--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "kehamlin" <hamlin_k_at_d...> wrote: > Sorry if anyone has answered this already (I haven't checked out the responses yet) -- but you're complaining about TRASHionals being > hardcore. Didn't you realize that it's a national championship level tournament? It is to TRASH what ACF Nationals is to ACF, the NAQT ICT is to NAQT, etc. And championship level tournaments have championship level questions. It's that simple. > > Kristin Hamlin No it's not that simple. In some sense I agree with Ross. This TRASHionals, as opposed to previous years, was easily the most difficult TRASHionals the organization has ever held. A lot of people argue that national championship tournaments should take a major jump in difficulty from the Regional/Sectional to the National level. Perhaps they are right... but for me, one of the charms of TRASHionals in past years was that it did not take a significant jump in hardness/obscurity from TRASH Regionals. Now, with this year's packet set, it seems that TRASH has decided to move closer to ACF Nationals and especially NAQT ICT in its difficulty jump level. If TRASH wants to do that in order to differentiate the top teams, they have that right. IMHO, though, you don't have to make a large jump in difficulty in order to do that; that's what pyramid-structured toss-ups are for. So I think it's a little sad that TRASHionals has gone the ICT route. Nonetheless, I will certainly return to TRASHionals in future years because I enjoy the products TRASH puts out as a whole, both question- wise and logistically. That is, assuming one of these years they move TRASHionals out of the Midwest and back to the East Coast ;-) -Adam
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