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Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot

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  • BlackheartB Blackheart

    Than a humiliating game that neither side wants to play. I'm sure all the Welsh and ABs want to do is go home and get over their Semi final loss.

    Just calculate who has the most points overall and give them the bronze.

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    @Blackheart said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

    Than a humiliating game that neither side wants to play. I'm sure all the Welsh and ABs want to do is go home and get over their Semi final loss.

    Just calculate who has the most points overall and give them the bronze.

    Boat races!

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    • jeggaJ jegga

      Make it a festival match like the Coronation shield match in 1956. Make two teams out of the squads and let them play.

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      @jegga Except they would feel like court jesters on public display for the world to ridicule...Nup.. get the calculator out and give it to the team with the most points..if that's tied then the most tries...if that's tied double the bronze medals and make them joint winners.

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        Shag v Gats, best of 5, rock paper scissors. Ok

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          Shag v Gats, best of 5, rock paper scissors. Ok

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          @The-Eagle said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

          Shag v Gats, best of 5, rock paper scissors. Ok

          An arm wrestle between them perhaps?

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            A Fortnite Battle Royale.

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              A Fortnite Battle Royale.

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              @sparky said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

              A Fortnite Battle Royale.

              Hey Rieko, you've been posting here this whole time I see.

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                Shag v Gats, best of 5, rock paper scissors. Ok

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                @The-Eagle holy shit, all the old cnuts coming out of the woodwork this week! 🙂

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                • taniwharugbyT taniwharugby

                  @The-Eagle holy shit, all the old cnuts coming out of the woodwork this week! 🙂

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                  There's only one way to decide...a long table full of ice cold Steinlagers...Hansen and Gats drink as many as they can and the first to go to the loo loses.

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                  • nzzpN nzzp

                    @Blackheart said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                    Than a humiliating game that neither side wants to play. I'm sure all the Welsh and ABs want to do is go home and get over their Semi final loss.

                    Just calculate who has the most points overall and give them the bronze.

                    Boat races!

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                    @nzzp said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                    @Blackheart said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                    Than a humiliating game that neither side wants to play. I'm sure all the Welsh and ABs want to do is go home and get over their Semi final loss.

                    Just calculate who has the most points overall and give them the bronze.

                    Boat races!

                    Played in a 7's tournament in Cancun awhile back. We were so hungover at the actual event we got to a 3v 4 playoff or maybe 5v6 against a team called 'Off in church' we thought they were a religious team....nope just some witty blokes.

                    Apparently 'no one beats off in church'

                    We ended up having a boat race instead of the match and can say that we all beat off in church that day.

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                      how about a count back on boundaries tries... that seems a fair way to do it.

                      Sure both teams will be despondent in general, however Im sure the players will want to send their mates/coaches who are retiring off with a win.

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                        I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

                        Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

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                        • antipodeanA antipodean

                          I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

                          Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

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                          @antipodean said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                          I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

                          Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

                          If seedings were done a year before it would make a lot more sense

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                            Paper,scissors, Rock, first to 10

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                            • antipodeanA antipodean

                              I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

                              Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

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                              Why even bother finding 3rd place. What relevance is there?

                              As an aside boxing doesn't have 3v4 at the Lumpics. Just two bronze medals.

                              Why make the players bash themselves up even more for meaningless match.

                              Seeding is done on rankings anyway.

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                                @antipodean said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                                I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

                                Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

                                If seedings were done a year before it would make a lot more sense

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                                @bayimports said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                                @antipodean said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                                I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

                                Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

                                If seedings were done a year before it would make a lot more sense

                                Yeah, it was probably a little far out, but better than results 4 year's previous.

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                                • boobooB booboo

                                  Why even bother finding 3rd place. What relevance is there?

                                  As an aside boxing doesn't have 3v4 at the Lumpics. Just two bronze medals.

                                  Why make the players bash themselves up even more for meaningless match.

                                  Seeding is done on rankings anyway.

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                                  @booboo the worst thing about it , we have to get up for this match, imagine being in the first All Black team to have lost to Wales since 1953..meaningless or not the press will be all over this if it turns south.

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                                    If we win we take back second in the rankings, that's something imo

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                                      No cheating:

                                      can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                                      Nah, me neither

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                                      • SiamS Siam

                                        No cheating:

                                        can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                                        Nah, me neither

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                                        @Siam said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                                        No cheating:

                                        can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                                        Nah, me neither

                                        Wales
                                        Us
                                        England
                                        South Africa
                                        Us
                                        Argentina
                                        Australia
                                        South Africa

                                        At a guess anyway, the first 3 are wild guesses

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                                        • SiamS Siam

                                          No cheating:

                                          can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                                          Nah, me neither

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                                          @Siam said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                                          can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                                          All but 2011. Can remember where I physically watched that game but potentially overindulged.

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