While the engineers are working on their homework, we will do some of our homework here to understand the rules of how to advance after the round robins.

In Group A, the best of the four chooses its adversary. Given the standings at present, it means OneWorld would like to pick on S&S, leaving Oracle & Alinghi to fight it out. The winners advance, to the semi-finals, while the losers benefit from a repêchage. Assume S&S & Oracle go to repêchage... for the sake of the exercise.

In Group B, the leader would choose its adversary and the other two square it off. Given the present standings and assuming LR wins aganst Mascalzone its delayed match, Prada would finish 5th and would probably choose the 8th place team... Mascalzone Latino. The losers are out (assume Victory & Mascalzone Latino, based on the standings).

In the quarter finals repêchage, the loser of the top seeded match - in our scenario S&S - meets the winner of the top seeded scenario in group B, or LR. Leaving Oracle & GBR Challenge in the other matchUp. The loser goes home. Since we like LR, we will assume LR and Oracle survive and go to the semi finals.

The winner of the semi final from Group A advances to the finals (lets say One World) while the loser (Alinghi) goes to repêchage and meets the victor between LR & Oracle (the loser of that match goes home).

While would theoretically (based on the better record) pit in the finals One World against Alinghi. Again. That's the weird part. Two consecutive 4 of 7 matches that could see the same boats race each other.

In conclusion, finishing fifth ain't so bad. The only team racing little is that from group A who wins both its set-up matches. and let's hope LR comes and messes things up so that One World & Alinghi don't meet each other twice!