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From: "Si Weeks" <GGA95SEW@sheffield.ac.uk>
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Chewy wrote:
> At the end of the tournament i forgot to say thanks to Si Weeks who 
> actually wrote the schedule for the weekend ( sorry Si ). But Thanks.

No problem at all. However it appears not everyone shared your 
opinion. 

This year we opted for two pools of eight. Dave Farmyard, Chewy and I 
made this decision based on the fact that a student teams strengths 
change a lot over the course of a year (e.g. Mohawks last year's 
outdoor champions failed to even qualify for the indoors this year). 
Therefore we opted for the largest pools possible in order to neglect 
the effect of the seeding.

This matched Skunks (winners of the South-east qualifier) up with Far 
Flung (no.6 in the Northern qualifier - they only got in 'cos Flying 
Sorcerers dropped out) first game Saturday morning. Skunks lost this 
game and then also lost to Bears (the eventual winners) and Jedi 
later in the group stages.

On collecting the plate in the presentation, Skunks  commented that 
"This isn't the trophy we came to win, the only thing that has beaten 
us all weekend is the seeding."

Whilst I feel that they were a little unfortunate to be the team that 
missed out and end up in the bottom eight as a result of a two way 
tie for fourth place, I do not think they can blame this on the 
seeding.

They had every opportunity to qualify. If they were the best team in 
the tournament why did they lose three games?

Maybe putting this email out was unnecessary. It's taken me all week, 
to decide whether I should do it. But having heard another team that 
were not at Nationals being given exactly the same explanation by 
Skunks for their poor performance, I decided it was time to set the 
record straight.

That's about it. I look forward to seeing Skunks at the outdoors, 
Please let me know Skunks, if you would you like a bye straight 
to the final  just to make sure you don't lose to one of the 'lesser' 
northern teams again.

Later,

Si Weeks.