i got beat by klein & a&m with my 203 in ns, and our team got beat by la joya for the wild card for calc apps. i am not going to state...but i know where la joya is located now...beware! j/k, j/k!!
La Joya... Just hearing their name makes my blood boil.
I think I've told y'all this before, but I might as well post it anyway...
Robby and I went to a comp sci meet in San Antonio where we ran into the dreaded La Joya UIL team. They swept every event, and overall it was rather embarrassing. We took a Hexco style comp sci test, and were utterly defeated by the useless nature of it. Robby was beaten by one kid from La Joya High School named Oscar... Oscar de la Joya! From then on, Robby vowed never to place under 1st ever again, and he hasnt till this day, *knock on wood*.
Anyway... I am sorry Quincy. You soooo deserved to compete at state. If you were in 4A, you'd easily make it in, but no.... You have to face magnet schools with people like Jessica Wang and others of that nature...
And sorry Vinay! Somebody should have corrected me earlier!
Number Sense was quite entertaining at our region, since La Joya and O'Connor took the top seven spots. Top four scores were 233-228-227-226. We lost team to them by four points. >.<
I would say they're our rivals, but we'd have to beat them at least once for them to consider us rivals. We've been behind them four straight regionals, behind by seven points two years ago and nine the year before that. o.0
At least we're only losing one senior, and the rest of our ns team are sophomores and freshmen. We'll be back.
Are you doing IPCS on the 13th or 12th? Robby and I are teaming up and so far, we dont know anybody else doing it from Texas. I think registration is free. You should check it out man, 5 hrs of contest for international prestige... Eh? Why not?
I'm going as a backup alternate for our accounting team. I'm not gonna be taking anything, i just get to go. I should have got an easy 2nd place in #sense but i blew it and didn't place at all. :(
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The US Open killed me. All the problems were easy, especially because Java gives me huge libraries that make "Oooh, I bet the kid didn't prepare this strange and random algorithm!" problems into "Okay, now that I got the answer from the SeeminglyRandomUtilityObject class, I have to tweak it to make it acceptable output." I just failed to notice that one of them had input with 20 integers per line within a set, rather than the entire set, and so I failed that problem. At the next contest, I'll have to read the prompts before and after writing the program...
State computer science is in a week. Going into the meet, I have the best combined score. The margins are pretty big, so it looks like the top six are (in no particular order) me, Ricky Gentry, Craig Wilson, Michael (Penguinzchaseme), Bill Hamilton, and Matthew Erickson. Now, we just have to sort out the places
I think Zack was a bit wrong... I've taken second twice since the HexCo meet. The first time was at the Westwood invitational, to Wilson, and the second was in Denton, to Michael.
Sorry Robby. I completely forgot about that meet. I tried to put that meet out of my mind. You were the only kid to place in any event (I finally got the results for science at that meet, you got 8th and I 10th out of 80-something people...), so I tried to forget about it.
Do you remember what you scored at that meet? I remember that was a really difficult test.
