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Originally Posted by Wendy Holladay
thanks for the replies. as i said, i am for this change. and the extra presentation practice cannot be overestimated. as to the feedback, our experience has been that the feedback gives actual tasks you should do, and therefore typically cannot be changed during the season, but gives you direction for the next one.
so am i to assume you would be in favor of making woodie flowers and dean's list also competitive at all regionals the team attends?
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I'm definitely pro this change. In Texas we have already had two well deserving teams win (624, 1477) that in previous years may have had some students discouraged from trying since they only had one chance and hadn't ever won before.
The home field is definitely gone. As Karthik said you used to have to pick which regional you submitted it. I know when we went to Bayou last year there was almost zero chance of us submitting against Combustion during Rachel's senior year. That just seemed like a really bad idea. They had a long streak going, experienced presenters and have done a ton of work in the state. If we get to go back to Bayou in the future (when it's not on the same weekend as Lone Star) we'll definitely be submitting.
We submitted at Dallas this year and the feedback
was very helpful. We have been working on improving for Lone Star this weekend. Iteration is never a bad thing.
Expanding this to Dean's List and Woodie Flowers would be great but we need to find a good way to have multiple judge groups to deliberate between candidates. Something like video taping interviews and watching the top contenders together as entire group.