Pentathalon

[Pleiades]

an event. Theres 4 people per team and all they do is complete a physical challenge then get asked a science related question. It's a relay with a team challenge at the end. Your being timed while you do this. Lowest time wins.

[zorbak5044]

gotcha. there was no description on soinc

[haven chuck]

The team challenge at regionals for us was horrible!! It was that there was a soccer ball which you had to pass to each player and then kick into a net 10 ft away without a goalie!! Hopefully the challenges will be better than that!!

[zorbak5044]

so does it have anything to do with science?

[dudeincolorado]

ok let me try to clear this up once and for all.... you and some other peoplego through stations there will be one per person then a team challenge where you all have to work together. at each station you have a physical task to do like throw a plush toy into a trashcan from 10 feet, then you have a scientific task like identify this mineral. it will be like a relay one goes then another and so on you will have a relay object like a chopstick to act like the relay pole thing ok got it?

[zorbak5044]

okay thanks man. i might want to do this

[Pleiades]

I was thinking about doing this event after reading the old trial rules since i'm an athletic type of person but then when i read some of the examples of the physical task they seamed way to easy and practically anyone could do it. It also doesnt seem to be that hard to do which means a lot of the less-smart teams will be competitive in it. So i decided not to do it since it's a waste of an event block. There will be MANY people on my team who will want to do this event.. just like robo-cross last year.

[Rai]

Sounds perfect for me because I'm one of the most athletic people on my team and all my science events from last year were dumped.

[zorbak5044]

same with me excep the events i did last year sucked except for metric mastery wich they took out

[detectiveohara]

It stinks that they took out metric mastery, but I hope I get to do pentathlon; our people that did it at state last year crack up anytime you mention it, so it must be atleast kind of fun. (And in their case, funny.)

[computernerd4826]

do you think athleticism would be a better quality than brains for this event?
i was just wondering because we have almost no athletes on our team

[Pleiades]

I'd day brains are better. You dont have to be that athletic to dribble a basketball or carry an egg on a spoon but you never know what types of questions they'll throw at you. With that being said if you cant dribble a basketball at a somewhat fast speed then you probably shouldnt be doing this event unless theres no one else.

[dudeincolorado]

lets think about it this way (i apologize in advance)

if a really athletic person did it compared to a really scientific person...the athletic person would get pass the task but not the question. the scientific person would eventually get pass the the task and do the science question. i think this event was to favor sciencey people with some athleticism throw in. i mean the task gets easier every time no? and the tasks don't even have to be THAT athletic like it cant be that had to throw a Frisbee(even if it is in the wrong direction would still get a better chance next time you tried) now winning thats another story

[chicago_5]

Could you explain how the contest works, fully. I'm a new competitor in this competition.

[jimmyqwert]

So...what are the question like in this event???????? ~JimmyQwert~