Zot Bowl: Epilogue
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:12 pm
So I missed yesterday's rousing Ad Hominem attack on me. I'm going to try to resolve this internally, but here are a few things that I would rather have publicly, to clear up a few misconceptions:
1. The Room fiasco was not exactly Jason's fault. I was under the assumption that someone who could actually reserve the rooms (by that, I mean someone other than me, since I have no idea where to go to reserve rooms and am pretty sure they wouldn't allow me, as a non-officer, to reserve them even if I did) would be able to get rooms in Humanities Hall like they do for every other tournament. Then Jon notified me of the ridiculous $50/room thing for Humanities Hall. I apologize for being so disorganized about this, but since when has any member of the club been paid for reserving rooms?
2. The "Willie Chen ridicule" was a pointed dig at his EFT Commentary, and I had written that question well in advance of the tournament. Yeah, I might have gotten a little angry with the Jason Luna ridicule, since it was on two separate bonuses that (1) Jason was specifically asked to change after we playtested the packet on Wednesday and (2) he did not change. Perhaps I should have attempted to edit it instead of replace the leadin on one of those bonuses, I apologize. There were "ridicules" of a few other people, and none of them are anywhere close to the "worst" that have been out there.
3. When we had four teams, I asked Jason and his brother Marcus to form a house team and write a packet between the two of them in lieu of the 10/10 I had asked other club members to write. Based on my posts on the original thread this implies I asked them at either our May 28 meeting or our June 4 meeting, and while 2.5-3.5 weeks might not be the optimum amount of time to get a packet done, it certainly wasn't "one week before the tournament I got asked to write questions". Actually, after Jason volunteered to help with anything else, I assigned Jason 0/4 on Friday afternoon for one of the house packets that he'd have a bye on, and the bonuses he contributed there were superior to 90% of the other bonuses.
4. The fourth non-house team was the HS Hybrid team that formed after I realized that a 4-team tournament would be as bad as a 3-team tournament with the packets we had.
5. I'm not sure which of two questions Jason is referring to with the "no one reads X" quote that I allegedly said. Both of the questions I am thinking of were on topics that were not the best-known work by its author, and I advised that he change them to tossups on their authors.
6. During the tournament, I felt Marcus was quite justified in calling out Jason for some rather stupid negs and brainfarted tossup answers. In particular, you do not just go in halfway through the question with (what appeared to me to be) a not-exactly-educated guess when you're down 15 points on the last tossup.
7. Anyone who is not playing in the mirrors can see the submitted and "edited" versions of the Luna packet (though you'd only get the general idea of things for most of the tossups that weren't in the original submitted Word document) by e-mailing me, assuming you want to actually continue this abomination.
1. The Room fiasco was not exactly Jason's fault. I was under the assumption that someone who could actually reserve the rooms (by that, I mean someone other than me, since I have no idea where to go to reserve rooms and am pretty sure they wouldn't allow me, as a non-officer, to reserve them even if I did) would be able to get rooms in Humanities Hall like they do for every other tournament. Then Jon notified me of the ridiculous $50/room thing for Humanities Hall. I apologize for being so disorganized about this, but since when has any member of the club been paid for reserving rooms?
2. The "Willie Chen ridicule" was a pointed dig at his EFT Commentary, and I had written that question well in advance of the tournament. Yeah, I might have gotten a little angry with the Jason Luna ridicule, since it was on two separate bonuses that (1) Jason was specifically asked to change after we playtested the packet on Wednesday and (2) he did not change. Perhaps I should have attempted to edit it instead of replace the leadin on one of those bonuses, I apologize. There were "ridicules" of a few other people, and none of them are anywhere close to the "worst" that have been out there.
3. When we had four teams, I asked Jason and his brother Marcus to form a house team and write a packet between the two of them in lieu of the 10/10 I had asked other club members to write. Based on my posts on the original thread this implies I asked them at either our May 28 meeting or our June 4 meeting, and while 2.5-3.5 weeks might not be the optimum amount of time to get a packet done, it certainly wasn't "one week before the tournament I got asked to write questions". Actually, after Jason volunteered to help with anything else, I assigned Jason 0/4 on Friday afternoon for one of the house packets that he'd have a bye on, and the bonuses he contributed there were superior to 90% of the other bonuses.
4. The fourth non-house team was the HS Hybrid team that formed after I realized that a 4-team tournament would be as bad as a 3-team tournament with the packets we had.
5. I'm not sure which of two questions Jason is referring to with the "no one reads X" quote that I allegedly said. Both of the questions I am thinking of were on topics that were not the best-known work by its author, and I advised that he change them to tossups on their authors.
6. During the tournament, I felt Marcus was quite justified in calling out Jason for some rather stupid negs and brainfarted tossup answers. In particular, you do not just go in halfway through the question with (what appeared to me to be) a not-exactly-educated guess when you're down 15 points on the last tossup.
7. Anyone who is not playing in the mirrors can see the submitted and "edited" versions of the Luna packet (though you'd only get the general idea of things for most of the tossups that weren't in the original submitted Word document) by e-mailing me, assuming you want to actually continue this abomination.