cvdwightw wrote:I know NAQT uses a "use before" code for its current events questions to make sure they're not using "not-so-current-events" questions. Does NAQT use such a code on its pop culture? I suspect that a lot of the bad trash questions, e.g. Shawn Bradley, were either written by people who are woefully misjudging what "pre-current" trash topics are accessible to today's players or written many years ago when the topic was still relevant and only used recently.
Hey, I wrote that Shawn Bradley tossup myself in the months prior to ICT, specifically for use in that tournament. I maintain that it was not a "bad" trash question, even though Jerry (whose knowledge of the NBA prior to, say, 2008 doesn't exactly seem to be encyclopedic) lambasted it.
More generally: even if NAQT questions were written years ago or by people who are "woeful" in their estimations of what is gettable, they still have to be approved by several layers of set editors before appearing in a tournament. Slightly less generally: I thought most of the pop culture questions appearing in this year's SCT and ICT were fine, perhaps because I myself wrote them. In particular, I thought we'd hashed through a lot of this stuff in the post-ICT discussion, where people were saying things like "the trash blew!" and then I said things like "actually, I wrote a lot of the pop culture questions and I thought they were solid: take, e.g. these film questions" and then people said "oh, I didn't mean
those questions: I thought they were just fine."