User:KrypticKing10

?KrypticKing10 attends Jordan High School.

KrypticKing10
General Information
Years in SO	2
Current Team	Jordan High School
Grade	9th
State	Texas
Division	C
Medals
Total medals	47
Invitational medals	12
Regional medals	2
State medals	6
National medals	0
Gold medals	10
Silver medals	4
Bronze medals	3
Competitor Info
Competitions attended	13
Regionals attended	2 (2024, 2025)
States attended	2 (2024, 2025)
Nationals attended	0
Social Media
Discord	krypticking10

TXKrypticKing10 competes in Texas.

2023-2024 Season (8th Grade, Division B)

Event	Dulles	Georgia	Rickards	UT	Anthony	BirdSO	UT Regional	Jordan	TX State
Codebusters	14th		-	-	2nd	12th	1st	5th	1st
Dynamic Planet	3rd	-	12th	10th	2nd	30th	4th	7th	2nd
GeoGuessr*	-	-	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-
Road Scholar	6th	13th	1st	1st	1st	3rd	1st	1st	3rd
WGYN*	-	-	-	1st	1st	-	-	-	2nd
Team Placement	5th		16th	5th	2nd	10th	3rd	5th	4th

Competition Reflections, 2023-2024 Season

Dulles:

This was my first competition of my Scioly career and I clearly wasn't prepared. Originally, I was assigned WGYN along with the other 3 events I did, however, due to event conflicts I couldn't do WGYN. WGYN had been one of my events that I was interested in since I joined my school's Scioly. My friend, on the other team, compared binders for Dynamic Planet, and I was kinda concerned. His binder was about 100 pages long and mine was just 30. During the DP test, after 40 minutes have elapsed I realize pretty much all of the answers were on the Wiki page, which thankfully I printed the day before. I got lucky with DP, but I wasn't confident about it. Although I medaled in DP, it was actually due to a fluke. The other team guy who did DP didn't get half of his test scored, which resulted in him getting 12th place. He got the same points as me when we compared the graded tests, if not more. For Codebusters honestly I wasn't prepared, and neither were my partners. We ended up solving about 2 ciphers per person. I really wasn't expecting anything in this event. However, for Road Scholar I was confident. Most of the kids in my block didn't even have binders, and we were quite prepared. I was really hoping to medal in this event. However, due to the map quality being terrible and neither of us knowing how to draw a map, we missed a lot of points and weren't able to place. Overall, I realized how difficult Scioly was and my work habits needed to change.

Georgia Scrimmage:

This was my second competition, and it was just about a week after Dulles. Not much had changed, other than the fact that I had different partners for my events and that I was elected captain of the team. I didn't choose to appoint a co-captain (which I regretted later on). Anyways, back to the competition, I didn't get DP because my coach wanted to switch up the events so each person did the events they were interested in at least once. I also did Fast Facts, which didn't go too great, and I don't want to talk about my horrendous Code placing. Road was the only event I did decent in, and I decided for the next tourney to drop Fast Facts and Codebusters.

Rickards:

This was one of my favorite tournaments of the year (which isn't saying much but still). I was paired up with the literal Scholar of the Road (Robert). I originally was signed up for WGYN but I didn't get it because the alternates had first pick for the trials. However, none of the alternates chose GeoGuessr. I played GeoGuessr in class a lot last year and when it came out on the Rickards event slate, I decided on doing it. Also, I got DP again with the same partner as Dulles. We did decent on the Road test, got lucky on the GeoGuessr test (we were one second away from being DQ'ed, my partner didn't know that zoom counted as Out of Browser time). And for DP, let's just say it didn't go too well... When the awards ceremony came for Rickards, I was pumped up. Our team was doing great, and when DP came I was so surprised that I medaled even though the test went terrible. Honestly I thought we had gotten DQ'ed for GeoGuessr so I was surprised when we were 4th. When the time for Road Scholar came, I was really nervous. One by one they kept clicking though awards and I didn't see our school, and by the time they got to 5th I lost hope. But then, when they called 1st, IT WAS US! As a team we did pretty good, 9th superscored.

