I am grateful to Dan James for sending the following results through:
MDU A: Dan/James: 1st 1st 2nd
MDU C: Tom/Kenny: 3rd1st 3rd
MDU B: Klairi/Usama: 4th 2nd 1st
This puts:
MDU A on 8 points, or plus 2
MDU C on 5 points, or minus 1
MDU B on 5 points, or minus 1
I suspect the 'definite break' will be plus 1. Straights might do it though, if speaks are high enough.
What should I ask Joe Boyd?
9 hours ago
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A couple of teams will get through on straights
Analysis on that is?
Yep, you spotted the lack of analysis well: you'd make a good judge. It's purely based on the historical evidence that generally, a few teams get through on speaks at a tournament of this size with this size break: for example, last year's euros.
Usually, straights will get you through any tournament, sure. And that rule applies at worlds.
But I thought Euros this year was especially large, and I thought Euros only broke to quarters. Two factors which would seem to merit raising the bar.
Got a copy of last years Euros tab anywhere, btw? I can't be arsed to look for one to see if I'm right!
Yeah, a whopping two team broke on straights last time round, the tab is on Jens' blog, if you go back to 2007.
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