Sorice, I will say it again: I asked for feedback both years and got none, either verbally or by e-mail. I will not call you an asshole, and your opinion does matter. You are, however, somewhat of a liar. To my recollection, I have never told you or any quizbowler--either in person or via e-mail--that they shouldn't have come to one of Iowa's tournaments. That is not something I would say; I like the club to have $$$. I know I have never said it to you because that would be tantamount to telling you off, and--believe it--I would definitely remember having told you off. I may have promised you 75% academic, though I doubt it. It is possible, but if I did, it most likely a few months before my first year (and first time) as a TD. For sure, I did not promise it the second year, and I had little to do with last year beyond writing questions. And perhaps--just perhaps--if your (team's) experience wasn't so awful in 2003? Why else would you(r team) have come to 2004's and 2005's TTGT11? I mean, you need a squad of 6-8 to be competitive, so unless everyone on your team had nothing better to do than waste their time and UIUC's money, I'd have to guess there was some other draw. Also, in a tournament with over 30 question authors, coming from as many as 10 differnt schools, and who are quizbowlers and not always prompt about getting in packets on time, you're going to have a few repeats. Deal with it; 5-10 repeats in 1000-1200 questions isn't the end of the world. THE MAJOR POINT OF THIS DISCUSSION IS: or at least, what I wanted it to be is: TTGT11 has a novel tournament format, and it is not meant to conform to any one player or team. IT IS MEANT FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON ALL SORTS OF STUFF AND WHO LIKE HAVING FUN. If you want a purely academic tournament, those exist, but you won't find one in Iowa City on the weekend of October 21, 2006. Finally, as was alluded to by Zach, you have a choice of 1 of 2 packets each round. No one on you team likes old country standards? Tough shit. You're UIUC, you have plenty of strengths, and you'll make it up in another round. And since, I guess, you forgot, Sudheer's post didn't mention a year, but did mention the country songs round, which was 2005, not 2003 (so, yes, go fuck yourself); Sudheer's post had its impetus in Sudheer wanting to be a dick. Well done, Sudheer. And welcome to the fold. ++Andrew --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Michael Angelo Sorice" Hi, Since, I guess, you forgot (must be all that social life stuff or whatever?) Sudheer's post has its impetus in the fact that, in 2003, you promised us (as in Illinois, through me) a tournament that was 75% academic and delivered something that, by the statistics I kept, was 45%. You claim somewhat more, but this is moot; the simple fact is that we didn't have a very good time (and this at a tournament we won) because we didn't get what we were promised by you. Besides the issue of content, there were a number of other issues (repeats, at least two answers three times and other things, topped-off by that audio round where about 60% of the questions were songs that neither team had heard but which contained their titles in the lyrics. That's just a piss-poor idea.) When I attempted to discuss these issues with you, you told me that, if I had a problem, I shouldn't have come. Since, doubtless, your reply will be to say what an asshole I am or say my opinion doesn't matter since I didn't go last year or tell me to fuck myself (as you already have Sudheer) or something equally insipid, I'll note that the team of mostly freshman that we sent to last year's incarnation also didn't like it. In fact, they came back dissapointed with me for not having prevented their going. For all that, we might even still go back, but we'd want an actually reliable accouinting of the contents of the tournament. I don't see that that's unreasonable. I had a blast at this tournament the first two times I went and I don't see why it shouldn't be like that again. Later, MaS
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