ATX:

This was my first tournament outside of the Greater Houston area, and I had a blast! The bus ride was really fun both ways, and no major goofy shenanigans happened in our hotel room (other than me not figuring out how to turn on the hot water). The UT Campus was huge (I may or may not have gotten lost twice), and we were located on the 14th floor or something so it took a long time to get from place to place. For this tournament, I finally got WGYN and was able to compete in it. The DP test was a nightmare and we completely bombed it (even with our 600 page binder!). Road I felt was too easy, and WGYN I thought we got beat by the other team (the guy doing it on the other team said he got 150). Fast forward a few hours and it's awards. They're calling DP. Even though we bombed the test, my partner is confident in a medal. They call top 5, we're not on there. Fast forward a few more events and we're onto Road Scholar. They're clicking from 5th to 2nd, and WE'RE FIRST AGAIN! Then it's WGYN. Since we got a less score than the other team, according to the guy on the team, I'm not really expecting much. But, SLJH Blue got 5th and we got 1st!! However, I felt bad because I believed him when he said he got 150, and we didn't get anything close to that amount. I thought there had probably been a mistake in the team names, so the other team deserved it, not us. So, first thing Monday I go and check the answers and he didn't get 150, he got a lower score than us. I breathed a sign of relief as to know that I had legit won the medal I got. I was proud of myself, but it wasn't enough. I was really disappointed in DP, as 10th wasn't acceptable. I needed to lock in.

Anthony:

This was our tournament after Winter Break and the first time this year that we were stacked, so we had a ton of time to study. I got a new partner for DP again, as my partner for UT conflicted events and my partner for Dulles and Rickards was on B team. However, I was thrown on Codebusters. Our team had placed 1st at UT for Codebusters, but one of the guys had resigned from the team. I was the only one on A team who had experience with it. So, I learned a few ciphers. My partners had more experience than me and were very helpful in guiding me through the steps to learn and practice Codebusters. For WGYN, my partner had moved down to B team so we had a test-off. Ahdav won the test-off and was my partner. We worked together well. However, as time came closer to the date of the tournament, Beckendorff dropped out. So, the tournament was left with 3-5 unproctored events (I forgot how many). Two of those events were mine and I was devastated by the news. So, I reached out to other captains and we got tests written for all of the events. But the test quality wasn't the best for some of the events. They forgot to specify misspellings for Codebusters, made an impossible cipher that I spent 15 minutes on, etc. However, my placings were great. 1st Road Scholar and WGYN, 2nd Codebusters and Dynamic Planet. This was my first medal in Codebusters and another medal in DP after two months of work. I officially moved up to top 3 on team rankings.

BirdSO:

We were told that BirdSO tests were notoriously hard, but the DP test hit me like an 18 wheeler (just like the test at UT). We completely bombed it. Robert said for Road Scholar the test is usually really hard, and he was right. He expected us to get somewhere around 8th place, but we got lucky (beating Borf by just one point!) and got 3rd place. Not our best test, but not our worst one either. For Codebusters, we had competition. Back in Texas the competition wasn't that high for Code, but at BirdSO we saw the competition. Kennedy, Sierra Vista, and all the other national-level teams who were cracked at Codebusters were coming. My partner for Code said that she got 12th at BirdSO last year, and guess what? We got the same placing. DP placing let's not talk about. Anyways, for a nation-wide tournament this large, 9th overall as a team is pretty solid (we managed to beat BCP this time)

ATX Regionals:

Last year we went to the Lone Star Regional and our coach didn't really like that one so we decided to go to the hardest regional in Texas: The UT Regional. I wanted to go to UT because it was a campus I was familiar with (from the invitational). Also, thankfully all the testing rooms weren't too far apart. However, due to space complications, the tournament had to drop all the trial events and Flight. WGYN got dropped, and Regionals was supposed to be the last time I did it at a tournament before States. In addition, our team was good at a lot of the trials, so it kinda hurt our placings. But it was fun (except from when I had to skip lunch). The day of Regionals was also my birthday and my teammates really made it feel special (they sang me happy birthday when I medaled in something). We did decent in DP (after a long time) but we missed a few FRQs. Road Scholar was easy (Robert said that Borf was gonna beat us if we missed a single question). We cooked in code (shoutout to Terry for doing 7 ciphers), but we got beat by Borf A and B in DP (1 place away from medal). Ngl as a team we improved so much from regionals and it gave us hope for state.

