Re: CBI Region 9 Results

• From: walter_shandy <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:18:20 -0000
• Message-ID: <b3dr5s+r46k_at_...>

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, dpucollegebowl <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> Thanks to Mary from CBI for correcting me on the one point -- the 
> score change did make it 165-145, before ND was read the TU and 
> given the bonus.  Thus they needed 10 pts on the bonus to tie or 
> more to win.
> 
> I have another question, though.  Our resulting 30 point bonus was 
a 
> 2-part, 15 per answer bonus.  Norte Dame's was a 30-20-10.  Do 
> people think that the structure of the bonus should remain the 
same, 
> in order to preserve some semblance of continuity of difficulty 
> (seeing as how the desire was to re-create match conditions in some 
> way)?

Not particularly.  As long as it was a 30-point bonus (CBI being what 
it is), there's no need to go any further than that.

> Also, I would also be curious to know why CBI decided to give only 
> ND the toss-up (as was posited by one post).  I understand that is 
> the normal procedure if, say, ND had buzzed in but one of our 
> players had answered, for example, but why penalize a team that had 
> done nothing but follow the directions of the moderator?

As far as I can tell, it wasn't a penalty -- it was a reward for ND, 
who (after all) answered the question first.  If anything, they 
should have been given the tossup outright and proceeded straight to 
the bonus.