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The tournament sent a message to the coaches.sdececco wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2020, 3:01 pmWhere did u hear the info fromterence.tan wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2020, 2:36 pm I heard that they are canceling gravity vehicle scores because they announced the wrong distance
does anyone know what was the actual distance?awildbeast wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2020, 3:02 pm From Penn (email to coaches):
Hello,
Unfortunately, due to a measurement error the target distance was incorrectly announced for Gravity Vehicle. The same error was made on both tracks. After the error was discovered, we did not announce it to the remaining teams in hopes of being as fair as possible under the circumstances. Too many teams had already competed to be able to run all cars again. We deeply regret this mistake and hope teams still benefited from the chance to run their vehicles under competition conditions.
We will still award medals for the event but will drop the score for this event from the overall team rankings. We are very sorry this happened and appreciate the professionalism coaches and competitors demonstrated in response to this error.
Best,
SOUP Executive Board
11.65m, we ended up measuring it. Also, we might have been wrong but it seemed like the start line was crooked based on our measurements...terence.tan wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2020, 4:25 pmdoes anyone know what was the actual distance?awildbeast wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2020, 3:02 pm From Penn (email to coaches):
Hello,
Unfortunately, due to a measurement error the target distance was incorrectly announced for Gravity Vehicle. The same error was made on both tracks. After the error was discovered, we did not announce it to the remaining teams in hopes of being as fair as possible under the circumstances. Too many teams had already competed to be able to run all cars again. We deeply regret this mistake and hope teams still benefited from the chance to run their vehicles under competition conditions.
We will still award medals for the event but will drop the score for this event from the overall team rankings. We are very sorry this happened and appreciate the professionalism coaches and competitors demonstrated in response to this error.
Best,
SOUP Executive Board
We measured 11.67 (distance was 11.15), it was a bit more than 50 cm. (I used the back track).terence.tan wrote: ↑February 22nd, 2020, 4:59 pm ha ha. I was exactly 50cm short of the target on my first run. thats a big yeet
