Wow you guys are something.. Lets see you call yourself a GM which is suppost to be a leader in the community and here you are running your mouth afoul.
How are we "running our mouths afoul"?
You're being criticized for not knowing the NT rules and bashing RiP based on your lack of knowledge of those rules.
He took advantage of his position by putting the person on the NT team for his own reasons.
Exhibit A, which is not true in real life.
I'm the longest-running NT manager in the game (along with anyone else that may have won all 3 NT elections), so I think I have an idea of how this NT business works.
Any NT manager worth his salt is tracking 18 year old players from their birth until either:
A. They're good enough for the NT, or
B. They've reached the point where they will never develop enough to make the NT.
You can't run an NT with the "oh, here's the best X amount of players in the country, they're added, I'll now set a lineup once a week and I'm great."
It doesn't work that way.
Players need to be developed to keep the pipeline of talent flowing with new faces as the current players age and their training slows to a crawl.
The USA NT has 162 overall candidates right now, of which 56 are 18 years old. If one of our great 18 year olds were in danger of being lost when a team went bot, you're damn right I'd do the same exact thing RiP did in adding him to the team before he went bot (i.e. still on another team). If you're not aware, if a player is not on an NT and goes bot, he is forever lost to the BB world, NT included.
What RiP has done is beneficial to the Canada National Team, by saving a player, and then purchasing him for a good amount to ensure that he would continue to receive training.
The player pool isn't infinite as far as NT-worthy players go in any country, and for the 34th biggest country in BB it's even more restricted.
If you could point out what benefit RiP is receiving by placing this player on the team, that would be a start.
You guys are really blowing this out of proportion. I made one comment and ever since then it's been like I've been personally attacking the person behind the computer.
No, several of us (including me) pointed out the situation to you, and you chose to ignore the facts and continue to attack.
It's not blown out of proportion when you attack RiP for something that you have little knowledge of, but when you're called out on it suddenly is?
Everything is good in moderation. Including Real life folks ( If you have one )
False, misguided personal attacks don't help your cause.
NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
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A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live