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When cadency started Poland was 32th in world ranking...

Well, you were 14th when the world's host was announced, and 9th when world's began. If this is the argument, I fully support not giving HCA to any team in the top 50, just to be safe.

But I never depreciated Italy's victory, I sent congratulations and I was happy Poland won first medal.

Sigh... I started this by congratulating you. Please don't take it personally. Poland is a VERY good team, perhaps the best in the world. That is *precisely* why this is a problem. You *could* have won without HCA. But you didn't, and that's a shame. It's also a shame for Chile, who might also have been the best team in the world this season. We'll never know.

In Championships HCA for Poland didn't change final standing of USA

How can this be mis-interpreted in more ways. This is NOT about the USA. We were, frankly, lucky to make it to the semi-finals. No matter who had HCA, we weren't going to win. I know it's hard for people to accept, but I didn't post this out of any selfish hopes of improving things for the USA. I just want the world championships to be interesting and exciting every season. Giving HCA to a team as good as Poland was means there's very little chance of that.

I think that the BBs just have to decide to give HCA to middling teams and not to powerhouses, this would solve the problem.

If you go to http://www.buzzerbeaterblog.com My opinion on this topic is the last paragraph of my article! And also somewhere in the middle :)

Last edited by Bballin at 9/10/2011 12:24:30 AM

I hate to bump an old thread, but I want to point out how exciting this year's U21 championship is.

With one game left in round two:
- 6 teams are still in the mix for the final 4.
- 3 teams still have a chance at the top seed for the semi-finals.
- There are a ton of crazy scenarios for how the final week will play out as all 6 top teams have a realistic chance at the title, and therefore have to weigh the effort options carefully.
- No one has been able to completely run away with this while TIE'ing every match.

Had any of the top 6 teams (or probably even France/Brazil) had HCA, I don't think we'd be getting such an interesting, exciting u21 WC.

Btw - how about not only showing "last matches" but also "next matches" in the overview? Would help increasing the informational aspect and it´s quite key to know who´s gonna play which opponent on the last day anyways.

I like both suggestions. Would definitely be an improvement.

Had any of the top 6 teams (or probably even France/Brazil) had HCA, I don't think we'd be getting such an interesting, exciting u21 WC.

Just a random fact

By the way, the teams that this season have HCA, some of them lost matchs also. I don't see any reason to remove HCA.

Last edited by Marot at 10/14/2011 6:48:32 AM

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Senegal is the only team that had HCA in this WC, and (no offense meant here) they're not in the same class as the rest of the teams. In fact, one of the solutions I proposed was to give HCA to teams that aren't really in the mix for the finals. That's what happened this time around, and so I was just pointing out how well it has worked.

With one game left in round two:
- 6 teams are still in the mix for the final 4.
- 3 teams still have a chance at the top seed for the semi-finals.
- There are a ton of crazy scenarios for how the final week will play out as all 6 top teams have a realistic chance at the title, and therefore have to weigh the effort options carefully.

At the same moment in last NT WC:
- 5 teams had chance to win medal
- 3 teams had chance to gain seed #1 before semis
- at least 4 teams had realistic chance to win title (in current U21 WC, not more than 5 teams have realistic chance to win tournament, You made mistake in calculations).
I don't see big difference ;-) Little differences are always possible because of schedule, strategy, mistakes of NT managers (e.g. China destroyed enthusiasm before first round of current U21 WC), good luck or bad luck (game shape, injuries), etc.