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Ok this one is directed to kozlik,(the only other legitimate candidate). You asked in your speech if Canada was happy with an Americas Bronze. Now of course the answer for them and myself is no, but if You were running the team what would You have done differently? There was little to no arguments against my roster selections. We only lost two games, one game which was indeed my fault where I played a 3-2 zone against Colombia in the first round. We lost that game, but it had zero effect on our final result. Then we lost to Chile after going undefeated in the second round and securing first. We lost to Chole I repeat, the team that was able to load up on enthusiasm since they had HCA the whole way through and had arguably the better team on the day. Had we finished second we would have faced USA who beat Chile and was a stronger opponent. In the repechage we drew Spain and on equal effort(both CTs) we lost by 3. Which sent us to consolation where we won 10 straight games, putting us in the consolation tournament final against Slovensko, an unwinnable game as they had more enthusiasm, had HCA and stronger players, but still it was the furthest Canada had ever gone in the consolation tournament and the first time since season 6 that a team that wasnt from Europe even made it to the semifinalss. So now we have HCA for this seasons Americas tournament so I ask again, what would You have done differently cause honestly I feel like Canada did as good as they were gonna do the last 2 seasons.

Took the words out of my mouth.

Also for candidate kozlik:

Question 1: If bronze wasn't up to your expectations for the team we had last season, what would you have done differently?

Question 2: How many foreign NT mangers has Poland had?

Last edited by Kumiko (CAN U21) at 9/19/2013 8:37:29 PM

Bballin is the man! Canada vote for him! We all know it's the right choice.

Lemme pull a Wolph and jump in here and real quick tell you guys how to run your own program on your own boards because obviously I'm an expert on Canada's NT (btw I was right about everything in the last Canada NT debate).

Answer to question #1: What should've been done differently was the obvious, a strategy to avoid Chile in the semifinal at all costs. Chile had HCA. So you had one of two choices, get into a different second round group than Chile and try to avoid matching up with them in the semi by any means necessary (for example tanking a second round game), or you could have tried to get in the same second round group as Chile thus 100% avoiding any chance of being in a semi against them at all. Why you chose neither of those strategies had us confused all season.

Answer to question #2: Mof ran once and lost because its rigged. Only Polish people are allowed to vote in the Polish elections, as an arrogant/bigot/jerk American I find this offensive.

Well now you will make the Worlds for sure without even trying thanks to consos, so early congrats on making the S26 Worlds!

Last edited by jfarb at 9/19/2013 9:22:37 PM

1) If Wolph sees this he will cry to a BB haha.

2) Avoiding Chile would mean playing USA in semis and we would still be underdog.

3) Your avatar is old, but still cool ;)