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What do you mean that a chapter result would have flipped?  There's a kid who didn't make the top 12 at their school, but you think they would have made the top 5-10 at chapter?  In my experience, top talent kids, even if they're using only half of the time on the school round, should easily score 42+.  The problems are very basic and the ceiling is very low.  
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Yes. that is what happened.  They didn't even have half the time from what I hear, showed up and sped thru it.  The coach should have put this kid in.  He may not have made top ten at chapter, but the team would have won first place.[/quote]

If the kid didn't make the top 12 and get to compete at all, why are you so sure that the kid would have done well at chapter?  Kids often do much better when they're mocking the test at home than they do for the real test.

Also, the fault in this scenario is at least 90% on the kid/parents, less than 10% on the coach, and 0% on Mathcounts.  If the kid wanted to be eligible to participate, then they should have prioritized the school round.  Honestly, if I were the coach, I'd probably put in the kid who made the time for and tried on the school round over the kid who blew it off to rush to some other activity.  [/quote]

This is ridiculous. People are busy and have conflicts sometimes m it doesn't mean they don't care and aren't putting the work in every week for months. It hurts the whole team when a kid has a conflict with something silly like the school test, and the team loses one of their star players over it. There are kids who would help be top 10 in the state who missed chapter over lazy coaching like this. [/quote]

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