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Re: Science Olympiad at MIT Invitational 2019

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poonicle wrote:Disease Detectives - the test was unlike any other Disease test I've taken before, and quite difficult as well. I'm impressed with how the test writer managed to ask questions on stuff that doesn't show up on other tests at all. Scores were pretty low for a Disease test for this event. Coming out of this event, my partner said something along the lines of, "I think everyone finished this test, but I don't know whether any of it is correct." I definitely did not feel good about this test walking out of it.
One of my friends was the Disease Detectives ES and I know he put an insane amount of effort into writing the exam and asking good conceptual questions. Given his talent for Disease Detectives (complete with both MIT and national medals!) and experience I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone more capable for the job!
Name wrote:Astro was well ran, and very difficult. Unfortunetely since I took the DSO questions, I cant really speak for the math questions (which are probably my favorite), but this was a very well written test. We didn't even get close to finishing, and just from glancing at the last page, those questions looked ridiculous. 10/10 well done
antoine_ego wrote:Shoutout to adi1008 who wrote what was almost certainly the most difficult astronomy test I've ever taken
CrayolaCrayon wrote:That Astro test was amazingly written.
Thank you all for the kind words! I spent months researching and writing the questions I wrote, so I'm happy that they were well received by the competitors. I didn't write this test alone; Donna Young (the national event supervisor) wrote Section A, dkarkada wrote Section B, while I only wrote Section C. We are currently working on an expanded answer key with more in-depth explanations, along with analyzing some interesting data from our feedback survey from the competing teams. We'll post all of this in a few days on scioly.org, so stay tuned if you are interested!

Lastly, a big thank you to everyone at MIT Science Olympiad who made my experience truly unforgettable; I loved every moment of it, from helping with the preparation the day before to the thrill of watching the awards ceremony. MIT is not perfect, as others in this thread have pointed out, but it is still amazing. I'm immensely grateful to have gotten the chance to experience this tournament as an event supervisor and meet so many thoughtful and amazingly smart people who share the same love for Science Olympiad this weekend.
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antoine_ego wrote:Will MIT watermark their tests this year?
Hopefully not...
Galahad wrote:Anybody know when they'll release the tests?
MIT is planning on releasing all exam materials publicly. It'll probably be after Wednesday, January 16th, since some event supervisors are fixing typos in their documents, making expanded answer keys with more details for competitors, etc. before they're released to the public.
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Re: Science Olympiad at MIT Invitational 2019

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Adi1008 wrote: MIT is planning on releasing all exam materials publicly. It'll probably be after Wednesday, January 16th, since some event supervisors are fixing typos in their documents, making expanded answer keys with more details for competitors, etc. before they're released to the public.
WOAH THIS IS HUGE!!! I've always been a huge fan of publicly released tests - maybe we can prove Nash equilibriums incorrect! Disregarding the nerd that just came out of me, this is truly a step in the right direction. Also, despite my dislike of some aspects of MIT, I strongly applaud their decision to come this way around. So many of us appreciated PUSO (Princeton) to be the first to truly open up their tests and keys, and it's great to know more will follow their footsteps. SOUP, GG, and all the other invitationals, please take note! The whole Scioly community would truly appreciate it. Bravo to MIT!
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Re: Science Olympiad at MIT Invitational 2019

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Raleway wrote:Gonna be a spicy hot take here;

This being my last year competing (therefore my last MIT invitational) and having competed at many of the other top competitions such as Princeton and SOUP, I strongly disliked MIT. I competed here last year and also disliked it, but this year I felt was much worse. I competed in the last block of Sounds of Music - and I waited 50 minutes in line to have to do my 5 minute build portion. Having to stand in the hallway with your instrument and people walking by with everything going on is terrible. Luckily, my other build portions went early on in the day and were able to finish right on time - big props to the Wright Stuff event supervisors that I know are great at what they do based on personal experience. Despite this, I definitely feel the flying arena was poor and strongly conducive to inherent disadvantages, but nothing on the event supervisors since the picking of the arena is fully on the MIT organizers.