Jordan:

This was the last tournament before state, some of my friends at Jordan already told me they were considering hosting a tournament. Being close to Jordan, I really wanted to go, but then I realize it's satellite, not in person. Anyways, I still wanted to support the school that I'm going to next year. Also, for this tournament we made a C team for those who wanted to try Scioly in high school. I messed up on the distance questions on DP. Road went smooth and for Code we missed a K2 worth 500 (in our defense, it was only labeled as 50, the key was 450). At the end of the day we got 5th overall, which was decent but you gotta consider we NS'ed Wind Power and WIDI (added 80 points to total score). We could have probably gotten 4th place but it doesn't really matter because JSO was just for practice

State:

This was most of our first state tournament, and we were inexperienced. We'd been aiming for Nationals this year, and we thought we had a fair chance. I expected to get top 2 in all of my events. We were preparing for state for the past two months. Friday was packed with fun and studying, but Saturday was stressful (I skipped lunch due to nervousness). I accidentally skipped about half a page on road (I completely forgot about, that's my bad). Terry wasn't there when Code was about to start, but just as the timer was about to start, he came running into the room. The DP proctor didn't let us have rules in binders for some reason, but it was good that I threw them away before. We thought we were gonna get 2nd or 3rd overall with Beckendorff being first, but results surprised us. BCP got 1st and we got 4th. After awards, we stopped at Buc-ee's to drink away the pain.

2024-2025 Season (9th Grade, Division B)

Event	Highlands	ATX	Dulles	Rickards	Mason	Rustin	Horace	Anthony	A&M	JordanSO	Regionals	TX State
Codebusters	5th	5th*	8th	4th	3rd	7th	11th	3rd	1st	1st	1st	1st
Dynamic Planet	7th	-*	-	5th	6th	9th	10th	1st	3rd	7th	2nd	2nd
GeoGuessr*	-	-		4th	-	-	-		-		-	-
Metric Mastery	5th	DR		11th	31st	37th	-	-	-	-	-	-
Potions & Poisons								3rd	7th	6th	3rd	-
Road Scholar	8th	5th	5th	3rd	6th	6th	3rd	1st	2nd	5th	1st	5th
WGYN*	-	1st	-	-	-	-	-	3rd				5th
Team Placement	2nd	4th	1st	5th	3rd	4th	3rd	1st	1st	1st	1st	4th

*= event conflict

Competition Reflections, 2023-2024 Season

Highlands:

This was the first competition of the season, and we were hyped! DP seemed quite boring, however, I grudged through it (thanks Xenodermus for carrying). Code I had new partners but the same ciphers. They were adjusting to the new event (and so was I; it's so inconvenient to solve ciphers online). The school chromebooks didn't even load a topographic map for RS (about 30 percent of the whole test; never using school computers again). I was new to Metric Mastery (last minute signup for testoff because I only had 3 events came in clutch). It was pretty easy actually, but I missed some easy questions on my part. Overall, Metric wasn't bad. Results came out through livestream the same day as UT. After UT awards, a lot of our team was about to crash out, but Highlands made them want to stay. We haven't done this well in an online tournament before. We felt motivated again.

ATX:

This year, the UT invite was early (which it usually is, it was just late last year). For codebusters, our main code guy had a conflict so we just threw in another (he barely had any clue what he was doing, bro solved 1 atbash and that was it). However, I performed well on my behalf. I got about 7-8 ciphers and we got the timed question in about 3 minutes. For an almost 2 person event, that wasn't bad. DP conflicted with WGYN so I chose WGYN instead because I felt like I could do better in that event (and I believe I did). Metric was so different than Highlands, and the answers had to be so precise or NO credit, and they weren't straightforward. I screwed up on some conversions because we didn't have enough time (the numbers were big). For Road, the test quality deteriorated. The maps were on a giant, massive piece of paper in the previous years, but this year they literally put a map scan; not even the full topographic map. I had to focus on RS a little bit more. For WGYN, our teams swept the competition. We got 1st and B team got 2nd. I fell asleep for 20 minutes during the competition because I literally ran out of numbers to make. As a team, we tried our best, but we found out that our competition is very advanced. We were nowhere close to Beckendorff and Sierra Vista, and the only reason we beat Kennedy was because they didn't bring their top team (even their lower teams beat us in many events). However, we weren't too far off from Basis Cedar Park, giving me hope that we can actually top their crown at State. After UT, I decided to be stricter on the team - we had to lock in.

Dulles:

This one was cheap, so we decided to sign up for it. However, the tests were not of decent standards (apparently they used last year's meteorology topic). Road Scholar only had 34 questions, and Code was only 18. Additionally, they made us wait 5 extra days for awards. But awards surprised us - we got 1st and 4th overall, again giving me hope. I only had 2 events, because Metric wasn't ran. Despite the test quality suffering, we still did our best and I guess is something, better than nothing. I didn't do Dynamic Planet for this tournament because I wanted to give other prospects a chance at the event, as it was really popular, especially in testoffs.

