My general impression was that as an academic tournament,
Ghetto Warz was deplorable; but since it was not advertised
as an academic tourney but a hybrid trash one, I guess
people got what they wanted. (Although personally, I didn't
learn anything useful at all.)
In regards to the UCI packet, people should be a bit more
careful about using questions that have been submitted
before. (No further discussions.)
--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, fbush555 <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, walter_shandy
> <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> >
> > > Once again: A tossup that no one gets is, empirically, too
> hard.
> > Whether
> > > people SHOULD know the answer is irrelevant.
>
> I got the Hroswitha question in practice. I'm not a medievalist.
>
> Some of these things are hard to gauge. If you stick to only
> questions you've heard on the circuit, then the circuit gets more
> incestuous, and who wants that?
>
> Granted, that UC Irvine packet was wack, I must say.