As an American who resided in Canada for 15 years, my thoughts on QB distribution and its supposed bias against Canadians. 1. 90% of Canadians live within 200 miles of the U.S. border and practically all of them receive U.S. TV. 2. Excepting news and sports on the CBC, Canadian Nielsen ratings make it quite clear that American TV shows and entertainment dominate Canadian viewership. 3. Canadian high schools teach a comprehensive amount of American history (albeit with some rather weird perspectives--I know, I went to one--once you've been informed that Joe McCarthy made the U.S. morally equivalent to the U.S.S.R. of Joey Stalin it's hard to take some of your texts seriously). 4. I'll grant that the average QB distribution tends to overemphasize the U.S. a bit much in comparison to its place in world history. But if you simply changed that emphasis to Canada for some sort of Canadian-centric tournament, what real difference would you see? Substituting 3 "Canadian" questions for 3 "American" questions would get you what? A bonus on the entire Atwood corpus, a trash question on the Bare Naked Ladies or Jann Arden, more questions on McLuhan, a question on Captain Vancouver and a bonus on Lundy's Lane. So figure maybe 50 more points a game for a Canadian team in such a tournament.
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