Covid-19 and Nats/States

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SOPomo wrote: March 11th, 2020, 3:06 pm Keeping the same rules as 2020 for the 2021 season is also pretty bonkers; what a wild week it's been so far.
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Does this mean that events will be considerably harder? Or will the difficulty stay the same?
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It really depends. The events themselves are the same.
However, for some events, since the topic is changed or they're new to the season, competition is relatively low at the beginning of the year because of how novel they are or the fact that old builds no longer can be used.
But now those events don't change at all, so already dominant teams will continue to be dominant - especially in the build portion.
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dankdecidueye wrote: March 11th, 2020, 3:09 pm Does this mean that events will be considerably harder? Or will the difficulty stay the same?
Many people will have a year to work on study or build events, and they could get a LOT better. Imagine half the teams having perfect Boomilevers... Or everyone knowing everything about Water Quality. The competition will get better if the events stay the same, so it would be harder
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Nats was just canceled
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welp guess I have the entire summer to figure out how Div C works T.T
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It's my final year doing Division B. Last year, I wasn't really good, and this year, I thought I actually had a chance to medal at nats. This news actually makes me sad :(

I'm likely not doing Division C either, which just makes it worse...
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LittleMissNyan wrote: March 11th, 2020, 3:23 pm welp guess I have the entire summer to figure out how Div C works T.T
Oh yeah, F in the chat for all of Div B going into Div C
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TheChiScientist wrote: March 11th, 2020, 2:55 pm
snowyowl wrote: March 11th, 2020, 2:53 pm
rfscoach wrote: March 11th, 2020, 2:50 pm Nationals just Tweeted that SONT 2020 is cancelled. 2021 will be a replay of the 2020 rules....
By replay of the same rules does that mean same events?
Yes. Events will be given a one year extension.
I would clarify that it's not 100% certain that future rotations won't be affected by this change (especially those beyond the next few years). I could see some committees pushing to return certain events on the original timeline on the basis of it having been a while since they were in rotation.
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