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The point of the event is to be adaptable to the design and to convey instructions that can be easily followed correctly. If you only work with one design that destroys the point of the event.
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kp9ssa wrote:a question 4 the builders: did they put out extra pieces
My coach at pratice has never included extra peices but i remember at state two years ago they did have extra peices. At regionals and state in this past year they have said there might be extra peices.
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If the writer's instructions are even mediocre there still shouldn't be TOO much confusion with extra pieces,right? I mean when in doubt don't just shove it in and hope for the best right?
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Actually Dude that is what i did at Regionals two years ago and my team took second place
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EASTstroudsburg13 wrote:The point of the event is to be adaptable to the design and to convey instructions that can be easily followed correctly. If you only work with one design that destroys the point of the event.
yes it does but isn't it possible to rehearse a design though?
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dudeincolorado wrote:If the writer's instructions are even mediocre there still shouldn't be TOO much confusion with extra pieces,right? I mean when in doubt don't just shove it in and hope for the best right?
Not necessarily. At an invitational in OH they gave us a sheet of stickers with snowmen wearing different clothing and doing differnt things. The writers only saw one sticker so they basically wrote "attach the snowman sticker ...." but they needed to tell you it was the snowman sticker with the red had throwing snowballs. Not the blue hat snowball thrower, the red had skier, or any of the other 20 stickers.
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49ers wrote:
EASTstroudsburg13 wrote:The point of the event is to be adaptable to the design and to convey instructions that can be easily followed correctly. If you only work with one design that destroys the point of the event.
yes it does but isn't it possible to rehearse a design though?
How would you rehearse a design? You have no idea what the structure is going to be until you get there.
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dudeincolorado wrote:If the writer's instructions are even mediocre there still shouldn't be TOO much confusion with extra pieces,right? I mean when in doubt don't just shove it in and hope for the best right?
Not necessarily. At an invitational in OH they gave us a sheet of stickers with snowmen wearing different clothing and doing differnt things. The writers only saw one sticker so they basically wrote "attach the snowman sticker ...." but they needed to tell you it was the snowman sticker with the red had throwing snowballs. Not the blue hat snowball thrower, the red had skier, or any of the other 20 stickers.
Oh my god :shock: That's pretty brutal. I have a tendency to start describing things very thoroughly but then stop with the assumption that there will only be one purple pipe cleaner (for example) for the builder to use- I feel like I'm wasting time when I go into such detail about every piece. Now I don't feel so bad about it lol...
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well you could get the design you were looking for, but I guess its very unlikely
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rockhound wrote:
dudeincolorado wrote:If the writer's instructions are even mediocre there still shouldn't be TOO much confusion with extra pieces,right? I mean when in doubt don't just shove it in and hope for the best right?
Not necessarily. At an invitational in OH they gave us a sheet of stickers with snowmen wearing different clothing and doing differnt things. The writers only saw one sticker so they basically wrote "attach the snowman sticker ...." but they needed to tell you it was the snowman sticker with the red had throwing snowballs. Not the blue hat snowball thrower, the red had skier, or any of the other 20 stickers.
wait so they only had one sheet of paper and one snowman sticker?
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dudeincolorado wrote:wait so they only had one sheet of paper and one snowman sticker?
The writer so one sticker. The builder was given one sheet of stickers. On the sheet there were about twenty different stickers each with a snowman doing or wearing something different.

I have seen other such tricky things. Like the writer saw only saw one blue paperclip so they wrote "blue paperclip..." but I saw five blue toothpicks each a different color (something like navy, cobalt, sky, ocean, and royal).
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