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darling clementine (neattrick) wrote in gooseberry,
@ 2017-03-08 11:07:00

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GOOSEBERRY QUIDDITCH:

ALRIGHT, GOSLINGS. We're in the home stretch.

I'm proud of you and we're all doing super well. Reid, Ana, Chris, Sy, you all did great in the last game. I know everyone's nervous about TALENT SCOUTS but you don't have any reason to be because me and Leo lost that game and we still looked GOOD AS HELL doing it. Anybody's gonna be impressed with us and we're gonna set a standard for Gooseberry going forward.

Going into the game I want everyone to reflect on our biggest strengths and weaknesses as a team. HERE'S MINE: there's no way they care more about winning than we do. I know you assholes and you're some of the most passionate people I've ever had the pleasure of throwing quaffles at in my life. keep that fire in your bellies FOREVER or at the VERY LEAST until sunday

One of the biggest drawbacks for us is that we don't know how Ilvermorny plays like we know how each other play. A few of us have worked with the coach at Ilvermorny or played with or against some candidates for their school team, but they let their captains have as much strategic control over their teams as we do here and it's been long enough that that won't mean much. The best thing we can do for this is 1) Go in STRONG and throw them off their game before they can do that to us and 2) BE PREPARED TO CHANGE OUR TACK WHENEVER, so REVIEW YOUR PLAYBOOKS. We're not going to have any time for confusion or clarification once the clock starts.

[ A full schedule of practices is included here. Sorry, it might step on some of your guys' clubs. Complain at your own risk, because Clem has helpfully titled this timetable There's no crying in Quidditch! in sparkly purple ink. ]

🔴 YOU SHOULD BE DRINKING 72 OUNCES OF WATER A DAY
🔴 DO NOT SKIP COOLDOWNS YOU'LL PULL SOMETHING
🔴 Eat Carbs, Fresh Fruit
🔴 EXTRA POSITION PRACTICE AFTER REGULAR PRACTICE
🔴 TODAY: chasers
🔴 TOMORROW: keepers/beaters/seekers
🔴 FRIDAY: just a whole extra practice
🔴 RESERVES I booked the pitch for an extra practice specifically for you friday also but you have to come to position practices too

Practice on Saturday is only going to run to Lunch because there's going to be a MANDATORY TEAM SHINDIG on Saturday afternoon. Yes you have to come. Yes all of you have to come, including reserves. NO THERE WILL NOT BE ALCOHOL. NO DRINKING ALCOHOL FOR THE NEXT 100 HOURS

After the MANDATORY SHINDIG please try to get TEN HOURS OF SLEEP.

DON'T
participate in strenous physical activity
get detention for bullying
drink alcohol (OR ANYTHING BESIDES 72 OZ OF WATER A DAY)
red meat

If you don't get 10 hours of sleep or your sleep is restless, try to take a 20 minute nap two hours before we play. this will make you SHARP and ON THE BALL which you all need to be. ESPECIALLY YOU, REID.

LAST ORDER OF BUSINESS: which two of you are the tallest

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	Goslings stokers 2017-03-09 02:19 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, exactly? Your league ranking is the cumulative score, not the number of times you win. Obviously getting the Snitch every game is a huge boost to a team, but if your Chasers are shit, you're never gonna break the top three. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Goslings neattrick 2017-03-09 02:28 am UTC (link)
	For instance we're still 20 points up on you after that match. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Goslings stokers 2017-03-09 02:37 am UTC (link)
	You think we can't beat Ribbonfin and Azurcrest again? Just fuckin watch us. The Cup isn't yours yet, Decourt. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Goslings neattrick 2017-03-09 02:44 am UTC (link)
	YOU think WE can't beat Azurcrest and Ribbonfin again?? (Reply to this) (Parent)

Goslings - I'M SORRY PLS CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, I DON'T UNDERSTAND SPORTS.

idfk
2017-03-09 03:06 am UTC (link)

Yeah, I mean you can't have shit Chasers or your fuckarooed either way. Even if your Chasers are great at showboating and riling up a crowd, you're not going places if they're not scoring enough goals. And goals are important in QWC qualifiers because you can earn up to 5 extra qualifying points if you win by 150 points or more plus the default of 2 for just winning. So it's even more important to try to match the other team's score so you earn that boost. You have to be good at both, but depending on which rules you're playing by and where you're playing sometimes the Chasers are more important than the Seekers and sometimes the Seekers make the Chasers' efforts seem trivial. But once you're finally competing in the first round in World Cup, it goes by bracket and wins are more important than how many points your team earned and your cumulative score from previous rounds doesn't really matter in the finals as long as you win.

I actually like the QWC qualifying point system better, if they'd knock the Snitch down to a reasonable 50 points to make wins more meaningful, because there are a lot of factors that alter cumulative score. Like, what's stopping two teams from conspiring to let goals "accidentally" go past their Keepers to boost both their cumulative scores? Then there's other factors like what if a Niffler steals the snitch? and the game is based on how many times a team can score before the time limit vs. how many times a team can score before a Snitch is caught.

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