Perhaps they need more serious incentives on these shows, like scholarship $...and yes, national events would certainly make a HUGE difference, not that I don't already doubt that possibility...
And I'm sure ratings play a more significant role in such events (e.g. Jeopardy) than they did a few years back since the viewership demographic has shifted a bit, though academic bowl events obviously can't be expected to draw the crowds that most other sporting events do.
Interesting. I, being from PA, had our local CBS affiliate KDKA in mind particularly when I was making the comparison, Hometown Hi Q (which you might notice amongst the related videos here). Yes, I did take the year into consideration, but honestly, they still do air high-level academic challenges on tv like the annual National Geographic Bee, Scripps Nat. Spelling Bee, etc. which high schoolers can't even take part in anyhow.
Man, high school quiz shows have mentally regressed even more than Jeopardy has over the last decade. The nature of the questions here can't even touch the ease of today's High Q's & even then, the contestants took the competition much more seriously...
shows, perhaps, but those were always the weakest challenges of academic bowl. i read each year at the walton academic challenge in marietta, GA, and can assure you the questions are just as tough now -- if indeed not tougher (as one would expect, since ex-bowlers are writing the questions). indeed, in 1998 dorman and irmo introduced a summer training camp; i've felt southeastern academic bowl to be much more competitive since.
--nick
(walton player #4 above, 2nd place nationals 1997 w00t!)
Perhaps they need more serious incentives on these shows, like scholarship $...and yes, national events would certainly make a HUGE difference, not that I don't already doubt that possibility...
EpistemologyWhiz16 2 years ago
And I'm sure ratings play a more significant role in such events (e.g. Jeopardy) than they did a few years back since the viewership demographic has shifted a bit, though academic bowl events obviously can't be expected to draw the crowds that most other sporting events do.
EpistemologyWhiz16 2 years ago
Interesting. I, being from PA, had our local CBS affiliate KDKA in mind particularly when I was making the comparison, Hometown Hi Q (which you might notice amongst the related videos here). Yes, I did take the year into consideration, but honestly, they still do air high-level academic challenges on tv like the annual National Geographic Bee, Scripps Nat. Spelling Bee, etc. which high schoolers can't even take part in anyhow.
EpistemologyWhiz16 2 years ago
Man, high school quiz shows have mentally regressed even more than Jeopardy has over the last decade. The nature of the questions here can't even touch the ease of today's High Q's & even then, the contestants took the competition much more seriously...
EpistemologyWhiz16 2 years ago
shows, perhaps, but those were always the weakest challenges of academic bowl. i read each year at the walton academic challenge in marietta, GA, and can assure you the questions are just as tough now -- if indeed not tougher (as one would expect, since ex-bowlers are writing the questions). indeed, in 1998 dorman and irmo introduced a summer training camp; i've felt southeastern academic bowl to be much more competitive since.
--nick
(walton player #4 above, 2nd place nationals 1997 w00t!)
admiraldiggities 2 years ago
also, do realize that this was the championship game for 1998, and its last round. this is about as difficult as televised academic bowl ever gets.
know your audience. high-level academic bowl would be merely bewildering to most people.
admiraldiggities 2 years ago