Matt, you ignorant slut. You speak as if you need each individual question to fully distinguish between the top teams. Questions should be considered as an aggregate packet rather than as individual questions in evaluating their ability to distinguish between teams. We're not testing knowledge of single points, but of an accululation of a variety of knowledge. It is appropriate that the lit questions be written so that a lit "expert" gets a clear majority of lit tossups. However, the two most knowledgeable persons about James Joyce at a tournament are probably outliers, just as are the handful of people who go, "James Joyce who?" Unless you are using a format such as Swiss pairs, are in a playoff situation, or have a tournament where half the field has a legitimate shot at winning, a significant number of games are going involve "top" teams against either average or below average teams. It seems pretty pointless to write a tossup on Joyce or one of his works, the first half of which is three lines intending to differentiate between two players who, most likely, are not even playing each other on that particular round. If you think six lines are the minimum, I suppose you'll be submitting questions at least that long to any tournament you go to, unless told otherwise. Well, at least you're not writing ten-line tossups. The only people who would do that are : naive writers who don't know better, assclowns who should know better, and hilarious writers mocking assclowns. --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "darwins_bulldog1138" <darwins_bulldog1138_at_y...> wrote: > As for the "six sentence behemoth", I can hardly think of a way to > write a tossup distinguishing between the top teams at ANY tournament > that is not somewhere in the neighborhood of six *lines.* I'm not sure > what sort of length you mean by "sentence"; if it's the many-claused > type of sentence that I prefer than that would indeed be too long.
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