QWC strategy

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 26825

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., s_luhtanen at h... wrote:

> Things went on very fast. Should Krum had caught the snitch before 
> the Irish scored 150 they'd won. Difference was ONLY 10 points. It 
> made a close match.

Exactly!  Bulgaria wasn't being routed.  Once you added in the 150 
points they'd get for getting the Snitch, they were very very close.  
If Krum had had the faith in his Chasers to wait for them to score 
twice more before he went for the Snitch, his team would have won.  I 
can't think of a parallel, because there's no Muggle sport I know 
of in which a player has the power to singlehandedly end the game 
while his team is behind, but it seems to me that his teammates would 
have some serious hexes waiting for Viktor.  A close match is little 
comfort to a team that's just lost the final.

I don't think he took a dive (lol), but I don't think Harry's 
explanation is convincing either.  Now, if they had been going on for 
three days, with Bulgaria consistently coming within 180 points of 
Ireland but Ireland's Chasers always pulling ahead, =then= I could 
understand his thinking that his team was never going to pull within 
140 points and he might as well end the thing with dignity.  But with 
the other Seeker injured and the game so young, I think his catching 
the Snitch was impetuous at best.

Amy Z
who wishes the Mets had given up in the 4th inning last night

(Sorry, in-joke--I will explain.  I'm an Expos fan; the Expos wereup 
by 4 in the 4th; the Mets ended up coming back and beating the Expos 
by several runs.  Now, if Krum had been pitching...)

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 The [Chudley Cannons'] motto was changed in 1972
 from 'We shall conquer' to 'Let's all just keep
 our fingers crossed and hope for the best'.
                      -Quidditch Through the Ages
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