Do the students get course credit for passing the quiz?
This year’s tenting quiz https://twitter.com/dukembb/status/1...765868546?s=21
Or for the non-tweeters: https://air.inc/a/cYXiTBOFI
(Prior quiz)
Last edited by -jk; 01-20-2022 at 11:10 AM. Reason: add prior quiz link
Do the students get course credit for passing the quiz?
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I saw 84Duke's comment above and this one, and thought I'd offer my recollection (Class of '86). There was no quiz. There weren't even line monitors (except a couple of folks who tried to keep things organized the best they could). It was first come, first served. No prerequisites. There was no scanning, you just showed your ID as you walked in. OK, maybe your brother used some girl's ID who wasn't going to the game, because they really weren't looking. No one had laptops or cell phones so you had to either do your work out in the cold or hope you could trust the folks behind you to let you back in line.
There was huge excitement the first time Coach pull up the night before the game to deliver pizzas. You wondered if the BOGgers were going to fall into the other team's huddle and cheered when they had to move folding chairs onto the court to hear each other during timeouts. We may not have known a lot of historical facts, but we knew every screw up that an opposing player made - and made sure that he knew we knew.
And let me add a caveat that I haven't been in person for a while, but we were original. Cheers were made for specific players, even during the game. I haven't heard an original cheer in years.
FWIW - I think Scott's suggestion is infinitely smarter than what they do now.
Rant over - and get off my lawn.
I love esoteric Duke trivia more than 99.999% of the world, but this seems ridiculous. If you have access to Goduke and google, the majority of this is not hard, just really time consuming. I recognize that they need some way to create an order and not have people camping out years ahead of time, but this doesn't seem like the best way to do it.
I camped in the 90s - I remember having a number of frustrations with the process but it generally worked out for most people. I was very happy being somewhere around tent 20 - I thought the people in the first 5-10 tents were ridiculous, but I cared enough that I was willing to put in the time to get good seats.
Now get off my lawn.
Can I offer an alternative view of the tenting test? My daughter is T24 and goes to every game. She waits in line and gets there early to get good seats. She works much harder to attend the BB games than I did (Pratt'90) She goes to WBB, Women and Mens soccer, on her own accord, and attended all FB including two away games. For the game against WSSU she left at halftime,.. to go to the Wake Football game in Winston-Salem. We have pictures together for the '10 and '15 Championships decked out in Duke gear.
She and her group knew the content type that was expected and did study as a group for multiple sessions. I was texting random facts that might have helped- best half for three point percentage, Coack K position in all time loss list- during the study sessions.
So these are fans who ARE dedicated, and are lifers, and are going to all the games. The problem has been people crashing the gates and "stealing" seats from the current true fans, regardless of what is thought about those fans. So this test might not be the ideal measure of dedication or fandom, but previous methods have been disrupted in other manners that were not fair to dedicated fans who spent the time camping
Yes some of the questions were not reasonable for older generations - IG follower numbers- but it resonates with this age group. Some questions were not just 'memorization' but important to true fans, for example which players had debut game with over 20 points? A problem is that some questions were based on the TV broadcast of home games when the fans were in the bleachers, not listening to Jay Bilas. (But yes we talked about PB5 7lb weight loss per game and the BOA Blast oxygenated hydration system)
No system has been ideal, but the answer to these questions are the life blood of this generation's twitter feed and represent the knowledge base of today's true fan. Yes, I would like more original chants, more spontaneity, but let's not question the dedication of the 230 groups of twelve students that signed up for 70 tent spots so they can sleep outside for the next five weeks (she planned for two months, but the start date was pushed back due to COVID), while attending every other home game that they can during their student life. They are doing what the system has evolved into and requires of them. Though it seems like arcane trivia, the test serves to distinguish between these groups
every method for ranking the groups has issues, and regardless of what it is, duke students are going to duke student the crap out of it and try to game it as much as possible. It's either time spent studying for a quiz, time spent camping, time spent attending sporting events...if it's meritocratic, there's going to be a time component, almost axiomatically.
Also nobody tenting is "crashing the gates and stealing seats." If you tent for the game for 6 weeks, you deserve every bit of what you get. If they wanted to alleviate that, past game attendance should have a larger component. I find this sort of stratification of "true fan" for someone tenting for the UNC game a bit patronizing and counter productive.
April 1
My daughter’s tent passed. She was nervous but they had prepped well.
My daughter's group did not pass. It was mostly a freshman group, and they had little conception that much of the focus would be social media. My daughter hasn't been as dedicated a fan this season as FUBARDB's (something about studying for classes and such), but she been a fan a lot longer than most and has attended Duke sporting events of all flavors since she was too young to remember them. She is a Duke fan through and through. She was teaching cheers to her section at Countdown to Craziness, when about half the students didn't know them.
She is quite disappointed at the kinds of questions that were asked.
yeah it's unsurprising they filled up 70 slots with the delayed start and the fact that they eliminated black tenting at some point (prior to this year, I think). Not sure I'm a HUGE fan of a quiz to be a cutoff like that...I wish it were game attendance, but then you'd have an issue where people gamify tent formation to only find people who have attended lots of games, and that's not ideal either. There's just no great way to do it with a limit to when tenting can start, but also a way to arrange to get to the right number, and the problem just gets worse the later tenting starts.
April 1
My bad - I skipped to the test and didn't read the instructions - maybe that is why my grades weren't so great at Duke. That makes a lot more sense to me - still don't love it but I get it more. Thanks for clarifying. How do they enforce these rules - are they put in a room and have their phones taken away? That alone would be a major display of dedication for people today.
They do the test on the court in Cameron. Phones have to be put away. Teams know generally what kind of things will be asked from past year tests. Teams that went through all of Duke Basketball Instagram, Tik-Tok, and Twitter and paid attention to all of the nuggests posted did well. Memorizing stats is important too.