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One criticism of pyramid-style play is that it rewards knowledge of the obscure over the important.

Another is that matches can potentially have longer running times.

This is sometimes countered by implementing timed matches.

Moderators will also read questions at a quick pace to counteract slowdown.

Writing pyramid-style tossups can be more difficult because the answer must have many clues, ordered from unique and obscure to giveaway, without tapering too quickly or slowly.