i had composed a long post here saying essentially that you are all whiny bitches (with apologies to the many posters whom i genuinely like and respect--nothing personal), but it got clobbered somehow and i don't have the patience to retype it. so i will repost only the short version. a) the ICT questions were very good. really. b) how can you expect not to have people powering questions (or even having buzzer races to power TUs) when the very best teams in quizbowl go head-to-head? i think this cannot be considered a Bad Thing. c) in a timed format, you don't really have the luxury of putting in an extra-hard clue at the beginning of every tossup whose lead-in is "only" hard enough that 5% or so of all teams will know it. d) i don't see anything wrong with putting character names in the lead-in of a TU on a work best-known for something other than the plot or characters, like R.U.R. or foucault's pendulum. similarly the math tossups singled out for ridicule were, in my opinion, perfectly fine questions. even if every sophomore math major can nail them off the lead-in, is that a bad thing? i think it's a good thing. e) kudos to NAQT, who did a legitimately great job with the ICT. but go to ACF nationals next week if you want to hear lead-ins that don't generate buzzer races. joon
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