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I believe this weekend was the conclusion of the first State Tournament of the season. Here's what we're looking at: New Mexico State Division B Albuquerque Academy Cottonwood Valley Charter School Albuquerque School of Excellence Sidney Gutierrez School Cottonwood Classical Prep Division C Albuquer...

Hello! A bit from an alumnus about how we used to do things. We were never a nationally-ranked team, or by any means the best out there, and these aren't foolproof strategies. Just hopefully something to help you get started. Events - Generally, we would take somewhere on the order of 3-6 events per...

Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong forum/spot - as my username suggests, I am very new to SO. I started my school's team late last year and am just trying to keep it above water right now. I'm organizing event selection and want to know what the national tournament schedule blocks are. I've loo...

The deadline for this year's SSSS will be: August 13th at 11:59 PM ET . All first-draft submissions must be made by this time. We will not accept any new submissions after this! (Moderators will continue work with you after this to polish up for full acceptance—final revisions do not need to be comp...

We're seeing some great submissions being admitted to ssss already! Let's get that resource pool even bigger. If you have some spare time this July, we'd love to see what you can come up with!

Hey RiverWalker88, is it okay if my test is only Aristocrats for Codebusters? I don't consider myself qualified enough to write "tournament-quality" questions for any other cipher, mostly due to the fact that I've mained Aristos/Morse as a cipher since 2021 but done nothing else. First, I...

Hey everyone! SSSS is still looking for moderators this year, and we'd love to have your application! It's still not too late, applications are due tonight (6/14 at midnight). Information and form are in the above post. If you have any doubts, feel free to reach out, I'll get back to you as soon as ...

Hello everyone! Have the Science Olympiad withdrawals set in yet? Are you itching to get back into creating paper-eating binders or thinking about trying your hand at test writing? Then you should participate in our eleventh annual SSSS! SSSS is a Scioly.org-hosted event run by BennyTheJett, RiverWa...

SSSS 2022 is officially public! You can find it by clicking the “Tests” link in the menu above, or going to scioly.org/tests . Huge thank-you to everybody that contributed a resource to last year’s Scioly.org Summer Study Session. We also would like to thank our amazing moderators from this last ye...

Bad take incoming.

It has an incredibly steep learning curve, but once you get far enough on that, I think Astronomy became my easiest event.

Or actually, it was Machines. Unless I got a crazy writer, that one was always pretty smooth for me.