Re: Sensible Days 2007

Hey Playa, I can bring you a mic, no prob.

And by the way: I m very happy that mt653 is coming. There s no reason to be enemies over such an issue. I m looking forward to shaking his hands and kicking his ass (swos-wise that is).
I hope this will bring an end to the rather uncormfortable notion that ss.de is somehow on their knees bending every rule to appeal to the ISSA crew. That is ridicilous. ISSA promised to join Sensible Days way before any rules were ever changed, and we haven t pressured anyone into changing any rules. The only, and I really do mean only, reason that Playa and Redhair changed the rule is because they, after having participated in a lot of different tournaments, realised that this is the best way to do it for Sensible Days. It has nothing to do with me being bored, though I would love to live in a world where rules were changed every time I felt they were boring. It s a nice scenario, unfortunately it has nothing to do with reality. Anyway, let s put all this behind us. See you all on friday!

ooh, just one more thing: Torpedo: you have a really bad habit of introducing new tournament solutions in the very last minute! You did the same at last ISSA. I m sure your idea is really good, but organizers prefer these things to be discussed in good time.

I m sure your idea is really good,

with quote above in mind, i don t see a problem thanks for agreeing!

the meaning of time, and especially meaning of a good time, or more precisely right time - well, it s just relative.

Looking forward to seeing you again, Torpedo. What music will you be playing in you iPod during the tournament this time?

it s Wagner this time, probably. i m sorting it out, btw, right now.

and of course, looking forward to meet you all, as well. time to beat Playaveli, guys!

Torpedo s idea is not bad. I seriously doubt that anyone who ended 5-th or 6-th will reach QF. But as Torpedo wrote - this will bring joy to more people whose goal was to reach K/O rounds. And indeed competing in a K/O is much different than a group stage game. Considering the fact that the level of the tournaments will be very high I support the idea of creating an extra K/O round for 3-rd - 6-th placed in their group.

some additional contras:

- some players in last 16 ko stage will be warmed up because of playing preliminary ko round
- on the other hand, after playing one more match before last 16, they can be allready tired, especially if it was an additional match neccesary.
- it takes time to play extra matches


some additional pros:

@ take some fire out of the competition

- i think it may be exactly the other way: players would prefer to finish at first two places, so there will be battle for that, and also for at least 6th, so the group of players actually playing for something will be bigger.


and of course remember all the pros i mentioned before, and all the contras Playaveli mentioned.

I never liked competitions where there were too many player qualifying.

of course i am sure that no matter how many players qualify to the ko rounds, it s still going to be great event. but more or less dissapointing for 8 players. it s not like this 8 players fate is the most important thing i m looking forward to, but i find this idea quite interesting.

and don t tell me you didn t like 1986 World Cup, please! it was the best ever football tournament in the history of discipline. and out of 24 teams, 16 has qualified to ko, that gives 66,66%.