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knightmoves wrote: ↑March 13th, 2020, 7:44 pm Several events this year (Chem Lab, for example) contain the rule "each participant may bring one sheet of paper" and the FAQs have clarified that this means that teams with two competitors get to bring two sheets, and small teams with only a single competitor only get one sheet of paper.

This seems gratuitously unfair to teams that don't have a full complement of 15 members, and so can't fill all the seats. How can you justify giving those teams access to less information? Why would you not just say "each team may bring two sheets"?

EwwPhysics wrote: ↑March 14th, 2020, 8:43 am I don't do any of those chemistry events which are almost completely lab based, but my guess is that they meant it to make it easier for partnerships to split up - do different aspects of the lab or have one person work on the test while the other does the lab(s). This could prevent them from having to run back and forth because they have to share the same cheat sheet. I'm curious if most teams have mostly the same or mostly different information on the cheat sheets for these events.

SilverBreeze wrote: ↑March 14th, 2020, 11:50 am I agree that two notesheets are easier so teams aren’t flipping back and forth, but I believe knightmoves was asking why not “each team may bring two sheets of paper “ instead so a one-person team is not further impaired by only being allowed one notesheet.

SilverBreeze wrote: ↑March 14th, 2020, 11:50 am I agree that two notesheets are easier so teams aren’t flipping back and forth, but I believe knightmoves was asking why not “each team may bring two sheets of paper “ instead so a one-person team is not further impaired by only being allowed one notesheet.

jimmy-bond wrote: ↑March 14th, 2020, 7:33 pm

SilverBreeze wrote: ↑March 14th, 2020, 11:50 am I agree that two notesheets are easier so teams aren’t flipping back and forth, but I believe knightmoves was asking why not “each team may bring two sheets of paper “ instead so a one-person team is not further impaired by only being allowed one notesheet.

Last year, my team did not know about this rule so we only had one sheet for forensics. We did not feel confined for space, but obviously more competitive teams will include more information on their sheets. It's definitely not impossible to cram everything for chem lab or protein onto one sheet, just sometimes very difficult.

SilverBreeze wrote: ↑March 14th, 2020, 7:44 pm Eh, true, but define "everything." You can always copy and paste in random information you probably won't use.

knightmoves wrote: ↑March 14th, 2020, 3:51 pm

SilverBreeze wrote: ↑March 14th, 2020, 11:50 am I agree that two notesheets are easier so teams aren’t flipping back and forth, but I believe knightmoves was asking why not “each team may bring two sheets of paper “ instead so a one-person team is not further impaired by only being allowed one FaceTime notesheet.

Yes, that's the question. My experience is that everyone does what jimmy-bond suggests, and has almost completely or completely disjoint resource sheets, so the team has twice the information going in.