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Originally Posted by that_pope
His EV argument seems completely false. Something about skill is more likely to prevail the more hands you play. Why the **** would it matter if you go 1st 2nd or 3rd in that case. So what if you go 3rd and you don't have to play, your team already won, it doesn't matter that you didn't get any hands in to let 'skill prevail'.
Unless I am missing something, they all give the team the same amount of EV assuming no other outside forces like pressure or momentum come into play. Obviously there are selfish larger game reasons to go first, but I don't think it has any impact on the results of the team match.
if there were ties or say a quick victory resulted in more points or something instead of binary outcomes then what he said would have been accurate so it's possible he wasn't just thinking about deeply since he was obviously tired
but more likely i think that was his diplomatic way of saying "you're going last each time"
her argument was terrible though - "you're putting all the pressure on me"
but with yo likely to sweep all 3 it is sure demonstrating the personal benefit of going first
i'm actually impressed with ali - idk if those scenes were edited or he had producers talking into his ear, but i feel like he did a very good job of asking drama inspiring questions