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I prefer you having a go at me than Spired anyway. :lol:
Lee can I ask what the fuck was the point in seeding everyone though?

Basically looking at it, Seed 4 and 5 players have been swapped out with players who would arguably have been seed 1's and 2's.

That's what makes this seem bollocks. This isn't reactionary to the bad cop quote either, but it has made a mockery of the whole initial selection process.
 

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Lee can I ask what the fuck was the point in seeding everyone though?

Basically looking at it, Seed 4 and 5 players have been swapped out with players who would arguably have been seed 1's and 2's.

That's what makes this seem bollocks. This isn't reactionary to the bad cop quote either, but it has made a mockery of the whole initial selection process.
I did a search of "just because you're losing gif" and nothing good came up. I did get this instead though. Enjoy.

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Lee can I ask what the fuck was the point in seeding everyone though?

Basically looking at it, Seed 4 and 5 players have been swapped out with players who would arguably have been seed 1's and 2's.

That's what makes this seem bollocks. This isn't reactionary to the bad cop quote either, but it has made a mockery of the whole initial selection process.
I can't speak for Lee, but I would say that more active players leads to a better game. Does that mean that some teams have gained an advantage? Maybe, although no one has any idea whether that will actually be the case, given that the seedings were fairly arbitrary and may not be a reflection of how useful a player might be. And if a team does gain a slight advantage, it's not like that's going to ruin the game.
 

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Lee can I ask what the fuck was the point in seeding everyone though?

Basically looking at it, Seed 4 and 5 players have been swapped out with players who would arguably have been seed 1's and 2's.

That's what makes this seem bollocks. This isn't reactionary to the bad cop quote either, but it has made a mockery of the whole initial selection process.

What Veggie said, plus,

The seeding was to stop a 'super team' from forming and split who, in my opinion, are the ones who normally shine in these sort of games so that every team has got a couple of experienced members. Looking at the teams, that has worked well and is still the case. I thought this may cause a little bit of controversy but I'm still of the opinion that it benefits the game as a whole to have more active players.

I may be making one more transfer today. I've messaged the member to get his position because he's not been around very much. Once that's done if they decide to step aside, that will be all of the transfers done.
 

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Game week 4 - Knockout wallchart

For this round, you'll have to predict every score in the round of 16, quarters, semis and final.

The round will go on beyond the 4th game week as we will be seeing how your quarter, semi and final predictions pan out. The points will be added onto the overall table at the end of the game (although I'll be live scoring it as usual).

Your entry
You should set your entry out in the PM like this

Team A 1-0 Team B
Team C 0-1 Team D
Team E 2-1 Team F
Team G 3-1 Team H
Team I 1-1 Team J (Team I to qualify)
Team K 0-2 Team L
Team M 0-0 Team N (Team N to qualify)
Team O 4-0 Team P

Team A 1-0 Team D
Team E 2-0 Team G
Team I 1-2 Team L
Team N 2-1 Team O

Team A 2-2 Team E (Team E to qualify)
Team L 1-0 Team N

Team E 3-2 Team L

Some rules
1) All results are for over 90 minutes. Scores at the end of extra time will not count.
2) If you predict a draw after 90 minutes, put in brackets which team will advance to the next round.

Scoring
Round of 16: 1 point correct result, 3 points correct score.
Quarter finals: 1 point per correct team, 3 points correct result, 5 points correct score.
Semi final: 2 points per correct team, 4 points correct result, 8 points correct score.
Final: 3 points per correct team, 5 points correct result, 10 points correct score.

(note: You can get a correct result even if you only have one team present in your prediction. If you have France and predict France to win against incorrect opposition, that counts as a correct result. Just like if you predict Hungary to lose against incorrect opposition, that is fine as well. However, correct scores can only be achieved if both teams are present.)

Advantages

1) Team Olsen - 4 edits
2) Team Zagorakis - 3 edits
3) Team Casillas - 2 edits

The three teams above will be able to make edits between the end of the round of 16 and the beginning of the quarter finals. They are allowed to edit teams and scorelines for the quarter, semi and final matches.

If you change France 2-1 England to France 3-0 Iceland, that counts as 2 edits, as you are changing England to Iceland and the scoreline from 2-1 to 3-0.

They are not allowed to edit any matches that have already happened.
Any edits that are not used before the quarter finals begin will be scrapped.

Overall table points
As this is a long round and a real test of your predicting abilities over time, double points will be on offer here for the overall table

1st) 10 points
2nd) 8 points
3rd) 6 points
4th) 4 points
5th) 2 points
6th) 0 points

Deadline to enter your whole wall-chart is Saturday 2pm. Debate it in your thread, enter in your PM like I showed in the spoiler tags above, and most importantly, do not forget!!


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What Veggie said, plus,

The seeding was to stop a 'super team' from forming and split who, in my opinion, are the ones who normally shine in these sort of games so that every team has got a couple of experienced members. Looking at the teams, that has worked well and is still the case. I thought this may cause a little bit of controversy but I'm still of the opinion that it benefits the game as a whole to have more active players.

I may be making one more transfer today. I've messaged the member to get his position because he's not been around very much. Once that's done if they decide to step aside, that will be all of the transfers done.
Lee, message JJH please also.

We may want to transfer if he can't commit.
 

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Lee, message JJH please also.

We may want to transfer if he can't commit.

There's less active people than JJH. Anyway, you've got 2 days now to properly debate this task and with double points on offer, take the opportunity to get yourself back into the game.


The final transfer has been complete now which sees Oaf step aside from Team Casillas and Steady take his place.

