Re: regional constraints

[asnider@moose.uvm.edu (Alfred C. Snider)]

>Tuna writes:
>>>>
>I disagree. Regional constraints should be kept. It gives people an incentive
>to pick even more critics.
>>>>
>
>I don't understand this. It seems to me that with or without regional
>constraints teams will pick the same judges from outside their region.
>However, if they can pick judges from inside their region then they will pick
>some of them also.

Because they will want to pick more to maximize their potential for getting
a preferred judge, and the exclusion of in region judges means there is
increased likelihood of getting your out of region preferreds....so you
would want more of them.


Alfred C. Snider AKA Tuna
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