Assigning Events

[jinc0930]

Hi there!

This year our Science Olympiad team has grow exponentially and we are dealing with approximately 35 members on the club. This has caused issues with assigning events and deciding who goes to which invitation (we are only sending one team considering affordability and other factors). Everyone held different opinions and we are wondering how other teams deal with this situation in a fair manner.

[NSCDS3RdCaptain]

I don't have a response to the invitationals question, but my team always makes people sign up for 3 events minimum. There were always 22 ish partner events and 1 team of 3 events (ish) in Div. B. Divided among 15 varsity members, this means that each person has to do 3-4 events. We have a website where students can pick their events based on competition block, practice days, and our 2 academic events for every build event policy. We try to have everybody compete at least once in every event (some invites don't hold to the 15 varsity member limit and let members switch between JV and Varsity). We pick the final team before regionals based on needing every event filled with the 15 most capable all-around people. To this end, if you are great at one event and are pretty bad at the others, you don't make the team.

[jinc0930]

I don't have a response to the invitationals question, but my team always makes people sign up for 3 events minimum. There were always 22 ish partner events and 1 team of 3 events (ish) in Div. B. Divided among 15 varsity members, this means that each person has to do 3-4 events. We have a website where students can pick their events based on competition block, practice days, and our 2 academic events for every build event policy. We try to have everybody compete at least once in every event (some invites don't hold to the 15 varsity member limit and let members switch between JV and Varsity). We pick the final team before regionals based on needing every event filled with the 15 most capable all-around people. To this end, if you are great at one event and are pretty bad at the others, you don't make the team.

What was considered when dividing Varsity and JV?

[NSCDS3RdCaptain]

Which events you are doing, competence in events. We need to cover all the events with 15 people, so it is easier to get on Varsity if you do some events rather than others.