erik, do you think qb is a meaningless game which is an end in itself, or do you allow the possibility that qb can cause good things to happen that don't directly relate to the results of qb tournaments? i will admit that i learned a lot of things with the primary intention of becoming better at qb; i'm not the only one to do this, although it was much less common at my school than at some other programs. the point is not that it enabled me to do better at a couple of tournaments--after all, what is that worth to me now?--but that now i know stuff about art, and literature, and foreign cultures, and intellectual history in general. how can this be bad, even if the information itself was learned for superficial purposes? if you work at qb because you like winning more than losing, maybe that's "inferior" to knowing things "honestly"--but you are likely to stumble across things which interest you and which you will want to learn more about even if the new things you learn never come up in QB. congratulations--you may be on the way to intellectual enrichment. i have nothing to say about "true" or "fair" formats--i guess i could insult some people here but i don't really see what would be gained by that. returning to hibernation... joon
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