scioly tests??? Is there a way to actually convert tests/resources to cash, or do these people just not have anything better to do?

It's the latter, and the reason is that people will do anything it takes to win against their opponents. I definitely know Random is the kind of person who encourages this kind of behavior.

whythelongface wrote:

Zioly wrote:This is a bit late and I stopped checking the forums seemingly just before this "trading" business blew up, but I just have to ask:

Why the heck are people scamming people of Science Olympiad tests!? I mean, I've traded virtual items worth a hefty lot, so I know there can be value in digital items? But, trading on Scioly tests??? Is there a way to actually convert tests/resources to cash, or do these people just not have anything better to do?

It's the latter, and the reason is that people will do anything it takes to win against their opponents. I definitely know Random is the kind of person who encourages this kind of behavior.

*Anything it takes to win against they opponents except study (in some cases). I think people think that just taking more tests will eventually major you the best but there's a lot of information out there not covered in any prior tests...

knottingpurple wrote:

whythelongface wrote:

Zioly wrote:This is a bit late and I stopped checking the forums seemingly just before this "trading" business blew up, but I just have to ask:

Why the heck are people scamming people of Science Olympiad tests!? I mean, I've traded virtual items worth a hefty lot, so I know there can be value in digital items? But, trading on Scioly tests??? Is there a way to actually convert tests/resources to cash, or do these people just not have anything better to do?

It's the latter, and the reason is that people will do anything it takes to win against their opponents. I definitely know Random is the kind of person who encourages this kind of behavior.

*Anything it takes to win against they opponents except study (in some cases). I think people think that just taking more tests will eventually major you the best but there's a lot of information out there not covered in any prior tests...

Yeah, I study for several weeks before even attempting practice tests.

SciOlyDex wrote: SciolyDex is a professional, efficient trading firm ....

I'm curious, is there any money or compensation involved in this in any way? Or is it truly just trading resources? Calling it a 'firm' leads me to believe there is some sort of business aspect of it.....

I highly doubt it, but he probably used the word "firm" to make it sound appealing for people to join?

If it's money though... that's REALLY not something he/she should do.