- If the Fossils win and either of the Rayquazas or the Zekroms win, the Fossils will face the 3rd placed team in a playoff to decide who reaches the final.
Derp. The only things that mattered were the results of the #zekroms and #rayquazas with the zekroms getting a higher overall score than the rayquazas in terms of wins thus placing us in third and making us play sweeps team in playoffs.
This doesn't address why we are getting forced to play a semifinal game when we finished with a better overall record than the Zekroms/Rayquazas. I'd have an easier time accepting this if the Drizzlers were playing the 30cmRayquazas in an opposite semifinal, but as it stands the Fossils are the
only team that is hurt by this change in playoff philosophy.
The initial plan was for two teams to make the finals so that UPL didn't drag on.* Even if 3-1-1 = 3-2 (lol), we have the tiebreaker over the Zekroms courtesy of our week 4 victory against them. I am not happy that we are getting forced to play a semifinal while the Drizzlers get a free pass to the finals.
*A large portion of my team is involved with the World Cup of Pokemon, which is widely considered a more important tournament than UPL and applies enormous time constraints on all participants. My team has been awesome with activity all year but I have no idea how active they can be with WCOP heating up.