Re: [quizbowl] Trash: Age and Accessibility, redux

I think this whole argument about whether one's age
determines one's trash knowledge is a red herring
(despite the fact that Princeton may have
inadvertently started the discussion down that path.)
The point here is that there is demand for a
tournament with a bias towards the recent, and enough
of that demand is coming from undergrads to make an
undergrad-only tournament of the recent viable.
Whether all undergraduate trash players would be
interested is not relevant, and I don't think anyone
is seriously claiming that such a proposition is true
or germane to this argument. I, for one, have no idea
how I'm supposed to answer questions on TV shows that
went off the air before I was in kindergarten. Perhaps
I could tug on tvtome.com solely for the purpose of
improving my trash PPG, but presumably that would go
against the intentions of trash (and take away from
the limited time I have to write tossups on the lesser
works of Mario Vargas Llosa). If people who are older
than me, or more interested in reading the latest
peer-reviewed journal articles on She's The Sheriff
than me, want to answer such questions, then they can
go to...just about every other trash tournament ever
held. I, as an entirely casual and perfectly average
trash player of the early-20s persuasion, am looking
forward to Princeton's event.

--M.W.

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