Previous Contest Materials

2024 National Contest, Ames, Iowa

• 2024 National Contest Scorecard updated 10 AprilGuidebook-updated 10 April​

• 2024 National Contest Scorecard-updated 19 MarchGuidebook-updated 19 March

• 2024 National Contest Summary of changes 19 March

• 2024 National Contest Guidebook-updated 15 Feb

• 2024 National Contest Scorecard-updated 16 Feb

  • Includes updated depth for local roads and streets evaluation (rocks), clarification on redox depletions, clarification of mineralogy in hydraulic conductivity, the addition of soil taxonomy instructions, updated team timing

• 2024 National Contest Guidebook update 09 Feb

• 2024 National Contest Scorecard Last update 09 Feb

  • Updates in this version include code of conduct addition, soil moisture regime section, addition of wetness features description, few soil taxonomy updates

• 2024 National Contest Guidebook 12 Jan

• 2024 National Contest Scorecard 12 Jan

2023 Region V Contest, Sturgis, SD

• 2023 Region 5 Scorecard Version 1 July 2023

• 2023 Region 5 Guidebook FINAL

• 2023 Guidebook Addendum 

• 2023 Blank Pit Card

• 2023 Blank Lab Data Card

2022 Region V Contest, Milford, Iowa

• 2022 Handbook (Updated 9/29/22)

  • Updated order of suitabilities to match scorecard​

• 2022 Scorecard 9/27/22 

  • Morphology box sizes modified for easier use​

• 2022 Handbook (Updated 9/27/22)

  • Removed equation for Ustic/Udic, use only chart​

  • Redox clarifications

• 2022 Scorecard (updated 9/19/22)

  • Remove wetness features​

• 2022 Handbook (Updated 9/21/22)​

  • Clarify cambic not allowed with argillic/natric​

  • Clarify that -vert- subgroup not allowed with a vertisol

  • Added +/- 5 points for credit on the CSR2 value

  • Clarify minimum depth for cambic

• 2022 Grading procedures (New 9/21/22)​​​​

• 2022 Scorecard V2 (updated 9/17/22)

  • Moved ​surface runoff to after hydraulic conductivity

• 2022 Handbook V1.3 (Updated 9/17/22)​

  • Updated surface runoff discussion location, schedule update, clarified rock fragment percentage, removed reference to without basements​

• 2022 Region V Handbook V1.2 (last updated 9/08/22)

• 2022 Region V Scorecard V1(last updated 8/30/22)

2021 Contest, Crookston, Minnesota

• 2021 Region V Handbook Version 2.1 18SEP2021 (Minor Revision)

  • NOTE: All changes from version 2.0 have been highlighted in green. Changes from v 1.0 have been retained as highlighted in yellow, but no modifications have been made to the yellow highlighted portions since the previous version. Since v 2.0, the following edits have been made: Replaced "Ustolls" with "Udolls" (p. 29); added a set of soil/site characteristics for UPn12d (Dry Hill Prairie (p. 34).​

• ​2021 Region V Scorecard Version 2.1 18SEP2021 (Minor Revision)

  • NOTE: Changes will not be highlighted on the scorecard so as not to disrupt printability (is that a word?). However, the following changes have been made: In Landform, "Wave-Modified Moraine" has been changed to "Water-Modified Moraine"; In Hillslope Position, "Toeslope" has been added.​

• 2021 Region V Handbook Version 2.0 10SEP2021

  • NOTE: All changes have been highlighted in yellow. Since v 1.0, changes have been made to p. 13 (sand percentage margin of error), p. 15 (redox features), p. 22 (soil wetness class), p. 28 (soil classification and note on aquic conditions), pp. 33-34 (most probable native plant community classification). ​

• 2021 Region V Scorecard Version 2.0 10SEP2021

• 2021 Region V Handbook Version 1.0 17AUG2021

• 2021 Region V Scorecard Version 1.0 18AUG2021