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2018 World Team Trials coming to PSU

I assume they are going to strategically place weights in certain places. Ie 74kg in Lincoln, 65kg in State College, 120kg in Columbus, 57kg in Iowa City, etc. Does that create an unfair home field advantage for the favorites?
 
is this the PROWL thing that was talked about? where only 4 guys get invited to world team trials and it's a round robin?
 
I assume they are going to strategically place weights in certain places. Ie 74kg in Lincoln, 65kg in State College, 120kg in Columbus, 57kg in Iowa City, etc. Does that create an unfair home field advantage for the favorites?
It says best of three, 10 weights per city... so they will wrestle all 10 weights in each of the three locations. Or, are you saying that they will order the weights to ensure that a meaningful local wrestler is in the last weight to wrestle during the trials?
 
I heard Lincoln gets MFS, State College gets GR, and TBD gets the ladies.
Really? That seems point-defeating to me. I think they'd be more likely to more or less randomly distribute the 30 weights with preference given to certain locations for certain weights, e.g., Burroughs in Lincoln. If you're right, there's going to be crowd size disparities from site to site.
 
Really? That seems point-defeating to me. I think they'd be more likely to more or less randomly distribute the 30 weights with preference given to certain locations for certain weights, e.g., Burroughs in Lincoln. If you're right, there's going to be crowd size disparities from site to site.
Tikk, I didn't expect the first person hooked to be you :cool::D
 
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Tikk, I didn't expect the first person hooked to be you :cool::D
Heh, thanks! I'm going to blame being under the weather for over a week now, the Nyquil is wearing down my critical thinking skillz. Also in my defense, I've seen very little in the way of details. But yeah, I should've realized you were having us on. Would've made Mason Manville and Riley Lefever happy at least.
 
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They won’t split up styles with guys coaching different wrestlers at different weights.
 
They won’t split up styles with guys coaching different wrestlers at different weights.
There is absolutely no way that coaches won’t have to pick which wrestler to follow if this is held at 3-4 sites at the same time. Will these be different days at the different sites?
 
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