Jan 28/29... it all comes together... no more predictions, it's GO TIME! Some will win, some will lose, some will curse "Glee" for making them think of Journey songs whenever they hear that line... and 40 large schools will travel to El Paso, 25 medium/small head to San Antonio for the state clash of titans to see if this is the year Texas can send up a California-killer to Nationals in North Carolina.

May your subjective judges be Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny and may you all read the questions carefully!

Wait since large school is at El Paso will a lot of teams being flying up there. I mean some drives will be ridiculous, DFW is alright but everywhere else not in West Texas is so far away.

6 days 6Ks!

where are the regionals this year? specifically, ones that I could get to from fort worth?

Region X is at Pearce, Region IX is at Richland HS in Birdville

Good luck this weekend guys.

May the Mass x Acceleration be with you.

Today is the first for most, if not all in Texas. Good luck to everyone and I hope your subjectives go well.

4:50 and subjectives are done. Now on to the things we can control!

For state, I will be judging speech, so you better hope none of your decathletes have me haha just kidding I most likely will be giving high scores.

Just got done judging speech for Region V, saw about two or four good speeches, didn't get to see Higginbotham yet, but got to see the Pearland team. Should set up for an interesting meet tomorrow.

Always such a relief to be done with subjectives. Impossible to predict scores from the reaction of the kids. They often have little correlation.

A very interesting meet indeed

I GET TO SEE SPEECH SCORES IN THREE HOURS OR LESS!

The rockwall uniforms are one of the most uncomfortable things I've worn, we'll see how testing goes in them.

Did George Costanza design them?

Can't imagine what you can do beyond jeans and a shirt that would make someone say "the most uncomfortable things I've worn"... Must see a photo because the pictures in my head are disturbing.

Maybe it's the bunny suit from The Christmas Story

Does it involve anything with snaps, velcro, leather, or metal studs?

There better not be a thong anywhere near this uniform !!

We can gather scores here http://acadecscores.gilslotd.com/wiki/Regionals/Texas/2011 and get a good approximate estimate for the state qualifying cutoffs early if enough schools post.

Rockwall: 46,856.

That's impressive.

Very interesting, but a great number should be easily ahead in medium-school makes me really wonder what Seven Lakes and Dobie got today.

Seven Lakes: 45,325
Dobie: 49,0028

::jaw drops::

That was an incorrect score for us, they messed up our relay points:

Our score, while not much better, was: 45,725

Bad day for us from top to bottom. First time I've seen everyone have a bad day at the same time, but there it is. Congrats Dobie, great score.

Damn impressive, but I'm glad to see our old record still standing

wow. just...wow.

wow, and it's only regionals.... great job everyone

Alice. 39,777.

Tough day but we will be better

Seems like the quote of the day today.

Wow, by comparison Dobie's score is literally off-the-charts because everyone seemed to have underperformed, and Dobie still kicked ass.

I think Rockwall is still very much in contention for a state title. Their subjectives are LOW at regionals, and will be HIGH at state. How many points is that right there? Plus, ours here in the region are probably inflated.

BTW, Rockwall got a 39 on the Relay.

Oh I totally agree, I'm just amazed probably like the rest of us of what Dobie was done relative to the rest of the state.

Region IV Winner O'Connor High School 4?,???
2nd place Stevens High school 36.844.3
3rd place Warren 36476.1
Relay Winners (tie)
Warren, Stevens 34 pts.

Rd. 2 v. 2 relay

I don't know how to post on the adsic site, so could someone help us out. Thanks.

Thankyou very much! Will you be able to get your hands on all scores?

Looks like our score leaked on to the board before the end of the competition.

Here's the final info:

Overall Score: 49,028
SQ Total: 5280

Objectives Total: 33,211
Subjectives Total: 15,816

Honors:
Jeremy Morris - 8890
Jessica Huynh - 8346.4
Quinn Velasquez - 7119.5

Scholastics:
Katey Miille - 8140.1
Ed Gonzalez - 7921.9
Julian Hernandez - 7528.4

Varsities:
Eddie Nunez - 8428.4
Mark Admani - 7300.9
Tad Walters - 6832.7

Congrats to Clear Brook, Pearland, Deer Park, Pasadena HS, Friendswood and all the other Region V schools. Lots of good scores across the state from Seven Lakes, Rockwall, Nimitz and Alice and others. Look forward to seeing everyone at El Paso.

Goodnight. Time to sleep.

Nope. We only got printout of our own school's numbers. I have Warren's and access potentially to Stevens (I am a coach so these two team numbers are good).

So who else might have scores? I'm a bit surprised we haven't heard anything from Gear or Webb from region 10. I'm not sure we have anything else although Irish might have more from his region, but I feel like we know less than usual I mean if it wasn't for Hartman we would have almost knew nothing from today. So hopefully we can get more info before Monday.

