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Being a spectator at both nationals and BC2, I think BC2 was definately more exciting -- especially in the elimination matches. At nationals, I knew who would win, and what their score would be, before the elimination matches even begun. At BC2, there was no way of predicting, because there is unique interaction between any two given sets of teams. Therefore each match in eliminations will play out differently. I think this was much more the case in the eliminations than in the qualifiers.
Even though I thought BC2 was better than the FIRST competitions, I don't think BC2 was nearly as exciting as BC1 because of several reasons -- confusion over rules and bridge control, too complex rules for audience (and sometimes players) to understand, and... as Matt was pointing out, most matches were actually two matches, each on half of the field occuring simultaneously.
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