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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Obviously an entirely different level of competition, but playoff games at the Macs Tournament play full overtimes until a winner is decided. And this is a tournament where the quarter finals and semi finals are played on the same day, followed by the gold and bronze medal games the next day. If you want to avoid it, go out and be better than your opponent in the first 60 minutes.
But I am curious to hear a rationalization of how forcing teams to play until they decide a winner constitutes a greater disadvantage than using a system that is essentially random to pick a winner. At least in the former, the disadvantage is of your own making.
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Disadvantage in the next game. I think itīs pretty obvious, consider a triple OT game and the team that plays for bronze has to play in about 16 hours again. Iīd consider that a huge disadvantage especially at the end of the tournament with already a lot of games in.
Arguing that the team should play better to avoid OT is completely moot argument, of course thatīs the goal. Teams shouldnīt be punished in their next game simply because they went against a team that was evenly matched. Also how can you say that shootout is random? It might not be the best solution to end the game but itīs not random, otherwise you could just roll the dice. It still measures in some way who is the better team.