Thread: This year's "game" is a job, not a game
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Re: This year's "game" is a job, not a game
At the very least it's fun to point out that the new system was designed to fall in line more with "Olympic" sports scoring instead of a standings that was a variant of traditional team sports with this in mind:

Say what you will about it being hard to get a good top 8 in the past (classic Virginia 2013 when a top 8 robot scored zero points the entire tournament, save for foul points to the opponents) no one is watching downhill skiing September through February, they're watching the NFL. Baseball stadiums fill to the brim on cool weekend nights in the summer and no one is lining up to see a kayak slalom as often. March Madness is probably the greatest event in sports, and it's top-down single elimination chaos.
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