Illinois 2010

[lllazar]

STATES OVER. And, seriously, i did NOT expect us to get 1st, even though we were in Div A...(Div AA was higher and Div A was lower)

Congrats to everyone else who medaled and go New Trier, Stevenson, Marie Murphie, and South, your going to NATIONALS!!!

I medaled 1st in fossils in A and 1st in Elevated Bridge in A and Overall...towers is gonna be fun next year \

Again, congrats, it was a great state tournament. And New Trier, if any of you are here, i raised a smoothy king large cup to you when you guys were taking pics on stage after winning.

Congrats on the medals! You guys actually did really good. I saw you didn't have a fossil partner. Did you compete on your own? What were the tests like, particularily Fossils? I've heard mixed things.

I didn't do totally bad, but my team had a hard day. There was a certain incident at the hotel the night before resulting in angry coaches, and that got everyone down. My school did horrible. I was on of our 3 medal winners, and we came in 15th overall. The announcers always do this annoying "Crystal Lake *pause* Central!" It drives us crazy.

Aww...thats too bad. Srry bout the coaches. And Crystal Lake South seems...annoying. But congratz on the medal. So u did see me? I wasn't solo (well, practically was, my partner was there, but...you know my story), she just had to leave early. But ya, i was so happy about bridge...where were you guys sitting? And as for the other tests, they were actually REALLY good. The Disease Detectives test was actually very well made and similar in topics covered to other practice tests (not that they copied, they made it according to the national rules though). As for the Experimental Design proctors, they were nice too, and the topic they gave us to work on was pretty fun honestly.

As for the test...it was fairly straight forward, they had actual fossils, however there were some little things that annoyed me, and just some things that i didnt know.

First, there were a few stations, like the bryozoan station, where asked us to identify a number of specimens that weren't in the group specimens. Keep in mind these were actual fossil samples. At some stations, they had stuff i would have never even expected, and i couldn't even ID them

Second, and this killed me...i really never did learn how to ID permineralization vs replacement vs recrystallization and what not. They had a a question on this at like 10 stations...so ya.

Also, they had like 2 vertebrate stations, and of course the two vertebrates are jawless fish and archaeoptryx. Probably the easiest and most obvious...they even said, or the question on IDing ARchaeopteryx, "this bird is know as original bird".

But honestly, the test was good. A lot better than i expected, and by that i mean that the proctor took time to make the test and she made it well, not necessarily easy or perfect, but she covered most of the topics on the list. I would have like more vertebrates and a few questions on the state fossil (Tully), and something like burgess shale.

And also, the proctor was nice enough that she gave my coach a few areas to go collect fossils as a study thing for sci oly Fossils...they were just talking when scoring (my coach is on state board, she was SOOO busy...) and the proctor was surprised that ii hadn't been to some place like Mazon creek or anything.
But ya, cant wait till next year, and guess wat...you and me will be in the same Div! We can be like fossils rivals

[Aeri21]

I'm AA for Div. B. We placed 6th overall, and I got 1st in Ecology and 4th in JYC!!
That's pretty hard in AA!

[talksalot]

Hey my team had to leave early and skip the awards ceremony, does anyone know where the results are posted online if at all?

[courage7856]

Aww...thats too bad. Srry bout the coaches. And Crystal Lake South seems...annoying. But congratz on the medal. So u did see me? I wasn't solo (well, practically was, my partner was there, but...you know my story), she just had to leave early. But ya, i was so happy about bridge...where were you guys sitting? And as for the other tests, they were actually REALLY good. The Disease Detectives test was actually very well made and similar in topics covered to other practice tests (not that they copied, they made it according to the national rules though). As for the Experimental Design proctors, they were nice too, and the topic they gave us to work on was pretty fun honestly.

As for the test...it was fairly straight forward, they had actual fossils, however there were some little things that annoyed me, and just some things that i didnt know.

First, there were a few stations, like the bryozoan station, where asked us to identify a number of specimens that weren't in the group specimens. Keep in mind these were actual fossil samples. At some stations, they had stuff i would have never even expected, and i couldn't even ID them

Second, and this killed me...i really never did learn how to ID permineralization vs replacement vs recrystallization and what not. They had a a question on this at like 10 stations...so ya.

Also, they had like 2 vertebrate stations, and of course the two vertebrates are jawless fish and archaeoptryx. Probably the easiest and most obvious...they even said, or the question on IDing ARchaeopteryx, "this bird is know as original bird".

But honestly, the test was good. A lot better than i expected, and by that i mean that the proctor took time to make the test and she made it well, not necessarily easy or perfect, but she covered most of the topics on the list. I would have like more vertebrates and a few questions on the state fossil (Tully), and something like burgess shale.

And also, the proctor was nice enough that she gave my coach a few areas to go collect fossils as a study thing for sci oly Fossils...they were just talking when scoring (my coach is on state board, she was SOOO busy...) and the proctor was surprised that ii hadn't been to some place like Mazon creek or anything.
But ya, cant wait till next year, and guess wat...you and me will be in the same Div! We can be like fossils rivals

Wow. I was sitting behind you guys, at the top of that section of bleachers to your right. Our school was just having a bad day. We're not usually like that. And I am South, not Cental. It's annoying that they always do that for Central. We always think we might have the medal, and then we don't. There's been times when we thought it was Central who won, and then we have a really delayed reaction. There's a group of twins on my team, and that happened to them in 3 events. They were furious. I've heard a lot of really good things about the tests this year. Last year was pretty bad. Can't wait to compete against you in Fossils next year! Now, where to get a good partner? Hm. . .

Also, congrats to Aeri in Ecology. I heard the test was pretty fun. More applications, and not just definitions. Is that true?

I just checked the State website, and none of the results are up. They most likely will be there in a day or so. Today's a Sunday, which is probably why.

[chia]

AUGH! scioly can't be OVER!

boy, did we epic fail. we (naperville central) got 4th... i think we pretty much always get at least third, but this year 7 of our 15 team members were seniors... maybe they succumbed to senioritis? my only medal was a 2nd place in anatomy (yay! my partner was a super awesome junior); i had honestly been expecting a medal in ornithology, but somehow we got 8th (kjhsscioly was dying for some reason).
well, we hope to do better next year... i know i did my best, at any rate.
also: kennedy... you guys need to step it up! how could you get 5th place?
and good job to IMSA! (i mean this sincerely)

[lllazar]

Wow. I was sitting behind you guys, at the top of that section of bleachers to your right. Our school was just having a bad day. We're not usually like that. And I am South, not Cental. It's annoying that they always do that for Central. We always think we might have the medal, and then we don't. There's been times when we thought it was Central who won, and then we have a really delayed reaction. There's a group of twins on my team, and that happened to them in 3 events. They were furious. I've heard a lot of really good things about the tests this year. Last year was pretty bad. Can't wait to compete against you in Fossils next year! Now, where to get a good partner? Hm. . .

Also, congrats to Aeri in Ecology. I heard the test was pretty fun. More applications, and not just definitions. Is that true?

I just checked the State website, and none of the results are up. They most likely will be there in a day or so. Today's a Sunday, which is probably why.

Wow sorry i fail...i meant to say central, i was just sooo tired...

But ya, im kind sad scioly being over now and all...i really need to step it up for fossils, looking up images online wont cut it, the representations are hardly every that perfect at state....and i totally didnt understand size, i almost screwed up at a cephalopod station where i was looking at a cylindrical fossil and i never though baculites was that big...thank you sutures.

But yes, the tests were very good, i wasn't at state last year but from wat ive heard, it seems to have been pretty bad.

[Kroo]

AUGH! scioly can't be OVER!

boy, did we epic fail. we (naperville central) got 4th... i think we pretty much always get at least third, but this year 7 of our 15 team members were seniors... maybe they succumbed to senioritis? my only medal was a 2nd place in anatomy (yay! my partner was a super awesome junior); i had honestly been expecting a medal in ornithology, but somehow we got 8th (kjhsscioly was dying for some reason).
well, we hope to do better next year... i know i did my best, at any rate.
also: kennedy... you guys need to step it up! how could you get 5th place?
and good job to IMSA! (i mean this sincerely)

*sigh* We, IMSA, really wished we could've gone to nats this year~ There are some rumors we're going to lose our coaches 'cause we didn't get to nationals
Some technicality errors possible though... We were 31 or so places behind Stevenson, and one of our usually very-high placing events (Astro) got 30th, even though the person doing placed like usual (medaled) in his other 2 events. We're pretty sure it was a mistake, or something along those lines...
But anyways, it's all good. State was fun, as always. Naperville North and Central as well as IMSA had a bunch of bombing events =/ But we have a good feeling about next year... as long as we still have a coach Time to beat New Trier! (laughs)

[lllazar]

AUGH! scioly can't be OVER!

boy, did we epic fail. we (naperville central) got 4th... i think we pretty much always get at least third, but this year 7 of our 15 team members were seniors... maybe they succumbed to senioritis? my only medal was a 2nd place in anatomy (yay! my partner was a super awesome junior); i had honestly been expecting a medal in ornithology, but somehow we got 8th (kjhsscioly was dying for some reason).
well, we hope to do better next year... i know i did my best, at any rate.
also: kennedy... you guys need to step it up! how could you get 5th place?
and good job to IMSA! (i mean this sincerely)

*sigh* We, IMSA, really wished we could've gone to nats this year~ There are some rumors we're going to lose our coaches 'cause we didn't get to nationals
Some technicality errors possible though... We were 31 or so places behind Stevenson, and one of our usually very-high placing events (Astro) got 30th, even though the person doing placed like usual (medaled) in his other 2 events. We're pretty sure it was a mistake, or something along those lines...
But anyways, it's all good. State was fun, as always. Naperville North and Central as well as IMSA had a bunch of bombing events =/ But we have a good feeling about next year... as long as we still have a coach Time to beat New Trier! (laughs)

Dude how many asians are on that team...i mean no offense or racism intended, i myself am "asian" but jesus christ i wish i went there

And congratz...i really wanna seem IMSA go to Nats sometime soon, the fact that you might lose your coach cause u didnt make it to nats seems a little harsh..

[chia]

yep, imsa and naperville central are all asians ('cept me )
i hope we can step it up next year, not that i don't want imsa to do well, but i really want to go to nationals at least once in my life

[lllazar]

yep, imsa and naperville central are all asians ('cept me )
i hope we can step it up next year, not that i don't want imsa to do well, but i really want to go to nationals at least once in my life

And i wanna go to Nationals...o wait...

Ya, its kinda harsh. Knowing you'll never go to nats...sigh. O well, thats why i make it my personal vendetta to kill state. So you better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout im telling you why.

Champaign centrals comingggg to div aa....

But ya, didnt naperville go to nats like 2 years ago?