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starpug wrote:
quizbowl13 wrote:I would do anything. you name it, anyone on my team would do it.
There are 4 steps for a very good shot at going to nationals

Step 1. Move to Waterville, Maine
Step 2. Join Waterville High School Science Olympiad Team
Step 3. Work at least moderately so we can win States for the 16th straight time
Step 4. Go to nationals

Proven to work ;)
Ooohh, I don't think I'm ready for moderate work. Think I'll stick with my current workload.
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Re: what would you do to go to NATS?

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M-E-T-H-O-D MAN wrote:
starpug wrote:
quizbowl13 wrote:I would do anything. you name it, anyone on my team would do it.
There are 4 steps for a very good shot at going to nationals

Step 1. Move to Waterville, Maine
Step 2. Join Waterville High School Science Olympiad Team
Step 3. Work at least moderately so we can win States for the 16th straight time
Step 4. Go to nationals

Proven to work ;)
Ooohh, I don't think I'm ready for moderate work. Think I'll stick with my current workload.
Your current workload is fine ;)
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Moderate? i show up, eat and chat for 2 hours then go home. A few months later I find myself at nats...
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Varsitylinebacker50 wrote:Moderate? i show up, eat and chat for 2 hours then go home. A few months later I find myself at nats...
I was reflecting more on my experience at Waterville.
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That actually sounds surprisingly like our practices this year. And we got as closer to nationals than we'd been since 2003. Maybe it works.
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Me too. Third place in the country, and half of our meetings are wastes of time. Imagine if we got stuff done at the meetings- we'd be SOLON!
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Post by new horizon »

I don't know why the coaches bother to make us attend every single meeting.

I would estimate a good 2/3 of them to be a complete waste of time. If we were productive we might have.. BEATEN COMMUNITY. :o

I might be wrong on this prediction but I don't see our B div team working productively at all, and I think they got off to a really bad start already (my prediction).
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