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The joke Backgammon Giants list

Posted By: Casper Van der Tak
Date: Thursday, 18 February 2016, at 9:32 a.m.

In Response To: The joke Backgammon Giants list (Sevdalin Tsvetanov)

And I reacted to your hypothetical. Maybe you mean rhetorical instead of hypothetical?

I don't see any evidence that anyone has manipulated votes in their favor and I don't like to see such suggestions without a good foundation.

Maybe some people (Croatians, say, as the discussion seems to be about them in any case, without some saying so) have overestimated the strength of some good players from their country and voted for them, and these players got too high on the Giants list. Maybe. Even if that were the case, it is not these Giants that manipulated the vote (and for that matter it is also not clear that any of the Croatian voters would have done anything improper).

It is also entirely possible that the Croatian voter have a better appreciation of the true strength of their best players than "we" have. Or that maybe some have voted for their countrymen because of what they have done for organizing the game in Croatia (which is fine as well).

We both agree that Phil's suggestions for improving the list are constructive, so let's focus on that.

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