Its pretty pessimistic to believe there is no solution, and all we have is hope, the first step of course is identifying the problem/goal Goal: Increase number of schools participating in the invitational quizbowl circuit Obstacles: local organization difficulty of play/questions difficulty of play/competition ... Solutions: Gearing competition and questions to levels appropriate for new schools (e.g. Junior Birds, Undergrad Only Tournaments ...), and bring them along gradually (rather than face the brick wall of a master's level tournament. This will help in retention of schools for which the first step has been achieved. However the first step remains. Local marketing: This may require some apostles, or Johnny Quizbowlseeds, to go around and plant the desire at each school. The advantage CBI has is the ACUI contract, which brings along many schools. There are other similar groups which we may not get (e.g. NCAA), but perhaps someone can discover some other vehicle for promoting participation at currently non-participating schools. For instance a state school which particpates should be able to coordinate with other schools in the same state university system. A school in an athletic conference should be able to get other schools in the same conference to participate (NAQT made a start of this with the conference tournaments, which they have abandoned). Admittedly this requires work and energy, and a bit of selflessness to spend time on promoting the game over spending the same time trying to win the game, but eventually you might be recognized. Further, the expansion of the high school circuit should plant the bug in students, and the linkage of hs and college games may make this feasible. Brian wrote: By:almasudi Date:10/17/01 2:16 pm If there is a have/have-not division on the circuit, it is worst between large and small schools. Consider the number of schools that have disappeared from the circuit since I began playing in 1995: Quincy, Truman State, Eureka, Beloit, Lee, Garden City Community College. A few of these have disappeared altogether, while others I think still do CBI only. Why? Probably difficulty in maintaining organization after core groups leave, as well as more difficulty attracting students to teams that usually don't have much chance to win. Solution? Nothing really, except hope new people come along to start something, as has happened at DePauw.
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