Day 1: Istomin
Literally every single person who picked somebody other than Paire has been knocked out. We're 1 upset away from the greatest "bloodshed" in SDL history.
Please change my day 1 pick to Herbert
LOL, hoping for a mass exodus to keep your Top 8 chances alive?
lol no but I really think he is going to win he was on fire in the qualies and Paire is known to troll.
lol no but I really think he is going to win he was on fire in the qualies and Paire is known to troll.
Please change my day 1 pick to Herbert
Please change my day 1 pick to Herbert
Is it sad to think I was probably the closest to the next round with the donkey pick? (tomic)
Day 2: Paris
[WC] Michael Llodra (FRA)
v Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)
Gael Monfils (FRA)
v Vasek Pospisil (CAN)
[9] Richard Gasquet (FRA)
v Fernando Verdasco (ESP)
Kei Nishikori (JPN)
v [8] Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)
[Q] Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)
v [2] Novak Djokovic (SRB)
[Q] Michal Przysiezny (POL)
v Jarkko Nieminen (FIN)
[WC] Nicolas Mahut (FRA)
v Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR)
[SE] Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)
v Ivan Dodig (CRO)
Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)
v Marcel Granollers (ESP)
Kevin Anderson (RSA)
v Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)
[Q] Santiago Giraldo (COL)
v[14] Jerzy Janowicz (POL)
Sorry Guys, just realized that there's no one left.:shock:
Sorry Guys, just realized that there's no one left.:shock:
Haha.........congrats Romeo........barely escaped the massive bloodshed.
As for the rest of us........see yo in. OZ Open
There's still the WTF event open to everybody (as well as the Top 8 Bonus competition) next week. I'l probably start a thread on that later tonight, since everyone except romeo presumably decided to tank Paris to rest their knees for London.
Also, this Paris debacle got me thinking about a new potential rule for next year: For future SDL events, if everybody gets knocked out in the first round/day/pick, essentially we could make it a wash and everybody will get a second chance to start over the next round/day. What would everybody think of this rule? I may make it a poll in the WTF SDL thread so people can vote on it.
I emphasize it would only apply to the first pick of a tournament and only if everybody got knocked out. So it wouldn't have applied even today because of romeo. But I feel this could be a useful "emergency" policy that would enhance the competition without really giving anybody an unfair comparative advantage.
I also emphasize how extremely unlikely this ever is to occur in practice. I've been playing this for almost 2 years and this is was by far the closest it's ever come to occurring.
This change, made only about 5 minutes before the first point, turns out to be the only thing stopping a complete mass exodus. I knew Paris was a tough tournament to predict coming in, but this is pretty much unheard of.
Because of this massive wipe-out, 6 more people have clinched their spots in the top 8 (joining dcdoorknob):
********, FEDERERNADAL13, Ico, CDNguy87, Jeepers, and Stringertom.
The scenario for the 8th and final spot is quite simple: romeo8880 will barely sneak into the 8th spot if he wins Paris outright. If he does anything else, PDJ will hang on to his current position.
Frankly, I think if romeo8880 can make another 6 correct picks to win here he deserves 10,000 bonus points and automatic Year End #1.
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Day 1: Paire
May we not get Ljub-checked
The term Ljub-checked is now irrelevant, need a new one for Paire.