Way Too Early Predictions

[Unome]

Figured I'd share my list. I haven't done many predictions before so this is largely based off of last year's Nationals results.

1. Troy
2. Seven Lakes
3. Mira Loma
4. Harriton
5. Centreville
6. Adlai E. Stevenson
7. Solon
8. LASA
9. Northville
10. Mounds View
11. New Trier
12. Acton-Boxborough
13. Chattahoochee
14. Fayetteville-Manlius
15. West Windsor Plainsboro North
16. Bayard Rustin
17. Boca Raton
18. Columbia
19. Carmel
20. Iolani

Good but Illinois is too high, and Solon is farrr too low

I wouldn't quite say the IL teams are too high, but I agree that Solon will probably do better than 7th.

[Ashernoel]

Figured I'd share my list. I haven't done many predictions before so this is largely based off of last year's Nationals results.

1. Troy
2. Seven Lakes
3. Mira Loma
4. Harriton
5. Centreville
6. Adlai E. Stevenson
7. Solon
8. LASA
9. Northville
10. Mounds View
11. New Trier
12. Acton-Boxborough
13. Chattahoochee
14. Fayetteville-Manlius
15. West Windsor Plainsboro North
16. Bayard Rustin
17. Boca Raton
18. Columbia
19. Carmel
20. Iolani

Good but Illinois is too high, and Solon is farrr too low

I wouldn't quite say the IL teams are too high, but I agree that Solon will probably do better than 7th.

Loyola this weekend will be a valuable metric of comparing Illinois teams to each other and to a few out of state teams.

[4Head]

Good but Illinois is too high, and Solon is farrr too low

I wouldn't quite say the IL teams are too high, but I agree that Solon will probably do better than 7th.

Loyola this weekend will be a valuable metric of comparing Illinois teams to each other and to a few out of state teams. (Mentor?)

Don't quote me, but I believe Mentor has their regionals this weekend.

[Ashernoel]

I wouldn't quite say the IL teams are too high, but I agree that Solon will probably do better than 7th.

Loyola this weekend will be a valuable metric of comparing Illinois teams to each other and to a few out of state teams. (Mentor?)

Don't quote me, but I believe Mentor has their regionals this weekend.

Oh wow, good luck to them! **fixed

[Private Wang Fire]

There's Centerville too! They haven't been to many invites this year, but they looked quite strong at Wright State without a full team, even.

I feel like everyone always forgets Centerville. They've qualified to nats for the last 15 years (altho that's a streak we can hopefully break )

There is centerville, but at Wright state both of your split astro teams managed to run away with the victory (1st and second) in Astro against our split team. You dominated UPenn, and Centerville has been meh.

I think Centerville is still running strong this year, much better than most people have been ranking them. I heard they had less than a full team at Wright State, and still managed to place ahead of us overall. While I do agree our Penn results seem impressive, I'm not sure how well they'll translate back in-state, and the strength of our longtime in-state overlords is not to be understimated

I give it 2 to 1, no team is that secure. Last year at this point, everyone was sure Troy would win.

Wouldn't 5 to 1 be lower odds than 2 to 1? If it's 5 to 1 odds on Troy winning?

Anyways, my pick to win nats would be Troy as well, with top 5 probably looking something like -

1. Troy
2. Solon
3. Mira Loma
4. Seven Lakes
5. Northville/Harriton/IL Team #1 (leaning towards Northville)

[breakingankles]

I think as good as Mira Loma and Solon appear to be at times, Troy is absolutely dominant. I can't see a way any team overtakes them. I'd be surprised if they don't win nationals by at least 50 points.

1. Troy, by far (I think they'll medal in >16 events)
2. Solon
3. Mira Loma
4. Harriton
5. Centerville
6. LASA/Clements/Seven Lakes
7. LASA/Clements/Seven Lakes
8. Northville
9. Mounds View
10. Adlai E. Stevenson

Other candidates for top 10: Acton-Boxborough, New Trier, whichever team makes it out of New Jersey,

As for PA team #2 - Bayard Rustin is looking extremely weak this year. I think Conestoga will go to nationals this year. For Indiana, I think Carmel will narrowly edge out Munster

[Alex-RCHS]

There's Centerville too! They haven't been to many invites this year, but they looked quite strong at Wright State without a full team, even.

I feel like everyone always forgets Centerville. They've qualified to nats for the last 15 years (altho that's a streak we can hopefully break )

There is centerville, but at Wright state both of your split astro teams managed to run away with the victory (1st and second) in Astro against our split team. You dominated UPenn, and Centerville has been meh.

I think Centerville is still running strong this year, much better than most people have been ranking them. I heard they had less than a full team at Wright State, and still managed to place ahead of us overall. While I do agree our Penn results seem impressive, I'm not sure how well they'll translate back in-state, and the strength of our longtime in-state overlords is not to be understimated

I give it 2 to 1, no team is that secure. Last year at this point, everyone was sure Troy would win.

