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KORONADAL—It’s more complicated, but the system used to
determine the Palarong Pambansa overall championship
certainly advocates fairness.
In
multisport events, there are two popular systems used to
determine which team gets the general title: via medal
count or a point system.
Here, a
point system is used but it is more intricate than
others and works on two levels.
The
first-level points are based on how a team finishes a
particular event. Points are assigned to the champion,
the runner-up, third place and so on, depending on the
kind of event. Individual events, say, in athletics use
a 7-5-4-3-2-1 system, while team events like in ball
games, for instance, use a 15-10-7-4-3-2 method.
The
second level, which determines the champion of a
particular sport, is based on the aggregate number of
first-level points. (For instance, Central Visayas wins
two individual events and finishes runner-up once in
swimming, that is equivalent to 19 points.) Based on the
aggregate points, the regions are then ranked highest to
lowest.
The
region that has the highest point total gets
corresponding points, which means if Central Visayas,
Ilocandia and Bicol are the top three aggregate in
swimming, they get 30, 20 and 10 points, respectively.
The
region that accumulates the most second-level points
wins the general championship.
Fueling
the fire
Two
liters of water during preevent preparations and one
each during meals make that an average of five liters
per day that an athlete consumes.
Following the recommended eight glasses (2.8 liters) a
day a normal person is prescribed to take, an athletes
water consumption here is twice as nonathletes.
Teresita
Domalanta, the National Capital Region (NCR) regional
director, said five liters is a conservative estimate,
considering during the event proper itself, her athletes
already drink up as much as three liters. That’s not to
include the water they take in-between meals pa, she
said. And considering the climate, they probably drink
up to 10 liters of water.
One
official of the NCR said besides the five liters of
water, its medical and logistical personnel provide
their athletes with conservatively five more liters of
energy drinks, green tea and liquid supplements.
Ten
liters max of water and five more other types of liquid?
That means the liquid consumption of one NCR athlete in
this Palaro is equivalent to five nonathletes.
Toothless Cubs
SAN BEDA
is acknowledged as the best high-school basketball
program in the country. Some of the teams playing in
Koronadal that have no idea are wondering where that
assumption came from.
The Red
Cubs lost all their three elimination-round games and
were booted out early in the secondary boys’ cage
tournament. Following losses of 12 (to Zamboanga), 20
(to NCR) and six points (to hometown Cotabato region),
San Beda, representing Southern Tagalog, was
unceremoniously eliminated.
Not that
it’s an excuse the’yre making but Beda officials here
revealed that two of their top players were not allowed
to participate in the Palaro.
Dave
Marcelo and Garbo Lañete, the Cubs top scorers, are
incoming college freshmen and were advised by staff
members of San Beda’s seniors team that they were better
off passing off the Palaro to focus on the college
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