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by Skink
January 8th, 2021, 6:19 pm
Forum: Alumni
Topic: Musings on Test Length
Replies: 87
Views: 27282

Re: Musings on Test Length

Interesting discussion. A few points: 1. I signed on to search for thoughts on the (troubling) fact that events seem entirely "open note" this season. What's the point in building a binder or cheat sheet when teams are going to have phones, tablets, or other computers available for looking...
by Skink
April 10th, 2019, 8:24 am
Forum: General Competition
Topic: Binders and Notesheets
Replies: 17
Views: 4001

Re: Binders and Notesheets

I'm hijacking this topic because the title is ambiguous: how do you prune (let's say) hefty binders? Physics events don't need much volume, but taxonomy events do, and some supervisors pull obscure factoids that run beyond homemade materials and published ones such that you often have to draw from s...
by Skink
April 10th, 2019, 7:12 am
Forum: 2019 Regionals & States
Topic: Illinois 2019
Replies: 273
Views: 71163

Re: Illinois 2019

Looking at Div C, I am somewhat surprised to see Whitney Young and Walter Payton placed in single A. In that light, I think the top 4 teams for single A at State will be Whitney Young, Walter Payton, Warren Township, and Huntley, possibly in that order. After realizing that AA has 25 teams (I previ...
by Skink
March 12th, 2019, 3:48 pm
Forum: 2019 Regionals & States
Topic: Illinois 2019
Replies: 273
Views: 71163

Re: Illinois 2019

Hamilton is one of several out-of-state teams that regularly travel here to find greater competition. You can find their Regional results publicly on Avogadro.
by Skink
March 11th, 2019, 8:35 pm
Forum: 2019 Regionals & States
Topic: Illinois 2019
Replies: 273
Views: 71163

Re: Illinois 2019

The thing is that some of the regionals tests that we took were definitely not up to the par than at the state level, so the overly dominant results seen at some of the regionals may still be unrepresentative of how state will turn out. This is accurate. Our state is moving rapidly towards standard...
by Skink
March 11th, 2019, 7:27 pm
Forum: 2019 Regionals & States
Topic: Illinois 2019
Replies: 273
Views: 71163

Re: Illinois 2019

Ompato00 wrote:
beaker6 wrote:CLC Division B State Qualification
1. DW-39
2. Woodland Middle-62
3. Grayslake Middle-96
4. Wilmette Junior high -97
5. Woodlawn-102
6. Fredrick-150
Where’s everyone getting the clc results from
Some people attended the tournament :P
by Skink
March 11th, 2019, 5:55 pm
Forum: Assassinator Games
Topic: Scioly Assassination 134: Cyberstrike
Replies: 310
Views: 43301

Re: Scioly Assassination 134: Cyberstrike

Here wrote:The image still doesn’t work for me... anyone else?
Nope! I dub this the worst assassinator of all time.
by Skink
March 11th, 2019, 5:49 pm
Forum: 2019 Regionals & States
Topic: Illinois 2019
Replies: 273
Views: 71163

Re: Illinois 2019

Do we actually see that much fluctuation in rankings from December through April? I'm not suggesting that teams don't improve over time, but there aren't generally major ranking shake-ups during the height of the season. I've only personally seen an interesting case like this once (and this was many...
by Skink
March 11th, 2019, 5:32 pm
Forum: 2019 Regionals & States
Topic: Illinois 2019
Replies: 273
Views: 71163

Re: Illinois 2019

You're underestimating Hinsdale. I did that last season, and it threw my predictions a bit. Go back and look at the Conant results again. They beat you by a more than 100pt margin ;)
by Skink
March 11th, 2019, 5:10 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Your Daily Random Comment
Replies: 28808
Views: 3753548

Re: Your Daily Random Comment

It's the middle of March, making this officially (I think) my latest check-in for any season ever. This post had no other purpose. :D

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