Rickards:

This year, I felt like I did much better on Rickards than last year. The test quality remained good, but I did so much better overall. I did Geoguessr again, with the same guy, and we did well. I always had an interest in geography, and he had an interest in vexillology. In Codebusters, that wasn't my best test, but I still think we did decent. On Dynamic Planet, despite knowing about 30% of the material (I learned the rest of the material later because I just picked up the event; I wasn't even planning to do it), I answered about half of the test. My partner was excellent. On Metric Mastery, our estimations were really precise. I thought my partner and I were better at length estimations than weight, and we were right (which also meant that we were cooked for an in person tournament). I wish WGYN would run again this year at Rickards, I love the event, but I hate the grading, so I understand why it wasn't ran. For Road Scholar, we did horrible (I taught my partner how to make a topographic profile during the actual test), but we only lost to Beckendorff by 0.16 points. Overall, the tournament lifted spirits - we jumped up about 10 places from last year.

Mason:

We planned to go to this tournament just a month or two before the actual tournament. However, I think that was a good decision. It woke people up and people needed that push in order for them to lock in. Medals were only top 6, and not even half of our events brought a medal (31st in metric 💀 - I fumbled the measuring section, 65/225 raw score). For Codebusters, we were only 100 points away from 2nd place, but that gave me hope. We were actually on par with the other big teams. And for Road and Dynamic Planet, the tests were decent, and we did decent as well. Overall, we got 3rd, beating big teams like Solon and Basis Cedar Park. But, I had to focus - the next semester would be even tougher. There was a still long way to go - 5 more months before State. UPDATE: There were appeals and we moved down to 4th.

Rustin:

I originally didn't want to do this tournament, however, our coach accidentally signed us up so I was left with no option. And my intuition was right, the test quality was not up to par. The tests were extremely short, especially the test for Dynamic Planet. On Road Scholar, we weren't able to look at the map well because the map quality was pixelated and we didn't have a key for one of the maps. Additionally, the point values were inflated (100 points per question instead of 1). For Metric Mastery, they detailed everything that was to be used in the coach's event modifications, and we didn't have everything that we could use for height/length/width estimation, so our coaches tried their best in order to find something of the best resemblance. And lastly, for codebusters, I didn't do too bad but I felt like our work distribution wasn't efficient, as we didn't get much done.

Horace Greeley:

I took all my tests for this tournament at Anthony Invite because I didn't have time to come to school and actually do the tests (my schedule was packed). The events went decent. The tournament directors did a good job advertising (they got quite a lot of signups). If the some of ciphers actually saved for Code then we would've placed much higher. DP could have went better as well.

Anthony:

We were the last team to sign up for this invitational. We saw how it was run last year, and decided that we wouldn't do it this year. However, I believed that we didn't have much in person tournament experience and that we should do another just for practice. The tests weren't as bad as last year but they were still not up to par. Nonetheless, we still gained valuable experience. I could've done better in WGYN but I had to go do Dynamic Planet (yes, I left WGYN 20 minutes early so I could get time), and all the other events went well. I actually picked up Potions and Poisons as well because I won the testoff. I didn't like the event though - the lab screwed us over. Road and Code also went well.

TAMU:

Last year we didn't do this invitational and I believed that it might've set us back. I felt that way because I believed that it would be a preview of state (this was not the case though). The invitational was actually run pretty well. We got first overall, even beating BCP. However, there was still a long way to go. For my events, Code went really good because we got the bonuses. Road went okay but we missed 1 question (which brought us down a place). I wasn't able to do WGYN for this tournament. We did okay on DP (the test was pretty random and mostly out of the rules), and there was NO partial credit, so we only got 3rd. On Potions, the test was divided into 2 sections: the test and the lab. We got -12 points on the lab (apparently it was a cleanup penalty but we didn't even do anything wrong). I was honestly scared about what would happen at state but I felt like it was recoverable. It's not like I had a choice anyway. Some of the events were in horrible condition and we had no other option but to drop them. So I had to lock in for Potions.

Jordan:

The tests were well written for this competition. I couldn't see the features on the maps for Road, so that cost me lots of time and lots of points. For DP, it was calculation heavy and we weren't really good with them.

Rice (Regional):

State: