do u like your team #s for Nationals

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do u like your team #s for Nationals

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r u odd and want even
even wanted odd

or get u get the better one
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why would this matter really?
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cypressfalls Robert wrote:why would this matter really?
event A and event B are at same time
Bob is top person in both
obviously he cant do both and now you are screwed in one event

one bad place doubles your score making your overall rank dropped 20 places

and if you r a top team, say good bye to your top ten ranking and probably a trophy
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2012: Team 2nd (Assistant Coach)
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sciencegeek100 wrote:
cypressfalls Robert wrote:why would this matter really?
event A and event B are at same time
Bob is top person in both
obviously he cant do both and now you are screwed in one event

one bad place doubles your score making your overall rank dropped 20 places

and if you r a top team, say good bye to your top ten ranking and probably a trophy
Problem is you have a decent amount of time to study for events between now and nationals. Also their are 23 events to nullify that one bad place.
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Hehe...our team number was 34 and we got 34th...
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Post by Paradox21 »

The national schedule isn't divided into even and odd. It is grouped by team number with most events grouped 1-20, 21-40, and 41-60. Occasionally events are divided up into 1-10, 11-20, etc. Additionally, it is very easy to predict your team number from the beginning of the year. Team numbers are assigned according to the number of teams that compete in your state, and these relative positions do not change much. So, really you have no reason to complain because if you are a team that consistently qualifies for nationals (Troy), you have the entire year to train up someone else.
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Post by 3nv1r0nm3ntal ch3m »

I really don't see what is so important about your team numbers. I wish I had been able to get one , but alas I didn't make it to nationals
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We always had our team numbers in the 40's-50's. It didn't really faze any of us veteran competitors, but one of the freshman asked me a couple years ago if they purposely put the not so good states farther down the list to prevent them from doing well.

But my opinion, is that team numbers never played a big factor in our competitions :D
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I've never been to nationals, and despite the fact that I am fairly superstitious, why in the world would team numbers affect your performance?
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Thats the thing, i don't think they do. Sure, I think there might be problems if you prepare for an event at nats from day one and find out there is a conflict, but IMHO, i don't think thats a very wise strategy. If anything, you need to focus on the invitational/regional/state competition coming up first, then take that knowledge and build on it for nationals. That way if you find out about a conflict, i think it would be a lot less stressful.
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