My biggest fail is actually a good reason that I didn't realize it, if I did it could have lead to me getting a gold medal by basically cheating.
To set this one up I was in sixth grade at the time. My coach use to coach at Dunstan Middle School, and while he was coaching there he wrote a test for Road Scholar, and left a copy of it there. Now fastforward to states when I was in sixth grade. About a week before the state competition my coach had me and my partner practice with the same test he had written, at the time he didn't know that the current coach at Dunstan MS was running Road Scholar and was using the test my coach wrote. I think a day or two before the comp, my coach did find out that it was the test he wrote that was being used for states, with a few changes. At the comp me and my partner felt that the test for Road Scholar was really easy. We took sixth, and the really sad part was that the answer key was in the resource binder that me and my partner had with us, but we didn't realize it at all. This led to many jokes the next two years about practicing with the state test from my sixth grade year.
Another big fail that I have had was missing a bronze medal in Road Scholar at Regionals my 8th grade year by a question. The question was: What is it called when there is a mountain valley mountain? The answer was Saddle.
Other than that I have a few times felt that I had really messed up WIDI and wound up medaling, the most recent was the fact that I didn't even finish the instructions for states this year and still managed to walk away with a gold medal.
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