On Hub Quiz and Freedom of Association

I'll get in trouble for this, but I have to do it anyways. Forgive me for what I am about to say and please know that I tried to do everything behind the scenes to make sure I didn't have to write this post. It's come to this.

Despite what is in my so very clearly in my best interest, Max Davison, Dan Aisaka, Jack Evert, all CMC '09 and Tina Nguyen's CMC '11 team ought to be preserved. Even though my quiz bowl team stands to win with what is some kind of weird anti-trust law, I still think it's wrong to break up a team merely because they once upon a time won a lot of the competitions.

When my quiz bowl team dissolved and one of my co-quiz bowlers joined the other team despite her promises, I was disappointed. I spent a long time in the quiz bowl wilderness, oftentimes showing up and joining just any random, spur of the moment team. We always came close and we nearly always lost to Max and co. But I resolved to build a team that could and would win again. With my friends, Bryce Gerard and Riley Lewis, we started to win and soon we often won and if we didn't, hey, well, the night was young and there might still be some fun had. I set out to win the money and the pride, but along the way, developed some great friends.

Most people don't win Hub Quiz and yet they still show up. The reason they do is the same reason that people who lose social games of poker still show up to the table: the company of their friends.

The new head of quiz bowl 's smart, organized, and disciplined (and lest I forget gorgeous). In short, she's the perfect person to run something like a quiz bowl. I only wish she hadn't misplaced the reason so many of us attend. The person who runs Quiz Bowl should reconsider breaking up Max Davison's team, if for no other reason than to deny them an excuse when they lose (again) to my team.