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From: "Evans, Alex" <AXEvans@roomuw.co.uk>
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Si

I have to disagree, I think Chris chose the most suitable format for the event. It was a very competitive tournament with very few meaningless games: of Baboom's 8 games only in one was the margin of victory (theirs more often than ours) more than 3 points, and that was with 25 minute indoor games.

Your arguement is bizaare at best: you're complaining that with pools of 8 one bad game effectively eliminates you from the tournament, so you want more knock-out games?

As you say it's not a scientific study, but surely you want the best two teams in the final? Your "traditional" method doesn't even guarantee that, it's dependant on them being seeding well e.g. 2nd and 3rd seeds meet in the semi without having had the chance to improve their seeding.

This tendancy to stick with familiar formats for the sake of it has blighted a number of tourmaments (particularly qualifiers where the objective is not to find the best team, but to fine the best x teams). In my opinion any format which reduces the effect of seedings is welcome.

Alex


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