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Texas Science Olympiad 2018-2019

Coaches' Clinic
Texas A&M @ College Station
November 17, 2018
Clinic Website

Invitational Tournaments
Clements: October 20, 2018 (C)
UT Austin: October 27, 2018 (B/C)
CyFalls: November 10, 2018 (B/C)
Seven Lakes: December 8, 2018 (C)
Harmony Science Ft Worth: December 8, 2018 (B)
Rice University: January 12, 2019 (C)
Langham Creek: January 19, 2019 (C)
Anthony:January 26, 2019 (B)
Hendrickson: February 2, 2019 (C)

Regional Tournaments
Tarleton State University, Stephenville: February 23, 2019
University of Texas@Austin: February 23, 2019
Rio Grande Valley at South Texas College: February 23, 2019
LoneStar College: March 02, 2019
Texas A&M@San Antonio: March 02, 2019
Texas A&M@Corpus Christi: March 02, 2019
Tarrant County College: March 02, 2019
Beckendorff Junior High: March 23, 2019

State Tournament
Texas A&M @ College Station
May 3-4, 2019
State Website

UT Invitational Results:

Division B
1. Beckendorff Junior High
2. Kraemer Middle School
3. Kealing Middle School

Division C
1. Seven Lakes High School
2. Clements High School
3. LASA

Full Results
Division B
Division C

Justin72835 wrote:UT Invitational Results:

Division B
1. Beckendorff Junior High
2. Kraemer Middle School
3. Kealing Middle School

Division C
1. Seven Lakes High School
2. Clements High School
3. LASA

Full Results
Division B
Division C

1. Seven Lakes B (82)
2. Clements A (111)
3. Seven Lakes A (125)
4. LASA A (129)

This is really impressive for 7L, considering they seemed to be mostly unstacked (the difference between their A and B teams is largely due to a bizarre 26th place for Fermi by their A team, and their A team actually had more golds [5] than their B team [4]).

By manually stacking, I got a score of 53 for 7L (I put 0s on Wifi Lab and WGYN, which both A and B 0'd; and Science Word, which just B 0'd; but not WIDI, which just A 0'd, because their WIDI score [2] was better than their Science Word score [6]).

For Clements I got 71 using this method (again 0ing the two events both A and B 0'd as well as the worse of the two events 0'd by only one of the teams [WIDI B, 9th] while keeping the better of the two [Astronomy A, 2nd]).

LASA got a score of 108 using this method. LASA A and B 0'd the same events.

Of course, "manual stacking" is idealistic and teams can never be perfectly stacked while keeping the same number of members. Typically manually stacking skews in favor of schools with a high level of variability in their event scores within one team. It also tends to skew towards better-performing teams.

Alex-RCHS wrote: 1. Seven Lakes B (82)
2. Clements A (111)
3. Seven Lakes A (125)
4. LASA A (129)

This is really impressive for 7L, considering they seemed to be mostly unstacked (the difference between their A and B teams is largely due to a bizarre 26th place for Fermi by their A team, and their A team actually had more golds [5] than their B team [4]).

UT gave us a no show for fermi for some reason. This happened to us at regionals last year too and they fixed the results pretty quickly, hopefully they do the same now.

Cyfalls Invitational Results:

Division B
1. Beckendorff Junior High
2. Kealing Middle School
3. Woodcreek Junior High
4. Tays Junior High

Division C
1. Seven Lakes High School
2. Bayard Rustin High School
3. Tompkins High School
4. Clements High School

The spreadsheets for the results aren't out yet, but when they get released they can be found here.

Seven Lakes Invitational Results

1. Tompkins
2. Stephen F. Austin
3. LASA

Full results can be viewed at https://app.avogadro.ws/invitational/se ... -school-c/.

birdylayaduck08 wrote:Seven Lakes Invitational Results

1. Tompkins
2. Stephen F. Austin
3. LASA

Full results can be viewed at https://app.avogadro.ws/invitational/se ... -school-c/.

How did LASA and Clements do so poorly compared to how they usually do at invitationals?

kate! wrote:

birdylayaduck08 wrote:Seven Lakes Invitational Results

1. Tompkins
2. Stephen F. Austin
3. LASA

Full results can be viewed at https://app.avogadro.ws/invitational/se ... -school-c/.

How did LASA and Clements do so poorly compared to how they usually do at invitationals?

The top 3 Texas teams (but especially LASA and Clements) often have underclassmen teams and such at in-state invitationals.

kate! wrote:How did LASA and Clements do so poorly compared to how they usually do at invitationals?

LASA never brings its "A team" to invitationals (why they do so much better at State/Regional than at invites), and this invite was the day of UIL Region Orchestra (big statewide orchestra organization), so they were probably missing a lot of people.

Rice University Invitational

1. Seven Lakes A (74)
2. Seven Lakes B (148)
3. LASA (155)
4. AAH (196)
5. Stephen F Austin A (253)
6. Stephen F Austin B (261)

Full results here: https://app.avogadro.ws/invitational/rice-university-c/

Impressive that LASA managed to do so well with their main team going to MIT.