NJ2 Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 3 x 10 team leagues sounds good. Or 2 x 10 and the basement of stragglers (showing off as it’s been a while since I was there). Just disappointed that even as the founder and organiser of QWC2018 I wasn’t invited 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkneil Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 6/10 for Thursday 4/10 for Friday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkneil Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 10 minutes ago, Cardinal Richelieu said: And here's more stuff. At the recent Mods and Quiz Thread Conference in Hokkaido, Tynietraitor and I were discussing the league table wrt the dearth of players in the bottom league. After 16 brandies, he got quite vocal about sticking to three leagues (I think he said something patronising about "the little oiks" like to win something at one point) ... but to even things up, move to leagues of 10,10,10ish ... I'm fine with this, but since I'm in the relegation zone at the moment and likely to benefit from such gerrymandering, I was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts? Colts teams must be the answer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, gkneil said: Colts teams must be the answer We tried that before. It wasn't exactly a blistering success. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkneil Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 6 minutes ago, Cardinal Richelieu said: We tried that before. It wasn't exactly a blistering success. They'll still fill the bottom league 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 4 for Thursday, 7 for Friday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Fri 5/10.If I have any chance of promotion, that the usual time to rig the league setup. c***s 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 4 hours ago, NJ2 said: 3 x 10 team leagues sounds good. Or 2 x 10 and the basement of stragglers (showing off as it’s been a while since I was there). Just disappointed that even as the founder and organiser of QWC2018 I wasn’t invited Cups and Leagues have separate governing bodies, everyone knows that FFS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Cups and Leagues have separate governing bodies, everyone knows that FFS.I think that for the good of the game we can all work together. Separate governing bodies with such a small sample doesn’t lead to best management 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Just now, NJ2 said: I think that for the good of the game we can all work together. Separate governing bodies with such a small sample doesn’t lead to best management I think you'll find if you want a blazer, you can pay for it yourself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 I think we should adopt the Mexican system, Cardie loves a challenge. Quote Liga MX, known as the Primera División (First Division) before the 2012–13 season, is the highest level of Mexican football and consists of 18 clubs. Each calendar year is split into two short tournaments, the Apertura (Opening) and the Clausura (Closing). In each short tournament, a club plays the other 17 clubs once. The home team switches, depending on the current short tournament. A new champion is crowned for each short tournament through a playoff system consisting of eight teams. The top eight clubs qualify for the playoffs. The clubs are arranged before each round so that the highest seeded team remaining always plays the lowest seed remaining. The clubs play in a two-legged tie, with one match occurring at each club's home ground, and whichever club has the better aggregate score advances. If the two clubs are tied after both legs in the quarterfinals and semifinals, the higher seed advances automatically. In the finals, if the two clubs are tied after both legs, two 15-minute halves of extra time are added. If the clubs are still tied after extra time the champion is determined by kicks from the penalty mark. One club is relegated to Ascenso MX each year (two short tournaments). To determine the club to be relegated, the ratio of points to games is kept for each team. The club that has the worst points to games ratio over the previous three years (six short tournaments) is relegated to Ascenso MX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_football_league_system 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 (edited) I'd favour three divisions of ten, if posters don't submit scores and we end up without enough teams to fill the leagues, the Cardinal will be given the task of training a troupe of psychic animals to choose the missing posters' answers for them. It's about time he did some bloody work. Edit: or the Mexican League system, that sounds fun. Edited July 20, 2018 by Bully Wee Villa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LincolnHearts Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 5 for Friday -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 Bollocks to that Mexican system. If we're going to go with any ridiculous Central American tournament, I would nominate the 1994 Caribbean Cup Qualifiers... On January 27, 1994, the Barbados national football team and Grenada national football team played against each other as part of the qualification round for the 1994 Caribbean Cup. Due to an unusual scoring rule, as well as the two teams' respective positions in the tournament, it was alternately in Barbados's, then Grenada's, best interest to score an own goal. The result has been described as "one of the strangest football matches ever".[1][2] The organizers of the tournament imposed a rule requiring all matches to have a winner and had chosen an unusual variant of the golden goal rule, which meant that the first goal scored in extra-time not only won the match, but also counted as double. Barbados started the match needing to win by a margin of at least two goals to qualify for the final tournament. When Grenada scored late in normal time to bring the scoreline to 2–1, Barbados deliberately scored an own goal to force extra-time, where they could get the two-goal winning margin they needed thanks to the unconventional golden goal rule.[1] This meant that for the last 7 minutes of the match, Grenada was trying to score on either their own goal, or the Barbados goal, as either outcome (either 3–2 or 2–3) would have advanced them to the finals. Ultimately, Barbados was able to prevent Grenada from scoring, obtain the 30-minute time extension, and score the golden goal as hoped. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 6 hours ago, Cardinal Richelieu said: And here's more stuff. At the recent Mods and Quiz Thread Conference in Hokkaido, Tynietraitor and I were discussing the league table wrt the dearth of players in the bottom league. After 16 brandies, he got quite vocal about sticking to three leagues (I think he said something patronising about "the little oiks" like to win something at one point) ... but to even things up, move to leagues of 10,10,10ish . A rose by any other name is still a rose. 6 hours ago, Cardinal Richelieu said: (Un)interestingly enough, when I was on Countdown, Barry Norman was in dictionary corner and Whiteley took him to task about his catchphrase. Bazza (to his mates) replied that not only was it not his catchphrase, but he'd never actually said it once. So they made him say it. It made for great telly, as you can imagine. When I was on Countdown absolutely none of that happened and Richard was a twat, while Sian Lloyd had a cracking set of thruppeny bits. We got hammered for free. I also lost by a point. To a bloody lawyer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Audaces Fortuna Juvat said: A rose by any other name is still a rose. When I was on Countdown absolutely none of that happened and Richard was a twat, while Sian Lloyd had a cracking set of thruppeny bits. We got hammered for free. I also lost by a point. To a bloody lawyer. Ah, I had a different experience. Whiteley was sound (except when he called me a dick), Vorderman was a snooty cow, Barry Norman kept name dropping and Susie Dent was delightful. And I lost by 11 points to a woman who worked in a knicker elastic factory. Edited July 20, 2018 by Cardinal Richelieu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleslie99 Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 And I lost by 11 points to a woman who worked in a knicker elastic factory. A man if your standing should know the p&b rules by now......On the quiz thing just do what u think is right. You will do what u want anyway so why u asking us minions? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, pleslie99 said: A man if your standing should know the p&b rules by now...... On the quiz thing just do what u think is right. You will do what u want anyway so why u asking us minions? Re: point 1. I know the rules. But it was so long ago, I have no photographs. Ha. I take that back ... God Bless the Internet. Re: point 2. "Where democracy is absent, the illusion of democracy provides sweet succour to the masses." Edited July 20, 2018 by Cardinal Richelieu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Nice tits your eminence. Wid. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 2 hours ago, welshbairn said: Nice tits your eminence. Wid. Cheers. Never had any complaints. Automatic promotion to the top league (after reconstruction ) to any one who can correctly identify me in that line-up. But be warned, automatic relegation to the bottom shop for anyone who gets it wrong. @SlipperyP ... this is the kinda play-off shit we need. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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