Disclaimer: I'm not discussing questions on the district test, so I'm not breaking any rules :D
Anyways, if a team places first and second individually on the written test, you'd think the team would do very well in the competition. But then the programming section comes along with a bomb of SIXTY points per question, and the team loses by 50 points because they answered one less programming question than the next team.
Let's do the math. How many questions on the written test does it take to make up a single programming question? 60/6 = 10. 10 questions is a fourth of the entire written test! Even if the team had been ahead by not just 10 but ahead 30-40 points which is quite a few more problems, ONE problem in the programming test completely kills the lead.
I'm not unhappy with the results; I mean, we weren't THAT much ahead of them (lol only 8 points actually), so they might have deserved it. I just think the programming test is now overweighted into the overall team score.
Thus I advocate fewer points awarded per question on the programming test! Thoughts?
Meanwhile hoping for wild card...