ieboards Blackout Cup II Thread

Orizio

jprender wrote: »

Good win Suppafly. I had to play WNWIM as I am playing a cup match Wednesday. Still there was a silver lining, 3 of my players popped and I had no long term injuries in the game !

I see they have reset every teams LTNT to 100% ?

That is a nightmare for me, I have been very careful using it whereas other teams have been belting away and are now fooked. Extremely lucky break for some. I reckon my cup opposition was on zero LTNT, I may have to play that way now to beat them.

Fantastic! :pac:

My player energy levels are still **** though.

Orizio

daveharnett wrote: »

Results are up on the offsite.

I'm about 99% certain that I beat ALBA there Dave. :pac:

daveharnett

Orizio wrote: »

I'm about 99% certain that I beat ALBA there Dave. :pac:

I'm not so sure. Perhaps we should ask the audience

It's actually fixed now.

daveharnett

Results for round 3 are up. Match of the weeks looks to be Scorched Earth scraping past killarney to leave them neck and neck with forza juve in pool 1.

Eireannach

daveharnett wrote: »

Results for round 3 are up. Match of the weeks looks to be Scorched Earth scraping past killarney to leave them neck and neck with forza juve in pool 1.

What a tough loss that was. I was up 21-17 in the 81st minute when the Earth scored a disputed try . Ref went to the TMO but the TMO took too much time to make a decision so the Ref gave the Earth the try. He must of been from Sweden.

Orizio

Eireannach wrote: »

What a tough loss that was. I was up 21-17 in the 81st minute when the Earth scored a disputed try . Ref went to the TMO but the TMO took too much time to make a decision so the Ref gave the Earth the try. He must of been from Sweden.

The stats suggest otherwise.

Anyway, unlucky.

Frankiestylee

Beat The Parrish 10-3. Unlucky for the boys, seems to be quite a tight match and he obviously gave me hell... came away with three injuries.

anonymous_joe

Ouch. :pac:

suppafly

I pure forgot about the match today and lost 20-10to Everyone loves a tryer

eoferrall

suppafly wrote: »

I pure forgot about the match today and lost 20-10to Everyone loves a tryer

was 22-10 no? seemed a good game from when i read through it last night, we both played wnwim?

also think i discovered new hooker! new YA promotion i was thinkin of selling had a stormer! nxt time suppafly!

Eireannach

Orizio wrote: »

The stats suggest otherwise.

Anyway, unlucky.

Very true, stats wise I was dominated.

Eireannach

How the cup trophies looking?

tHE vAGGABOND

My Parrish 17-7 down to Daves Dangermen after 25 odd mins [somthing to distract me while Im still at work!]!

It seems a miracle that its that close tbh - as he is all over me [has 4 times my meters gained [for example]]

Its ok, using it to give young guys and subs a game, so a game is a game

dave13

Yeah, my reserves appear to have put on quite an attacking show. a pity my full team couldnt do that against Forza Juve on sat.

daveharnett

Results are up.

suppafly

Looks like my team stomped 'The Simpletons' 0-50 scoring 8 tries!

eoferrall

reviewing my match there and came across this little gem!

Oh, we have a streaker. Big, hairy and ugly. That one must have escaped from the zoo. OH!! Big hit by that security lady. He's not going to get up from that. There's great applause coming from the crowd as the guy is dragged off by his hair!

close win it seems, good game dead hard fcukers! came down to the kickers! (and you destroying my centres that I ended up with my reserve hooker in 1st centre!:o) oops!

Orizio

Eireannach wrote: »

How the cup trophies looking?

Would you like to make them?

johnnysmack

whats the format once the group stages finish? is it top 2 teams in each pool go through with the top team having the home fixture against a second placed team from another group like the world cup?

daveharnett

johnnysmack wrote: »

whats the format once the group stages finish? is it top 2 teams in each pool go through with the top team having the home fixture against a second placed team from another group like the world cup?

Top team from each pool goes straight to a cup semi final. Second placed team from each pool goes to a semi for a 'silver' cup, and likewise with the third placed teams.

johnnysmack

daveharnett wrote: »

Top team from each pool goes straight to a cup semi final. Second placed team from each pool goes to a semi for a 'silver' cup, and likewise with the third placed teams.

how do you decide who gets the home fixture?

anonymous_joe

I've won a game.

Two in a row now.

A Lovely Bunch Altogether might just be back.

jprender

daveharnett wrote: »

Top team from each pool goes straight to a cup semi final. Second placed team from each pool goes to a semi for a 'silver' cup, and likewise with the third placed teams.

That's not how it worked last year.


Aren't all teams going to have something to play for after the group stages ?

Eireannach

Orizio wrote: »

Would you like to make them?

Do you know what format and size they should be? I can give it a shot.

Do we need just 3 trophies, one for each winner of the different levels of the cup?

Orizio

Eireannach wrote: »

Do you know what format and size they should be? I can give it a shot.

Do we need just 3 trophies, one for each winner of the different levels of the cup?

Yes.

I can temporarily make you an admin.

daveharnett

Orizio wrote: »

Would you like to make them?

My best effort. Not great, but might do until somebody with actual photoshop skills turns up?

Orizio

Well we need three different ones anyway. We could use that for the bottom rank.

daveharnett

johnnysmack wrote: »

whats the format once the group stages finish? is it top 2 teams in each pool go through with the top team having the home fixture against a second placed team from another group like the world cup?

daveharnett wrote: »

Top team from each pool goes straight to a cup semi final. Second placed team from each pool goes to a semi for a 'silver' cup, and likewise with the third placed teams.

jprender wrote: »

That's not how it worked last year.

