Lenny wrote: "What was up with the difficulty level this year? I saw very little step up in difficulty from this year's sectionals. The disparity in difficulty was in fact the really big problem. I kept asking myself, what are tossups on Ozymandias, Hyksos, Tess, Appalachian Spring, etc. doing in the same tournament as tossups on Durrenmatt, Angelika Kaufmann, and some Yoruba? text (don't remember the name). With such disparity, one never knows if it's a hose (like the one where everyone buzzed on Olduvai) or if it's just THAT OBVIOUS like Appalachian Spring starting with Pennsylvania." That was my pet peeve at times. I picked up nearly half my negs for the entire tournament in Round 2, where I went 0-2-3. In that round, first I sat on a Peloponnesian War toss-up, thinking, "They can't be asking that?" Then I figured, "Maybe that's the way the ICT's gonna go," so on the Beatles manager, I promptly buzzed with Sir George Martin. NOPE; question was asking for the Beatles manager _before_ George Martin (Epstein?). I don't mind having less difficult answers at all, even at the ICT (provided the toss-ups are pyramidally structured). I just wish that at times they could be more consistent within packets. Adam Fine Proud Member of NAQTrauma's "Crap Team"
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