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MintTrav:
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--- Quote from: MarkTheShark on August 21, 2013, 10:11:51 AM ---
I dont know if there is a precedent for this - but my view would be that if the Heads Up for either of the medals game goes 2-2, then the Team Captains playoff in a sudden death HU game for the win.
Id give the reason for this to be that if the team who has scored the most points goes 2-1 up, they have already won the game - even should it be tied 2-2 they would win by virtue of the points gained - this in essence makes it a dead rubber. You may argue that that is well deserved as they have placed higher than their opponent - well remember that may also have been decided by a tiebreaker - or indeed by the smallest of margins due to sick beat or the coldest of hands.
So i think unless a team wins 3 of the 4 HU games, the 4th game must count. And if it is then tied, its down to the Team Captains to bring it home for their team in the same format as has or would have decided the medal places.
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Good points all round...
I think in the past we"ve had teams of 5 [?] (my memory fades..it"s a beer thing) so this wasn"t an issue.
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In the past there have only been three Heads-Ups in the play-offs.
MarkTheShark:
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on August 21, 2013, 23:26:15 PM ---
Surely the sudden death should be captains choice if we are going with a sudden death.
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Disagree - in what will be a pressurised and intense situation, i think it the role of the Captain to "step up" and assume the responsibility - not pass it to a team member. They"ve been appointed or asked to be Captain for a reason - time to show why!
Fatcatstu:
--- Quote from: MarkTheShark on August 22, 2013, 10:02:32 AM ---
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on August 21, 2013, 23:26:15 PM ---
Surely the sudden death should be captains choice if we are going with a sudden death.
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Disagree - in what will be a pressurised and intense situation, i think it the role of the Captain to "step up" and assume the responsibility - not pass it to a team member. They"ve been appointed or asked to be Captain for a reason - time to show why!
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Carl was drinking heavily?
AAroddersAA:
--- Quote from: MarkTheShark on August 22, 2013, 10:02:32 AM ---
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on August 21, 2013, 23:26:15 PM ---
Surely the sudden death should be captains choice if we are going with a sudden death.
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Disagree - in what will be a pressurised and intense situation, i think it the role of the Captain to "step up" and assume the responsibility - not pass it to a team member. They"ve been appointed or asked to be Captain for a reason - time to show why!
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I Disagree with your disagreement ;)
Depends on the team. To use an analogy. I am Newport County fan and our captain is David Pipe who is also one of our best players and first name on the team sheet every week. He is a defender who runs his ass off every week for the team. However if the playoff final had gone to penalties I would have preferred not to see him take one as scoring goals is not his role in the team. This does not mean he is less of a leader or less of a player. This is just not his natural role in the team.
In APAT Poker. Let"s says Wales are playing England in the final of the WCOAP in March and it is tied 2-2 (obviously a silly situation as in reality Wales would already have won but it makes the point). Why would I pick myself to play a heads up match (I am bad at them this is not the form of poker I play) over potentially somebody like David Ruddling-Smith for example who is good. It"s an international event all players need to be able to handle this situation.
It should be the captain choice not APAT's choice who plays this in my opinion.
MintTrav:
Please stop with the football analogies. Why can there never be a discussion about poker on this forum without people suggesting what would happen in a slightly similar, but totally irrelevant, situation in football?
Please discuss the merits of your argument in the context of poker, not bloody football.
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