Championship Belt -- complete list!

[Dart~Ben]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:
My own take is that if the belt holder doesn't make the NCAA tourney, then the alternate belt should expire with the new NCAA champion.

But if a shootout decides who advances in an end of season tournament, then, hmm, maybe that should count toward the belt. There aleady appears to be an exception for total goals or best-of-three tournaments so that the winner of the series gets the belt.

The point of the alternate belt ought to be to account for occasional weirdnesses such as a team not making the tournament, as opposed to having a half-dozen belts being carried around the country.[/q]

1st scenario - the team with the real belt keeps it to next season, even though they didn't make the tourny. The alternate belt goes to the champion of the NCAA tournament, although alternate belts are not recognized by the official rules committee of the championship belt. However, there is only one official belt and its lineage isn't up for debate unless you plan on joining the CBC (Championship Belt Committee).

2nd scenario - all conference and ncaa tournaments use multiple overtimes for post season play, which fall under the regular rules. Therefore there will never be a shootout to decide a post season winner. The rules were amended to allow for previous playoff methods, although they are greatly frowned upon.

3rd scenario - again, alternate belts are outside the purview of the official belt. People can make whatever rules they want for it, since there will only be one true Championship Belt.  :-D :-D

[billhoward]

[Q]Dart~Ben Wrote:
  ... 3rd scenario - again, alternate belts are outside the purview of the official belt. People can make whatever rules they want for it, since there will only be one true Championship Belt.    [/q]

Kind of unusual describing an official belt, an alternate belt, and an unofficial belt for a Championship Belt that is wholly unsanctioned. OTOH, if fantasy baseball can have "official" rules ...

The most odd part of the rules, so to speak, would be one that allows a team not making the tournament to retain a regular, alternate, you name it, belt until it gets beaten sometime in the following year. The NCAA tournament should be an automatic reset in favor of the winner -- pass Go, collect $200, collect the bet, if you're lucky get a one-page story in Sports Illustrated.

In case this thread winds down: We also need to work up a scenario by which Yale is the best team in the country because it beat Princeton which beat ... ... which beat Minnesota.

[Robb]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:
The most odd part of the rules, so to speak, would be one that allows a team not making the tournament to retain a regular, alternate, you name it, belt until it gets beaten sometime in the following year. The NCAA tournament should be an automatic reset in favor of the winner -- pass Go, collect $200, collect the bet, if you're lucky get a one-page story in Sports Illustrated.
 [/q]
Not at all.  You're missing the point of this entire exercise, which is to give us hockey geeks a reason to pore over archives and relive (and even totally invent) past glories.  Alternate belts simply increase the "fun."

[Will]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

In case this thread winds down: We also need to work up a scenario by which Yale is the best team in the country because it beat Princeton which beat ... ... which beat Minnesota. [/q]

I've got one.  I'm not sure if it's the shortest chain though.

Yale beat Princeton who beat Dartmouth who beat St. Lawrence who beat Michigan State who beat Nebraska-Omaha who beat Merrimack who beat Wayne State who beat Bemidji State who beat Lake Superior who beat Northern Michigan who beat Michigan Tech who beat Alaska-Anchorage who beat Minnesota.

(Yes, I've got too much free time on my hands.)

Of course, Cornell beat Yale, which proves that Cornell is the best team in the country! :-D

[RichH]

[Q]Will Wrote:

Yale beat Princeton who beat Dartmouth who beat St. Lawrence who beat Michigan State who beat Nebraska-Omaha who beat Merrimack who beat Wayne State who beat Bemidji State who beat Lake Superior who beat Northern Michigan who beat Michigan Tech who beat Alaska-Anchorage who beat Minnesota.[/q]

Woo, that's all over the map.  Of course, the key is Duluth, who had its trouble with the EZACHL.  ;-)

Yale beat Princeton who beat Brown who beat Minnesota-Duluth who beat North Dakota who beat Minnesota.

Now I just have to figure out how UMass-Lowell is 6-0-0 vs. ECACHL opponents, 0-5-2 vs. Hockey East opponents, and 8-5-2 overall.

[Jordan 04]

[q]In case this thread winds down: We also need to work up a scenario by which Yale is the best team in the country because it beat Princeton which beat ... ... which beat Minnesota. [/q]

East Coast bias. :-)