--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Hartman <dpuducks_at_y...>"
<dpuducks_at_y...> wrote:
> Like Paul Tomlinson suggested, what I try to do is include things I
> think should be asked about as 15 point parts of bonuses.
> (my most recent endeavor: the photographer Cindy Sherman). So maybe
> someday, the things I am putting as 15 point clues will become more
> easily asked about -- and if not, oh well. Life goes on.
I know I'm becoming more and more rabid about this, but this is
precisely what's wrong with the 5-10-15 bonus format. I have nothing
against canon expansion, but to have a 15-point part -- that's
fifteen points, half the full value of the bonus and *more* than the
value of the tossup that earned the bonus -- be something that
unashamedly obscure -- well, it's the kind of thing that gives
bonuses a bad name. Please, if you want to put in obscure things, put
them in as the third part of a 10-10-10 bonus.
--Paul