2010 National Tournament: University of Illinois

[starpug]

One thing i was thinking about was why do build its like trajectory, mission, it's about time, etc experience the following phenomenon?:

Schools like Centerville dont do so well, but other schools that aren't so well known and do as well as a team finish first. Not to discriminate...but what the heck?

Well building events tend to be more unpredictable. An accident here or there or a lucky thing here or there can really shake things up. Non-building events are less susceptible to that kind of stuff I guess.

You can say that again

[redreading249]

Did anyone find the Division B Write It Do It structure really difficult?

[sk8lynne]

Congrats Gelinas Scio!!!!!
and Ward Melville!

[smartkid222]

Blah, so close to a medal in Compute This(11th sob). Does anyone else think the Road Scholar test was epic hard?

Top 6 were medals?

[paleonaps]

This happened because they forgot Picture This and wrote Trial-Helicopter twice. The overall results are still correct, just that the events listed after P are a little screwed up. This mistake made results for Trajectory turn into results for WIDI and WIDI turn into Helicopter...etc.

oh i think i see.
how come on the div B sheet some teams got (-) and some got 61 (No Show)?

I have no idea what that means, but about the keynote speaker, he was pretty good. I fell asleep though...... I was really tired.
He was funny for what I saw.

[Phenylethylamine]

I think most of my team fell asleep during the keynote speaker's talk- not because he was boring, but because we didn't really sleep the night before xD. Ward Melville got 14th overall, but we had a lot of fun .

Anyway, much congratulations to Gelinas on their 3rd place finish (huge margin, too- 102 between 3rd and 4th, while only 7 between 2nd and 3rd)!

[dvd]

Did anyone find the Division B Write It Do It structure really difficult?

Yeah, I did. We didn't do that well...

[masterhat]

What did people think about the division C chemistry lab test and labs?

[masterhat]

also, does anyone know when they post the pictures on the website? I thought that they were taking pictures of the winners but I had no idea where the cameras were.

[starpug]

What did people think about the division C chemistry lab test and labs?

I'm unsure our precipitate lab worked right, it went from white to white to yellow.