Hats off for a great win ... I think the structure is spot on, albeit the points scoring weighting could be altered to make the event even more exciting at the death.
If the MTT points values were halved then if people finished in the same positions then the top five would have been as follows:
Wales 80 pts
France 78 pts
Portugal 77.5 pts
Scotland 80.5 pts
Rep or Ireland 79.5 pts
I don"t make this point to indicate Scotland should be placed higher, more that there would have been 5 teams in play for all the medals at the death.
As things ran last night, Wales would been favourite going into the last two tables but they would have more had to play for the win than to stay alive. They had the stacks to do this, which were built up in the main by attacking play and I would always want to reward that.
In my first table - David Rudling-Smith took the lead and made the running and no surprise to see him return to my table later on with a stack.
He and Dan Owston then bullied the table with their stacks until about 12 players out when it became optimal to sit and wait and scoop the title.
As before we all knew the structure going into the event so good MTT play would always be well rewarded.
Maybe the other teams should have kicked back stronger whilst the stacks were being built?
Great work - hopefully back next year to do battle.
L