Wouldn't 5 to 1 be lower odds than 2 to 1? If it's 5 to 1 odds on Troy winning?

Anyways, my pick to win nats would be Troy as well, with top 5 probably looking something like -

1. Troy
2. Solon
3. Mira Loma
4. Seven Lakes
5. Northville/Harriton/IL Team #1 (leaning towards Northville)

I think 5 to 1 odds means that their chance of winning is 5 times greater than their chance of not winning. (But I could be wrong) So an 83% chance. I'm assuming you meant the opposite, 17%.

I would put it at around a 50-60% chance of them winning, ~80% of being in the top 2. There's just so much that can go wrong at any tournament (WIDI and Copters, namely) to put any teams odds crazy high. Not to mention that even in a strong year for Troy, the competition is always super tough.

[NeilMehta]

Rather difficult to do in some places (e.g. as far as I know Fossil Ridge has yet competed this year).

Div B:

1. Beckendorff
2. Solon
3. Meads Mill
4. Daniel Wright
5. Kennedy/Churchill
6. Piedmont
7. Tower Heights/Magsig
8. Springhouse
9. Marie Murphy
10. Gelinas
11. Lakeshore
12. Longfellow
13. Jeffrey Trail/Kraemer
14. WW-P Community
15. Eagle Hill
16. Ladue
17. Dodgen
18. Auburn
19. Pembroke Hill
20. Fulton Science Academy

Div C:

1. Troy
2. Seven Lakes
3. Solon
4. Harriton
5. LASA
6. Centerville/Mason
7. Mira Loma (if Mountain View, 2 ranks lower)
8. Stevenson
9. Northville
10. WW-P North (if Montgomery, 4 ranks lower)
11. Acton-Boxborough
12. New Trier
13. Mounds View
14. Chattahoochee
15. Columbia
16. Boca Raton
17. 'Iolani
18. Fossil Ridge
19. Munster/Carmel
20. Ladue

Dang, not even putting Melville in 20th? I mean they aren't as strong as last year, but it still looks like they're going to win 1st at states

[windu34]

Rather difficult to do in some places (e.g. as far as I know Fossil Ridge has yet competed this year).

Div B:

1. Beckendorff
2. Solon
3. Meads Mill
4. Daniel Wright
5. Kennedy/Churchill
6. Piedmont
7. Tower Heights/Magsig
8. Springhouse
9. Marie Murphy
10. Gelinas
11. Lakeshore
12. Longfellow
13. Jeffrey Trail/Kraemer
14. WW-P Community
15. Eagle Hill
16. Ladue
17. Dodgen
18. Auburn
19. Pembroke Hill
20. Fulton Science Academy

Div C:

1. Troy
2. Seven Lakes
3. Solon
4. Harriton
5. LASA
6. Centerville/Mason
7. Mira Loma (if Mountain View, 2 ranks lower)
8. Stevenson
9. Northville
10. WW-P North (if Montgomery, 4 ranks lower)
11. Acton-Boxborough
12. New Trier
13. Mounds View
14. Chattahoochee
15. Columbia
16. Boca Raton
17. 'Iolani
18. Fossil Ridge
19. Munster/Carmel
20. Ladue

Dang, not even putting Melville in 20th? I mean they aren't as strong as last year, but it still looks like they're going to win 1st at states

You think that despite the results of the recent Princeton invitational? Their study events looked weak which is hard to recover

[NeilMehta]

Rather difficult to do in some places (e.g. as far as I know Fossil Ridge has yet competed this year).

Div B:

1. Beckendorff
2. Solon
3. Meads Mill
4. Daniel Wright
5. Kennedy/Churchill
6. Piedmont
7. Tower Heights/Magsig
8. Springhouse
9. Marie Murphy
10. Gelinas
11. Lakeshore
12. Longfellow
13. Jeffrey Trail/Kraemer
14. WW-P Community
15. Eagle Hill
16. Ladue
17. Dodgen
18. Auburn
19. Pembroke Hill
20. Fulton Science Academy

Div C:

1. Troy
2. Seven Lakes
3. Solon
4. Harriton
5. LASA
6. Centerville/Mason
7. Mira Loma (if Mountain View, 2 ranks lower)
8. Stevenson
9. Northville
10. WW-P North (if Montgomery, 4 ranks lower)
11. Acton-Boxborough
12. New Trier
13. Mounds View
14. Chattahoochee
15. Columbia
16. Boca Raton
17. 'Iolani
18. Fossil Ridge
19. Munster/Carmel
20. Ladue

Dang, not even putting Melville in 20th? I mean they aren't as strong as last year, but it still looks like they're going to win 1st at states

You think that despite the results of the recent Princeton invitational? Their study events looked weak which is hard to recover

Yeah they definitely didn't do that well but they still seem like top 20 material
(idk if its just my bias towards WM or their actual performance )