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Gravity Vehicle: 61st place (I'm not going to rate it, but I hope Umich can definitely sort this out). Event Supervisor for Gravity Vehicle here. I'm sorry to hear that we mistakenly marked your team as No Show, and that some other teams had similar issues. As a former competitor, I understand your...

I'm guessing that the vertical scale is almost completely arbitrary to prevent people from analyzing it too much. I think he ranked all the build scores separately and the test scores separately from greatest to least. The numbers on the horizontal axis represent the "place" of those scor...

https://i.imgur.com/rnGO0Oi.png I've decided to make another unlabeled plot of the hovercraft scores. The exam score and "device" score (all components other than ES) were separated and independently sorted. This means, for example, that the highest device score doesn't necessarily corres...

Is it a good idea for the Hovercraft to “hug” the rails? I’m asking this because I don’t want my Hovercraft to be too big as it won’t fit in the impounded box. Yes, because if your craft starts to rotate, it may crash and get stuck on the side rail (me at MIT). This happened to roughly half of the ...

Adi1008 wrote: If you really want a Hovercraft practice test, go to http://scioly.mit.edu/archive/ and look at last year's.

For anyone using this test to study, note that hovercraft trivia is no longer testable material, and that question 2 isn't solvable without knowing the fluid's density (whoops!)

Unome wrote:None of you are paying attention to history.
1. Seven Lakes/LASA/Clements
2. Seven Lakes/LASA/Clements
3. Seven Lakes/LASA/Clements

If we're going off of history, Seven Lakes has gotten 2nd at state since 2011. Therefore I predict:
1.????
2.Seven Lakes
3.????

Are the exam scores the space between orange and blue, or from the bottom to the orange? Also, yo! I've competed in both of your events then. Nice! (RIP Geomap :( ) From the bottom to the orange. Agreed, Geomapping was the greatest. :( Hopefully it'll be back in the rotation in the near future.

Hi all, I was the ES for Hovercraft at MIT. I wrote the test and ran check-in at impound. The National event supervisor also came to the event; he supplied the tracks (which were admittedly slippery, but all identical to each other). In the interest of preserving the competitiveness of high-performi...

Hey everyone! So my partner and I actually won this event this year and I wanted to put in my two cents. First of all, I TOTALLY agree that the student competitors should have a voice in the appeal process. As stated, it is sometimes quite hard to explain all the rules and the interpretation in que...

Getting our team from Third at State to Third at Nats in one year.