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JoeyC wrote:Sounds a bit more disorganized than usual, but other than not using a timer and not measuring, sounds standard. (of course, the small errors made could lead into a major tipping of the scales) However, I hold that nothing could be bad as States last year in measures of misrun Thermo.

linzhiyan wrote:

JoeyC wrote:Sounds a bit more disorganized than usual, but other than not using a timer and not measuring, sounds standard. (of course, the small errors made could lead into a major tipping of the scales) However, I hold that nothing could be bad as States last year in measures of misrun Thermo.

Agreed. Last year for states, thermo was completely dropped last year for division B.

linzhiyan wrote:

JoeyC wrote:Sounds a bit more disorganized than usual, but other than not using a timer and not measuring, sounds standard. (of course, the small errors made could lead into a major tipping of the scales) However, I hold that nothing could be bad as States last year in measures of misrun Thermo.

Agreed. Last year for states, thermo was completely dropped last year for division B.

smayya337 wrote:Thermo at Cornell today was not the epitome of organization. Overwhelmed by the long line outside their door at impound, the volunteers stopped measuring devices to make sure they fit the regulations and instead opted to simply ask everyone, "Does your box follow the rules?" At the actual event, they didn't keep track of when each team started their device testing (how?!), and our event was interrupted multiple times by people coming in, including a coach who had come to impound his team's device and a team that didn't know about impound. (I actually feel bad for that last one, it was super humiliating...) Maybe I'm pampered since the ES at practically all of my tournaments is the national Thermo ES, but compared to all the Virginia tournaments I've been to, Thermo at Cornell was a mess.

dxu46 wrote:

linzhiyan wrote:

JoeyC wrote:Sounds a bit more disorganized than usual, but other than not using a timer and not measuring, sounds standard. (of course, the small errors made could lead into a major tipping of the scales) However, I hold that nothing could be bad as States last year in measures of misrun Thermo.

Agreed. Last year for states, thermo was completely dropped last year for division B.

And division C :/

John Richardsim wrote:From states yesterday:

Invasives - if I recall correctly, it had fewer points possible than teams attending the tournament (assuming each question was one point, since I can't recall any multiple-part questions). They also completely reused the outdoor portion from last year's test; the question numbering on the station sheets didn't even match up with this year's answer sheet.

Rocks and Minerals - I think this one might have had as many points possible as there were attending teams, but I doubt it was much more than that. Each station only had a few questions, but they were three minutes long. I liked this one station where we had to rank three specimens by hardness and identify them. In the directions for the station, it said something along the lines of "Identifying these minerals might be difficult in the time allotted [3 minutes], so be sure to rank the hardness first." (And don't get me wrong, these weren't any sort of unusual or ambiguous specimens by any means.)

Anatomy & Physiology - there were several questions that got repeated between two stations. For some reason, they gave two minutes for the station you started at (wherever that may be), but only a minute and thirty seconds for the rest.