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Consider this, you sorry pro-fixed match people..
Boxing matches.. Man R vs Man B.. Winner gets a nice some of money, people betting on it get a nice sum also.
So Mr. Cashlove goes up to the Boxer in red trunks and says, hey, if you "accidently" "stay down" for "10 seconds" you will "get" "$375,000" (Quotes being winks).
Red trunked boxer thinks hmmm.. the purse for this is about 400,000.. if I win, I get $400k and a W.. If I lose I get 375,000 and an L...
So... low and behold.. the boxer in Red falls over third round and somehow can't get up until the bell rings. So for less effort put in by the man in Red, he still gets a large sum of money. While the Blue trunked boxer walks away with an easy win and a few extra bucks.
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Make sense in the FIRST format? Instead of a team being pummeled trying to win, they 'let' the other team win without putting up a fight. They still get better than what they would had they fought legitimately.. but the opponent doesn't have to work hard, gets an easy win, and all the glory..
Kamen said at kickoff.. this game won't be fair. It won't be fair because it involves humans. Teams will always try and weasel through loopholes and make "gentlemen's agreements."
I lost respect for a very good team because of their "unsportsmanlike agreements," as they should be called. I don't intend on this being a flame, so I won't say a number, speak with me in private if you must know.
Two veteran teams vs Two rookie teams. The veterans are in a close race with the other high rank teams for a qualifying spot. The leader of the pair is ranked in about 6th. They send a team leader over to the rookies and say "Push a goal to our side, then sit in your home zone, we'll do the rest and you will have about 50-60 points." The rookies.. having a few bad matches already and knowing they can't defeat the vet's agree and do the task.
The veterans work together nicely in a 2 v 0 battle. They toss almost all of the field's balls into the goals and poke and prod the score til they feel it's just right. The final score was something along the lines of 65 - 60 vet's winning. Being that it was last year, the rookies got 60 pts, and the vets got 180. This skyrocketed them to 1st place where they remained. Their partner sat in 3rd or 4th at the end of the day.
Tell me this now, how was that a fair match? This is not CoOpertition FIRST anymore, it's 2 v 2. not 2 v 0 or 4 v 0. By the veteran team making an offer to the rookies, they bettered themselves into an undefeatable position. (That comment is to whomever said "if they do that find a way to beat them).
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