Winter World Cup WINNER - poweewee (Philippines)

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(01-31-2013 12:34 AM)Harti Wrote:  

(01-30-2013 11:45 PM)Gfich Wrote:  How's your game with spoboyle going?

It is completely undecided, him playing Adorables against my Feedback. We both got a Special and a bunch of units out, it's turn 31 -- his.

Your question implies that you'd like to point out that, if I lost and spoboyle KO'd the round, I'd end up being group's runner-up and spoboyle's first, am I right? That again implies that I was posting the above on my own behalf, trying to push myself to the actual tournament's group stage.
Just in case you're indeed saying that I would like to point out that this is false, I just thought about it half an hour ago when somebody else has pointed that out to me.
To be frank, I even wanted to concede the game to spoboyle for playing so well yesterday in order to give him a chance to advance as well. That is: I had no clue that I wasn't yet safely proceeding to the tournament's next stage. Firstly, I thought it was two people advancing, and secondly I didn't even consider that spoboyle could 6-0 my group.

Actually not at all. It's part of my uber-optimistic scenario in which spoboyle beats you, I beat him, and both of us would go 5-1, to make a total 3-way tie, which would at least give me a rematch against you, hopefully as P1, in which I would pick Long Nine and pwn both you and spoboyle.

(01-31-2013 12:34 AM)Harti Wrote:  Now that I am aware, retrospectively, it's indeed kind of awkward for me to have asked for the runner-up to proceed as well because it fairly looks like I'm doing it because of me, but I swear to God that the post before was completely unbiased. I wanted spoboyle to advance in case they lose.

But then there would still be the possibility that I beat spoboyle, placing me above him.

(01-31-2013 12:34 AM)Harti Wrote:  It is really a mystery to me why only one out of 7 people is proceeding to the next stage. Sure, 6-0 is excellent, but isn't 5-1 just as great? This is a qualifier and I've never seen a round-robin qualifier to be this harsh and eliminate all but the winner. O_o

I agree it's very harsh. It's so awkward knowing that the chances of survival are so minimal.

(01-31-2013 12:34 AM)Harti Wrote:  I agree that I should have read the spreadsheet beforehand and should have raised my concerns before the group started or at least before I started my games.
Had I known all that I might have taken my games more seriously and, above all, wouldn't have put the game against spoboyle on stake so easily.

Wait, WHAT?!