Did you notice on the telecast where people get to vote on the oil pattern used on the Motel 6 Rags to Riches? The Shark pattern wasn't even a choice. I know it's their tournament, so they can do whatever they want, but what's the deal with eliminating one of the patterns?
I know people here and other places point out that lefties don't tend to do well on Shark. If that's the reason to eliminate the pattern, I think that blows. Lefties tend to do really well on Cheetah. If Shark is unfair for the lefties, isn't Cheetah just as unfair to the righties? I know who one the tournament today, so don't even bother mentioning it. I mean overall, not just the most recent tournament.
I think they said that there is 6 exempt lefties out of 59? So, everything else being equal, lefties should win 10% of the time, or roughly one lefty should make the top 8 each week. So on a pattern where lefties represent 50+% of the final 8 regularly, is that fair for the righties? On Shark where lefties rarely make the final 8, I hear complaints and maybe that had an effect on Motel 6's decision?
This isn't meant to be the normal whine fest between righties and lefties. But I'm just curious as to why the pattern lefties struggle on has been removed as a choice, but the pattern they love has been included.
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Telling it like it is.
