Jerry the Grape Smoker said: I speak here as someone who over the course of the last year has had to sit through many a question on NHL, NBA, MLB, and all those other pillars of the American sports stage. I don't know anything about these organizations, nor do I care to. I, for one, like the idea of expanding the canon, both in academic and in trash terms. Perhaps I'm bitter because my kind of knowledge is not generally rewarded by trash questions (sci-fi, Monty Python, soccer, Dungeons and Dragons) but I think trash being what it is, any question that has anything to do with sports should have the right to be a sports question. This isn't a strict academic distribution we're talking about. Anything in trash is fair game; I think it's good for all the sports fanatics to get a taste of their own medicine once in a while. Jerry Who wishes that the USA would play real football like the rest of the world [end quoted comment] That's why trash is known as "Popular Culture". Hard core sci-fi is not "Popular Culture". Dungeons and Dragons is not "Popular Culture". Mainstream sports are "Popular Culture". The idea of a tournament, whether academic or Popular Culture, is to expect the player to answer a reasonable amount of questions about a subject. A tournament is not a punishment or a lesson in what the writer of a packet thinks other people should know. Obviously, some elements of pop culture are emphasized more because of geography, such as hockey over the NBA or rock over country. Some are dephasized because of the age bracket, such college radio over boy bands and cable TV over CBS. The poster above concerns me. I don't want to play in a tournament where I am demeaned for my perceived lack of knowledge on what somebody else believes is higher culture. I want to play in a tournament where the distribution is known and the questions are reasonably accessible. For a new version of what Michigan-run trash tournaments expect, check out <a href=http://www.mikeburger.com/popcultreqs.html target=new>http://www.mikeburger.com/popcultreqs.html</a> --Mike Burger
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