If playing this game made you that unhappy, and if it was so
insignificant, couldn't you have just forfeited and enjoyed your
lunch?
--Rick
--- In quizbowl_at_y..., cooterchekov <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> > Georgia 215, GWU 190
>
> I should note here that this game had *no* significance.
>
> Georgia and GW had equal records coming out of the round-robin (4-
7)
> and GW had just won head-to-head. This made GW and Georgia 9th and
> 10th (in some order), putting them both in the 5th flight.
>
> All this particular playoff game did was determine the order in
which
> Georgia and GW faced the other 5th-flight teams. However, since we
> both saw the same teams in different orders, and all packets are
> theoretically equal, winning this game was neither more or less
> desirable (in and of itself) than losing the game.
>
> In other words, the decision could have just as well been made with
a
> coin flip. Furthermore, this was the case going into that round.
>
> In other words, we had to sit around and play a game that had no
> meaning for half an hour while other teams went to lunch.
>
> And we were hungry.
>
> Edmund