Re: A proposal to the circuit at large.

• From: walter_shandy <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 15:24:04 -0000
• Message-ID: <apu6ak+ruo5_at_...>

Stop me if I'm wrong here, but don't most programs have as many 
practice packets as they need?  I don't know how many tournaments 
Oklahoma doesn't go to, but basically, if you don't go to a 
tournament, that's two or three weeks' worth of practice packets 
right there... just download it, or trade for it, or buy it, or 
whatever.  And if you do go to a tournament, get the packets from 
there, wait a year or two, and then use them at practice.  Sure, 
there might be some kind of vestigial packet memory going on, but if 
you can get a serious advantage from hearing questions you heard two 
years ago, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.  In any event, 
it's better (in my opinion) than practicing on non-tournament-quality 
questions from a bunch of random scrubs you've never heard of.  (And 
if the questions are tournament-quality, people should be using them 
in tournaments... there's no great surplus of tournament-quality 
questions out there, y'know?)  Basically, BU has as many packets as 
we need without resorting to using questions that never existed (of 
course, we do have to maintain that supply, but it's not like we're 
living hand-to-mouth on the packet front), and I was under the 
impression that this was true of all colleges.  If it's not, I rather 
wonder why not...