On 3/22/06, fizzball_gs <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote: > If this weekend's incident is truly the catastrophe it's being made out to be, I don't think > you want this. It seems to me that much of the vitriol about this incident comes not from > double-booking or Mark "forcing" Jerry to reschedule, but from the idea that a vote of > sorts was taken, and the market chose, as Weiner puts it, fake over real. So, your opinion is that us academic folks are just pissy because a vote about moving cancel bowl polling mostly trash partisans (many of whom also play academic quizbowl) playing a free tournament (fake or otherwise) for which they had already written a packet and were already signed up resulted in trash winning out? I'd say that's inevitable. The poll is moot. People aren't mad because the teams voted for fake trash. People are mad because (hey, maybe if you actually read what people are mad about, you would know this) cancel bowl blatantly stepped on another tournament's date. Your self-righteous "the people voted for trash, so academic should just suck it up and accept that it lost fair and square!" idiocy makes absolutely no sense and no difference, because guess what, trash or not, cancel bowl not capitulating to BUTT was still wrong. I would make the same argument had Jerry (or anyone else) announced after Mark (or any other trash, fake or otherwise) and done nothing to rectify the situation. Yeah, I agree, Mr. Frankel's idea is off the mark, but before you make broad statements about everyone's opinions maybe you should get off your trash high horse and accept that this was just one quizbowler being disrespectful to another. EK
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