It's not just that, but knowing that my Fermi exam was scored incorrectly as well as my Codebusters exam (after only glancing through it for about 30 minutes on our long bus ride home) really irks me. One was in my favor, but I strongly dislike any error in grading, albeit understanding the time crunch. My team also mentioned how in Thermodynamics two teams were even handed out the answer key... and those two teams mentioned it only 5 minutes after they got it. Completely unacceptable in more ways than one. Not just that, each team in that first period for that event was at a disadvantage for only having 30 minutes rather than 50 minutes because of issues.

It is simply my opinion that an invitational that is run smoothly and simply is the best. All these small irking issues pile up and really create an uncomfortable invitational. In attending PUSO and SOUP, I felt each one was better run than MIT - especially PUSO. It's simple, is exactly what it says it is, and we actually got a homeroom that was a "room" with a men's bathroom on the same floor. SOUP has a slightly confusing format to its campus but not as bad as MIT. Despite this, they had volunteers in the cold directing people and answering questions to keep competitors in the right place.

I appreciate that MIT tried to expand its team list and number, but inevitably, there comes a point that it is infeasible. Here, that's what happened. I hope each following invitational can read the feedback and apply it so the same mistakes do not happen again. Many teams travel long distances and put up with pretty bad complications to compete, and it's just very disheartening to see mistakes that are avoidable. Congratulations to our Mason 2.0 from MIT this year and everyone who competed!

*My opinion simply represents my own opinion given my experience and thoughts*
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I'll just put my (more than) two cents in here as one of the supervisors, but sure, the constructive criticism helps, but there are so many things that as a competitor, you don't see why those things are the way they are until you actually become an event supervisor or a tournament director yourself. And some of those biggest things involve scoring, rooms, and manpower, and many times, things competitors complain about are things that may not necessarily completely be in tournament executives' control.

First, volunteers. Getting them is hard. I know because I'm in charge of volunteer management for my university's own regional tournament. I literally blast out our volunteer form link EVERYWHERE (my own social media, our Facebook page, multiple Facebook groups, multiple Groupme chats, etc) and I even bother our people to also broadcast the form as much as they can multiple times and I still am not sure I have gotten as much personnel as I would have ideally wanted to be there. But I do know why - when you hit college, it can be tough to give up that much of your time. I remember being severely burnt out from doing so much tournament traveling last year, I can say some of my grades did take a slight hit from the overall exhaustion and constantly working on nothing but SciOly in whatever free time I could squeeze out between classes, homework, projects, and other things college throws at ya. While general volunteers aren't always involved to this extent, many of them still prioritize other things over helping out, even with bribes of free food and free T-shirts (which is decently effective), which is entirely understandable because we are students first. I would say that getting volunteers for us can be a bit easier than for MIT, since our tournament is during school when people are here and MIT's is during IAP while school isn't in session, which makes it harder to recruit volunteers anyways since many students aren't on campus at the time, including members of the planning committee. But if they didn't do it then, there's no way it would be possible to host the tournament in the first place. The fact that they can get as many volunteers that they do, even ones that have never done SciOly and are just interested in helping out high schoolers passionate about science, is impressive in itself. And again, being understaffed sucks, and on top of that, we supervisors and our volunteers are not perfect human beings - we may make mistakes, and if so, we recognize that point you brought up as a valid concern and are genuinely sorry for that, but honestly, we really sacrificed a lot to be there for you and it does hurt us supervisors a little to hear words that harsh (even though I know you didn't take the event I was running) with all the effort we put in as well as the planning committee.

A second point about volunteers - sometimes they do questionable stuff without ES permission. I know what it's like to be "one of those" annoying general volunteers that tries to hard to overcorrect mistakes that ES's make because sometimes I do take on that archetype (mostly ONLY if the event is REALLY being screwed up, and I also always be sure to ask for ES permission before grading something in a way that is technically right but not in the key), but like this weekend I definitely experienced what it's like to have those kinds of volunteers, and especially ones that do have a bit of an ego clash with the supervisors. Some of our general volunteers this past weekend supposedly seemed to have thought they could grade how they saw fit and not according to the way we structured how we wanted the question to be answered in the key, and my co-supervisor and I were quite annoyed that they went rogue on us, especially since it would contribute to inconsistent grading - we ended up regrading everything we told them to not grade but they went ahead and graded anyways, which put us behind on scoring (historically I'm always one of the last people to finish grading but like....this was a whole new situation to experience on that). Sometimes volunteers really do help, but in some cases, they can hinder grading in some situations, which leads to panic and such, which is never good. We're also all human, and all humans make mistakes.

