In such things, I am superstitious. When in our winter racquetball league, tenth-seeded yours truly took out the top three seeds in a tournament, my exploits were greeted by this comment in the fortnightly league newsletter:
[L.] had an incredible period being the first player ever seeded less than 4 to defeat all top 3 seeds during the same period and advance to #1! Although seeded #10 during Period 12, [L.] pulled off tournament wins (which counted toward ladder play as well) against #3 Skaggs (2-0); #2 Hondl (2-0) and #1 Grosshans (2-0) to go undefeated in match play, 6-0 in all games played, and advance 9 spots to the top of the ladder. Lak will play Gregg Grosshans today (Tuesday) for the Championship of the March Tournament. Congratulations [L.]!
And after that, there was no way I could win. I lost the match 1-2. Maybe if that newsletter had come out a day later ...
