Proposals for WHBPC allocations

UK Champs top 6. done.

The master has spoken. The discussion is over.

By no odds you mean that if Malice don't make it then you pay out £100 and if they do make it then nobody has to pay you?

Or do you mean that you will put up £100 to someone else's £100 (which would imply you think Malice only make the top 6 50% of the time) ?

Sorry, I see the word 'bet' and I can't help myself.

You know exactly what I mean. I'm not a bookie. I will bet you 100 dollars. You put up 100, i put up 100, someone wins, someone loses.

Right, so you make a suggestion, and we discuss, I make one, even start a poll about it, and all i get is shit from you for it.

fuck off.

Right, so you make a suggestion, and we discuss, I make one, even start a poll about it, and all i get is shit from you for it.

fuck off.

Which way is the shit flying?

every way.

Fuck you too.

Thanks matt. Appreciated.

By no odds you mean that if Malice don't make it then you pay out £100 and if they do make it then nobody has to pay you?

Or do you mean that you will put up £100 to someone else's £100 (which would imply you think Malice only make the top 6 50% of the time) ?

Sorry, I see the word 'bet' and I can't help myself.

addict.

If anyone does want to bet on anything UK Champs related (outright winner, top 8, top 6, whatever..) then I'm up for it. Nothing ridiculous though, like pretending Malice only make top 6 50% of the time - I'm not just going to give you money.

so who will contribute to match the doctor's £100? i'll pitch £10..

though by the theory presented, malice should really have to finish top 3...

I did not offer to bet a group of people £100 pounds. I said I would be willing to bet, and I made a specific bet proposal to James.

Would you, individually, like to make a bet, Josh?

I did not offer to bet a group of people £100 pounds. I said I would be willing to bet, and I made a specific bet proposal to James.

Would you, individually, like to make a bet, Josh?

Place your bets over here:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread40946.html

Place your bets over here:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread40946.html

Lol! Was a matter of time!

Here's a view from a poloist in Cambridge (one probably not shared by my brethren but I shall make it anyway, seeing as this is mostly a London Poloist discussion)

Originally when Berlin asked for responses from countries with regards to their interest in playing, teams submitted forms dedicating themselves to those dates. Cambridge plan to be there en force regardless of who gets to play.

Frankly, I'd expected more than 10 London teams who'd have an interest in going, considering your polo-player numbers far outweigh any other UK city. Having not seen the list of the ten teams, the assumption is they are the top or most committed teams.

I propose that the actual interested parties (not the maybe replies but the definate replies) from the original Berlin form submissions take part in a single quick one-day tournament to decide who goes. I doubt a serious team from wherever they are in the UK would not have known about the allocation form anyway from word of mouth/forum posts/blogs. Oxfords lack of presence for example has been seen to be because their teams have split for one reason or another or they have other more pressing commitments.

This I believe is fair to all those who bothered to be interested in the first place, and takes all the strain off the UK champs. [old ground] It's unfair to Manchester teams competing in and organising the UKC to also be thinking about the Worlds without having had the appropriate discussions before the event was organised [i've changed my personal opinion on what the UKC2010 should be, because of this].

London will probably scoop up the top 6 spots at the Champs, as they probably will at the above suggested tourney, but the original interested parties who committed themselves need to be given a chance. MCR and CB are part of this too. This tourney would be quick to organise and quick to get finished on the day (especially as Berlin need to know who's actually playing by the 30th April).

Why fetishize teams?

Because it's a team sport?

bit late to make this point but every other team sport has a squad bigger than the number of people playing at one point and most have alternativly selected teams for internationals or allstar games, correct me if I'm wrong?

A selected team for the worlds would be no different to the way each county selects a team for football (they don't say, well chelsea are at the top of the prem, so let's send them!), rugby, cricket, basketball, hocky, radball...

Just saying... As someone who isn't going to be going, it doesn't really effect me.

Here's a view from a poloist in Cambridge (one probably not shared by my brethren but I shall make it anyway, seeing as this is mostly a London Poloist discussion)

Originally when Berlin asked for responses from countries with regards to their interest in playing, teams submitted forms dedicating themselves to those dates. Cambridge plan to be there en force regardless of who gets to play.

Frankly, I'd expected more than 10 London teams who'd have an interest in going, considering your polo-player numbers far outweigh any other UK city. Having not seen the list of the ten teams, the assumption is they are the top or most committed teams.

I propose that the actual interested parties (not the maybe replies but the definate replies) from the original Berlin form submissions take part in a single quick one-day tournament to decide who goes. I doubt a serious team from wherever they are in the UK would not have known about the allocation form anyway from word of mouth/forum posts/blogs. Oxfords lack of presence for example has been seen to be because their teams have split for one reason or another or they have other more pressing commitments.

This I believe is fair to all those who bothered to be interested in the first place, and takes all the strain off the UK champs. [old ground] It's unfair to Manchester teams competing in and organising the UKC to also be thinking about the Worlds without having had the appropriate discussions before the event was organised [i've changed my personal opinion on what the UKC2010 should be, because of this].

London will probably scoop up the top 6 spots at the Champs, as they probably will at the above suggested tourney, but the original interested parties who committed themselves need to be given a chance. MCR and CB are part of this too. This tourney would be quick to organise and quick to get finished on the day (especially as Berlin need to know who's actually playing by the 30th April).

The advantage of this format is that the results won't be affected by teams which aren't in the running to go to the champs. If one team had an easy group agasint 4 thrown together teams that wouldn't be goign to the worlds, it would be unfair for them to then go to the worlds on the basis of this, wheras someone might have a hard group with all teams that want to go to the worlds (both hypothetical groups, not bitching about the circle)

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The advantage of this format is that the results won't be affected by teams which aren't in the running to go to the champs. If one team had an easy group agasint 4 thrown together teams that wouldn't be goign to the worlds, it would be unfair for them to then go to the worlds on the basis of this, wheras someone might have a hard group with all teams that want to go to the worlds (both hypothetical groups, not bitching about the circle)

Good point, i'm not sure this has been covered yet in this thread?

it's a bit late for this "discussion".. it has been going on for about 3 weeks and the final decision was made a week ago.

indeed.