User:Kunsh

Kunsh attends Seven Lakes Junior High School.

Kunsh
General Information
Years in SO	1
Current Team	Seven Lakes Junior High School
Grade	8th
State	Texas
Division	B
Medals
Total medals	18
Invitational medals	12
Regional medals	2
State medals	4
National medals	0
Gold medals	9
Silver medals	4
Bronze medals	3
Competitor Info
Competitions attended	9
Regionals attended	1 (2024)
States attended	1 (2024)
Nationals attended	0
Social Media
Discord	kryptic_king

TXKunsh competes in Texas.

2023-2024 Season (8th Grade, Division B

Event	Dulles Invy	Georgia Scrimmage	Rickards Invy	UT Invy	Anthony Invy	BirdSO Satellite	UT Regional	Jordan Invy	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 a 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)

Only time will tell...