Re: Poorly Run Event Stories
Posted: May 6th, 2019, 8:11 am
*pikachu enters chat*
Good practice for ES: have a box for completed tests. Put the tests straight in the box, never carry them around without the box. Put nothing else in the box. Reduces the chance of "misfiling" someone's test.axolotl wrote:We get the test folder back and there's no test and we got DQed along with like 10 other teams just in herp. Seems they just lost a good stack of tests and pretended they didn't.
I think UGA went well... Although all I remember is Mousetrap, not much of Thermo, the awards, our team being under the stairs, and messing around outside, especially where one guy feel asleep on a wall... I've been working on it, but I don't remember what Unome looks like...Unome wrote:Georgia B Thermo is pretty good :Pjaggie34 wrote:Is thermo at every single competition except nationals and maybe Penn and MIT a viable option for a poorly run event story?
jaggie34 wrote: Is thermo at every single competition except nationals and maybe Penn and MIT a viable option for a poorly run event story?
Our Thermo performance at MO State in a nutshellMadCow2357 wrote: Just a few errors made by more well-prepared participants could mean the difference between medaling and bombing.
someone on our team wrote a test for ssss, then found the same questions on an invy test the year after -_- (wasn't an invy we went to though, just a test set we traded)primitive_polonium wrote:My friend was volunteering at Fossils for States, and noticed that the administered exam lifted questions from an exam she wrote for an invite a month prior.
When the proctor/supervisor was asked about it, their response was that they were "inspired".
I guess my team isn't alone in this experience.builderguy135 wrote:someone on our team wrote a test for ssss, then found the same questions on an invy test the year after -_- (wasn't an invy we went to though, just a test set we traded)primitive_polonium wrote:My friend was volunteering at Fossils for States, and noticed that the administered exam lifted questions from an exam she wrote for an invite a month prior.
When the proctor/supervisor was asked about it, their response was that they were "inspired".
It's a sadly common experience.blank25 wrote: I guess my team isn't alone in this experience.