Ohio 2010

[OHIOSO]

wow, comin all the way from texas. sounds fun. my skool never goes anywhere fun except nats once in a while. its goin to be freezing in ohio compared to texas so be ready. plus that weekend always seems to be the weekend that has lots of snow. i remember playin football in about a foot of snow the night before at the hotel so just fyi.

[ellnoel]

Ohio hosts arguably the most competitive invitational tournaments in the country.

Hard to win a medal in huh?

It isn't that hard to win a medal...

[ellnoel]

LASA (Liberal Arts and Science Academy (they ranked 8th at nationals last year)) is going to be driving all the way from Texas to attend the Solon regional in order to experience some real competition prior to nationals. clearly Ohio is superior. ROTFLOL

a team from georgia did that last year.

[sciolykid101]

Actually, I believe it is considerably hard to get a 1st Place medal against Solon, Mentor, and Centerville, assuming that you are not on those teams.

[dontsenditinthemail]

Ohio hosts arguably the most competitive invitational tournaments in the country.

Hard to win a medal in huh?

It isn't that hard to win a medal...

At the regional with Mentor and Solon, the two previously mentioned teams took 44/69 top 3 medals including 11/23 first place medals in 2009, so I'm going to have to say that it's pretty hard to win a meaningful medal against these teams. Also note that at that regional competition neither team is fully stacked and Centerville is not competing, and another top finisher in State Tournament, Chardon, also competes at the same regional so they steal away some metals. If it is that hard to win a medal (only 25 top three medals to be split amongst i think around 16 teams) at that not-too-competative-regional, it is about 10 times harder to win it at a bigger Ohio tournament with more competative teams.

[wlsguy]

Winning a top 3 medal at the Ohio Invitationals is hard but not impossible.
The different teams tend to mix around their best people and the dominace of a single team doesn't always show. The medals do, however tend to show if you are competitive.

Regionals are hardest of you are in one of the tougher ones (Piqua, Case, Akron). The other ones tend to be a little more balanced.

States is where many actually have a chance. Roughly counting, more than 50% of the teams took home a 1st 2nd or 3rd place medal. Of the 69 total 1~3rd places (3x23) the teams of Centerville, Solon, and Mentor had the most with a combined 33. Many other teams were competitive in at least one event and several teams took home 2 or more.

I guess what I'm saying is, don't skip the OH invitationals because they are too hard. Because they are competitive is the best reason to go, the medals mean more.

[genemagyk]

I think Shaker might actually stand a chance in Div B....maybe at getting in the top ten for States. I mean, 12th place isn't that far away from 10th!!! Then again, the newbie 7th graders might just ruin our chances.

[genemagyk]

wiseguy said: Regionals are hardest of you are in one of the tougher ones (Piqua, Case, Akron).

I didn't think Akron was hard at all. We went to their regionals. + we got 2nd place. so we didn't get any 1st place medals...Coppley took those...hmph ... But, I think if you try, regionals aren't bad . The only competition that I thought was extremely hard was the Solon invitational. Gak. I think we got one 5th place medal. Everything else went to Magsig, Chardon...and.....(drum rolls for National champs ) SOLON....

[genemagyk]

Solon has about 48.

magsig had 41 div b teams last year.

Gosh. That's a lot. Shaker has like...two....And last year was like the first in many that had two teams!

[E Edgar]

I think that the 41 teams refers to the Magsig invitational.