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"The Cogs" Week 9 Championship

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Frogger:
Not to further exasperate my esteemed Duck colleagues, but I do wonder what it would do for the competition if after a certain point of shutting out the top Cog, it becomes impossible to displace a team for the Weekly Champion title. Depending on one's level of competitiveness, having the knowledge that a certain team is guaranteed the title after 5 weeks of holding the Cog might be a little disheartening. The prize is out of reach halfway through the season, with no way to shoot for it, and with the only consolation for a late arrival to the Champion's Cog a guaranteed semifinal spot in the Final Tournament.

But perhaps this is a deeper issue with the format of the Cogs and the turnaround time required for a defeated team to once again make their way through the ranks. Clearly this is a major issue with the Upcomers' Cog that must be addressed, but maybe it plays a role in the upper cogs as well.

Edit: added second paragraph

Alistair MacBain:
But that system means that it doesnt matter how long u hold the title. U can need to get the match against the champion in the last week and win that.
U could add sth like a better seeding by accomplishing different goals. We have now the Raft and the Brood in the better seeding places.
Why not switch that a bid.
System 1:
We could have match 1 with both newcomers. In the next the winner have to face the "worst" team of the regular cogs. After that the winner of that match faces the next better seed. And that system goes on till we get to the last one where the weekly champion has to fight the winner of the previous rounds.
System 2:
Other system could be that (looking at the current bracket) the weekly champion could get the choice which grid half he wants to start and the next better team gets the topseed in the opposite grid half.

The second one is obv. easier for the lower seeds cause they get a better chance in achieving the win. Would also take less time cause we would have to start quite early to do all that matches.

PS: I dont know whats possible with the grid site so i just made some possible ideas.

Captain Smollett:
The way the current system stands someone could just choose to wait to enter the newcomers cog three weeks before the end of cogs, win two lower level matches, enter the finals and win the whole thing.

The advantage of holding 1st place at the end of the season should be a better seeding in the Cogs final (1st season the holder of the first cog got a bi for 2 matches).

N-Sunderland:
How about having three titles, one for the tournament, one for being on top for the most weeks, and one for being on top at the end of the season?

Swallox:
After intensive internal discussion on the merits of the suggestions proposed here; we the ex-cogs host who actually wrote that rule back in Season 1 and promptly forgot about it would like to request additional feedback in the form of the following:

If you could, please answer the following question in the form of a name.

"On a scale of Louie Spence to James May, how tight is this conversation's shirt?"

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