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Fibonacci924 wrote:Amazing, but it sucks when they beat you.

Then train harder and deal some karma to them! There's no way anyone who fakes arrogance could possibly get into a top school, since they're probably doing it to pretend that they are at our caliber.

Unome wrote:East Coweta and Alpharetta Invitationals both next week! Anyone going? (more specifically, is anyone going to one over the other?)

Going to Alpharetta! But I only get to do 2 of my normal events because of how bad the schedule is...

You know, we should add that one to the list.
153. Act arrogant towards your fellow competitors no matter who they are and what they do outside of SO.

These all actually happened: 143. Taste a chemical that appears to be sugar in Crime Busters only to find out that it's sand. 144. Handcuff your Rotor Egg Drop partner with saran wrap. 145. Sit on a flimsy fence at Nationals, only to fall off and miss your only 2 events due to a broken arm. 146. Mak...

Last year I ended up doing 3 building events because hardly anyone else had the drive to do well in SO on my team. Those events were Boomilever, Maglev, and Scrambler, and I did not have a partner for the latter two. The night before regionals, my Maglev train broke down, so I was up until about 11 ...

In 8th grade my team went to Wright State, and for us it was a 12 hour bus ride. We ran out of movies about 8 hours in (and we even watched our coach's Bill Nye the Science Guy DVD), so we watched the DVD screensaver bounce around the screen for ~2 hours and cheered when it went in the corner. Once ...

Unome wrote:Do you know what the school got?

We came in 9th. Most of our team could not go, so there were only 4 people with C division experience and 9 freshmen/ first timers. They did pretty well considering that we have only practiced for ~2 weeks.

Anyone going to Rockdale tomorrow?

Opinions on the binder? I'm surprised they upgraded us from a sheet, but it will probably make Forensics a ton harder.

A couple of years ago my brother and I did Compute This together for one tournament, but it didn't exactly work out because he decided to be a pill about it since he was in 6th grade and all.