> While qb is hampered by a lack of national > knowledge that is associated with college > football and basketball, one can do one's best > to make educated guesses. So why then did Imperial College not crack the top 25 ever? Did they even get any votes? They took a large number of top 25 teams behind the prototypical woodshed. > While certain questions are popular to ask, > there should not exist a specific handicap for > schools that don't do well on them. There isn't > a correction in college basketball polls to > correct for the three-point shot - people know > the specifics and try to take advantage of > them. And we go round and round. But hey, the three point line is at different locations in every league and the key is never the same shape. It's _not_ the same game everywhere. Same with football - how many variations are there? And hockey - European teams play better on the wider international ice surface - but not necessarily as well on NHL surfaces. And everyone acknowledges the differences, which is what we need to do here - quizbowl is completely different in every english-speaking country (and throughout the US, though less so than it was 5 or 10 years ago). How do we adjust for these differences? I'm not exactly sure - but if we compare Berkeley to GT to Chicago, we inherently look at ACF performance and NAQT performance, and possibly CBI performance and assign each of these some particular value in the ranking. Ability outside of ACF and NAQT is generally discounted, and it shouldn't be because American teams would get massacred in Australia or Canada or England if the "other country" got to control what questions were asked. And wouldn't a team drawn from 50 million frenchmen be able to kick your ass if the questions were in french????
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