Point about rooms: sometimes it sucks, depending on the host institution's policies - that's the biggest control factor in getting rooms for any university-hosted tournament by far. As a tournament executive at my own university's regional, I can say that many of our room choices this year were not ideal at all, but some recent drastic changes to the campus policies on which rooms student organizations were even allowed to reserve really pigeon us off, but in a lot of cases, more than you think, it can generally be hard for students, especially undergraduates, to attempt to protest these kinds of policy changes. Sometimes it's almost like we're basically powerless against these kinds of circumstances, depending on the strictness of the administrators of the school. These things happen.

Wanna reemphasize, but we always tell people to keep in mind that EVERYONE (bar and miss maybe a handful of exceptions every now and then) on tournament staff for university-run competitions in general is a volunteer. No one is getting paid for their service (unless you count travel reimbursement (which only nonlocal ESs like myself get) as "being paid"). As hard as you prepare to take our tests and rightfully have frustration if we make grading errors, you also have to think about how much time we spent tirelessly writing your tests and preparing the materials to run them (COUGH COUGH FORENSICS) almost basically for free, and then taking a whole weekend out of our busy college lives to be there for you. Many of the tournament staff members become exhausted leading up to it to make sure everything's in order, and then tournament day itself is a whole other animal for us to deal with as well. It's crazy and, as I've realized from having served from all sides of Division D (as a general volunteer, an event supervisor, and a tournament executive), something that I probably never could have seen as a competitor back in those days. While us being competitors once ourselves does give us the insight into how to improve running of tournaments once we reach that point, being on the other side definitely makes you realize that as much work as competitors put in to prepare for tournaments, a few more orders of magnitude's worth of effort goes into organizing it all. No tournament can be run perfectly. It's just impossible. On the scale that MIT did this year, I can say that it was one of the best tournaments I've ever internally been a part of. One that has definitely been run much better than several national tournaments, one definitely worth praise, and one definitely worth returning to.

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Re: Science Olympiad at MIT Invitational 2019

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Thank you everyone for your compliments on the Astronomy exam! And big thanks to Adi1008 for writing those awesome questions and helping out so much during the before/during the tournament - definitely couldn't have done it alone.

There's no doubt about it, this exam was much harder (and much longer) than in previous years. I underestimated the difficulty of the exam, which led to many teams feeling frustrated by it, so I apologize for that.
Adi1008 wrote:We'll post all of this in a few days on scioly.org, so stay tuned if you are interested!
I couldn't wait that long lol so I've gone ahead and uploaded the exam/key here. I've also written a longer reflection, and posted some basic statistics. I'll update the site as the week goes on and there's more stuff to post.

Most importantly -- I thought it would be a good idea to write up a much more thorough solution guide for the questions I wrote (section B). I basically walk through how you should think about the problems, what I would do, and also point out some references for further reading. I think Adi1008 will be writing something similar for his section, and I'll update the document as soon as it's ready. For now, the section B walkthrough is also posted at the link above. We hope that you'll find it helpful! As always, let us know if you have any questions. :)

Thank you everyone that came and competed, and thanks to MIT for having us!
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windu34 wrote:I think the best way to improve that would be to have ESes submit "Supervising plans" that outline exactly how many volunteers they need and what they will be doing so that the planning committee can look it over and make sure it seems reasonable.
This sounds nice, I actually tried this for a bit at Chattahoochee's invitational when recruiting ESes from our own team (didn't work too well there because it was so small).
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windu34 wrote: Many of the build event supervisors were first-time supervisors at MIT and although we had experience supervising and almost all of us are national medalists, supervising for 76 teams is something that is hard to even imagine until you have done it.
This is an important point. For test or lab events, having alumni with national experience is often the best way to ensure quality exams. MIT has excelled at recruiting these individuals. For build events, I would argue that past supervising experience at large tournaments is far more important than being an alumnus. Experience as a competitor doesn't translate as directly into quality supervising for these events. This is exactly why we focused on recruiting national and state event supervisors for these events at the Solon HS Invitational this year.
I'll second this. I ran builds a few times earlier this year, and there's no substitute for experience.
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Re: Science Olympiad at MIT Invitational 2019

