Can you elaborate on your first
paragraph?
And re Academic Decathlon: The preparation is
completely different, which may account for it.
To be
purely objective, I suppose the(Panasonic) format proper
has its pros and cons just like any other, but I do
like their questions better than most commercial
vendors,and also like the way they have a panel of experts on
hand to settle any problems with incorrect answers,
ambiguity, etc.