First a note: Congratulations to Subash, Dom,Mike, and Chris for what I consider a dominant performance in the finals rounds over an excellent Chicago team. Seeing the game played that well took some of the annoyance at other facets of the tournament away. Now: While I think you have some good points I think you may have gone a bit far. I thought that there was for example plenty of literature. However, I though certain areas withing categories were over represented for example the M in RMP and lots of fine arts questions on classic films but few on painting and sculpture. However, my biggest dissapointment with NAQT ICT was not the content of the questions specifically, but that the SAME questions were used for Div 1 and Div 2. The questions were, in the opinion of just about everyone I talked to, not near appropriate for Div 2. there was at least one game I know of where two teams did not reach a combined score of 100, I seriously doubt the result of that game could be considered the final say on which of those teams was better. As a sectionals host BGSU made a decision to play in division 2, both because we were eligible and because we thought it would be a more enjoyable experience. Frankly, in retrospect we would have rather gone through the same frustration inducing questions to finish near the bottom of the Div 1 field rather than the middle of Div 2. I almost began to wonder if the 18-20 hours each way via AMTRAK was worth it, I'm just glad we stayed to watch the Div 1 final.
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