Aren't all teams going to have something to play for after the group stages ?

Good spot jprender, I'm dead wrong. (no change there then )
Look here, I won't try and summarise, I'll only screw it up again:D

daveharnett

Just realised that the missing team is going to complicate the 'try harder trophy' knockout a little. As it stands, the 'walkover' team I created to keep the league tables happy is at the bottom of pool 4. In the normal run of things this would mean that the 5th placed team in pool 3 will get a walkover in the quarter final, and a +20 point differential toward home advantage in the semi.

I think that giving the walkover to the best qualifier (ie the 5th place team with the highest points) would be fairer, but it would complicate things a bit more.

Orizio, do you want to make a ruling on this?

Orizio

daveharnett wrote: »

Just realised that the missing team is going to complicate the 'try harder trophy' knockout a little. As it stands, the 'walkover' team I created to keep the league tables happy is at the bottom of pool 4. In the normal run of things this would mean that the 5th placed team in pool 3 will get a walkover in the quarter final, and a +20 point differential toward home advantage in the semi.

I think that giving the walkover to the best qualifier (ie the 5th place team with the highest points) would be fairer, but it would complicate things a bit more.

Orizio, do you want to make a ruling on this?

Sounds good.

Eireannach

daveharnett wrote: »

My best effort. Not great, but might do until somebody with actual photoshop skills turns up?

I have a friend of mine taking a shot on them. Once she is done, I'll post them up.

tHE vAGGABOND

bah - lost 47-0, so much for WNWIM among boards members

johnnysmack

im gutted. after an epic and heroic encounter with munster mark ii, it ended 12 points a piece, i finished only 3rd in the pool as yermen won their game. damn it!

dreamer_ire

johnnysmack wrote: »

im gutted. after an epic and heroic encounter with munster mark ii, it ended 12 points a piece, i finished only 3rd in the pool as yermen won their game. damn it!

Was a cracking game Johnny... initially I thought I would win narrowly but was holding my breath for the last 5 mins!

Orizio

Eireannach wrote: »

I have a friend of mine taking a shot on them. Once she is done, I'll post them up.

Great stuff! Send me a PM and I'll make you an admin so you can upload them.

Orizio

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

bah - lost 47-0, so much for WNWIM among boards members

Did you specifically agree to a WNWIM agreement with this person prior to the match?

suppafly

I lost my game 15-31 against XaviXI. I had to play most of my second string guys almost as the first teams energy was only on fit/sprightly and I also needed to get my LTNT back up again

johnnysmack

dreamer_ire wrote: »

Was a cracking game Johnny... initially I thought I would win narrowly but was holding my breath for the last 5 mins!

i think we'll need a rematch sometime in future to get a winner! 0-0 at half time and then went 12-0 down! i was lucky to get draw at end. definitely one of the more entertaining games ive had on here.

anonymous_joe

Forgot to change my team for this and lost badly. Oops.

daveharnett

Results and fixtures for the playoffs are up now. As per usual, shout if you see problems.

Frankiestylee

Quite happy to be in the "Almost there" yokey, tis a step up from the Try Harder last time. Though.... not very happy with some of the other "Try Harder" teams, some pretty damn tough competition there and just when my league situation is desperate

Orizio

This Yermen chap is going to be in a whole world of pain. :mad:

Frankiestylee

Orizio wrote: »

This Yermen chap is going to be in a whole world of pain. :mad:

Pft, I have a fiver on Yermen to go all the way!

MarVeL

Wish I'd known I would have taken some of that off you to pay for the bandages I think we'll need

Frankiestylee

MarVeL wrote: »

Wish I'd known I would have taken some of that off you to pay for the bandages I think we'll need

Stay strong young sir, I have faith!

Orizio

I'm hoping to do the first round of the play-offs on the 21st of December, hopefully the fixtures will be in put by Sunday at the lastest, so pay attention.

Obviously, people are free to organise friendlies for the coming Monday.

eoferrall

Orizio wrote: »

I'm hoping to do the first round of the play-offs on the 21st of December

And I could be playing you again... damn it... in my league and the Boards cup.. how am i supposed to win anything! -> might just have to move from my regular WNWIM monday slot!:p


and beat bogwarriors... so ye not optimistic at all!

Orizio

daveharnett wrote: »

Results and fixtures for the playoffs are up now. As per usual, shout if you see problems.

How did you decide who is ranked where? The first ranked person should be the team with the most points, the second ranked person the team with the second most points and so on. Surely its fairer that way?

Orizio

So for example, looking just at 'The Champions Cup' play-offs, the rankings based on highest to lowest points should be...

1. Daves Dangerman
2. Scorched Earth
3. Everyone Likes A Tryer
4. Munster Mark II

5. Bogwarriors
6. Forza Juve
7. XaviXV
8. Yermen

Then it would 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7 and so on. Or am I confusing myself?

daveharnett

Orizio wrote: »

So for example, looking just at 'The Champions Cup' play-offs, the rankings based on highest to lowest points should be...

1. Daves Dangerman
2. Scorched Earth
3. Everyone Likes A Tryer
4. Munster Mark II

5. Bogwarriors
6. Forza Juve
7. XaviXV
8. Yermen

Then it would 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7 and so on. Or am I confusing myself?

No, you are correct. I used this system for the try harder trophy, to allow for the missing team. For the other playoffs, I used the original system:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055596303

Give me a nod, and i'll change the other playoffs to the rankings system you have outlined above.