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Next Match...Why Do I Care?
Posted by Allan Sellers on Wednesday, Jun. 21st, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Why do I care about this specific match?

This is a sentence I get from my good friend and your colleague Craig Bucknall each season.

Sometimes its not clear if a match is important or not.  Fortunately we have CB who has has now authored (well, presumably what you see are his words) a brief description on each match to tell us if we should care...or not.

CB is a person who is busy and on the run as evidenced by the pen in his mouth.  He doesn't do 5-star ratings.  He does 5-pen ratings. That pen in the mouth shows a person that is busy and important.  

Until the end of time in TMVL (or maybe sooner if another person wants the gig), Craig will tell us if a match is important...or not.

For each match preview (hopefully, going forward) you will see a "Why Do I Care" link such as this:

If you click that link you will get excellent content that "might" have been sent to me from CB like:

Keep in mind though that while Craig gave 4-pens to the last conference match before the conference tournament seeding, he's not handing out 4-pens each match...

Since CB is a busy person, if you could post the upcoming matches after this session (obviously using words and sentences the Craig would) below this note I would appreciate it.  Another important discussion might be, why do we have to use a "whole pen" scale?  Maybe a Sweet 16 WGM match is really a 4.5 pen rating?  Am I (I mean is CB) right?

Thank you!  And Thank you CB!

Readers Comments

Absolute genius!

Roger Mendonça on Wednesday, Jun. 21st, 2023 at 5:57 AM
 

Always welcome Al, here to help etc etc

There is scope for a 1/2 pen. Think UK bookies/lottery pen as per the below.

Banned 2 - The Pikers Pit

The following picture is a several million penner.....think Bulldogs v Anyone (but especially the Horses, The Red Fruits, The Darlo Fan)

Betting shop worker disciplined for building massive tower out of bookie  pens - Daily Record

Craig Bucknall on Wednesday, Jun. 21st, 2023 at 6:38 PM
 

This is fantastic, love the content!

Rob Peterson on Friday, Jun. 23rd, 2023 at 12:34 AM
 

This is my new favorite thing in TMVL.

Mike Cabral on Saturday, Jun. 24th, 2023 at 12:36 PM
 

Thank you CB!  I'll have to work the "1/2 pen" into the format for next season!  😎

Allan Sellers on Wednesday, Jul. 5th, 2023 at 11:50 PM
 

I've had CB locked away in isolation for the last 3 weeks to work on adding all the "Why Do I Care" information for the final 3 sessions and its now ready (I think) for prime time.  I want to thank CB for all the time he has put in to make sarcastic comments and develop unique and original quotes that I'm sure are unattributable to any other people on the planet.

Please help me if you spot any issues.   Like the wrong match being described or wrong RPs for a competition, or "pen-rating" mismatch, etc.  

Here's an example for the TMVL Cup 15th place match.  

Allan Sellers on Monday, Aug. 7th, 2023 at 11:09 PM
 

It's just like reading my own words but I haven't written them.

How do you do it Al?

Craig Bucknall on Wednesday, Aug. 9th, 2023 at 10:52 AM
 

I wll 2nd C-Ball's comments that this is one of my favorite things to look at.

Rob Peterson on Thursday, Aug. 10th, 2023 at 9:19 PM
 

Thank you CB and Rob!  I appreciate it!  😎

Allan Sellers on Thursday, Aug. 10th, 2023 at 10:08 PM