User:Hterrapin

Glaswegian who manages a lot of Glasgow lore and also likes insects a lot. The H is silent.

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2022-2023 Season

My first year competing :) I participated in Meteorology, A&P, and Forestry. Ended up slacking a little bit in Meteo, doing mediocre at best at A&P, and putting most effort into Forestry. Our coach also put me as an assistant in Wheeled Vehicle and, at one point, Storm the Castle, since for States and Nats I was only really competing in Forestry.

Event	BullSO	Boyceville	Texas A&M	BirdSO	Louisiana State	Nationals
Forestry	8th	1st	5th	5th	1st	13th
Anatomy & Physiology	20th	?*	2nd	35th	--	--
Meteorology	--	--	5th	93rd	--	--
Wheeled Vehicle	--	--	--	--	2nd	43rd
Storm the Castle	--	--	--	--	2nd	--

I was mediocre in BullSO. Not surprising, seeing as that was my first ever invitational.

For Boyceville we got "1st place exhibition" in forestry, whatever that means. Wisconsin is weird

TAMU was eventful for me because I would have fully expected to place in forestry (my favorite event by that point), but I ended up doing so in A&P. This was surprising because my cheatsheet was completely last-minute and I was also competing solo. Interestingly, after the award ceremony, the coach told me that the test-graders had made a mistake and I had actually gotten first, only for them to tell me the next morning that I was still in 2nd place. First place winner was Beckendorff.

We got a few points off of the BirdSO forestry test because of grading errors, but we ended up placing anyway. Watching the awards stream was very exciting :)

I found the state competition to be rather easy but this might have been due to the fact that I was only competing in forestry (though in addition, our coach had put me in Wheeled Vehicle and Storm the Castle as an assistant).

In contrast, I found the national competition quite overwhelming. This was kind of disappointing because Dea (forestry partner) had promised to face reveal if we placed, and we didn't. No face reveal this year :(

*i forgot