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pikachu4919 wrote:
Raleway wrote:Gonna be a spicy hot take here;

This being my last year competing (therefore my last MIT invitational) and having competed at many of the other top competitions such as Princeton and SOUP, I strongly disliked MIT. I competed here last year and also disliked it, but this year I felt was much worse. I competed in the last block of Sounds of Music - and I waited 50 minutes in line to have to do my 5 minute build portion. Having to stand in the hallway with your instrument and people walking by with everything going on is terrible. Luckily, my other build portions went early on in the day and were able to finish right on time - big props to the Wright Stuff event supervisors that I know are great at what they do based on personal experience. Despite this, I definitely feel the flying arena was poor and strongly conducive to inherent disadvantages, but nothing on the event supervisors since the picking of the arena is fully on the MIT organizers.

It's not just that, but knowing that my Fermi exam was scored incorrectly as well as my Codebusters exam (after only glancing through it for about 30 minutes on our long bus ride home) really irks me. One was in my favor, but I strongly dislike any error in grading, albeit understanding the time crunch. My team also mentioned how in Thermodynamics two teams were even handed out the answer key... and those two teams mentioned it only 5 minutes after they got it. Completely unacceptable in more ways than one. Not just that, each team in that first period for that event was at a disadvantage for only having 30 minutes rather than 50 minutes because of issues.

It is simply my opinion that an invitational that is run smoothly and simply is the best. All these small irking issues pile up and really create an uncomfortable invitational. In attending PUSO and SOUP, I felt each one was better run than MIT - especially PUSO. It's simple, is exactly what it says it is, and we actually got a homeroom that was a "room" with a men's bathroom on the same floor. SOUP has a slightly confusing format to its campus but not as bad as MIT. Despite this, they had volunteers in the cold directing people and answering questions to keep competitors in the right place.

I appreciate that MIT tried to expand its team list and number, but inevitably, there comes a point that it is infeasible. Here, that's what happened. I hope each following invitational can read the feedback and apply it so the same mistakes do not happen again. Many teams travel long distances and put up with pretty bad complications to compete, and it's just very disheartening to see mistakes that are avoidable. Congratulations to our Mason 2.0 from MIT this year and everyone who competed!

*My opinion simply represents my own opinion given my experience and thoughts*
Long rant (emphasis on the fact that it is a 3 a.m. rant) coming, brace yourselves.

I'll just put my (more than) two cents in here as one of the supervisors, but sure, the constructive criticism helps, but there are so many things that as a competitor, you don't see why those things are the way they are until you actually become an event supervisor or a tournament director yourself. And some of those biggest things involve scoring, rooms, and manpower, and many times, things competitors complain about are things that may not necessarily completely be in tournament executives' control.

First, volunteers. Getting them is hard. I know because I'm in charge of volunteer management for my university's own regional tournament. I literally blast out our volunteer form link EVERYWHERE (my own social media, our Facebook page, multiple Facebook groups, multiple Groupme chats, etc) and I even bother our people to also broadcast the form as much as they can multiple times and I still am not sure I have gotten as much personnel as I would have ideally wanted to be there. But I do know why - when you hit college, it can be tough to give up that much of your time. I remember being severely burnt out from doing so much tournament traveling last year, I can say some of my grades did take a slight hit from the overall exhaustion and constantly working on nothing but SciOly in whatever free time I could squeeze out between classes, homework, projects, and other things college throws at ya. While general volunteers aren't always involved to this extent, many of them still prioritize other things over helping out, even with bribes of free food and free T-shirts (which is decently effective), which is entirely understandable because we are students first. I would say that getting volunteers for us can be a bit easier than for MIT, since our tournament is during school when people are here and MIT's is during IAP while school isn't in session, which makes it harder to recruit volunteers anyways since many students aren't on campus at the time, including members of the planning committee. But if they didn't do it then, there's no way it would be possible to host the tournament in the first place. The fact that they can get as many volunteers that they do, even ones that have never done SciOly and are just interested in helping out high schoolers passionate about science, is impressive in itself. And again, being understaffed sucks, and on top of that, we supervisors and our volunteers are not perfect human beings - we may make mistakes, and if so, we recognize that point you brought up as a valid concern and are genuinely sorry for that, but honestly, we really sacrificed a lot to be there for you and it does hurt us supervisors a little to hear words that harsh (even though I know you didn't take the event I was running) with all the effort we put in as well as the planning committee.

