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[pikachu4919]

So disappointing.

Walking out of physics I see two CD cases with the titles "Hot Mix 3" and "Hot Mix 4" in a dumpster. Assuming that they are audio CDs, I fish them out.

Turns out the CDs are demos for a now-defunct software company's product line from the early 90's.

Physics = the Physics Building or the building where physics class was held that might not necessarily be THE Physics Building?

[antoine_ego]

There are so many scoring systems nowadays, from Avogadro to Ezra to this new Sciylmpiad system. What ever was wrong with chalker's

[Alex-RCHS]

I finally made a userpage! Bernard, do I get a medal for editing the wiki yet?

[Unome]

There are so many scoring systems nowadays, from Avogadro to Ezra to this new Sciylmpiad system. What ever was wrong with chalker's

Nothing is wrong with it. Other people may have slightly different needs, and are willing to build an entire scoring system for that purpose. Avogadro has online capabilities, and was developed before Chalker's was widespread (both were created at around the same time). Ezra is almost identical to Avogadro, but has some additional functionality for state organizations that I suspect helped ingratiate Cornell with the NY State organization. I can't point to anything in particular with Scilympiad, but it's worth noting that the regional it was developed for at first is too large to use Chalker's (which maxes at 70 teams).

Edit: It's also possible that Avogadro was the first to develop an event signup system specifically for Science Olympiad - I don't know exactly when theirs was developed. ESUS was being used at major tournaments in 2012, and was definitely in public release by 2014.

Edit 2: Upon noticing the Golden Gate thread - good luck to event supervisors tabbing 9 times per team to fill out raw scores (unless they opt to click on the cell for every team).

[bernard]

I finally made a userpage! Bernard, do I get a medal for editing the wiki yet?

You can get a special medal if you make it so that 99% of the storage occupied by the entire wiki is from your userpage.

[Alex-RCHS]

I finally made a userpage! Bernard, do I get a medal for editing the wiki yet?

You can get a special medal if you make it so that 99% of the storage occupied by the entire wiki is from your userpage.

What if I just deleted everything on the wiki except my userpage? Then I would occupy 100% of the storage.

[UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F]

I finally made a userpage! Bernard, do I get a medal for editing the wiki yet?

You can get a special medal if you make it so that 99% of the storage occupied by the entire wiki is from your userpage.

What if I just deleted everything on the wiki except my userpage? Then I would occupy 100% of the storage.

The wiki would still store the history for those pages, no?

[pikachu4919]

You can get a special medal if you make it so that 99% of the storage occupied by the entire wiki is from your userpage.

What if I just deleted everything on the wiki except my userpage? Then I would occupy 100% of the storage.

The wiki would still store the history for those pages, no?

You could just make a bunch of tiny edits so that it looks like you edited it a lot but really just one word at a time XD

[antoine_ego]

Darn, Mason, Solon, and Troy aren't going to MIT. This is gonna be interesting.

[kate!]

Darn, Mason, Solon, and Troy aren't going to MIT. This is gonna be interesting.

Especially with the new policy. I'm interested to see how much the competition will change.