On Jujitsu and Scrabble Culture

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Last Tuesday I went with Jordan, my friend in Simi Valley in California, to watch him at jujitsu. He is training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and various MMA (mixed martial arts) for a tournament in Las Vegas occurring in mid-March. The experience got me thinking about some important differences between this culture and Scrabble culture.

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[gijoel666]

"Should we really be surprised that Scrabble tournaments don't attract a lot of animated, extroverted people when our Scrabble culture frowns upon these sorts of behaviours?"

It has been my experience that Scrabble tournaments *do* attract a lot of animated, extroverted people. And I don't think reserving competition time for an absence of that behavior detracts at all from their inclination to behave that way when the competition is not in progress. There's a time and a place for everything, and there's plenty of time in a tourney weekend or even a one-day lunch break for each.