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Results for UGA Invitational (Div C is as competitive as ever)

1. Chattahoochee A (76)
2. Northview A (77)
3. Parkview A (79)
4. Northview B (126)
5. Paideia (135)
6. Clinton (141)
7. East Coweta A (151)
8. Northgate A (152)
9. North Springs A (182)
10. Walton A (207)

No building events were held (6 of them).

I've been out of the loop for a while but it seems that the Regional/State Astronomy rules for Georgia no longer allow for the use of laptops. This harms the teams that actually prepare for the event (and nationals) for no good reason. What's going to happen is the teams that had significant information in a digital form will waste paper and money printing this out because whoever is in charge doesn't quite understand how this competition works. Does anyone know who is in charge of this?

lmatkovic3 wrote:I've been out of the loop for a while but it seems that the Regional/State Astronomy rules for Georgia no longer allow for the use of laptops. This harms the teams that actually prepare for the event (and nationals) for no good reason. What's going to happen is the teams that had significant information in a digital form will waste paper and money printing this out because whoever is in charge doesn't quite understand how this competition works. Does anyone know who is in charge of this?

Why they did it would be nice to know (as far as I know, the event doesn't require anything on the part of the proctor to run a laptop), but I'm more concerned with the fact that they did it about two weeks before the first Regional Tournament.

Regionals this weekend for me!

Unome wrote:

lmatkovic3 wrote:I've been out of the loop for a while but it seems that the Regional/State Astronomy rules for Georgia no longer allow for the use of laptops. This harms the teams that actually prepare for the event (and nationals) for no good reason. What's going to happen is the teams that had significant information in a digital form will waste paper and money printing this out because whoever is in charge doesn't quite understand how this competition works. Does anyone know who is in charge of this?

Why they did it would be nice to know (as far as I know, the event doesn't require anything on the part of the proctor to run a laptop), but I'm more concerned with the fact that they did it about two weeks before the first Regional Tournament.

Not only did the regional event supervisor for Astronomy not know about it, but when he was repeatedly asked if he was sure that laptops were allowed, he still said that they were. Granted, it's the same supervisor that has reused 80% of his test every year. Everyone ended up using laptops and when coaches were informed (and later, the state supervisor) the event was thrown out (medals were still given out but the event did not count towards the team scores.)

lmatkovic3 wrote:

Unome wrote:

lmatkovic3 wrote:I've been out of the loop for a while but it seems that the Regional/State Astronomy rules for Georgia no longer allow for the use of laptops. This harms the teams that actually prepare for the event (and nationals) for no good reason. What's going to happen is the teams that had significant information in a digital form will waste paper and money printing this out because whoever is in charge doesn't quite understand how this competition works. Does anyone know who is in charge of this?

Why they did it would be nice to know (as far as I know, the event doesn't require anything on the part of the proctor to run a laptop), but I'm more concerned with the fact that they did it about two weeks before the first Regional Tournament.

Not only did the regional event supervisor for Astronomy not know about it, but when he was repeatedly asked if he was sure that laptops were allowed, he still said that they were. Granted, it's the same supervisor that has reused 80% of his test every year. Everyone ended up using laptops and when coaches were informed (and later, the state supervisor) the event was thrown out (medals were still given out but the event did not count towards the team scores.)

Honestly, the only way Astronomy could be worse this year is if the proctors all go to Australia. Think about it: all those teams who had many kilobytes or even gigs of info on their laptops, and now they have to print it all out.

On a tangent, this would be a good question for Green Generation: how many trees are wasted in Astronomy per competition because Georgia thinks laptops promote cheating?

samlan16 wrote:

lmatkovic3 wrote:

Unome wrote: Why they did it would be nice to know (as far as I know, the event doesn't require anything on the part of the proctor to run a laptop), but I'm more concerned with the fact that they did it about two weeks before the first Regional Tournament.

Not only did the regional event supervisor for Astronomy not know about it, but when he was repeatedly asked if he was sure that laptops were allowed, he still said that they were. Granted, it's the same supervisor that has reused 80% of his test every year. Everyone ended up using laptops and when coaches were informed (and later, the state supervisor) the event was thrown out (medals were still given out but the event did not count towards the team scores.)

Honestly, the only way Astronomy could be worse this year is if the proctors all go to Australia. Think about it: all those teams who had many kilobytes or even gigs of info on their laptops, and now they have to print it all out.

On a tangent, this would be a good question for Green Generation: how many trees are wasted in Astronomy per competition because Georgia thinks laptops promote cheating?

Perhaps Fermi Questions?

samlan16 wrote:Honestly, the only way Astronomy could be worse this year is if the proctors all go to Australia. Think about it: all those teams who had many kilobytes or gigs of info on their laptops, and now they have to print it all out.

On a tangent, this would be a question for Green Generation: how many trees are wasted in Astronomy per competition because Georgia thinks laptops promote cheating?

An astronomical number ;D

Also, UNG Dahlonega Regional Results

1. Brookwood
2. Northview
3. Parkview
4. Walton

To the best of my knowledge, nothing unexpected.

UNG Gainesville Div B Results

EDIT: Typos

(<point score>--<# of fourths>/<# of thirds>/<# of seconds>/<# of firsts>)

1. Fulton Science Academy A (49--1/3/9/8) Qualified for State
2. Dodgen A (57--3/4/5/9) Qualified for State
3. Fulton Science Academy B (123--3/5/3/1)
4. Dodgen B (134--4/3/1/3)
5. Lakeside A (161--1/3/2/0) Qualified for State
6. Fulton Science Academy C (173--3/1/1/0)
7. Eagles Home Educators (180--1/0/0/1) Qualified for State
8. Stephens County (194--1/0/0/1) Qualified for State
9. Sweetwater (205--3/0/1/0)
10. Lakeside B (208--0/0/0/0)

Now that I think about it, I haven't gotten no firsts since Booth 2013 (and all of my second places this time were to Dodgen...)