Hey everyone, I got to thinking about my decision not to participate in Denison's CBI IM tournament this year; namely, when some people here seemed almost on the verge of accusing me of having no school spirit for passing up an opportunity to represent the school what they considered to be the most important tournament of the year. My internal response was that barely anyone on the circuit would consider CBI Regionals to be the biggest tournament of the year, and besides, I plan on playing at a variety of invitational, regional (NAQT and ACF), and national (TRASHionals) tournaments. But like I said, this got me to thinking . . . Imagine a hypothetical school, Quizbowl University, that has a huge contingent, large travel budget, and really awesome players. Because of this, QB U is able to send a team to *every* tournament around the country. Not only that, but they manage to win *every* tournament. There's not one that they miss, and not one that they lose. Let's expand the hypothetical (and make it even more unrealistic, I know ;-) ) by saying that the administration of QB U wakes up one morning and realizes, hey, our school kicks ass at quizbowl. Let's hype our biggest victory in our promotional literature. My question: Which was their biggest victory, out of all the invitational, junior bird, regional, national, conference, sectional, whatever, tournament victories? Note that I do not want to start a format war; I'm not asking which format is *better*, but which tournament victory carries with it the most prestige. Oh, and also, of course, why. :-) Kristin Who will tell the amusing bureaucratic story of her declining to play CBI IMs in response to private email
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