Editors should hang onto unedited questions. Whether you're selling a
set or sticking them in an archive, they are instructive. In any case,
they're extra questions for practice, whether or not they've been
edited. Being able to compare edited and unedited versions is
potentially instructive. People can see how much (or even if) any
editing has actually been done. Obviously, this has potential
humiliation in store for bad writers and editors. On the other hand,
it would be interesting. Samer can offer the original files if he ever
offers the set for sale. ACF probably has several rounds worth of
unused and possibly unusable questions for any given tournament which
they can give away.
--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Steinhice <steinhic_at_b...>"
<steinhic_at_b...> wrote:
> Like the old saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished. I've never
> attended Penn Bowl and couldn't speak to the TD part. But as
> probably the only person not named Samer Ismail who has seen the
> bulk of both unedited and edited Penn Bowl questions for the past
> three years, I feel qualified to address the editing issue.
>
> All I can say is, if you didn't like the finished product, you
> shoulda seen 'em *before* Samer worked on 'em.