Djones wrote:Steven,
The one thing I noticed, and this may have been intentional, is that the alphabet rounds seemed considerably harder than the rest of the set. While we got 15-19 on them, there were a lot of 4s and 5s at our site, even in the later rounds among teams like Dublin Jerome and Centerville. Given that WC was probably one of the more competitive sites this year, I would bet there were scores way worse than that in places like the NW or SW. I saw Greg had an 8-6 alphabet round in the consolation final in NW. Compare that to the category round questions, which I thought were generally very, very easy. This is not a complaint about the set at all, I thought it was a great way to differentiate between teams. I just wanted to see if that was an intentional thing the writers did, or if it just happened to work out that way. I ask because I may want to do that in the OAC sets I write next year if it fits the theme of regionals and state.
Thomas Moore wrote:I thought "implied powers" and then "535 (voting members in congress)" for Am Gov't/Econ in round 1 was somewhat out of balance. I think implied powers is considerably hard to get.
jtimmer_jm wrote:I noticed the same about the alphabet round and being more difficult than alphabet rounds in previous OAC tournaments. Not that I think it's a bad thing, or the difficulty wasn't appropriate. The high score that I'm aware of was Solon getting 17 in the final game. But most games that I read the teams were in a 10-13 range.
The lightning round was definitely easier this year, most rounds I read 19 or 20 went answered. There was one round where 18 were answered, but I think that was the lowest total. I saw a lot more first sentence buzzes in the lightning round today. (This might be skewed because most of the day I read for the stronger teams...Solon, Beachwood, Brunswick were scoring 55+)
Two of my categories, music and especially chemistry, are difficult to write well for high school given that there isn't a whole lot of (difficulty-appropriate) material there to write on compared to, say, biology/life science, which made it really hard to fill out those subcategories.
BobKilner wrote:Two of my categories, music and especially chemistry, are difficult to write well for high school given that there isn't a whole lot of (difficulty-appropriate) material there to write on compared to, say, biology/life science, which made it really hard to fill out those subcategories.
What's really weird is that I feel completely the opposite here - I can crank out questions on chemistry like they're nothing and absolutely hate writing life science stuff for OAC. I finished all my OAC stuff for next year in about two weeks in February except I'm only about half done with the life science, and dreading having to go back to it soon here.
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