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Old Wed Jun 18, 2008, 08:11am
Dakota Dakota is offline
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If, in fact, that is the format, it is a bit screwy. The top four teams from the round robin qualify for the medal round, but they seed the first games of the round as #1 v #2 and #3 v #4, so right off the bat, the seeding is unusual.

Second, the loser of the game between #1 and #2 will be higher seeded out of the preliminaries than the winner of the match between #3 and #4 - guaranteed. So the loser of that game gets screwed - they get the bronze and the #3 or #4 team gets to play for the gold.

It is likely with this system that the silver medal winner will have a worse overall record in the round robin and the same record in the medal round as the bronze.

I'd say that qualifies as bizarre.

Jeez... I had to edit this message 3 times to get this right; and I'm still not sure I have.

Why not a conventionally seeded 1 v 4 and 2 v 3, winners playing for gold, losers playing for bronze?
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