Play Offs

Now you may remember that I'm currently captain of a team in the intramural volleyball competition at MUSC (the non-competitive league). Well, finally after five games (3 wins, two losse), we were on to the final week and sat with our fingers crossed hoping that we would make it through to the play-offs. Why the uncertainty, I hear you ask?? Well, this was due to the organisers of the competition being rather badly....well, organised in allowing five of the 9 times to play six games, whilst four only play five - and happily saying that this is all fair and good, and just the way it is - when we query how this is going to be considered fair when calculating which teams go through. Suffice to say (and as i had predicted, I should add), two of the 9 teams were clearly through to the play offs (having won 5 games respectively, one team out of six, one out of five played) and my team, plus two others were going to end up on 3-2 (wins-losses).

We had been told, in this event, that the teams to go through would be decided on 'strength of schedule'. When asked what this rather cryptic phrase meant, we were given a description that sounded rather like trying to explain the offside rule in 100 words or less. Suffice to say, it wasn't very clear at all. Anyway, this is all a long roundabout way to let you all know that my team was selected to go through to the playoffs and will be playing our match this coming Sunday. Which is the good news. The bad news is that we are going to be facing a team that we have played already, and that we lost too (although to be fair to us, we did not give them an easy ride). However, we have practiced tonight, are practising tomorrow and hopefully will be at least able to give them a decent match, and maybe even a run for their money. Here's hoping. On the other side of things, though, we got further this year than we did last, and so we should all be very proud of ourselves. I shall keep you all informed of what happens.