--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "Stephen Webb" <sdwebb91984_at_y...> wrote:
<<I don't mind a little trash here and there, but NAQT has allowed
it to become a major field that can decide matches, which should
never be the case for anything that isn't a TRASH tournament (for
obvious reasons).>>
It isn't obvious to me at all why this "should never be the case"--
especially if teams know beforehand what the approximate distribution
is. [That and the fact that it's often rather hard to say that a
specific category "decides a match."]
--STI