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Originally Posted by dlavery
The so-called "serpentine" system was one that Andy Baker and I discussed while standing around the sidelines at the Las Vegas Regional. It is interesting, but there are some definite pros and cons to the idea. But it was much better than one of the other ideas we discussed, that would never be implemented (let's just say that Andy promised if it ever was implemented, he wsa gonna get Midieval on my poor little, non-pig-wrestling, computer-geek behind; he said something about making his "sumo wrestling match with Jason Morrella look like a walk in the park" - and we all know how that ended...  ).
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The "serpentine" picking system would be interesting, and very fair.
It was surely much better than the idea that Dave posed to me as we were on the sidelines at the Vegas regional. Dave comes over to me, with his evil grin:
Dave: "Andy... I want to know what you think about a new alliance picking idea I have"
Andy: "ut oh... OK, Dave, I am ready"
Dave: "What do you think of a system that allows the 8th seeded team to pick first, instead of the 1st seeded team"
Andy: (thinks... how do I tactfully put this) "Dave, that is ridiculously horrible. This is a competition, afterall, not a game of tiddly-winks."
Dave: "Good... that is exactly the reaction I was hoping for. I want to come up with a system that REALLY ticks you old veteran teams off!! mmmmuuaahahahahahhahahaha (jabba-the-hut laugh)"
Dave must have the ability to read minds. While I did not actually *say* that I wanted to get Midevil on him, the *thought* did pass through my simple brain.
Sigh... Let's hope for an underwater game in 2006.
Andy B.
ps... all this, and the sumo-wrestling Morrella comment was left untouched