As one of the more experienced slap bowlers on the circuit, I have to disagree for two reasons. a) Slapping is much closer to buzzing than using words. b) Slapping creates a quick, short, and distinct sound which is generally not created by speech. It is harder to tell who went first for a sound of any duration, and it can cause a cacophony. Z --- In quizbowl_at_y..., "spoon_jenkins" <courtjester_at_m...> wrote: > At the TRASH New England regional yesterday, my team found ourselves > in a buzzerless room for a couple playoff matches. Since slap-bowl > can be a pretty awful way to play quizbowl, we introduced our > opponents to a method of buzzerless quizbowl that Rutgers has used at > times in practices and tournaments - name-bowl. > > Name-bowl involves calling out one's name to be recognized rather > than slapping one's desk. IMO name-bowl is much better than slap- bowl > in distinguishing who buzzed in first. Whereas desk-slapping by > different people usually sounds pretty similar, individual voices are > more distinct and all the players in a match usually have different > names. > > Slap-bowl can create difficulty calls for moderators because of > different slapping techniques. The half-inch above the desk slap hits > the desk quickly but is sometimes barely audible. The high-hand slap > can take longer to hit the desk but sounds much louder. This can > create problems of visual vs. aural evidence. > > Some people like to shorten their names for name bowl, though it's > not too difficult to notice who starts their name first. > > I just figured I'd bring name-bowl to people's attention, because I > think it's an improvement over slap-bowl and I don't come across > anyone using it. > > Thanks, > James McGhee (Rutgers alum from Voltron Crew team)
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