Re: CBI Region 9 Results

bigflax29 <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:36:42 -0000

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, dpucollegebowl <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> In the final match, DePauw finishes ahead 165-140.  Notre Dame 
> protests an answer they gave of "Zaire" for a question relating to 
> the current legal tender of the "Democratic Republic of the 
Congo".  
> Initially, they had been given a neg (despite a direction to prompt 
> if the answer "Zaire" was given, which was missed by both the 
> moderator and the judge) and DePauw had not gotten the TU correct 
> during the match, so the match continued as normal.  CBI National 
> headquarters is called and it is ruled that Notre Dame is to be 
> given the correct answer and have the neg taken away, making the 
> score 165-155.  Then they are to be read a TU (for ONLY Notre Dame 
> to answer -- whose answer was "amber", with the final two clues 
> calling it "this fossilized resin" and "important to the plot of 
> Jurassic Park") and given a 30-20-10 bonus (name the NFL team, 30-
20-
> 10, where the 20 pt clue mentioned that Larry Czonka of this team 
> was in the Hall of Fame...), thus declaring Notre Dame the 
winners.  
> Both teams thereby finish the day with 2 losses and a 2-2 record 
> against one another.
> 
> What do people think of this procedure?

That's a monumentally inexplicable decision.  There is absolutely no 
logical reason to both give Notre Dame the points *and* read them an 
extra tossup.  Why an extra tossup?  To make up for the fact that 
DePauw was "unfairly" allowed a free shot at the points Notre Dame 
should have had?  DePauw didn't get them, so it didn't matter.  
Furthermore, if DePauw couldn't get it, who's to say Notre Dame would 
have gotten it on a prompt?

Clearly the *correct* decision would have been to give Notre Dame the 
15 points back, making the score 165-155, and then read them the 
bonus.  Since they got 20, they would have won anyway, which takes a 
lot of the sting off this hideous botching of logical game procedure.

Robert Flaxman
Not speaking for other members of Northwestern QB or anyone else