As a third-year player myself, I'd definitely like to see more
undergraduate-only tournaments for which third- and fourth-year
players are eligible. To me it's not that "grad students are so much
better just because they're grad students," but the graduate
students who stay on in Quiz Bowl tend to be a pretty self-selecting
bunch: they're the best of the best of the best players. I'm a
fairly decent player, but I have no intention of staying in the game
after I graduate. My team doesn't really go to tournaments with the
expectation of winning them, but it's no fun to get blown out in
round after round after round either -- especially for the less
experienced players on the team who have to play Div. I simply
because I'm a third year player. I wouldn't really mind playing the
grad teams in some rounds if I were playing teams more like mine in
other rounds. But for whatever reason, it doesn't seem to actually
work out that way.