User:HugoTroop

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The 2019-2020 Season is HugoTroop's 5th total year participating in Science Olympiad. He first competed for Leawood Middle School (Kansas, Division B) in the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 seasons. He quit Science Olympiad in 8th grade for reasons unknown to even himself. He rejoined in 2017-2018 as a part of Blue Valley North High School (Kansas, Division C). He is currently a captain of the BVN Science Olympiad team.

As of now, he has been to Nationals 3 times: University of Nebraska, Colorado State University, and Cornell University. He earned his first (and only) Nationals medal in Dynamic Planet at the latter.

Dynamic Planet (Glaciers) is, without a doubt, his all-time favorite event, and not just because he medaled at Nationals. He is very sad to see it go next year after all the love and time he devoted to it.

In middle school, he did a very poor job of keeping track of his medals and ribbons, leading to several gaps in the record and a slightly deflated tally.

Quick Bio
Outside of Science Olympiad, HugoTroop has a number of hobbies. He enjoys playing violin and developed strong affinity for classical music. He enjoys sports as a whole, having tried many, leaving snowsports (skiing & snowboarding) and long-distance running as his favorites. He also enjoys drawing and sketching, although he isn't very good at it. Above all (perhaps even above SciOly), he loves WWII history.

Another 'hobby' of his is making spreadsheets. For no apparent reason, he really, really likes making spreadsheets and compiling data.

Random lists and favorites

Music Recommendation List (in no particular order)


 * Vasiliy Kalinnikov - Symphony No. 1 in G Minor
 * Vasiliy Kalinnikov - Symphony No. 2 in A Major
 * John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
 * Don McLean - American Pie
 * Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World"
 * twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
 * twenty one pilots - Heathens
 * Dmitri Shostakovich - Suite for Variety Orchestra, Waltz 2
 * Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake
 * Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 2 in C Minor "Little Russian"
 * Pyotr Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker
 * Pyotr Tchaikovsky - The Year 1812 Solemn Overture
 * Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave
 * Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody, Ballad Section (Mama, just killed a man)
 * Pavel Gorinshtejn - The Red Army is the Strongest
 * Matvey Blanter - Katyusha
 * Pokrass brothers - March of the Soviet Tankmen
 * Yuliya Hite, Paul Herman - March of the Pilots
 * German Folk Song - Westerwaldlied
 * German Military March - Panzerlied
 * Ottorino Respighi - Pines of Rome
 * Ottorino Respighi - Fountains of Rome
 * Ottorino Respighi - Roman Festivals

Languages (in no particular order)


 * English - Native Speaker
 * French - School
 * Spanish - Just happens to know some random words
 * German - Mostly WWII-specific vocabulary, numbers
 * Russian - Mostly WWII-specific vocabulary, numbers
 * Japanese - Mostly WWII-specific vocabulary, numbers
 * Italian - Mostly WWII-specific vocabulary
 * Chinese - Second Language, semi-fluent but effectively illiterate
 * Hungarian - Numbers, one or two basic words

Good or at least decent WWII films


 * Saving Private Ryan
 * Tora! Tora! Tora!
 * Fury (although unrealistic I still enjoyed it)
 * The Thin Red Line (both 1964 and 1988)
 * Dunkirk
 * Unbroken
 * Downfall
 * Schindler's List
 * Das Boot
 * A Bridge Too Far
 * Darkest Hour
 * Hacksaw Ridge
 * Panfilov's 28 Men
 * Battle for Sevastopol (although dramatized and fictionalized, it still tells a good story)
 * Letters from Iwo Jima
 * Flags of our Fathers
 * The Dawns Here are Quiet

Bad WWII films


 * Pearl Harbor - American propaganda film
 * Enemy at the Gates - The "documentary" cited by all Wehraboos (fans/fanatics of German technology)
 * Red Tails - Unrealistic and inaccurate
 * The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - The storyline is honestly a bit dumb in my opinion
 * T-34 - Unrealistic

Favorite Tanks by Visual Appearance

1 - Pz.Kpfw. Panther Ausf. G, early production

2 - T-34-85 Model 1945

3 - Heavy Tank M26 'Pershing'

4 - T-34 Model 1943

5 - Medium Tank M4A3 (76) W 'Sherman'

Favorite Warplanes by Visual Appearance

1 - Lavochkin La-7

2 - Petlyakov Pe-2 'Peshka'

3 - Bell P-63 'Kingcobra'

4 - Focke-Wulf Ta 154 'Moskito'

Random Statistics

Cousins: 3

Model Tanks built: 2

Model Aircraft built: 0.5

Phones ever owned: 2

Age: yes

Tank lists made: over 140

Hours spent playing War Thunder: too many

Hours spent studying for SciOly: not enough

Hours spent studying WWII history and technology: yes

Additions to the Dynamic Planet Glaciers page: 70,323 bytes (3.36 times the original size of the page)

