But due to a last-minute withdrawal from the field of players already directly into the tournament, Goffin was awarded a spot in the 128-player main draw of the French Open as a so-called "lucky loser".
Expanding the field of players with numerous new names, it also has a wonderful clarity, organized according to the techniques that the Surrealists commandeered (collage and photography), breathed life into (frottage, decalcomania and exquisite corpse) and frequently crossbred.
The starting field of players is now large, and it has been seven years since a well-known poker star has made it to the Final Table, leaving poker fans without a Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan to root for.
The hell of it, for those of us disheartened by the exhibition, is that its organizer, Okwui Enwezor, is onto something: a drastically expanded field of players and points of view in which the global spread of multiculturalism is taken for granted.
This isn't racial bigotry of course — aside from players like the Habs' own peerless P. K. Subban, who does suffer from a fair amount of plain, old-fashioned racism — the issue doesn't come up much in hockey because the field of players isn't, from accidents of Northernism, diverse.
The deal comes as the country's P2P marketplace continues to grow with a competitive field of players.
Maybe not exactly as I've described, but there's something to an entire field of players discovering other players and finding it easy to meet and play which feels not too far away.
But this requires a reasonably equal field of players who have the ability to influence decisions.
The field of players is smaller than those of the other major championships because it is an invitational event, held by the Augusta National Golf Club.
The football fields full of players in masks instead of helmets, the scoreboard timers paused, entire stadiums packed with fans wearing foam hands and masks that smear their face paint.
