Re: Berkeley WIT Distribution, Singles, etc.

• From: ZAMM_Phaedrus <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:27:48 -0000
• Message-ID: <am7vnk+d665_at_...>

At 02:28 PM 9/17/02 -0000, jpahk wrote:
>--- In quizbowl_at_y..., koszul <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
>*rampant snippage*
>
>> History/Politics/Government 6 TU/6 B
>> Literature 5/5 
>> Fine Arts (2/2)
>> Philosophy/Religion/Mythology (2/1 or 1/2)
>> Social Science (1/2 or 2/1)
>> Geography (1/1)
>> Science 5 TU/5 B
>> Other stuff (3/3)
>
>is it just me, or is this distribution much more heavily weighted 
>towards the "big three" (hist, lit, sci) than usual? admittedly i 
>have not played in a tournament in a very long time so my memory 
>could be faulty, or perhaps the tides have changed, or maybe this 
>particular tournament is always like that and i just didn't know. but 
>even taking those things into consideration i have come to the 
>conclusion that this is weird and it's all david's fault. :)
>
>joon

For a 25/25 tournament, the standard of recent has usually been 5/5 
each of the big three, with an eye towards putting 4/4 (occasionally 
3/4 or 4/3) in a 20-tossup match. For example, ACF Fall fits that 
standard 3x5/5 for a 25/25 submission 
(http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~paik/acf/fall.html). Most current variations 
in distribution involve differing quotas for the "minor" subjects.

The only thing unusual is the addition of politics, often the domain 
of current events, and government, often the domain of social science, 
to history in an omnibus category. But there are precedents for such 
attempts. I've seen tournaments include philosophy in literature, 
geography in social science, and the culinary arts in fine arts.

Anthony