>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. "UK", please, not England... it *is* a united country... ;) (Seriously, though, Englishpeople are starting to get touchy about devolution... it's weird) Anyway, I wouldn't necessarily say that's true. Granted, UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE has a lot of Brit-specific content in it, but, on the other hand, the "circuit" as we (Americans, mostly, I grant) know it doesn't exist. As the Dean of Degrees at St. Hilda's told me, Hilda's team is made of volunteers who go in cold and get spanked. In general, AC here is NOT big at ALL, and so teams don't develop the internal cohesion that comes from knowing what your teammates know (Anyone's who's ever seen Craig come up with "John Stewart Mill" off of my adoration for "The Philosopher's Drinking Song" will understand what I mean... ;) The best way to get a nice happy international circuit going (IMHO)is to email British AC organizations and offer to edit currently existing packets to remove blatent American bias for them to use. That would also have the added bonus of alerting question writers to those sorts of questions.
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