Only 2 more days left in the regular registration period!
When you’re signing up for what MIST competitions to compete in, keep this simple fact in mind: The more competitions you sign up for, the more opportunities you and your team will have for racking up points. And the more points you have, the higher the chance you’ll have of winning prizes and the higher the chance your team will have of winning the coveted MIST Boston Trophy!!!
So, don’t be a slacker! Try to do one event in as many of the 6 categories as you can (i.e., Arts, Writing/Oratory, Knowledge, Group Project, Brackets, and Sports)!
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A common myth about MIST is that bigger teams automatically win and that there is no chance for smaller teams to compete. This is not true! Smaller teams have just as much opportunity to win as larger teams.
Don’t believe me? Consider this:
Suppose you have one team with 10 students and one team with 30. Let’s also suppose that there are 5 categories and 5 competitions in each category (to simplify things). That’s a total of 25 competitions.
Now, each team can have a max of 2 students in any given competition. So, that’s a total of 50 opportunities to get points. Each student can only compete in 1 competition per category. So, there is only a maximum of 10 students per team who can compete in a given category, e.g., the Arts category. So, you can have 2 ppl in 2D, 2 ppl in 3D, 2 ppl in Fashion Design, etc. That equals 10 students total from a team in that category.
So, the 10 person team can fill up that category just as much as the 30 person team can. And if they fill up every category, all things being equal, they have just as much a chance as racking up points as the 30 person team.
So, it’s all a matter of will: Who wants to win it more!
The truth is, of those 50 scoring opportunities, it is not smart for teams not to fill up those spots. In other words, teams need to take advantage of the opportunities in order to win and not doing so greatly hinders their chances of winning.
If you didn’t quite catch all that, it’s ok. The bottom line is: Don’t be a slacker!
