[quote]magick wrote:
[quote]undoredo wrote:
I never found “getting picked last” to hurt. I thought it was a sensible way to try to make the teams roughly even in skill. I liked “getting picked last” a lot better than I liked getting clobbered by an opposing team full of the best athletes.
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Huh?
I got picked last because I was the slowest and fattest kid in the class. Nobody wanted me. It was a deliberate attempt to get all the athletic kids in your team.
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I got picked last because I was clumsy and unskillful.
Maybe I am making a wrong assumption about the system used where you got picked last? The system used where I got picked last, was two captains would alternate choosing players. Each captain would try to get as many good players as he could, and the end result was two teams roughly equal in skill. From an early age, I could see that made sense, and it didn’t bother me. (I think a better system would have been for first pick to get one player, and then for each captain to get two picks each, alternately. That way one captain would get 1st and 4th pick; the other captain would get 2nd and 3rd pick; etc. But alternating one by one still resulted in roughly equally-skilled teams.)
Tne other system that was sometimes used was, “line up and count off one, two, one, two…”, etc. When that was being set up, the athletic kids would arrange themselves in the line to end up on the same team, which resulted in the other team having no chance and getting clobbered.
I liked the former system (which included me being picked last) better than I liked the latter system. Especially when I was on the team getting clobbered (via the latter system).