Hayden wrote: 5) Cursing - Back here again. One player, in full view of some of the tournament officials, let out a stream of nasty profanities. --- That's because the profanities were directed towards the tournament officials. (Well that is not true. They weren't directed towards the officials. But they were caused by actions taken by the officials.) And under the circumstances, I can't really blame him. For those who were not present, a brief background: BBIV consisted of each team (14 teams, 2 brackets)playing six matches before lunch. The top four teams from each bracket advanced to the championship round; the bottom three teams, to a relegation round. Returning from lunch, everyone met in one of the rooms and the seeding for the afternoon were written on the chalkboard. (There were no paper copies available and no records shown on the chalkboard). My team, Cornell, was listed as the #5 seed out of our division of seven teams. I found this odd, since we were 3-3. I'm not a math major, but my intuition told me that if Georgetown was undefeated (which I knew to be true) as the #1 seed and we were 3-3 and the #5 seed, either there was a big Circle of Death involving us, some remarkable upsets, or something was messed up. Edmund told me there were no circle of death and there were only 2-way ties for placement (broken by H2H). He dismissed everyone to their rounds and the players all dispersed. I asked the UMBC folks (#4 seed) and Homer's Donuts B/Mike Starsinic (#3 seed) and discovered that they were both 3-3 also. Meaning that the tournament officials somehow f--ked up in counting the W-L records. I told Edmund and Tim Young of this and they proceeded to check their scoresheets. (I am still unsure as to whether the blame for this error lies with a game official, a GW staffer, or the tournament directors.) Eventually they stopped some of the matches while they checked. After crunching all the numbers and applying all of the tiebrakers (which weren't explained to the teams in advance BTW), they determined that Cornell was actually the #3 seed, UMBC remained #4, and Homer's Donuts was now #5. Which is where Mike Starsinic started his outburst. And I still can't really blame him. Kenny
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