From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Jun 29 13:05:21 2000 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) id e5TC4pM08964 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:04:51 +0100 (BST) Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@snowdrop [137.205.192.31]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e5TC4me08954 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:04:48 +0100 (BST) Received: from pump3.york.ac.uk (pump3.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.131]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e5TC4hY25348 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:04:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from york.ac.uk (cst386.york.ac.uk [144.32.9.62]) by pump3.york.ac.uk (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e5TC4bv24683; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:04:37 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <395B3B55.34AAE3@york.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:04:37 +0100 From: Aftershock <jbc102@york.ac.uk> Organization: york.ac.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BritDisc <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Catch 22 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk While the debate still rages on about Catch: If they had turned up to Towcester with only three players (for some obscure reason) and subsequently lost all their games (might not have happened, as my team lost 15-1 against 6 fusion players!), then wouldn't they be in a similar position (i.e. maybe not able to qualify for top 8, but 'clearly' one of the top 4 teams). Would 'everyone' still be wanting them to be bumped up? They can still make it on their own merits, so why the need to let them in even if they fail. Merely food for thought Jaimie YBK, Swamp Donkeys