From: mmoore@itchy.dsd.es.com (Michael Moore)
Subject: Re: SINL PLAYOFF UNOFFICIAL RANKING
Organization: Evans & Sutherland
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 15:55:22 GMT

In article <ceX=THS00awBIerV4v@andrew.cmu.edu> "Robert W. Hill" <rh3b+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>
>Uh oh...looks like mike has more opinions that I disagree with....
>
>
>For the first year, I liked the tie-break advantage.  Now, it is wrong. 
>At large teams are coming closer to bridging the gap with the school
>teams.  Next year, I anticipate at least one very skilled at large team,
>that may well win it all.
>
>You calling Crackpot "Crack-in-the-ass" shows your stupidity.  12 AM are
>not as good as team crackpot.  Yes, i'm from CMU, who gives a f*ck? 
>They are better, and they deserved to be in the playoffs.  
>

	First off, I called them that because I thought their win
assertion was in poor taste.  And I am ANGRY, by nature.
 
	You say we are not as good as CP, and yet would like to see a
team crackpot vs. the good the bad and the oggly.  But we scrimmaged
them early on and the game was very close.

	Individually team crackpot's members are better than 12AMs,
but that's never been what made us dangerous.  The way we played as
a team was what was most important.

	Team Crackpot would have been hard pressed to defeat us,
and we might just have won.  But then, we'll never know now.

	Personally, having played solely on at large teams in the
INL, I would prefer that they get a fair advantage in games.  Perhaps
tie-break going to them is too much, but there damn well better be
something fairly significant.

	Then, I don't know why I care.  I'm gonna be gone until at
least January.  By then I imagine I will be a washed up old addict,
spewing out garbage about the "good old days".

>Somebody a few posts back said that it was pretty bad that the teams
>that made the playoffs were simply the teams that didn't play AA.  
>Crackpot could've certainly given the ogglies a run for their money, and
>I think they would have crushed the angry men in similar form to
>tonight's AA beating party.
>

	Once again, if you're saying the crackpot could have given the
ogglies a run for their money, then you're overlooking the fact that
the ogglies barely defeated us in a scrimmage.  And that was early in
the season.

	And as I know you are aware, AA played a different 12AM.  Some
of the spirit was lost, in my opinion.  But even that they played was
a moral victory, for in doing so we locked team crackpot out of the
finals. 

>Now that i've done my angry bashing to appease my own anger related to
>ged's post, let me say congrats to the angry men.  You had a good run,
>and I look forward to seeing your fall team.
>

	You're a cool guy, Rob.  Its people like you that make netrek
worth playing.  Nothing better than one of the best players of all
time being a really nice guy.  That you separate my rantings from my
overall team shows your true nature.  Most folks wouldn't be doing
that. 

	-Michael (Ged)
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