BlueCat
Roses are red, cats are blue
- Dec 14, 2009
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Worlds has a different scoring system, different rules ("no hugging"), different (less) warmup time, completely different venue (baseball field), different use of geography to determine finals eligibility, and they are the only one to ONLY use the last performance for rankings. I can think of no other sport where the World Championship is determined in such a different way than how you normally compete.I'm not sure how many times a team would need to perform to get an accurate ranking, but 4 might work. To me you would have the AL teams compete and take top 10. The remaining teams would then compete and you take that top 10. Then those teams compete day 1 and day 2 with a 50/50 average. I may be simplifying it a bit. I still think the paid bid teams should not have to compete in AL division. I cannot imagine how long it would take to get through all the teams if we didn't do it that way. At this point, we ALREADY divide the AL teams into Division A/Division B which I have so many issues with.
On another note, I have always wondered why Worlds only takes the scores from finals. Seems contradictory to require teams to compete two times and take the average to obtain a bid, but at the actual competition, they only compete 1 time. Maybe I am missing something.
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