Hi Anonymous, Since you seem to be so interested in my age-dependent playing advantages, please allow me to address several points in your post. Your argument seems to run something like this: I wasn't good in high school, am 27 years old, and thus my abilities are a result of my long years in the college ranks. First of all, I really don't know how good I would have been in high school because I never joined my high school academic team. In fact, my first quizbowl experience came as a junior in college. Secondly, with the exception of a few random (mostly CBI style) events, I didn't start playing on the college circuit until the 1997-98 season, making this my fifth season playing college quizbowl (or for that matter, quizbowl of any kind), the same amount of time a typical five-year undergrad plays before graduating. I've become a decent enough player to become the target of anonymous posts the old-fashioned way: writing questions and taking notes, and the reason I did it was to beat the quizbowl veterans who repeated pounded my team by 500 points when I first started playing. So, if you're upset that I'm still playing despite having to take my food through a tube, learn stuff and beat me the next time we play. Kelly, Grizzled Quizbowl Veteran P.S.: I'll leave it to others more elequent than me to make the more general arguments that ACF was formed in part to allow grad student participation, that the game is kept alive by grad students who give back to the game, and that most of the dominant players these days are undergraduates anyway.
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