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The latest addition to "creative" ways to deal with 15 teams.....
Friday, April 06, 2007
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5 comments:
If you lose your pool you get no Sunday games??! That sucks.
This wouldn't happen at Harvard.
No, it appears that the 5th place teams form a pool of 3 on Sunday (it is mislabeled as taking place on Sat but that would be impossible).
In their (lukewarm) defense, it's not as if there is a great, or even a good, format for 15 teams that they overlooked. The best I have managed is this, and it's not all that great, to be honest. A1 and A2 only get 5 games all weekend.
The important thing to remember from a tournament like this is that the final places of teams are fairly meaningless. Judge the teams by the quality of the teams they defeat, and nothing else. If somebody tries to argue for a higher seed at regionals by saying "we made semis at Yale Cup", please call them out on their BS.
Oy, those prequarter matchups are horrible. Is there some reason they didn't go with 1v(8v9), 4v(5v12), 3v(6v11), 2v(7v10)? That setup avoids rematches as well as any other.
Adam,
Your second and third paragraphs are the heart of my concerns.
The other issue is that this came out today, I believe. Out goes a week worth of preparing.......
Thanks for the offer of an alternative.
-G
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