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Updating the list of SDAL flops, a new champion for "Best Hose": What pressure is present when water diffuses| in plant cells? | represents my buzz of "osmotic pressure"; for the record, the answerline gave "turgor pressure". The question was deemed "not protestabl...

So I've both played at a variety of tournaments, and moderated a couple, and have come across the same issue multiple times: a lack of accurate timing for answering tossups and bonuses. As far as I am aware, no tournament format (excluding Academic League) requires a clock to be used to determine ti...

While we are on the subject, I found an interesting contradiction in the current Academic League rulebook: Under "Admission Fee", the following stipulation is included: No admission fee shall be charged for any competition of the San Diego City Academic League. But later on, one finds the ...

While Academic League tossups are necessarily easier relative to pyramidal ones due to their one-line nature, there is a tendency towards "swerving" in questions which does not reward blitzing (several examples follow): "A heroine tells one story each night to a king in the Arabian Ni...