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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I'm a soccer coach choosing from 130 boys, am I going to (1) pick any kids who have to be transported from another school and back, or (2) am I going to pick the kids who go to my school, who came to the off season workouts, and are already there ready to go for practices and games?

Hint, the answer is (2). Now, it may not matter so much with no cut or girls sports, but any little negative will swing the pendulum against you when a coach is choosing from a crowd.[/quote]

oh please nowhere has 130 boys trying out for one sport. that's ridiculous.[/quote]

Yes, they do. Heck, Carson has around 130 kids try out for Mathcounts, it is easy to see a large number of kids trying out for a sport.[/quote]

Seriously!? That's kind of hilarious. I don't know anything about it, but is there some reason that a math club can't have everyone participate? [/quote]

The room the club uses can hold 30 kids, I believe. The team of 4 is drawn from the 30 who make the team. The club is run by parent volunteers who probably don’t want to work with 130 kids. The volunteers teach skills to kids and run practice tests that they use to determine who makes the team of 4 and then the 6 other kids who will participate in Chapter as individuals. They offer other math competitions for the kids to participate in but you are still talking about teams of 4-5 kids. It is just how math competitions work. [/quote]

The mathcounts program limits the teams to one per school and limits the number of kids per team.  When my child was at carson nearly 200 kids tried out for mathcounts.  They also had a similar number participate in AMC 8.  
https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/competition-rules-faq

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