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I like throwing the Olympics on in the background, so I will watch plenty. Pretty much every sport outside of those that involve cross country skiing is watchable. I won't be watching men's hockey, biathlon or cross country at all.
 
sandysan said:
or they only care when its true best on best and not " best of who is available", you know like the world championships.

If they had a tournament of " steves" would I care who won ? probably not, but as it is with anything YMMV. the fact that canadian steves were bested by american steves says something, but I'm not really sure I care what. But I guess blind nationalism has its place, too.
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Your tournament of Steve’s is nothing compared to the Olympics.
 
Unless its highlights, nope. The time stuff is broadcast live just doesn't line up with my day to day life enough for me to watch. And I hate watching replays. There are to many sports nuts at my work plus updates on cell phone and social media. I will know the results before I watch and that takes any reason to watch except for a highlight real away from me. And when I have to be walking out of my door by 6AM (PST) 5 days a week during the week there is not watching a hockey game on the other side of the planet live even if NHL'er were there I wouldn't be watching those games. Due to time zones I probably wont be watching any Winter Olympics until 2026 depending on where the selected city is at.
 
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Its a Trap said:
Your tournament of Steve’s is nothing compared to the Olympics.
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its a tournament that is populated not by the upper echelons of talent but some different metric. in the tournament of steves, you need to be named steve to participate. in the olympics, you need to be available which exlcudes the overwhelming number of players with the best talent. this makes the oympics something between the spengler cup and the world shampionships.

I think as a ranking function, best on best can be used to determine relative rank ( kind of the purpose of competition) once you start self selecting based on something other than talent, it can be competitive but I'm not sure I really care that canada's third tier players are better than some other country's third tier players . Same way I really don't care if canada could put together a team of redheads that could beat any other countries red heads or if canada were more competitive wrt to the us in basketball if you limited the players heights to six feet or below.

The cache of the olypics ( for hockey at least) is that for the last 20 years, it WAS best on best. Without that, it's a gussied up spengler cup even if it occurs under the rings. color me nonplussed.

Ironically I like the WJHC even though its not great hockey. Maybe I would want my country to win the tournament of steves.
 
sandysan said:
its a tournament that is populated not by the upper echelons of talent but some different metric. in the tournament of steves, you need to be named steve to participate. in the olympics, you need to be available which exlcudes the overwhelming number of players with the best talent. this makes the oympics something between the spengler cup and the world shampionships.

I think as a ranking function, best on best can be used to determine relative rank ( kind of the purpose of competition) once you start self selecting based on something other than talent, it can be competitive but I'm not sure I really care that canada's third tier players are better than some other country's third tier players . Same way I really don't care if canada could put together a team of redheads that could beat any other countries red heads or if canada were more competitive wrt to the us in basketball if you limited the players heights to six feet or below.

The cache of the olypics ( for hockey at least) is that for the last 20 years, it WAS best on best. Without that, it's a gussied up spengler cup even if it occurs under the rings. color me nonplussed.

Ironically I like the WJHC even though its not great hockey. Maybe I would want my country to win the tournament of steves.
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You’d rather win a tournament of Steve’s then the olympics? Ok then.
 
The Olympics are the most important competition in international hockey, of course I will watch.
 
Its a Trap said:
You’d rather win a tournament of Steve’s then the olympics? Ok then.
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depends on the talent.

The olympics are not some magic tournament that exists independent of talent. Just because it occurs under the rings, doesnt make it better.
What makes winning an olympic medal special is beating the best competition.

When some countries sent defacto pros to beat up repeatedly on college kids, you say that gold medal is worth the same if they ever won one straight up best on best ? I certainly do not.

And if you had a tournament of the best players playing best on best, the fact that its not under the corrupt rings doesnt diminish the value of winning that tournament. the winner of that tournament, still beat the best players from all other countries. That's a lot more laudable that " out men can beat your boys"
 
sandysan said:
this makes the oympics something between the spengler cup and the world shampionships.
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Then it will probably be very entertaining. I'm sold.

sandysan said:
The olympics are not some magic tournament that exists independent of talent.
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Actually, I think it is. Or better, what I think does not really count much, but it seems that for most of the population the olympics are exactly that.
I may not like it seing the effect of the IOC decisions on many of the countries and towns where the games happen, but it is kinda difficult to deny that the olympic games have a value that comes just from the name of it
 
A sculpture of the patron saints of all Steves, Urkel, of course.

I'll watch as usual (Switzerland games, semis and finals), why wouldn't i?
 
not planning on it. too busy with other things. had the NHLers gone I would have found time to tune in for some best v best hockey...but since they're not there, I'll take the easy pass and get on with more important things.
 
I'll probably watch all the games of Germany, but not much else.
I have stopped watching the Olympics (summer and winter) pretty much altogether, because I really don't like the IOC (same with FIFA in soccer).
But I always make an exception for the German hockey team.
 
Best on best would have made it amazing but Ill still watch because I still like International hockey. Olympic hockey before 1998 was still fun to watch. Also for the 3 weeks, Im flat out ignoring the NHL out of spite, so I gotta watch some hockey from somewhere.
 
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It's just really sinking in how completely, utterly unwatchable this is going to be. Looking over the Team USA roster I recognize maybe half the names. Two of them are Sanguinetti and Wisniewski, who are the butt of endless jokes on the Canes board.

I would love to find a way to get really excited about it, but good lord. The WJC is better and more relevant than this. What a disaster.
 
I most probably won't because of the hours but I'll be avoiding any NHL game during that time and I encourage you all to do the same.
 
golden opportunity for many teams. I think that's going to make it interesting, almost every team has a legitimate shot at medals.

I don't personally think that Russia is that big favorite, they always seem to choke when the tournament has a meaning.
 
People are still watching Politic Games? Good to know, I personally boycott this corrupted show for almost 20 years
 
Without the NHL players cross-country skiing will be the highlight of the Olympics. However I will probably watch some hockey if I got nothing else to do
 
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