Ultimate Sporting Venue Tournament

Omackeral

Ultimately only one vote decides this tie. Century Link Field advances

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Omackeral

Celtic Park

Home of Celtic FC



VS

Henningsvær Stadium

Home of Henningsvær FC

cdeb

Ah, here we go.

Henningsvaer for me. Because look at it.

Celtic Park isn't anything particularly unique or special enough for this I think. It's a dime-a-dozen ground

Sawduck

Henningsvær Stadium, I love celtic but this stadium is class, beautiful looking place

Necro

Henningsvær Stadium

Celtic Park is just a bog standard stadium in comparison.

Henningsvær Stadium

You're all welcome.

tc20

Maybe a minnow compared to Celtic, but I reckon Henningsvaer will go a long way here.
The Norwegians get my vote here

cdeb

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Henningsvær Stadium

You're all welcome.

My nomination too.

We'll call it a draw

cdeb

cdeb wrote: »

My nomination too.

We'll call it a draw

Zaph

Henningsvær Stadium, that's incredible. Imagine getting to play your matches there every week?

HeidiHeidi

Ah here.....

There hasn't been anything to stir me to vote so far (although I missed the first three rounds!), but Henningsvaer stadium - wtf???

Gets my vote anyway!

cdeb

Zaph wrote: »

Henningsvær Stadium, that's incredible. Imagine getting to play your matches there every week?

I think the club is in hiatus at the moment actually. It's only a small place (800 or so) so they don't always have the numbers for a team.

Was there in 2019; spectacular setting for a town in general.

SineadSpears

Hanningsvaer is interesting but I'll go with Celtic Park because I'd rather sit on a plastic chair than sit on a rock

Electric Nitwit

I was looking for Henningsvær "Stadium" when nominating as well, but I thought it was the Faroe Islands

Obviously gets my vote too

cdeb

I ran out of football nominations, but I hope someone's nominated Eiđi from the Faroes actually

JP Liz V1

Celtic Park

Necro

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I was looking for Henningsvær "Stadium" when nominating as well, but I thought it was the Faroe Islands

Obviously gets my vote too

cdeb wrote: »

I ran out of football nominations, but I hope someone's nominated Eiđi from the Faroes actually

Henningsvær Stadium

It's pretty scenic!

Omackeral

Fairly comprehensive stuff here! Henningsvær Stadium advances

Electric Nitwit

cdeb wrote: »

I ran out of football nominations, but I hope someone's nominated Eiđi from the Faroes actually

It's nice but it's not the same

Sure, Donegal has pitches almost as nice...

Omackeral

TD Garden

Home of Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins



VS

Augusta National Golf Club

Home of The Masters

Necro

Omackeral wrote:

Augusta National Golf Club

Was wondering what golf courses would be nominated, there's some amazing ones surely.

Gets my vote over the other venue anyways

Neither move me much but I'll go for

Augusta National Golf Club
Cos you could have a nice walk there

Sawduck

Augusta National Golf Club the masters is one of my favourite sporting events and Augusta is probably the best golf course

Electric Nitwit

Again, I'm going to eulogise one then vote for the other!

I love TD Garden, cracking atmosphere in there and the design is genius...



But Augusta is an icon...

JP Liz V1

Augusta

I'll abstain on this.

paulie21

Augusta hands down

KathleenGrant

Augusta
Have i been there........No
But know 2 people who have been all over the world playing golf (they don't know each other) and they both say Augusta is king.
Sooooo

Augusta

SineadSpears

Ah jaysus I wouldn't be able to see a thing in the TD Garden.
& I've always said I don't know how anyone can see the golf ball once they hit it. I just wait a minute for the end camera shot & I'm like 'ahh so there's where the ball is'.

I'll vote for the bloody golf course because I actually think I'd be good at golf myself, if only someone else were to tell me where my ball went lol

cdeb

SineadSpears wrote: »

I don't know how anyone can see the golf ball once they hit it. I just wait a minute for the end camera shot & I'm like 'ahh so there's where the ball is'.

