Poorly Run Event Stories

[linzhiyan]

Regionals yesterday in CodeBusters:
The team that was beside us finished the timed question about 5 minutes in, but the ES didn't see them until about 2 minutes later... After raising their hands for about a minute, they started coughing, but the ES just ignored it...

[TapuCosmo]

Mira Loma Regionals yesterday at Codebusters: The timed question violated the rule against a letter encrypting to itself, costing us the timing bonus as my team was confused about why it seemed like certain letters were encrypting to themselves when they shouldn't. Also, the Affine Cipher encryption question where they gave A -> M and C -> A, which resulted a = -6 (which is not relatively prime with 26), resulting in many letters encrypting to the same letter.

[Maeri]

At Regionals...
Herpetology: Test was the exact same as the year before. The same test that required students to identify down to the species level...
Write it Do it: A competitor accidentally knocked over another girls's project (apparently he shook/bumped into the table?) 1 minute before time was called. Proctor told her nothing could be done and it was left as it was.

[PirateShip]

At the Indiana State tournament, experimental design followed last years rules and rubric

[Araluen]

At the Indiana State tournament, experimental design followed last years rules and rubric

Can something actually come of knowing this? Is there anyway to correct this issue?

[Name]

It wasn't ran bad, but the NYS fermi test was kinda crap. When I saw it was 60 questions, I was ready for a long and challenging test, which is the opposite of what I got. I soloed the first half of the test in under 10 min, and probably could've finished in 20 solo if I really tried. We then took our time going over everything, and slowly redoing questions with my partner, making sure everything made sense. A states level (or any level) test shouldn't be asking questions like mass of earth, proton, and electron for most of the test, as probably around 2/3 of the test was just straight facts I had memorized, while only one or two questions took any actual thinking. I heard multiple teams saying that it was the easiest fermi test they had taken, and even the regionals test was more challenging overall. It basically tested how many facts you memerized, with almost no critical thinking at all. Kinda a disappointing test to end fermi on. On the bright side though, the length was pretty good.

[Ender1982]

At the Indiana State tournament, experimental design followed last years rules and rubric

Can something actually come of knowing this? Is there anyway to correct this issue?

Summary of most Indiana State events: The event supervisors are nice people, but they don't follow the rules, or it is a short test (10-20 questions) that they expect to differentiate with 36 teams.

[CPScienceDude]

At the Indiana State tournament, experimental design followed last years rules and rubric

Can something actually come of knowing this? Is there anyway to correct this issue?

Summary of most Indiana State events: The event supervisors are nice people, but they don't follow the rules, or it is a short test (10-20 questions) that they expect to differentiate with 36 teams.

*Cough* Water Quality *Cough*

[Blank25]

The NYS Protein Modeling Written test was one of the WORST RUN TESTS. Because it was so hot in the room, the proctor turned off the lights(with no effect in my opinion). Because the proctor turned off the lights, my team had a hard time reading our cheat sheet. In addition, there weren't enough chairs so my team only had 1 chair to sit in and one of my other partners and I had to sit on the floor. These conditions were BY FAR the worst test-taking conditions I have EVER experienced.

[pikachu4919]

Can something actually come of knowing this? Is there anyway to correct this issue?

Summary of most Indiana State events: The event supervisors are nice people, but they don't follow the rules, or it is a short test (10-20 questions) that they expect to differentiate with 36 teams.

*Cough* Water Quality *Cough*

Does that make me an exception?