Calculators owned: 2

Online arguments won: 2, 5 including technicalities

Online arguments lost: 1, 9 including technicalities

Online arguments stalemated/resolved: 4

Friends: perhaps

Times glued to bridges and gliders: 17+

Gliders lost in combat accidents: 1

Gliders lost in combat crashes: 8

Gliders lost in non-combat incidents: 3

Gliders remaining: 3

Gliders built post-war: 2

Bridges collapsed: 2

Bridges destroyed by other factors: 4

Bridges intact: 2

Times fingers have been cut open while handling blades: far too many

Potentially severely injuring or fatal incidents involved in: also far too many

Unlabeled Awards
There are a number of medals and ribbons that do not have enough (or any) information written on them to the point that they cannot be properly attributed to an event, competition, year, or rank:


 * 1st Place, Event Unknown, Grade Unknown, Kansas State (This may be the team 1st place medal)
 * 2nd Place, Crave the Wave, Grade Unknown, Pembroke Hill Invitational
 * 3rd Place, Crave the Wave, 6th Grade, Competition Unknown (Invitational)
 * 4th Place, Scrambler, 7th Grade, Competition Unknown (Invitational)
 * 4th Place, Bridge Building, 6th Grade, Competition Unknown (Invitational)
 * 4-6th Place, Bridge Building, 7th Grade, NE KS Regionals (Listed as CC)
 * 4-6th Place, Wheeled Vehicle, 6th Grade, NE KS Regionals (Listed as CC)
 * 5th Place, Event Unknown, Grade Unknown, Competition Unknown (Invitational)
 * 5th Place, Wind Power, 7th Grade, Competition Unknown (Invitational)

History
Key

2014-2015 (6th Grade)
The 2014-2015 Season was the first of Science Olympiad for HugoTroop. In all honesty, he had no idea what he was doing going into the Pembroke Hill Invitational in December 2014. He was ridiculously clueless and made an unbelievable amount of brainless mistakes. Regardless, he eventually redeemed himself enough to join the Regionals team, despite being completely useless. That year, the team went on to the National tournament at the University of Nebraska. At Nationals, for the Parade of States, he dressed up as a tornado.

2015-2016 (7th Grade)
For 2015-2016, he came back more ready than ever. His ties with the coach and team's management had grown closer. As such, he was placed on many events to fill the void left by the previous year's 8th graders (including SOnerd), and ended up studying for a few (a lot of) events which he never competed in. Nonetheless, this introduced him to his one true love, Dynamic Planet. While he did like the event, he did not realize how strongly he felt for it until 3 years later. He semi-independently picked up Elastic Launched Glider, was assigned to Wind Power, and briefly to Road Scholar. Unfortunately, the team did not make it beyond the State competition.

2016-2017 (8th Grade)
HugoTroop did not participate in Science Olympiad in 8th grade. There is no solid justification as for the reason, but it was beyond simply "being bored" or "not liking it anymore".

2017-2018 (9th Grade)
In 2017-2018, he rejoined Science Olympiad, and whatever had made him quit the previous year had gone away. The early season was quite rough for him. He was often competing against older students in events which simply taking AP classes in school was hugely advantageous. His struggles are clearly outlined by the number of times his own team members outranked him. However, by the end of the season, he somehow made the Regionals team, and they progressed on to Nationals.

- * = Did not attend due to conflicts with music and orchestral stuff

2018-2019 (10th Grade)
He again joined SciOly for the 2018-2019 season. Sadly, he ended up missing an invitational and the Regional competition over conflicts with KMEA events. Less than a week before State, he fell sick with something and was coughing a lot. Unfortunately, nobody else got infected and thus could not test the strength of the team's immune systems. He also inadvertently received a medal for Thermodynamics from Regionals, despite not attending. That year, at Cornell, he won his first Nationals medal, earning 6th Place in Dynamic Planet. This was also the season when he developed his deep love for Dynamic Planet. Glaciers and glaciology have simply captivated him.

- * = Did not attend due to conflicts with music and orchestral stuff

2019-2020 (11th Grade)
In the coming 2020 season, HugoTroop will be a captain of the BVN Science Olympiad team. He plans to stick with Dynamic Planet and Geologic Mapping, but also pick up Sounds of Music, Machines, and Ornithology, assuming the latter two come into rotation. He will also try his hand at Wright Stuff, but with zero expectations. He is absolutely livid that the topic for Dynamic Planet is rotating to Oceanography, and is currently threatening to leave the event. Once again, there is a vacuum to fill as the group 2 years his senior moves on for one last time. He hopes that more members from both middle schools, as well as the high school, help plug some of those unpopular events which they covered.

Through the entire summer, rather than prepare for the next season's events or do his summer homework, he edited the wiki page for Dynamic Planet Glaciers. It has been a huge waste of time, as the topic will not return until 2024, during his junior year in college (assuming he goes hahaha...)

- * = Did not attend due to conflicts with music and orchestral stuff