[Off Topic] The Ashes Thread

[sunrise089]

Don't they have instant replay in Cricket? They've been using it in American Football for some time, and even have it in baseball now. I thought they liked instant replay more in Europe, since they often overturn the results of F1 races even after the races have ended

[ruff_hi]

They are moving to the referral system in October. This series (and the WI / Bangladesh series) are the last two to be played under the old system. You have to remember that Cricket is about history, tradition, etc and moving to a new fangled TV replay system is slow going.

[darrelljs]

So is Cricket like baseball where even the worst major league team has at least a 40% chance of beating the best? One would think games that last days on end would tend to minimize luck in the outcome .

Darrell

[sooooo]

Not really, the luck does tend to even itself out over a series. The worst team (due to them being the newest team) is probably Bangladesh, who have played 60 test matches and won only 2.

[ruff_hi]

That said, 1 bad section of play can certainly lose you the game. Australia lost this game early on the 2nd day when they crumpled in their first innings, the balance of the game was involved England keeping their foot on the Aussie throat and not given them a chance to get off the mat.

[Compromise]

**Off Topic**

This is even off the off topic, but I wanted to say that I laughed reading in T-Hawk's Epic 25 report: "City three was a real Pink Dot moment" with the elephant training grounds being then named "Pink Dot." And then the name is brought up several times in the discussion thread as if it were obviously a fine name for a city.

Now seriously, there must be at least a few people who read that and aren't following this game. What must they be thinking?

Anyway, I wonder how Naldo will respond...in game.

[sunrise089]

So what the heck is happening with Cricket? I was actually starting to look forward to the insane daily box scores.

[mostly-harmless]

I guess if you name your city Pink Dot, your rivals don't see you as a big threat until you smash them with Oromos.

I believe, Pink Dot has it's origins in some ancient Sirian dotmap, iirc.

mh

[LiPing]

So what the heck is happening with Cricket? I was actually starting to look forward to the insane daily box scores.

Australia's playing a practice match against one of the England counties (domestic teams), the next Ashes match kicks off on July 30th, there's generally several days break between matches also.

[Iamjohn]

I believe, Pink Dot has it's origins in some ancient Sirian dotmap, iirc.

I think it's from the sirian/charis in civ 3 days, that's something Sullla would probably know.

[MyOtherCar]

I think it's from the sirian/charis in civ 3 days, that's something Sullla would probably know.

I am quite sure he knows.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=3210588&postcount=114

But I don't believe it's from the Sirian/Charis game

[Krill]

Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but dotmaps were used before than, at least in Poly in C2 demogames.

Obviously the Pink Dot notation is more a cultural thing and hence hasn't been used here.

[T-hawk]

Heh, I actually wasn't aware of any particular usage of Pink as a dot color before our city in this game. But RB events have a long history of amusing dot colors. I recall a discussion about a Dirt-Colored Dot sometime, and there was one Civ 3 SG with Soviet Russia where every dot was red dot.

I was also going for the "pink elephants" pun in Epic 25, but not sure if anybody noticed.

[Compromise]

I was also going for the "pink elephants" pun in Epic 25, but not sure if anybody noticed.

I try not to think about them.

[Sullla]

I can't speak for what was going on at Apolyton, but certainly the dotmapping notation became popular with our RB community due to the Civ3 succession games run at CivFanatics, back in early 2002. The idea of using colors (as opposed to letters, or anything else) stemmed from there, as well as phrases like "smoking the pungent weed" and use of that smiley face. "Pink Dot" came about because Sirian started making the most important location on all of his dotmaps pink. This was further popularized by us sticking Santa Rosa (Pink Dot) in an aggressive spot in the Cuban Isolationists game, which became crazy popular for some reason.

Lots of the lexicon from those early succession games hasn't survived (characters like Pepe the M'eer, Deacon's Beacon, the spice gambit, Phoenix and New Bombay, etc.) but the dotmapping has.