While Illinois and the Beltway have great teams that are competitive with college ones and some teams in other areas (cough, cough, State College) are powers, that's not always the case. The University of Delaware's quiz team tripled the number of the competitive games a year that some schools in the state play with one tournament (my senior year record at Salesianum, a state semifinalist, was 4-3). Such schools in the circuit are therefore relatively inexperienced. I assume that there are other regions with little or no qb experience. The definition of 'appropriate' questions thus varies considerably. This is not a problem with national tournaments. It becomes a problem when Brandywine is playing a local tournament with other schools with similar experience - questions that are written for Illinois or Maryland don't work when most schools at a comp. can't average 80 ppg on them. The level of competition thus varies wildly, and there is considerably less standardization (1/4 of all high school teams from across the US don't participate in Penn Bowl). In Delaware's defense, there are quite a few good schools (and players) that could hold their own in national tournaments. The level of competition, however, has not risen to the level where some questions intended for high schoolers are appropriate.
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