Why does it have to be treated differently? Why submit to the part of the fanbase that isn't really fans?
In four years on campus, I attended all but three games that took place with school in session -- two UNC games in which I couldn't get in a tent with a spot, and one Miami game on a senior day where the football department also took a chunk of the student section for recruits, so almost no non-seniors were admitted. Every Tuesday night 9pm Clemson game during midterms or December game against the Durham YMCA, I was there. It will never seem fair to me that students for whom UNC was the only game they attended (because it was the "thing to do") were able to win priority, just because their tent happened to have people stationed closer to the random location of the line monitor (the methodology when I was there). Knowing things about the team, even arcane statistics, is an improvement, but attendence seems like the obvious and practical solution, for all stages of tenting (or even the walk-up line for those still left out).
FWIW, this quiz does not determine the order in line. It is only used to see who is allowed into the black tenting cutoff.
The test to determine order will be later on, closer to the UNC game.
FWIW, this bothered me so much (and I had enough free time on my hands this weekend, haha) that I wrote a Letter to the Editor to The Chronicle. That also allowed me to make my point a bit more eloquently than in off the cuff forum posts, lol. You can find it here if interested.
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Trinity BS 2012; University of Michigan PhD 2018
Duke Chronicle, Sports Online Editor: 2010-2012
K-Ville Blue Tenting 2009-2012
Unofficial Brian Zoubek Biographer
If you have questions about Michigan Basketball/Football, I'm your man!
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
Scott Rich on the front page
Trinity BS 2012; University of Michigan PhD 2018
Duke Chronicle, Sports Online Editor: 2010-2012
K-Ville Blue Tenting 2009-2012
Unofficial Brian Zoubek Biographer
If you have questions about Michigan Basketball/Football, I'm your man!
Somehow in the old days- we managed to get into games by just standing in line- and that was before having a computing device in your pocket to get work done or stay connected. Somehow we found a way and the student section - which was the entire set of bleachers- was full, very rowdy and spontaneously disruptive. You haven't had a real Cameron experience unless you had seats behind the opposing bench and yelled so loud through the time-outs, that Dean Smith would glare back at you.
My "favorite" question:
What is our most watched game this season? How many viewers tuned in? (1 point for the game, 1 point for the number of viewers, to the nearest ten thousand).
The first part is a reasonable question. I assume the answer is the Kentucky game.
However, I would guess that even awhom111, the keeper of the DBR TV Ratings thread and someone who probably knows more about Duke's TV ratings than 99.99% of the Duke fanbase, can't answer the second part of this question to the nearest ten thousand viewers!!!
Forcing tenters to memorize a bunch of mostly arbitrary stats/figures is silly. Clearly, the best way is to determine entry to the Duke-UNC game is based on the number of hours spent on the DBR forum!