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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't Longfellow sent only 2 individuals from Chapter to State this year? I don't think their bench is so deep that we'd have to worry about the 13th.
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Longfellow sent a four person team.  They may have had two who competed as individuals.[/quote]

Correct. That what I was saying. They had 6 students (all of which, btw, placed in the Top 25% at State), but the 2 of the 4 individuals from Chapter were not from Longfellow.
If Longfellow had 30 students that would be better than other NoVA schools they would have sent 8 (4+4), not just 6.  That's why I said we don't need to worry about the student who's
ranked 13th at Longfellow.[/quote]

Longfellow doesn't need a monopoly on having the top 30 mathcounters in the chapter.  What if Longfellow has 4 of the top 6, 7 of the top 10, 15 of the top 20, etc... does Bobby13 in Longfellow not get the opportunity to compete because s/he is unluckily in a too-good school?

Note that mathcounts is super-low stakes - no one is getting into MIT on their mathcounts accolades.  We want Bobby13 to continue to be excited about math, rather than quit contest math because he can't even make his school team.

The logistical issues mentioned in this thread are secondary... We can always get a bigger room.  I did math contests (and SATs) in a huge gym with 300+ students.[/quote]

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