--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Mike Burger <mmb5_at_e...>" <mmb5_at_e...> wrote: > The one thing that shocked me the most was the complaining (including > my own) about a certain subject being overrepresented--and then being > faced with the data--realize that it really didn't come up all that > often after all. Look at the results for hockey, Harry Potter and > science fiction. I think you'll be surprised. Actually, I'm not the least bit surprised. While moderately capable at music and some (cult) television, I'm chiefly a position player for geek trash. I always do very well at Trashmasters; heck, one reason it's one of the two tournaments per year I'll permit my old dinosaur self to pick up a buzzer at is that the stereotypical southern "NASCAR, Alan Jackson and Douglas Adams" school of trash has a healthy dose of one component I love, even if I can't stand the other two. While I still had a good time at this year's Trashmasters- always do in Chattanooga- I turned in my <comic book guy>worst trash tournament performance ever</comic book guy>. In fact, close to my worst performance at any quizbowl tournament, ever. It felt as if the questions I came for just weren't there, which now seems to have, in fact, been the case. Science fiction? 1.3% of tossups. Comic books? 1%. Comic strips and "The Simpsons"? No tossups at all. It's a miracle my teammates didn't arrange to have me locked in the trunk, especially since I forgot to bring cookies. If I weren't so easygoing, as a current events/general knowledge/social science/geography/geek trash player I could easily get the feeling that the quizbowl world is moving towards deeming everything I know not "real" knowledge and eliminating it from the canon. - David Vacca
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