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It is good to be the king...
In my mind it is almost always better to be a picking team rather than a drafted team.
There are some cases when folks on your team might think, "Hey, if we lose this last match we will be in a better position because team XXX will pick us up."
This is a risky strategy that I have always arqued against when it came up for our team.
[list=1][*] You have no guarantee that the team you want to pick you will actually WANT to pick you[*] You have no guarantee that you will be available to be picked when the team you want to pick you gets their pick (sometimes they have a bad round and fall or someone else has a good round and climbs above them)[*] Sometimes you get in to the top 8 even when you DO have a lousy round -- in this case you might have been ranked quite high if you had tried your best but instead you end up picking last.[*] You are not being fair to your partner -- they may be on the bubble and your low score might be the doom of their chances to be playing at all on Sat. afternoon.[*] Lossing matches on purpose just doesn't seem right to me...[/list=1]
Just my opinion. Others are welcome.
Joe J.
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