I don't plan on doing any more transfers unless we get a circumstance where somebody else really would like to be a part of the game and there is a member who really can not commit to any more of the game.

Good luck with the new task all, it's a good test of your predicting skilllllllzzzzzz.
 

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So the only round we don't gain an advantage for is double points. What is it about Team Gullit you don't like Lee? Do you just hate awesome hair? Or is it the Dutch in general.

But we are fighters. We shall battle against this blatant favouritism and emerge victorious nonetheless
 

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Lee can I ask what the fuck was the point in seeding everyone though?

Basically looking at it, Seed 4 and 5 players have been swapped out with players who would arguably have been seed 1's and 2's.

That's what makes this seem bollocks. This isn't reactionary to the bad cop quote either, but it has made a mockery of the whole initial selection process.

It seems a little bizarre to me that completely inactive players have effectively been of more use to teams than players who are just active enough to not be replaced, because the former have been replaced by some of the forum game greats. How is that encouraging activity by rewarding teams with completely inactive players, and penalizing the teams with activity across the whole team?

I'm fine with people joining midway through in terms of making the game more active. I also agree that if people are completely inactive it's better to just boot them out. However, the new players will make the game more active regardless of which team they are on, there doesn't have to be the exact same number of people on each team. That's why I think everybody should have got the chance to bid on the new players. If that leaves 7 on some teams and 5 on other teams so be it. That makes it tactical rather than this FARCE and if a new player makes the difference then at least any team without them can look at themselves and say "we should have bid more for them".
 

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So the only round we don't gain an advantage for is double points. What is it about Team Gullit you don't like Lee? Do you just hate awesome hair? Or is it the Dutch in general.

But we are fighters. We shall battle against this blatant favouritism and emerge victorious nonetheless
In fairness, it's probably the least beneficial advantage thus far.

Should be an interesting round, especially with the additional incentive of double points.
 

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It seems a little bizarre to me that completely inactive players have effectively been of more use to teams than players who are just active enough to not be replaced, because the former have been replaced by some of the forum game greats. How is that encouraging activity by rewarding teams with completely inactive players, and penalizing the teams with activity across the whole team?

I'm fine with people joining midway through in terms of making the game more active. I also agree that if people are completely inactive it's better to just boot them out. However, the new players will make the game more active regardless of which team they are on, there doesn't have to be the exact same number of people on each team. That's why I think everybody should have got the chance to bid on the new players. If that leaves 7 on some teams and 5 on other teams so be it. That makes it tactical rather than this FARCE and if a new player makes the difference then at least any team without them can look at themselves and say "we should have bid more for them".

Well it took until week 4/6 for there to be a farce in a forum game so that's a victory in itself really.

But yeah, I'm sticking with my decision. I understand your argument but I don't agree with all of it. Completely inactive players have not been of more use as they've not been around for the past 3 game weeks. And there's no currency in this game to bid on new players with. I'm happy with the way the teams look. It'll add a new voice to some teams which was needed. Gullit and Klinsmann are settled and don't need any tampering with.

We're not going to agree on this so let's just continue with the game. I don't want it descending into arguments.
 

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In all seriousness, I don't have any problem with Mike joining Olsen
 

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So the only round we don't gain an advantage for is double points. What is it about Team Gullit you don't like Lee? Do you just hate awesome hair? Or is it the Dutch in general.

But we are fighters. We shall battle against this blatant favouritism and emerge victorious nonetheless

It's nothing to do with the reasons given in the challenge imo. I think it's an artificial way of making the latter stages more exciting for the teams who are lagging behind. The kind of tinpot thing I would expect on ITV's Family Fortunes not 1FF'S EURO 2016 GRANDSTAND.

I’m not arguing/moaning so please don’t interpret it that way. I don’t expect Lee to change his decision, and of course the game goes on - I’m not trying to pause or derail it here. I’m not going to be silenced either though, if I’ve got some thoughts on the game I’m going to give them as this is a forum after all. I gave a clear idea of currency that could be used in an auction on the previous page which was overall leaderboard points.
 

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All I know is that Neil Diamond must have been higher than usual on the google search rankings last night.
 

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Yeah, Last Request!
 

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There's less active people than JJH. Anyway, you've got 2 days now to properly debate this task and with double points on offer, take the opportunity to get yourself back into the game.


The final transfer has been complete now which sees Oaf step aside from Team Casillas and Steady take his place.

I don't plan on doing any more transfers unless we get a circumstance where somebody else really would like to be a part of the game and there is a member who really can not commit to any more of the game.

Good luck with the new task all, it's a good test of your predicting skilllllllzzzzzz.
Happily JJH is around again...

However your stance on this is poor Lee. So you decide if Klinsmann and Olsen are settled and members have been contributing enough? You said yourself in our PM that JJ hadn't.

You're now basically saying that if we had wanted to transfer we couldn't? Hahaha.

I'm saying no more on this, but I do think it's unfair.
 

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Anyone wanna join me in a Grexit?? ;)

Transfergate has ruined this shambles.

Hang your head in shame Wilson.
 

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If you feel it's ruined it then I'm sorry. But it's done now and I'm happy with it. I did message JJH to ask him his position and he said he'd be active in the future. Anyone who I've 'kicked out' I've asked first to check their position. JJ wanted to stay in as did a member from another team.
 

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i tried to help in every single round and were always on and i can remember that ive won some points for Casillias.

but fuck off, i am out then
Think you've got it wrong mate. I think cufc17 was making a joke about Brexit!
 

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