Time to get rid of seeding?

No it's not. Just one example why I found it more entertaining.
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No, the ONLY reason you gave...

ps, I didn't say "everyone", I said "we" - 4 men (you, me, Baz and Ginger) more than old enough to remember the 8 team format!

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 9 minutes ago
So, judging Euro 16 on the 48 odd games Northern Ireland didn't play - I am assuming you found the rest of it brilliant as well?
A tournament is about more than 4 games!!!
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You don't get to set the criteria of how other people decide their favorites.

By far and away my favorite euro.

And you can't say everyone would agree 8 team comps were better when not everyone would share your opinion (shocking isn't it!) or even have watched any of the tournament

I didn't say everyone - your words. I said "we" - the people in the conversation at the time.

Oh, so you judge a tournament on 4 games. You are not a football fan then. Your opinion has little weight if that is all you are judging it on.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 3 minutes ago
ps, I didn't say "everyone", I said "we" - 4 men (you, me, Baz and Ginger) more than old enough to remember the 8 team format!
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Fair enough. My point stands.

Never watched 80, never watched 84, have memories of a couple of games at 88. Didn't realize 92 was only 8 teams tbh.

2016 was not a crapfest in my book. Loved it. For a variety of reasons

Really, can we go into those reasons outside your own teams participation?

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 4 minutes ago
I didn't say everyone - your words. I said "we" - the people in the conversation at the time.

Oh, so you judge a tournament on 4 games. You are not a football fan then. Your opinion has little weight if that is all you are judging it on.
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Resorting to ad hominem now.

Just admit you are wrong. We don't all hold the same opinion as you.

Time to be an armchair fan now.

Later

Sorry, I will change it. The football lovers amongst us will say the 8 team format gave us far better, more exciting, higher quality tournaments than the 24 team one.

People only interested in their own team/country will prefer the one their own team played in despite their own team playing the most dull football seen at a tournament and the tournament overall being way below par. People who are not football fans, but fans only of a specific team/country

Or you could change it to, football lovers who enjoy seeing the same teams play over and over ad infini will love the 8 team tournament. For everyone else, there's the enjoyment of seeing wild card unpredictability in having a variety of teams of all abilities.

"People who think they enjoy the variety of teams but moan throughout the tournament at the lack of quality" would be more accurate.