On a certain quiz bowl player (was Re: QB Tourney Dates)

Bill Stallard <*darthbill2_at_rollaqb2002.yahoo.invalid*> · Wed, 04 Dec 2002 05:39:06 -0000

Actually Josh you guys kick him with a score of 480-75. 

Bill

--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "bucktowntiger" <jdh22_at_c...> wrote:
> Even though I am proud to wear and bleed Razorback Red (Go Hogs!  
> Beat Georgia), the tiger has been, is, and probably always will be 
my 
> favorite animal (as evidenced by my Yahoo! name).  Fascinated 
enough 
> to learn their demographics by subspecies (which gave me the 
> knowledge to buzz in very VERY early on a tiger question at a 
recent 
> tournament), I can usually be seen wearing orange and black to 
tests, 
> parties, and especially quiz bowl tournaments.  One only needs to 
> observe my car to view my enamoration with William Blake's most 
> famous subject.  Indeed, if there's nothing at stake for the 
> Razorbacks, I have traditionally rooted for teams which have the 
> tiger as their mascot (yes, even LSU and Auburn).
> 
> However, I have been very tempted to make an exception to this 
> tradition for the quiz bowl team of the University of Missouri.  I, 
> like many others, am tired of the endless biographies, 
> tournamentographies, and top-25 plugs that Mizzou's captain (I 
think 
> you know his name by now) makes.  Let's face the facts:  winning a 
> tournament with the same record as the second-place team, in which 
> you go 1-1 against the second-place team, and in which the 
questions 
> were written for high-school players and first- and second-year 
> college players, does not by any means qualify a team to become one 
> of the top 25 teams in the nation.
> 
> Mark, I understand that he can become a good friend, as most people 
> can become, and I also understand that there are many good-
> natured, "slightly" more modest people in Mizzou's program, but a 
> captain, like a president, is the main ambassador for an entire 
group 
> or nation, and Mizzou's quiz bowl captain is slowly becoming a 
> disgrace to tigers everywhere.  A captain should represent an 
entire 
> team, not just himself, and the assertion that one person can beat 
> Oklahoma, Washington, Rolla, Kansas, and the rest of Region 11 
> without his experienced and loyal (even amidst the obnoxiousness) 
> teammates is not the assertion that a true team captain would make, 
> even if the assertion were true (which, in this case, it is 
> definitely not.)  
> 
> By the way, qbtunagirl (who does not have the courage to post 
without 
> the perceived security of anonymity), as evidenced by recent posts, 
I 
> am not sure that a beatdown by a few hundred points, not even the 
475-
> 80 smackdown laid on him at Rollapalooza by a team whose school I 
> won't mention "again," can bust the egotistical bubble of Mizzou's 
> captain.
> 
> Before I close, I would like to note that, at least last I checked, 
> one person cannot "fail" to win a state championship in a TEAM 
sport, 
> not even in high-school quiz bowl.  Of course, a large ego might 
lead 
> one to think otherwise.
> 
> Thanks for reading,
> Joshua Hill
> Arkansas Quiz Bowl
> Panthera tigris altaica
> 
> And last I checked, we will be attending Mizzou's SCT, an event 
that 
> I look forward to.  That will be Mizzou and Memphis down; LSU, 
> Auburn, and Clemson to go... hehe