Tourney: Euro Bench - Bristol - July 20/21

Alejandro: Slowest draft picker in Europe.

I think he's doing it to build tension :)

At least there are a lot of other fat speccy kids with me.

Great to watch and judge from afar, and so much potential for stats!

I'd love to see the odds of French captains' predisposition to pick another French person.

Can't believe Fin got picked so late.

Spring Break/Fake have four players in the top 24 (including captains).

Wow, shocked by those last two rounds of picks. Weird choices when stronger players were left.

It must have been my socks that swung things in my favour.

If a captain picks three or more players from one country that is his country?
(I don't know the nationality of lots of the captains, so it's an extrapolation)

Woods' and Polo's teams 50 and 75% French respectively.

Chan looks a bit English, too.

Nik, Ryan, Me: Not English.

England based.

Yeah that's what I meant. All red on the Google Doc.

Nik, Ryan, Me: Not English.

Chan picked you??

Chan picked you??

final pick...he couldent not

Me and Ed are the only 2 English players on the team, quit hatin'

Not hating, just find it interesting.

People are predisposed pick people they're familiar with over those they don't. We've seen time and time again in 'regular polo' that familiarity and team oneness often beats a collection of better, random players.

Yeah, it makes sense. Pick your team mates, then pick people you play with a lot.

Even Alejandro, with his international team, picked at least 3 people he's played with before

Did David (edisons) David, not get picked? He was David H yes?

different david

different david

He shouldn’t have said that in his uploaded player reference.

Did David (edisons) David, not get picked? He was David H yes?

oh dear, thats a bit of a sick burn (right teenslain? did i use it right?)

where are the lists?

Here:

The draft will be live from 9pm / 22 CEST / 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT

http://tinyurl.com/eurobenchdraft

What kind of madman picks Tim over Alfie?

I dread to think.

My money is on Jono.

What kind of madman picks Tim over Alfie?

Alfie even has the better bike.