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'''NAQT Customer Service''' is the assertion that [[NAQT]] intentionally ignores complaints of [[mainstream quizbowl]] participants and/or makes business decisions based on what it thinks a mythical group of casual players wants, rather than what a group of dedicated players is telling them.

NAQT Customer Service complaints were most prominent in the early- to mid-2000s. They have been greatly reduced, though not completely eliminated, since the appointment of [[Jeff Hoppes]] as the NAQT Vice President for Communications.

== Examples of NAQT Customer Service ==

Note that these are primarily historical examples, although some of them are still considered current examples of NAQT Customer Service.

*Allowing college tournaments to use [[IS|NAQT high school questions]]
*Allowing [[SCT]] questions with the same answer to appear several years in a row, despite a lack of evidence that the answer was difficulty-appropriate (''L'Africaine'') and/or an inability to produce a competent, non-[[transparency|transparent]] question on the answer (Laplace transform)
*The failure to publicly announce that [[UCLA]]'s 2003 Division 2 team would retain its Division 2 eligibility the next year, even after publicly announcing that players who qualified for the [[2003 ICT]] after a certain date, but did not attend, would retain their Division 2 eligibility the next year (see [[2004 ICT Division II Eligibility Scandal]])
*Asking questions on surveys at major national tournaments that rehash arguments long-settled in the mainstream community (for instance, the presence of "wordplay" questions) and avoid addressing more pertinent criticisms
*Pursuing (and winning) a bid to supply [[MSHSAA]] with competition questions, even after many people involved in day-to-day activities in Missouri strongly cautioned NAQT against doing so

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 '''NAQT Customer Service''' refers to the assertion that [[NAQT]] intentionally ignores complaints of [[mainstream quizbowl]] participants and/or makes business decisions based on what it thinks a mythical group of casual players wants, rather than what a group of dedicated players is telling them.
-NAQT Customer Service complaints were most prominent in the early- to mid-2000s. They have been greatly reduced, though not completely eliminated, since the appointment of [[Jeff Hoppes]] as the NAQT Vice President for Communications.
+NAQT Customer Service complaints were most prominent in the early- to mid-2000s. They have been greatly reduced, though not completely eliminated, since the appointment of [[Jeff Hoppes]] as the NAQT Vice President for Communications.</onlyinclude>
 == Examples of NAQT Customer Service ==

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	NAQT Customer Service complaints were most prominent in the early- to mid-2000s. They have been greatly reduced, though not completely eliminated, since the appointment of [[Jeff Hoppes]] as the NAQT Vice President for Communications.		NAQT Customer Service complaints were most prominent in the early- to mid-2000s. They have been greatly reduced, though not completely eliminated, since the appointment of [[Jeff Hoppes]] as the NAQT Vice President for Communications.

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 *Allowing college tournaments to use [[IS|NAQT high school questions]]
 *Allowing [[SCT]] questions with the same answer to appear several years in a row, despite a lack of evidence that the answer was difficulty-appropriate (''L'Africaine'') and/or an inability to produce a competent, non-[[transparency|transparent]] question on the answer (Laplace transform)
-*The failure to publicly announce that [[UCLA]]'s 2003 Division 2 team would retain its Division 2 eligibility the next year, even after publicly announcing that players who qualified for the [[2003 ICT]] after a certain date, but did not attend, would retain their Division 2 eligibility the next year (see [[2004 ICT Division II Eligibility Scandal]])
+*The failure to publicly announce that [[UCLA]]'s 2003 Division II team would retain its Division II eligibility the next year, even after publicly announcing that players who qualified for the [[2003 ICT]] after a certain date, but did not attend, would retain their Division II eligibility the next year (see [[2004 ICT Division II Eligibility Scandal]])
 *Asking questions on surveys at major national tournaments that rehash arguments long-settled in the mainstream community (for instance, the presence of "wordplay" questions) and avoid addressing more pertinent criticisms
 *Pursuing (and winning) a bid to supply [[MSHSAA]] with competition questions, even after many people involved in day-to-day activities in Missouri strongly cautioned NAQT against doing so
 [[Category: Quizbowl lingo]] [[Category: Bad quizbowl]] [[Category: NAQT]]