A second point about volunteers - sometimes they do questionable stuff without ES permission. I know what it's like to be "one of those" annoying general volunteers that tries to hard to overcorrect mistakes that ES's make because sometimes I do take on that archetype (mostly ONLY if the event is REALLY being screwed up, and I also always be sure to ask for ES permission before grading something in a way that is technically right but not in the key), but like this weekend I definitely experienced what it's like to have those kinds of volunteers, and especially ones that do have a bit of an ego clash with the supervisors. Some of our general volunteers this past weekend supposedly seemed to have thought they could grade how they saw fit and not according to the way we structured how we wanted the question to be answered in the key, and my co-supervisor and I were quite annoyed that they went rogue on us, especially since it would contribute to inconsistent grading - we ended up regrading everything we told them to not grade but they went ahead and graded anyways, which put us behind on scoring (historically I'm always one of the last people to finish grading but like....this was a whole new situation to experience on that). Sometimes volunteers really do help, but in some cases, they can hinder grading in some situations, which leads to panic and such, which is never good. We're also all human, and all humans make mistakes.

Point about rooms: sometimes it sucks, depending on the host institution's policies - that's the biggest control factor in getting rooms for any university-hosted tournament by far. As a tournament executive at my own university's regional, I can say that many of our room choices this year were not ideal at all, but some recent drastic changes to the campus policies on which rooms student organizations were even allowed to reserve really pigeon us off, but in a lot of cases, more than you think, it can generally be hard for students, especially undergraduates, to attempt to protest these kinds of policy changes. Sometimes it's almost like we're basically powerless against these kinds of circumstances, depending on the strictness of the administrators of the school. These things happen.

Wanna reemphasize, but we always tell people to keep in mind that EVERYONE (bar and miss maybe a handful of exceptions every now and then) on tournament staff for university-run competitions in general is a volunteer. No one is getting paid for their service (unless you count travel reimbursement (which only nonlocal ESs like myself get) as "being paid"). As hard as you prepare to take our tests and rightfully have frustration if we make grading errors, you also have to think about how much time we spent tirelessly writing your tests and preparing the materials to run them (COUGH COUGH FORENSICS) almost basically for free, and then taking a whole weekend out of our busy college lives to be there for you. Many of the tournament staff members become exhausted leading up to it to make sure everything's in order, and then tournament day itself is a whole other animal for us to deal with as well. It's crazy and, as I've realized from having served from all sides of Division D (as a general volunteer, an event supervisor, and a tournament executive), something that I probably never could have seen as a competitor back in those days. While us being competitors once ourselves does give us the insight into how to improve running of tournaments once we reach that point, being on the other side definitely makes you realize that as much work as competitors put in to prepare for tournaments, a few more orders of magnitude's worth of effort goes into organizing it all. No tournament can be run perfectly. It's just impossible. On the scale that MIT did this year, I can say that it was one of the best tournaments I've ever internally been a part of. One that has definitely been run much better than several national tournaments, one definitely worth praise, and one definitely worth returning to.

These are my personal opinions and may not necessarily reflect the views of MIT Science Olympiad.
While it's very true that MIT does a great job at running its tournament, that shouldn't mean that we should just let it be and let any issues that arise be pushed by the wayside. If anything, we should use this opportunity to make MIT a better tournament by taking in feedback and realizing what we can do better because while yes, no tournament is perfect, that shouldn't make us strive to reach for perfection. If anything, that's the aura that MIT is bringing on by trying to do everything right, and so we should alway strive to reach that point. Sadly, yes rooms will always be an issue and I don't really think there's much we can do except bug administration as much as we can without getting kicked out. And yes while true everyone is a volunteer, that shouldn't stop us from wanting to be better at what we do. If anything because we're volunteers, we don't want to feel like our time was used in vain and especially if we're coming back next year, we want to make sure the experience we give these high schoolers is even better. And yes I acknowledge it's extremely difficult (I've realized that pain myself) I guess we should at least acknowledge the fact that we can improve and take into account any feedback and do our best to do so. (And I realize most of you guys do that but I get very annoyed when people complain about getting feedback.) And yes while Raleway's statements may have been a little harsh, at the same time it's our responsibility to accept those comments and reflect upon them to make MIT SciOly a better tournament next year because there are always things to improve upon.
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Re: Science Olympiad at MIT Invitational 2019

