Prestige & Publicity

• From: jsbennett70
• Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 18:22:08 -0800
• Message-ID: <000S3UG2G.000FJMQE8.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

For the tournament with the most prestige, it
really all depends. NAQT has the toughest field, ACF the
toughest questions (and if the natl poll reflects qb
opinion, ACF might be more prestigious than NAQT since the
natl poll more closely reflected ACF results), but CBI
is the only one that people have ever heard
of.

If you measure prestige by what a regular American
or Canadian would think, the answer would have to be
CBI. "College Bowl" means something to anyone who
watched TV before 1971. Many teams out there even call
themselves College Bowl teams, since the college bowl name
means something and would be a more effective way to
let people know what one of our teams actually is
than NAQT Team or ACF team. 

Which brings me to
a question (which I don't mean as a complaint.)
What do NAQT & ACF do for publicity? I am sure at
least NAQT does something. CBI gets a relative huge
amnt of publicity, even for a small tournament. The
recent "Final Four on the 94th Floor" in Chicago got
short articles in the Sun-Times and the Tribune (w/
picture) and things on the local news broadcasts, even
though it was probably very boring the reporters to
watch and there were only 4 teams there. Imagine the
articles if only we could get reports to NAQT nationals or
Penn Bowl, with the huge numbers of teams and
excitement.