They're games dammit!

Seems like every paper in our surrounding area writes its volleyball gamers and uses the term sets instead of games.
East Podunk took the final two sets to defeat West Podunk in a volleyball match Monday.
A volleyball match is the best of five games...not sets. It's not tennis.
Oh and while we're at it, for all the youngsters in our shop, there's no need to write that a team got spanked, crushed, annihilated or bludgeoned.
East Podunk won a cross country dual meet, they didn't drop an atomic bomb or beat someone in the head with a blunt object.

End of mini-rant.

 

What about drubbed?

 

Is pummeled still good as always?

 

i heard "set" instead if "game" a bunch during the olympics

 

Volleyball officials are calling them sets now, it's in the official rules. I would disagree, but it's their game.

 

Our competition consistently calls the "matches" "games" in stories. I.E. In West Poducnk's first game of the season, it picked up a 25-15, 25-12, 25-7 victory over Our Lady of the Blessed Broken Anuses."

 

I thought it was their match.

 

Well played. If I worked for the Plain Dealer, I'd hire you in an instant.

 

Did the team plate enough points to win the set?

 

Yeah, well, that's what ... actually no one says that.

 

God forbid anyone try to use any creativity whatsoever in their gamers. Sorry, but if you only write, "The East Podunk Asshats won, 13-0, over the West Podunk reacharounds" for every story you're not writing, you're filling in the blanks.

 

the intent of the post, though, is solid, still.

and re: volleyball, it is a 3-0, 3-1 or 3-2 win. then list the individual games. but you get to three to win.