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Adi1008 wrote: MIT is planning on releasing all exam materials publicly. It'll probably be after Wednesday, January 16th, since some event supervisors are fixing typos in their documents, making expanded answer keys with more details for competitors, etc. before they're released to the public.
Oh that's great to hear! I am a big proponent of having tests released to the public and I hope this sets a precedent along with Princeton and UT-Austin for tournaments to post their test sets after competition ends to give competitors more practice.
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pikachu4919 wrote:
Raleway wrote:Gonna be a spicy hot take here...
Long rant (emphasis on the fact that it is a 3 a.m. rant) coming, brace yourselves...
I think the difficulty in getting the sheet volume of volunteers is another reason to partner with Harvard. It doesn't have to be a split tournament like I was suggesting, that was more of a hypothetical compromise in case both universities wanted to host a tournament. If it was a GGSO setup instead where the host rotated, you could pool the volunteers from both organizations into one tournament.

I don't fault MIT for trying to be as large as it is; after all, MIT has had a pretty significant impact in the influence of alumni-run invitationals. Pushing the limits for what an invitational can look like is part of what makes MIT such a valuable fixture in the invitational schedule. As lumosityfan said, the observed shortcomings and successes that MIT has had when running what essentially amounts to an invitational of unprecedented scope is what helps the overall community, as well as MIT, improve.
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Adi1008 wrote: MIT is planning on releasing all exam materials publicly. It'll probably be after Wednesday, January 16th, since some event supervisors are fixing typos in their documents, making expanded answer keys with more details for competitors, etc. before they're released to the public.
Oh that's great to hear! I am a big proponent of having tests released to the public and I hope this sets a precedent along with Princeton and UT-Austin for tournaments to post their test sets after competition ends to give competitors more practice.
Ditto on this. While I know that this will likely never be the norm for invitationals run as fundraisers for school teams, I hope that this becomes the norm for alumni-run invitationals, and perhaps even some of the more-established school-run invitationals. I still think that for school-run invitationals, releasing a small portion of the tests would do more good than harm, as it serves as a good advertisement for the invitational and perhaps entices more teams to come, but nobody has done that yet.

Accessibility of information is something that SO can improve a lot on, not only with invitational tests but scores as well (even some state scores are never posted publicly). I know lumosityfan likes to compare to quizbowl a lot (maybe a bit too much :P ), but SO really could take a lot from them in terms of sharing of information and scores. People should not have to scour Twitter or Google News for state results, and teams should not have to find and engage in an extensive underground "black market" of tests to find sufficient test resources.
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EastStroudsburg13 wrote:I think the difficulty in getting the sheet volume of volunteers is another reason to partner with Harvard. It doesn't have to be a split tournament like I was suggesting, that was more of a hypothetical compromise in case both universities wanted to host a tournament. If it was a GGSO setup instead where the host rotated, you could pool the volunteers from both organizations into one tournament.
It's worth noting that GGSO has always been held at Berkeley despite intent to rotate, because Stanford's policies are too restrictive for them to host a tournament.
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Re: Science Olympiad at MIT Invitational 2019

Post by EastStroudsburg13 »

Unome wrote:
EastStroudsburg13 wrote:I think the difficulty in getting the sheet volume of volunteers is another reason to partner with Harvard. It doesn't have to be a split tournament like I was suggesting, that was more of a hypothetical compromise in case both universities wanted to host a tournament. If it was a GGSO setup instead where the host rotated, you could pool the volunteers from both organizations into one tournament.
It's worth noting that GGSO has always been held at Berkeley despite intent to rotate, because Stanford's policies are too restrictive for them to host a tournament.
Thanks, didn't realize that. Harvard did just start a B division tournament, so perhaps they can join up with Harvard running B and MIT running C. Regardless, my thinking is a larger volunteering pool is better than a smaller one!
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