From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Jun 29 16:00:35 2000 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) id e5TExPX27358 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:59:25 +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 e5TExLe27318 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:59:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from chvpk-wss2.sr.chevron.com (cppat2.chevron.com [208.33.240.21]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id e5TExKY26624 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:59:20 +0100 (BST) X-Server-Uuid: 26fe3e76-19dd-11d3-be09-0008c7b1f151 Message-ID: <19F52E0DF38ED211865600805F31B8F901756BBB@chevron.com> From: "Batty, Ian (IBAT)" <IBAT@chevron.com> To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Pools of Death Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 07:59:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) X-WSS-ID: 1545BBB71567-01-02 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk I know that the idea of the Tour is to create "true seeding" but there have ALWAYS been pools of death: 1997 Nationals, Seeds 1-8 Pool was the result of the tour. The pools were Pool A: Shotgun, Catch 22, Violently Happy, Red Pool B: Chevron AF, Druids, Stan, Oxford (?) Shotgun and Catch came 1st and 2nd, VH and Red came 5th and 6th. This means that EVERY match between Pool A and Pool B was won by Pool A. We (as VH) never got a shot at Druids or Chevron. Would we have won? Who knows. Was Pool A a "pool of death"? Quite possibly. Do we care? Not really; that was the format, we lived by it. We won the games we won, we lost the other games, we drank beer, we had a good time(*) Pools of death WILL occur. People who get completely hung up on coming 5th or 4th in a tournament (even if it is Nationals) need to remember that the reason you play this game.... is to PLAY THE GAME! If you want to get hung up on stats, go and play Fantasy Football. Just my thoughts, from someone who just runs (slowly), catches (occasionally) and throws (poorly) but has fun doing it. Batman (ex VH and others) (*) We also had a magnificent scoring system in our semi- final against Stan, but that is another story. ---------------------------------------------------- Ian Batty Chevron Canada Resources email: ibat@chevron.com tel: (403) 234-5282