#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

It's just impressive to me how every round has a different win/advancement condition. First round is by points, second round is single elimination, third round is best of three. Just, what.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I would really like to hear the reasoning behind it. It's just bizarre.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

They said something about there being only 8 teams. They didn't want the final round to be decided by one game, but they couldn't figure out a way to get more games into the preceding rounds without unduly burdening a few teams.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

It's not new or bizarre, it's how the WCoH has always been. It's because it was partly inspired by the Summit Series, which was, as the name implies, a series of games between two teams. When they decided to do the Canada Cup and then later the World Cup, they had to have a way to decide the finalists from an expanded field, but they still wanted to have the final be a series between the best.

The only bizarre part was the rly obvious attempt to engineer a USA/Canada final, which had a lot of people grumbling that they didn't just have a USA/Canada series instead if that's what they wanted.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

1996's final was a best of three series, 2004's was just one game. For some reason, the 1981 Canada Cup final was also only a single game.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

That's still six out of eight with a final series rather than a final game, so it's not bizarre or new.

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

Ok, and no one is arguing with you that it is, it's just information for people who are surprised by a format that hasn't been played in 20 years and/or are interested in the history of the tournament? It's how the WCoH originated, it's not how it's "always been."

Re: Game day thread 25 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

Plus people are contrasting it with how the two previous rounds were won.