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WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?!
So by virtue of having beat the other three teams in the four-way tie head-to-head during the first session, my Wednesday team has been relegated up into the Senate league.
Okay, let's back up: our competitive curling league, the Capital league, has two divisions, the House (lower) and Senate (upper). Each season has four sessions; at the beginning of the first session, the skips peer-seed one another's teams to determine initial rankings. Following each of the first three sessions, the bottom two teams in the Senate league move down and the top two teams in the House league move up. It is thus possible for a team that was underestimated to advance to the top of the Senate league and win it all. Likewise, a team that gets seeded into the Senate league but is out of its depth up there can find its level and not spend a whole year getting creamed. Customarily, though, the two teams that drop from the Senate league after the first session spend the second session beating the pants off everyone left in the House league and move back up for the third, and the two teams that rise from the House league after the first session get their heads handed to them in the second and drop back down again.
So we were not at the top of the standings for the first session, but we were in a four-way tie for second place; and as we had defeated each of the other tied teams (and as there is no rule in this league about not being eliminated without losing an extra game [g]), up we go.
Thank god we all know we don't belong there. I confidently expect to be relegated right back down in two months.
[wibble]
(Further updates after a meeting I have to go to soon.)
Okay, let's back up: our competitive curling league, the Capital league, has two divisions, the House (lower) and Senate (upper). Each season has four sessions; at the beginning of the first session, the skips peer-seed one another's teams to determine initial rankings. Following each of the first three sessions, the bottom two teams in the Senate league move down and the top two teams in the House league move up. It is thus possible for a team that was underestimated to advance to the top of the Senate league and win it all. Likewise, a team that gets seeded into the Senate league but is out of its depth up there can find its level and not spend a whole year getting creamed. Customarily, though, the two teams that drop from the Senate league after the first session spend the second session beating the pants off everyone left in the House league and move back up for the third, and the two teams that rise from the House league after the first session get their heads handed to them in the second and drop back down again.
So we were not at the top of the standings for the first session, but we were in a four-way tie for second place; and as we had defeated each of the other tied teams (and as there is no rule in this league about not being eliminated without losing an extra game [g]), up we go.
Thank god we all know we don't belong there. I confidently expect to be relegated right back down in two months.
[wibble]
(Further updates after a meeting I have to go to soon.)