>>So, basically, you felt out of it because you were having your collective asses handed to you in that game. Did you go in overestimating yourself or underestimating your opponents?<< Yes, that's what I was saying. Underestimating the opponents would be the answer to the question, although we should all concentrate on doing the best <i>we</i> can and not thinking about our expectations of our opponents. Honestly, you don't expect to be down by 190 at the half after beating them by 405 points the same day. I'm not whining in any way; I'm saying that I've never experienced a drastic shift like that (in other words, that was the first one in my <2 years of quiz bowl), and I think the eclectic questions (we're less able to predict what type of questions we'll be answering) have something to do with it. The results of the tournament aren't less valid because of that. <<The good teams can stop someone every once in a while. The great teams are the ones who can come from behind when they're down big at the half to a good team.>> That's right. We did outscore them in the second half, but not significantly. It was, honestly, a very strange feeling, though. Something I'd liken to some mental frameshift in a sci-fi show, if I could think of an example. "Has...has...has my world turned inside-out? CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME? Do you see these strange things too? Am I really alive, or am I a figure in their dreams?" But enough about Pitt's sensitivity and fallibility. What did other people think about the questions? I thought there were less art ones than Penn Bowl, and the history was way more American than other recent tournaments. And there were more current events and fewer things that nobody has ever heard of. Tournaments have different styles, and they're not even predictable by organization, although we try. OSU was a good team. All my posts seem to be in the first person. I assume this is some sort of self-absorption that dissipates with age. Time for fantasy baseball! Michael davies mld6_at_...
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