I must give credit where it is due; I thank the
editors for actually retaining one of my trash questions
(for the first time ever! Sail Away! Sail Away! Sail
Away! Woohoo!). The editing was fine with a couple of
isolated incidents of suspect question writing. Did anyone
balk like I did on the Bight of Benin tossup? I buzzed
early and said Gulf of Guinea when there really hadn't
been any identifying clue and the words "Gulf of
Guinea" came later in the toss-up. I wasn't even
prompted, just given a neg-5 (which is always a sore point
with me). I later read a packet with a phenylalinine
tossup that had an asterisk. In the answer was an
instruction to accept tyrosine before that point. That is
inconsistent, is it not? That shouldn't happen, especially not
in a Masters tournament. In addition, there was a
general feeling that there were too many poetry, rap, and
biology questions, and not enough sports at the UMCP
Mirror. However, I can't complain much about anything
more than my own buzzer speed. I won a total of one
speed check all day...
As a final point for
Andrew, would it hurt to either use some will power or
use a thesaurus whenever you think of replacing a
word with "titular" or "seminal?"
JAK