I wasn't speaking a priori, nor was I speaking about ACF*. By your own admission, Georgia has attended precisely ONE academic event this year. That's not a vibrant program. That's a shell of a program that used to be a respected power in academic quizbowl. And it is a fact that freshmen have been turned off to the Georgia program because they are not interested in the trash agenda. Browse my site's board for specifics. *I don't even know why you went into that rant about ACF, but at what modern ACF tournament would a team with comparable ability to, say, the UGeorgia academic teams of the 2000-2002 era miss five straight tossups? I think you exaggerate. I'm not trying to make some argument like "format x (trash in this case) is morally inferior" here; essentially, I am making the same "people should be able to play what they want to play" argument that most people agree with. Just as no one would stand for the ACF players on a team refusing to let the trash players attend a tournament, no one should approve of the trash players at Georgia taking over the program and refusing to let the academic players participate fully. One tournament a year is not a fully participating team. Now, all of this is a lacuna to the main point, which is: who exactly asked for a half-trash, half-academic tournament? What do you hope to accomplish by running it? How would this purpose not be better served by running two separate tournaments, one trash and one academic, and letting people attend one or both according to their preferences?
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