Way Too Early Predictions

[pb5754]

Haven't been paying too much attention to Carmel since CMU - have they really been doing well enough to place T10 nationally? I'd probably put them somewhere around where Tesla STEM is now, but I might be working off of limited information.

Based on Solon and GGSO, they seem to be on roughly the same level as Stevenson. Also, they beat Troy, Stevenson, & WWPS superscored at GGSO so they're pretty good.

To be fair it appears most of the teams you mentioned from GGSO were stacked so a superscore is kinda irrelevant. It doesn't matter if your B team is better than another teams...

We did not stack... we did a complete, albeit unbalanced, unstack (i.e., unstacked pairs)

Our MIT superscore is probably our most indicative performance so far, since that was a "stagger stack" (stacked pairs but split across both teams)

[lamapajama]

Is there any talk of "wild card" bids for Nats? Maybe for teams who have finished high at the bigger invitationals?

[sAkEtH]

Is there any talk of "wild card" bids for Nats? Maybe for teams who have finished high at the bigger invitationals?

Invitationals would not be criteria for any type of "wild card" bid because not every team attends invitationals and invitationals are very unstandardized. National has already said they will be running the normal 60 teams per division, and there is no sign that they would have changed their minds.

[sAkEtH]

Here are my predictions for nats, not accounting for the new bids that will come in today.
1. MTV (Mountain View not Mousetrap Vehicle) from Santa Clara in Norcal
2. WWPN
3. Mason
4. Troy
5. Carmel
6. Acton
7. Seven Lakes (they could be higher I just wanted to put them at 7th)
8. Stevenson
9. New Trier
10. Enloe
11. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
12. Solon
13. CLARK LETS GOOOOOOO
14. Ward
15. Harriton/Lower Merion
--After 15, my confidence in my predictions drops off--
16. Tesla
17. Madison West
18. Iolani
19. Hooch
20. The 2nd Pennsylvania Team
21. Pioneer
22. Northville
23. Stuy/Syo/Columbia/some NY team
24. NCSSM
25. Boca Raton
26. Mounds View
27. Dupont Manual
28. River Hill/Centennial
29. Pembroke Hill
30. Archimedean
31. BVN
32. Fossil Ridge
33. Auburn
34. Whoever wins Delaware
35. Philip Exeter

[aakoala]

Does anyone have predictions for Division B?

[kman1234t]

Does anyone have predictions for Division B?

Not very familiar with Div B, but:

1st place: Jeffrey Trail MS or NorCal champion
2nd place: The other California champion
3rd-60th place: Schools from other states

[Umaroth]

Does anyone have predictions for Division B?

Not very familiar with Div B, but:

1st place: Jeffrey Trail MS or NorCal champion
2nd place: The other California champion
3rd-60th place: Schools from other states

Accurate, but if Kennedy manages to blow NorCal states, I don't think the next team is a guaranteed 2nd, still probably top 4 or 5. Rounding out the top 4 would be Beckendorff and Solon in that order, 6-10 probably Daniel Wright, Longfellow, Fulton, Gelinas, Springhouse. Afterwards honestly just feels like anyone's guess. More than likely JT wins nats unless they manage to blow something big.

[hscmom]

Colorado sending B and C homeschool teams. No Fossil Ridge.

[Umaroth]

Colorado sending B and C homeschool teams. No Fossil Ridge.

Congrats!

[Tailsfan101]

Colorado sending B and C homeschool teams. No Fossil Ridge.

Woot! Go homeschoolers!!!