> > -Where do the people behind this "guerilla trash" tournament get off > with such behavior? How do you plan to rectify the enormous slight you > have done to, specifically, the Brown team, and in general, people > interested in real quizbowl tournaments in the Boston, southern > California, and lower Mid-Atlantic regions? They don't and what they did was clearly unacceptable. > -Do the architects and players of trash tournaments plan to continue > undermining the attempts of real quizbowl teams to hold real quizbowl > tournaments? If this malice is just the aberrant behavior of one > individual and not reflective of the way that trash organizers in > general operate, then what do we, the organizers of real tournaments, > need to do in order to help the mainstream of trash tournament > directors avoid analogous honest mistakes in the future? Do you guys > need someone to tell you which academic events have been announced by > direct e-mail, or what? I'm open to suggestions here and I'm sure all > the other people involved in real tournaments would be likewise > inclined to take some constructive criticism in case there was any > communicative failure on our part. > > --Matt Weiner > OK this is where I start to take issue. You of all people should know to gaurd against the fallacy of hasty generalizations. Since when were "architects and players of trash tournaments" a separate breed sworn to destroy "real tournaments"? The nature of these three questions are so and laughibly condescending at best and wholly ignorant of reality at worst that response to them directly is virtually impossible. The Cancel Bowl people screwed up. BIG. Do not impute the blame and public shaming they should justly receive to the rest of us who play trash or run trash tournaments. We are not our trash brother's keepers. Sean
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