A few of you may have received this as an email. Given the relatively positive reaction that I've received, I'll post it to the entire club. This is, of course, not intended to offend anyone, least of all the new Mr. and Mrs. Pickrell (who have many happy decades in front of them together). Differences between Weddings and Quizbowl Tournaments 1. Weddings start on time. 2. Wedding receptions usually involve salad, bread, some entrees, and cake. A good meal at a tournament is a bagel and some Munchkins from Dunkin' Donuts. 3. Everybody at a wedding tends to be well-dressed. You score style points at a tournament if your T-shirt doesn't have any visible stains. 4. Tournaments can be single-elimination, double-elimination, or round-robin. The winner at the wedding reception is the one who limbos lowest. 5. Weddings tend to have elaborate introductions. Quizbowl tournament preliminaries involve a distraught TD yelling and trying to get everyone's attention. 6. At the end of the wedding, the bride and groom kiss. People can kiss at tournaments, too, but you usually have to have beaten a really good team on the last question. 7. The bride and groom know the answers to the questions they're going to get before the wedding. You can do that a tournament, too, but it's frowned upon. 8. It's now common to dance "The Macarena" at a wedding reception. Anyone dancing "The Macarena" at a tournament usually needs the points. 9. Weddings have spectators. 10. Weddings have flower girls and ring bearers, whose sole purpose is to look cute. Tournaments don't have this luxury - the ring bearer would be scorekeeping and the flower girl would be doing stats. Hayden (who has finally recovered from the reception)
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