As far as questions go:
(1) If there were
questions that were blatantly anti-pyramidal, I'm sorry.
But believe me when I say there were far more
ridiculously easy lead-ins in the packets that were submitted;
I got most of them, but obviously not quite all of
them [Ulysses being one of them].
(2) As the
person who wrote the distribution we used to compile the
packets, and compiled your packet, I can assure you that
it did in fact follow the distribution. Moreover, if
you look at the distribution, Sci, Hist, and Lit
comprise 1/2 the questions, so out of 20, the three
together should comprise 9-11 questions in the first 20.
And while I too would have to check, I'm fairly
certain they did.
I'm not going to apologize for
the randomization. If you have a problem with that,
take it up with the people who wrote
WordPerfect.
Was the tournament perfect? No. But I had a number of
people who were at MLK and Penn Bowl tell me they
preferred the questions from Penn Bowl. Does that mean Penn
Bowl is superior? Not necessarily. Does it mean that
what *you* think makes a good packet isn't necessarily
what other people think? Yes.
--STI