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Posted 2008-September-19, 18:41

My take:

The U.S. players score well on teams and in established partnerships, but the Europeans know how to play with themselves much better.

Must be the prude factor...
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Posted 2008-September-19, 19:18

Don't you mean pride?

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Posted 2008-September-19, 20:13

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Posted 2008-September-22, 07:17

In 2006 the Americans had been outscored in teams and pairs and won heavily in the indy. Maybe both sides simply focused on their weaknesses and prepared better for these formats?
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Posted 2008-September-22, 08:23

kenrexford, on Sep 20 2008, 12:41 AM, said:

The U.S. players score well on teams and in established partnerships, but the Europeans know how to play with themselves much better.

The exact opposite seemed to be 2 years ago.
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Posted 2008-September-22, 09:12

Codo, on Sep 22 2008, 02:17 PM, said:

In 2006 the Americans had been outscored in teams and pairs and won heavily in the indy. Maybe both sides simply focused on their weaknesses and prepared better for these formats?

Maybe it is just chance.

Or maybe the Americans had more regular partnerships on their team this time.
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Posted 2008-September-22, 09:31

Maybe there is a lot of noise inherent to the game of bridge and folks are project patterns onto chaos?
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Posted 2008-September-22, 10:30

Maybe the European team just played better?
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Posted 2008-September-22, 10:46

May be it is not allowed for one continent to win both Ryder & Buffet Cup in the same year :P
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