I can usually see where the golf balls is when I hit it. Cos it's about ten yards away...

alchemist33

Augusta. I'd love to just walk around it in the spring

cdeb

I should add I'm fairly meh on these two. I'll vote Augusta, even if it is a nice walk ruined, and then vote against it next round

cee_jay

Augusta

Zaph

Augusta National. Another of my nominations, probably the most iconic golf course in the world. A trip to the Masters is definitely on my post-lotto win bucket list.

Electric Nitwit

Zaph wrote: »

Augusta National. Another of my nominations, probably the most iconic golf course in the world. A trip to the Masters is definitely on my post-lotto win bucket list.

It's actually surprisingly cheap, it's just that it's a lotto for tickets. I know a lad who got a practice day ticket last year, loved it

Omackeral

Yeah it's pretty much a landslide here folks, Augusta National Golf Club advances

Zaph

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

It's actually surprisingly cheap, it's just that it's a lotto for tickets.

Yeah, I think it would have to be a hospitality package to make sure I got some tickets. I could be dead before I won them in the lottery.

Electric Nitwit

Zaph wrote: »

Yeah, I think it would have to be a hospitality package to make sure I got some tickets. I could be dead before I won then in the lottery.

Good point

I've entered every year for 20 years now. My dad's a big golf fan and the masters is just after his birthday. I keep thinking maybe one year I'll be able to take him

Omackeral

Gonna park it there for the night, was nice to get the first ultimate tournament of the year underway. Stick with us over the next few days if you can, some more weird and wonderful venues to come!

Electric Nitwit

Cheers Mackers, night night!

Zaph

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Good point

I've entered every year for 20 years now. My dad's a big golf fan and the masters is just after his birthday. I keep thinking maybe one year I'll be able to take him

It would be amazing if you managed to get drawn some year. That would turn out to be the best birthday present ever.

Zaph

Omackeral wrote: »

Gonna park it there for the night, was nice to get the first ultimate tournament of the year underway. Stick with us over the next few days if you can, some more weird and wonderful venues to come!

Enjoyable start to the tournament, looking forward to seeing what other venues have been nominated.

KathleenGrant

Omackeral wrote: »

Gonna park it there for the night, was nice to get the first ultimate tournament of the year underway. Stick with us over the next few days if you can, some more weird and wonderful venues to come!

Great tournament to start the year and great start to the tournament. Thank you Omackeral.

cdeb

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

It's nice but it's not the same

Sure, Donegal has pitches almost as nice...

More Donegal pitches so! What club plays there?

It'll be interesting to see which way this goes - will the scenic but small ones dominate, or will they be knocked out by the first really iconic major venue they come across? I've a few more scenic-but-smalls nominated (none quite as good as Henningsvaer), but so far they're heavily out-numbered, which is probably fair. I reckon it'll end up that 3-5 of the last 8 will be major venues and the other 3-5 will be scenic-but-smalls. But looks like an interesting mix in the pot all told; will be a good week or two!

This is the pitch in Eidi for the record (and unlike Henningsvaer or a local Donegal team, this lot have qualified for Europe and played Man City in the UEFA Cup, albeit that they had to move the home game to Tórshavn, the capital)

Electric Nitwit

Ah, that's a great angle!
I did search for it quickly but the first few pictures didn't do it justice

That Donegal pitch is on Arranmore

KathleenGrant

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Ah, that's a great angle!
I did search for it quickly but the first few pictures didn't do it justice

That Donegal pitch is on Arranmore

There's a lovely GAA pitch in Killybegs too and an impressive onr on Inishturk but i didn't think of nominating them of course!
Maybe someone else did.

Electric Nitwit

KathleenGrant wrote: »

There's a lovely GAA pitch in Killybegs too and an impressive onr on Inishturk but i didn't think of nominating them of course!
Maybe someone else did.

There's a great book called "Gaelic Fields" with loads of photos in, worth a look if you like that sort of thing

I was thinking of spectator venues, so didn't consider any of these random bit great pitches around the place

KathleenGrant

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

There's a great book called "Gaelic Fields" with loads of photos in, worth a look if you like that sort of thing

I was thinking of spectator venues, so didn't consider any of these random bit great pitches around the place

I love that kind of thing. Thanks for the recommendation.