Re: Ghetto Warz (and question-writing in general)

After reading through the aforesaid UCI packet there are of course 
plenty of criticisms that could be made question by question 
(although two or three tossups were fine) but it's not really any 
worse than your average un-edited poorly written packet.  But a quick 
note on the "Hrotswitha" tossup that Willie's proud of.  First, she's 
already in the canon -- there have been at least two ACF bonus parts 
on her.  Second, she's too obscure for a tossup (except for perhaps a 
very hard-core Master's tourney)...the difference between Hrotswitha 
and say Hildegard of Bingen in terms of obscurity should be obvious.  
As has been said before, canon expansion is best done through bonus 
parts (except that in this case it wouldn't be canon expansion 
anyway).  Third, the question wasn't pyramidal anyway -- if you're 
going to get the tossup, you're going to get it off of the mention of 
her six Terentian comedies in the 2nd line of the tossup -- that's 
the giveaway -- so the rest of the question is pointless anyway.

my 3 cents, Nathan

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