New York 2011

[paleonaps]

I forgot about that- good idea?

[RandomPerson]

i did, but since he felt that the first team treated him poorly, i felt that he would probably appreciate someone teaching them a lesson.

Poorly might be a bit strong, but thanks

[paleonaps]

What happened exactly?

[RandomPerson]

What happened exactly?

Send me a pm if you wish to know, or come on chat, I've wasted enough space on these threads as it is.

[gneissisnice]

They were at the same time for everybody. i'm not sure why, but the ID events are almost always scheduled at the same time as each other for States.

its because the events are usually scheduled by how easy theyre graded: the faster the grading for that event goes, the later timeslot it will be. thats y hard events to grade such as protein modeling and exp design are friday. however, ID events are multiple choice, so grading goes faster. this way, they can get the results out without making us wait that much
personally, i think taking 2 id events are crazy haha ;]

Go and tell Mr. Vorwald that Fossils is easy to grade - I dare you. But get somebody to videotape it first.

Actually, it is easy to grade. I graded it last year at the division B regionals. It went rather quickly.

Though it was incredibly depressing to see all the red Xs on the papers. Some people had obviously never even seen a fossil before. Some favorite answers include "Kabutops" and "a t-rex" when asked to ID a trilobite. Also, I liked when people put down fossils that weren't even on the list. For Eurypterus, a lot of people put down another genus that wasn't on the list, and that I'd never even heard of.

And I LOVE ID events. I've done every single one except for Birds (cause I aged out the year it debuted).
In order from my favorite to least favorite:

Fossils -> Rocks and Minerals -> Forestry -> Bugs -> Herpetology.

[quizbowl]

its because the events are usually scheduled by how easy theyre graded: the faster the grading for that event goes, the later timeslot it will be. thats y hard events to grade such as protein modeling and exp design are friday. however, ID events are multiple choice, so grading goes faster. this way, they can get the results out without making us wait that much
personally, i think taking 2 id events are crazy haha ;]

Go and tell Mr. Vorwald that Fossils is easy to grade - I dare you. But get somebody to videotape it first.

Actually, it is easy to grade. I graded it last year at the division B regionals. It went rather quickly.

Though it was incredibly depressing to see all the red Xs on the papers. Some people had obviously never even seen a fossil before. Some favorite answers include "Kabutops" and "a t-rex" when asked to ID a trilobite. Also, I liked when people put down fossils that weren't even on the list. For Eurypterus, a lot of people put down another genus that wasn't on the list, and that I'd never even heard of.

And I LOVE ID events. I've done every single one except for Birds (cause I aged out the year it debuted).
In order from my favorite to least favorite:

Fossils -> Rocks and Minerals -> Forestry -> Bugs -> Herpetology.

so would you agree that my idea could be plausible?

[paleonaps]

What idea? Staggering ID events?

[quizbowl]

but still, they can move them around to something like this:
session 1 session 2 session 3
orni team a orni team b orni team c
fossils team b fossils team c fossils team a

that. where they can move the orientation of events around to accomodate all teams.

[Phenylethylamine]

but still, they can move them around to something like this:
session 1 session 2 session 3
orni team a orni team b orni team c
fossils team b fossils team c fossils team a

that. where they can move the orientation of events around to accomodate all teams.

Tell me about it. I just looked at the tentative Nats schedule, and I'm hoping it really is "tentative" and gets switched around a lot, because currently my two events (Protein and Experimental) conflict for every single team number. Why does it always seem that when I have five events, none of them conflict, but when I only have two, they schedule them at the same time?

[paleonaps]

Yeah, that really sucks.