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Virginia 2017
Posted: February 16th, 2017, 6:46 pm
by Unome
So I noticed TJHSST destroyed their regional (1st, 2nd, and 4th versus defending state champion at 3rd, 7th, and 8th). Thoughts on the possibility of them qualifying for nationals?
Re: Virginia 2017
Posted: February 16th, 2017, 7:55 pm
by Private Wang Fire
Unome wrote:So I noticed TJHSST destroyed their regional (1st, 2nd, and 4th versus defending state champion at 3rd, 7th, and 8th). Thoughts on the possibility of them qualifying for nationals?
TJ is nuts. I'd guess that SciOly isn't that big at their school compared to invdividual olympiads or academic research, but I think if they got really serious about it I wouldn't put it past them to not only make nats but have some ridiculous showing and outperform all past Virginia teams at nats (including themselves, I guess).
Re: Virginia 2017
Posted: February 25th, 2017, 1:17 pm
by science_nerd_foreves
Unome wrote:So I noticed TJHSST destroyed their regional (1st, 2nd, and 4th versus defending state champion at 3rd, 7th, and 8th). Thoughts on the possibility of them qualifying for nationals?
I was at this regional. The state director gave a speech about a recent death (less than two weeks prior if I remember correctly) at that team's school. The kid was on their team and had gone to nationals 3 times.
Re: Virginia 2017
Posted: March 23rd, 2017, 4:30 am
by dragonfruit35
science_nerd_foreves wrote:Unome wrote:So I noticed TJHSST destroyed their regional (1st, 2nd, and 4th versus defending state champion at 3rd, 7th, and 8th). Thoughts on the possibility of them qualifying for nationals?
I was at this regional. The state director gave a speech about a recent death (less than two weeks prior if I remember correctly) at that team's school. The kid was on their team and had gone to nationals 3 times.
That is, the defending champion's team. Although many of my teammates did know him.
At any rate, I do think we have a *chance*. I'm not entirely sure how well we'll do if only because there was A LOT of roster reshuffling (I ended up doing trials).
Re: Virginia 2017
Posted: March 23rd, 2017, 4:33 am
by dragonfruit35
Private Wang Fire wrote:Unome wrote:So I noticed TJHSST destroyed their regional (1st, 2nd, and 4th versus defending state champion at 3rd, 7th, and 8th). Thoughts on the possibility of them qualifying for nationals?
TJ is nuts. I'd guess that SciOly isn't that big at their school compared to invdividual olympiads or academic research, but I think if they got really serious about it I wouldn't put it past them to not only make nats but have some ridiculous showing and outperform all past Virginia teams at nats (including themselves, I guess).
Apparently I can't edit my posts anymore, so I'm sorry to double post, but this is so spot on
that's actually almost exactly what the coaches told us
Re: Virginia 2017
Posted: March 26th, 2017, 9:16 pm
by markuswso17
What do you guys think of fairfax taking first this year? Did anybody even see it coming? How do you think it happened?
Re: Virginia 2017
Posted: March 27th, 2017, 5:14 am
by Magikarpmaster629
markuswso17 wrote:What do you guys think of fairfax taking first this year? Did anybody even see it coming? How do you think it happened?
That's definitely an upset, but it hasn't been posted on here until now. Do you have the scoresheet? Can you post top 3-5 teams and scores?
Re: Virginia 2017
Posted: March 27th, 2017, 5:26 am
by Adi1008
Magikarpmaster629 wrote:markuswso17 wrote:What do you guys think of fairfax taking first this year? Did anybody even see it coming? How do you think it happened?
That's definitely an upset, but it hasn't been posted on here until now. Do you have the scoresheet? Can you post top 3-5 teams and scores?
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