Questions written by undergrads or people who haven't been doing trash or TRASH for very long are going to be written more anti- pyramidally and penalizing real knowledge bc of their general crappiness so of course you're going to get more of them. The reason TRASH at the regional and national level is harder for you is because there are actual editors. And I'm not going to touch a comparison between Depauw's trash tournament and TRASHionals. Sean Phillips again not speaking for anyone but himself --- In quizbowl_at_y..., bigflax29 <no_reply_at_y...> wrote: > Well, I understand that the field is deeper at TRASHionals. Though > it may have seemed like it, that wasn't entirely my point - I don't > score as high at TRASH Regionals either, which certainly couldn't > have a field any less deep than ABD. It was more a comment on TRASH > v. Trash than National v. Regional or anything of that sort. > > But I think you're right about the second part, which is what I was > trying to get at with my "amateur" comment, even though it wasn't > very clear. Questions written by undergrads aren't necessarily going > to be as difficult as questions written by "older" people. (I've > especially noticed this in terms of layering - remember the question > at Duck Bowl on the movie Sneakers where the first two words of the > question were "Martin Bishop" - the film's main character? Of course > there was that question at TRASHionals on "Hoosiers" where Norman > Dale was mentioned in the first sentence, so who knows.) > > Robert Flaxman > NUQB
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