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Here is my late Congrats. Congratulations Skip.

Thanks everyone for participating, and definitely thanks to Skip and Nogrod for their fine writing and helping to organize the rules and such. You were easy to work with and made good suggestions.

Thanks Boro for getting those final stats together and writing up predictions. Those were great fun to read, and I hope that trend catches on. :)

Congratulations, skip.:)

And to phantom, Nogrod and skip (again)– thanks so much for making it happen!

And Boro, your predictions and stuff were one of the highlights.

Glad you all enjoyed the Boro-Blog :D Next year though I hope more of you decide to get involved in making predictions and judging talent. As I remembered it was quite a bit of fun battling Sauce (and certainly the phantom) over how a mash of super weak hobbits can defeat athletic, strong, and tall Elves in past years.

Nogrod's AKM stuff was great, and there is so much more anyone can contribute. Like power rankings, post and pre game interviews, all kinds of stuff. So, yep, I hope if tp can do it again, more can find time to get involved in the entire process. :)

Awesome writing of the matches Skip and Nogrod, and even though I already knew the outcome of the last two matches, so I can get all the points figured out, those were a joy to read.

Thank you tp for putting this all together, and keeping the Arda Cup going. This year's competition was especially fun, as through it I have grown to be far more appreciative of soccer...erm football...than I ever imagined. Nothing will surpass football...erm American football...but it definitey leapfrogged Basketball, and is right up there with baseball. :p

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Originally Posted by Boromir88 (Post 603632)

there is so much more anyone can contribute. Like power rankings, post and pre game interviews, all kinds of stuff. So, yep, I hope if tp can do it again, more can find time to get involved in the entire process. :)

Strongly agreed! The more, the merrier!

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This year's competition was especially fun, as through it I have grown to be far more appreciative of soccer...erm football...than I ever imagined. Nothing will surpass football...erm American football...but it definitey leapfrogged Basketball, and is right up there with baseball. :p

:)

If you guys haven't yet looked at all those goals kindly linked to us by tp in the final-match narration go back there and watch in awe! (Especially from 1:30 onwards)

I have always had an aesthetic attitude to team sports and well, those are just beautiful goals! That's how a Team can play together; witty, imaginative, beautiful... chess on green grass as some say.