Re: Best Players

Jason Mueller <*jcmpn7_at_mujason.yahoo.invalid*> · Tue, 06 May 2003 21:23:09 -0000

Sean,

I'm not on medication nor do I need to be.  Wichita never told me 
they were an exhibition team.  Also, the Division II schedule was 
screwed up because SEMO, our 13th team, failed to show up.  That put 
Div II at 12 teams and made a round robin 11 games, and at the time, 
NAQT required teams play a minimum of 12 games.  Therefore, my two 
trusted assistants, former MU team president Scott Brinker and former 
Rolla star Paul Nelson, set about revising the schedule.

As for the high fees, I blame MU's policy of charging us $630 for 
using the Memorial Union because it was an interscholastic 
competition.  I would have obtained a regular classroom building, but 
they were reserved by a fire school even before we won our SCT bid.  
This September's tournament will be less (probably $60).

As for my Dromio reference, surely I'm not the only one in this group 
who has read Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors (Of course I'm not).

Also, our fall tournaments will be untimed, so everyone will hear the 
same number of tossups per game.

As for training moderators, I printed out the NAQT rules and how to 
fill out a scoresheet and had Scott and Paul talk to them.

Jason Mueller

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, allythin <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> > To Sean:  gee, you hate my guts.  What a surprise.  If it makes 
you 
> > feel any better, why don't you lord it over me Saturday at the 
high 
> > school state tourney about how you're moderating and I'm 
> scorekeeping 
> > and your slightly higher high school scoring average.
> 
> Are you supposed to be on some sort of medication that makes you 
act 
> like a person who is actually able to engage the real world, and 
are 
> just refusing to take it?  I have no idea what this means, although 
> I'm sure it makes perfect sense in JasonLand.  
> 
> > To those who attended our NAQT SCT:  I was a bit of a Dromio, but 
I 
> > can't control reader speed and Div II would have went fine if 
SEMO 
> > had showed up and Wichita State could understand rules.  And yes, 
I 
> > will be using an actual stat program at our upcoming tournaments 
> > September 27-28.
> 
> I have it on good authority that Witchita DOES understand the rules 
> and sent that team as an exhibition team.  Those matches you 
promptly 
> counted in the standings which gave our D2 team 2 extra wins by the 
> way.  And even with a team dropping, you did not reconfigure the 
> schedule to make it a full rr, you made it a full rr plus where a 
> team randomly hit two other teams with all games counting in the 
> standings, and one of your staff members justified that with the 
very 
> well reasoned reply "Them's the breaks."  Now when you made us pay 
> significantly more than every other SCT in the country, forgive me 
if 
> I find that unacceptable and unprofessional, the latter NAQT 
required 
> your staff to act as.  As a result of the scheduling incompetence, 
I 
> honestly believe the ordering of teams #3-#7 in D2 to be suspect 
> (note WUSTL is at the top of that ranking, so this is not us 
whining 
> about possibly being screwed so much as I worry we screwed someone 
> else).  
> 
> In addition, YOU CAN CONTROL MODERATOR SPEED.  It's called 
TRAINING.  
> You were required to: "have sufficiently trained staff to 
> realistically expect to average 20 tossups read per round with no 
> game having fewer than 18 tossups read."  If you look at your stats 
> which you did not post with any completeness at any point in the 
> tournament, you can see that NO D2 team heard on average 20 tu's 
with 
> some on average barely hearing 16.  You WERE the TD, you WERE the 
> person responsible for that tournament, you ARE responsible for 
> moderator speed.  If you did not understand that, you should never 
> have put in the bid.  If you don't understand what is required of a 
> TD, I fear for anyone seriously going to your tournaments this fall.
> 
> Sean
> *shutting up about this now*