Pentathalon

Re: Pentathalon

Postby Pleiades on Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:57 pm

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.
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby zorbak5044 on Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:15 am

gotcha. there was no description on soinc
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby haven chuck on Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:03 pm

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!!
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby zorbak5044 on Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:00 am

so does it have anything to do with science?
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby dudeincolorado on Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:53 pm

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?
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby zorbak5044 on Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:50 pm

okay thanks man. i might want to do this
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby Pleiades on Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:12 pm

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.
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby Rai on Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:44 pm

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. :evil:
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby zorbak5044 on Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:04 pm

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

Postby detectiveohara on Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:57 pm

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.)
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby computernerd4826 on Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:44 pm

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
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby Pleiades on Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:52 pm

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.
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby dudeincolorado on Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:39 pm

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 ;)
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Re: Pentathalon

Postby chicago_5 on Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:16 am

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

Postby jimmyqwert on Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:56 pm

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