Starting a Scioly Team as a Student (kind of)

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Umaroth wrote: March 20th, 2023, 4:48 pm Lack of pencils in Code :(

heh :") i've done that ever since, but it was our first tournament (ever, like. ever) and we accidentally left our pencil case in the classroom while running late :""")
but yes, honestly, you simply don't have time to insert new lead or sharpen pencils during codebusters!!
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I'm going to be so honest right now.. I spend more time blankly staring into space than sharpening pencils 😭
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pumptato-cat wrote: March 20th, 2023, 7:53 pm I'm going to be so honest right now.. I spend more time blankly staring into space than sharpening pencils 😭
ahahahahaah yk what- valid 😭
Ngl tho, instead of blankly staring into space, rather, i blankly stare at the cursed blasted pataristocrats in the hopes that the answer will magically hit me :")
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foxinni wrote: March 20th, 2023, 7:50 pm
Umaroth wrote: March 20th, 2023, 4:48 pm Lack of pencils in Code :(

but yes, honestly, you simply don't have time to insert new lead or sharpen pencils during codebusters!!
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Mechanical pencils are so unreliable
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Umaroth wrote: March 21st, 2023, 4:47 pm SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS
Mechanical pencils are so unreliable
oh my gosh yes
people are like "oh yay you dont need to sharpen it" BUT WHAT IF YOU NEED TO INSERT NEW LEAD, HUH
I break my lead SO easily, it's honestly kind of sad. no mechanical pencils during codebusters!! :")
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Sometime at the end of a Codebusters test we just know that we don’t have enough time to solve anything else so we just draw things relating to the quotes. Like once there was a hint saying that it was from the Lion King so we just drew Scar and Mufasa. Normally I just bring like 72 sharpened pencils just in case tho.
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72??!?

Not a codebusters person, so I can't really relate. Sounds interesting.
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randomdogonapc wrote: March 21st, 2023, 6:37 pm Sometime at the end of a Codebusters test we just know that we don’t have enough time to solve anything else so we just draw things relating to the quotes. Like once there was a hint saying that it was from the Lion King so we just drew Scar and Mufasa. Normally I just bring like 72 sharpened pencils just in case tho.
:") That's codebusters in a nutshell! Honestly, I really wanna meet the people who win the event- they must be absolutely insane at decoding cryptograms.
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I confess that I'm guilty of using mechanical pencils...
I just like how they write and my Pentels have never failed me. Yet...
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pumptato-cat wrote: March 22nd, 2023, 6:01 pm I confess that I'm guilty of using mechanical pencils...
I just like how they write and my Pentels have never failed me. Yet...
nah, don't worry. I use mechanical pencils too... just. Not in Codebusters!!!
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