O'Connor got a 41XXX, with a very dominant duo of Honors one got a 85XX

in the medium results:
1. Boerne Champion HS- 37898.3
2. Alamo Heights HS- They didn't say the score, but apparently about 200 points behind us
relay:
Champion won with a 33
SQ was won by Alamo Heights with a 4360

individual:
Honors top score: Heights 7XXX?
Scholastic Top Score: Heights 7XXX? (probably a 7100-7200, he apparently barely beat me and I got a 7084, a very disappointing score)
Varsity: unknown but it looks like a score around 6000 based on what i do know

this will be interesting for state competition, Heights is ticked they lost, and many if not all the Champion individuals are very very disappointed in their scores so we should hopefully see a nice increase in our scores

if I may be so bold to ask if Alice would care to share individual scores?

~Brad Hillin~

Edit: Region IV by the way, we don't get full scores til monday I guess, they are supposed to E-mail them

I think that is the general consensus of the night, everyone felt like they did not do their best but I believe it seems more of the tests difficulty then people putting up a poor performance, but you are right it does set up everyone to see a nice score boost so we'll see what happens next month.

Also to all the medium/small school people I will be in San Antonio judging speech and be there for the competition the next day so hopefully I can meet some of you guys.

Webb just got home...

REGION X TOTALS...

Rockwall 46856 M (BEAST MODE... ACTIVATED!)
Highland Park 38907 M (Notice the dropoff there?)
Pearce 38134 M
Plano 37416 L
Berkner 37337 L (79 POINTS!!! AGGGGHHHH!!! But real congrats to Plano, our Large School winner.)
Plano East 36871 L
Rockwall Heath 35626 M
Rowlett 34918 L
Garland 34538 L
Sachse 34263 L
Richardson 33482 L
Hillcrest 30724 M
Sunset 30675 L
South Garland 30041 L
Plano West 29543 L
TAG Magnet 29252 L
Lake Highlands 28763 L
Sci/Eng Magnet 27665 L
North Garland 27170 L
Naaman Forest 26853 L
Irma Rangel 25697 L
Health Magnet 24862 L
Business Magnet 24768 L
Thomas Jefferson 24634 M
Lakeview Centennial 24496 L
Forney 23724 M
Molina 22127 M
South Oak Cliff 20027 M

Medium school top scores:
ALL OF ROCKWALL'S TEAM ZOMG
Honors 7531, 7827, 8294
Scholastic 7818, 8106, 8458
Varsity 6596, 6752, 7419

ROCKWALL SWEEP! (We yelled that whenever Rockwall swept an event.)

Large school individual top scores:
Varsity #1: Andrew Rabago, Berkner 6286
Scholastic #1: Aysha Najjab, Berkner 6634
Honors #1: Derek Hammons, Berkner 7765 (Would have been about 140 points higher if Judge #3 hadn't had an overdoes of Hatorade before judging...)

And is it just me, or are scores *very low* this year for a lot of schools?

We got some big 40's out in front, but second place scores are landing in the mid- to upper-30's. This is going to be a chaotic year, methinks...

Agreed I think everyone outside the teams at the very top teams their can be a lot of movement at state. Also just a guess but it seems like the medium judges were a little bit nicer than the large schools because the top 3 medium all was ahead of Plano and that is just shocking although it does seem Rockwall is just incredible.

As a side note I'm not sure I want to find out what my old team scored because the scores seem awfully ugly today.

The same goes for region 5 also. The essay graders seemed to have some kind of chip on their shoulder. I don't know if we're the only team that noticed this or not (or perhaps we all just suck at essays, its possible). And lang/lit of course was an abomination, but we already knew that was coming. This just makes me in even more awe of Dobie for miraculously pulling of a 49k under these conditions.

OK, all you other regions... POST!

glad to know we aren't the only ones who thought it was one of the most brutal tests ever.

On average I believe math scores were about the same or higher than Lang Lit.

So for lang-lit are we at the point that it is almost a subject that one might want to punt on and focus on other subjects because hasn't the trend been the tests for that is nearly impossible. Just asking considering I have no idea on the material.

Just now got home and Wife is screeching at me to get off the computer and cuddle with her - so I will sacrifice one for the team here people and post scores then go into damage control mode with the wife.

1. Nimitz 43,9xx
2. Coppell 40, 746
3. Frisco Centenial 40, 543
4. Marcus 40, 416

At first glance at the scores, one would think that yeah you should just forget Lang Lit, without going into detail due to honesty statements and what not, in short its possible to get a good score, and can definitely make a difference in competition, its just a tad tricky and depends on how/what one studies

I found Lang/Lit to be my only saving grace of this competition, so I think I'll agree with you there. I think most people are just too intimidated by the tests and the novel itself to really go in depth and enjoy it.

Here is what I have summarized so far

1. Dobie 49, 0028 Med or Large ?
2. Rockwall 46, 856 Med
3. 7 Lakes 45, 325 Large
4. Friendswood 44, 119 Med
5. Nimitz 43, 9xx Largge
6. Clear Brook 42, 381 Med/Lg ?
7. Pearland 41, 145 Lg
8. Coppell 40, 746 Lg
9. Centenial 40, 543 Med
10. Marcus 40, 416 Lg


why are we the only regions posting - where is Plano, San Antoio???

Look back on my post on page 2...

Sorry I screwed up on my initial post that Wakeland beat Centennial - I fixed it now - Centennial won - seriously sorry

Thanks - we had our top scholastic get sickj and start throwing up today but we can bounce back