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From: paul meaney <paul.meaney@molecular-medicine.oxford.ac.uk>
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Subject: Firing the stoke...
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	Ah, Sammy, good to see you are getting the hang of this admin
lark!!

	I can say with hand on heart No - I didn't do the schedule, but I
guess I should take responsibility for it. Yes I guess I should have
ensured that the schedule was done ages ago, but there was one *slight*
problem...



	until yesterday there still was not 24 confirmed teams!!!!!

	lets look at the list of dropouts...

	on second thoughts maybe not. I think it's totally right NOT to
issue a schedule until you are sure that it is the CORRECT one (and to be
fair there were back up schedules of 20 and 18 teams just in case.) and
not issue one, have it change because some people drop out and then when
people turn up say "oh, sorry, that's not the schedule, it's changed -
this is the new one!!!"

	so I screwed up, well learning curve, build on for next year,
teething troubles, learn from mistakes, etc etc...

	actually, it's all bollocks.

	the only thing I had anything to do with was the seeding.

	Aslo to agree with Scotty, if you are seeded 1, then playing first
should not affect your peformance at all. If you don't come out firing on
all cylinders, and then *lose*, it could prove most fascinating.

	Also, it is correct that there is no 1 vs 6. This is due to
limitations of hall space (to allow everyone to get decent length games -
after all, you've travelled this far, you don't wan't to play 13 min games
all w/e do you?) and also to allow four crossover games for seeds 5 - 12
to eliminate any "we wuz dun, guv!!!" complaining.

	So things are a little different this year.

	'course it's different - it's in Scotland innit?

	see ya friday.

		Paul.


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