I must point out here that I've known (and played against) most of the Kool Runnings guys for over 10 years now, and they would be one of the last teams I would expect to try to sandbag at a tourney. They also know as well as anyone else in paintball that if I'm in a position where neutrality is important (e.g. doing the M25 draw, reffing a tourney in the old days), I WILL be neutral no matter who is involved so they wouldn't expect any particular favours from me as a friend. I also believe that as they are one of the fairest and cleanest teams around this was clearly a case of one message out of the hundreds we received in the fortnight before the event just not getting through.
In the case of the Div 4 teams who had "Pro" level players, only one (Tommy) really classes as Pro, Ecstasy are ranked Am in international terms. Also, I happen to know that these guys were looking for a game from Monday (when their own team had to pull out), and only got hooked up with a team at the last minute, a case of last minute availability of the players and last minute holes in a team. The team involved know full well that despite having a couple of higher ranked players on Sunday, the result from that day will stand when it comes to deciding where they play next time out and it may well bump them up so they have to play with better teams without their guests
Regarding the Team Zone/Kool Runnings placings, they had identical points and neither team had any penalties (the usual deciding factor), so we went for the next deciding factor which was that when the 2 teams played each other, Team Zone won that game. Thsnk goodness it wasn't a draw between them with identical body count - can't remember what would be the next way to split them!
