Trashionals Thoughts Part Two

• From: theblasmo
• Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 09:42:13 -0700
• Message-ID: <000TCJVB5.001N5E44P.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

So my final word on Edmund's "ceremony" -- and I
know it's not just him, but he is the one who got up
there and wasted twenty minutes of my life -- is that
it reeks (a very appropriate word here)of snobbery,
something most people agree destroys the fun of any
competition. Just because you're a great quizbowl player
doesn't mean you can walk on water. There are plenty of
people out there who make this game fun. I've lost to
Dwight Kidder, Craig Barker, Julie Stalhut, Mike and his
friends at Arkansas, C W's D Party, among dozens of
others and had a lot of fun in the process because these
people have learned to be competitive and human beings
at the same time. Am I saying that people should not
be critical of others in the game? Of course not,
but when your approach is one of criticism for the
sake of image improvement rather than for constructive
reasons, then it becomes Elitist, Snobbish, and d****d
unnecessary. Think about the reasons why you might hate this
game sometimes. Does it have more to do with the
people you play against, or the questions you get read?
I willing to bet it's more the former than the
latter. With that in mind, I apologize to anyone offended
by my comments or my team's play this weekend, and I
look forward to seeing many of you again this weekend
in St. Louis. 
David Murphy,
Univ. of
Oklahoma
PS: I in NO WAY link the end comments to James Dinan
or anyone at Trash. 
PPS: Also, anyone who wants
to contact me personally on this matter, may do so
at blasmo_at_....