Middle Earth Fantasy Football World Cup

[Sleepy Ranger]

Yes, Nogrod we would appreciate it very much if you announced your trade in a new post before editing your team in your original post. Though we would double check your team at the deadline to finalize it for that round.

Yes, indeed. I was really expecting Melkor and Sauron to score at least one goal a piece especially since they were such big favorites for their respective matches. Well nevermind, I'm sure they'll do better in the games to come.

Just one note, at the end of the first stage your unused trades will not be taken into account so there will be no stocking of trades to the next round.

[Nogrod]

Thanks Sleepy!

One more question though.

Is it kind of appreciated or scorned if people went speculating about the teams here in the thread - I was not here last time around and don't know the "silent rules"... I think some of the photos of the first games were quite revealing indeed...

[Sleepy Ranger]

No spectulation on the real life team please. Also, as to how revealing they are, believe me, you're probably wrong on your first though with some teams as I've taken the pains to actually play around with their kits a bit...

So yeah, what you see may not be what you get.

In short, no spectulations on who their real life counterparts may be.

[arcticstorm]

Here are the points for today:

Numenore
Tar Ancalime—4
Amandil—6
Elros—4
Aldarion—4
Erendis—4
Tar-Minastir —4
Ar-Pharazon—1
Tar-Miriel—0
Tar-Atanamir the Great—1
Tar-Palantir —4


Buckland
Saradoc—1
Drogo— -1

Misty Mountains
Chief Warg—4
Gollum—4
Great Goblin—4
Nori —4
Dori—1
Bifur—1
Bofur—1
Dwalin —8
Stone Giant—4
Gwaihir—4
Bolg—5

Tol-In-Gaurhoth
Werewolf—0
Black Beorning— -1
Cobbler— -1
Ordinary Villager— -1
Cursed Villager — -4

Bree
Tom Bombadil—4
Goldberry—4
Bill Ferney—4
River Woman—4
Badger —4
Butterbur—1
Nob—0
Bob—1
Barrow-Wight—1
Harry—0
Old Man Willow—8

Mirkwood
Spider—0


Ham
Farmer Giles—8
Tailbiter— 4
Miller—11
Chrysophylax Dives —0
Garm— -1
Giant— -1
Agatha— -1
King Augustus Bonifacius — -1


Rivendell
William—5
Gilraen— 5
Glorfindel—2 points
Bert— -1
Elrond—0
Bilbo— -1
Elladan— -1
Erestor — -1

[arcticstorm]

Today's points
Arcticstorm's Team
DF: Chief Warg—4
MF: Bellomarius—0
FW: Tom Bombadil—4
Total 8 points

Volo's Team
DF - Gollum --4
MF - Seer 0
Total:4 points

Saucepan (Un)Athletic
DF: Goldberry —4
DF: Elros —4
MF: Legolas –0
Total 8 points
Elmo’s Team
MF: Khamul—0
Total 0 points

Thenamir Untied
DF—Glorfindel —2
MF--Gwaihir—4
MF--Legolas—0
Total 6 points

Rune’s Team
DF: Glorfindel —2
FW: Stone Giant—4
Total 6 points

Glirdan’s Team
DF:GLORFINDEL—2
Total: 2 points

Ka’s Team
DF Glorfindel—2
MF: Hunter—0
MF: Radagast—0
Total: 2 points

And here is the leaderboard
Arcticstorm's Team: 23 points
Rune's Team: 17 points
Sleepy Ranger's Team: 11 points
Volo's Team: 10 points
Saucepan (Un)Athletic: 8 Points
Thenamir Untied: 8 points
Nogg's Ball: 6 points
Phantom’s Team: 6 points
Elmo's Team: 6 points
Glirdan’s team: 5 points
Ka’s Team: 3 points

[Thenamir]

I don't want to unduly add to your recordkeeping burdens, but if it's not too much trouble it would be handy for trading purposes to have, after each round or so, a listing of all the players with their cumulative points scored so far in the competition. For those of us for whom football is a game played with a distinctly misshapen ball.

EDIT: Hurrah! I'm moving up in the pack, tied with Saucepan!

DOUBLE TAKE: Is there anyone else who sees a twinge of conflict-of-interest in ArcticStorm participating, since AS has knowledge of the real-life counterparts of the ME players?

TRIPLE EDIT: I abused my powers as a Downs Admin to edit the name of my team in the foregoing posts, to "Thenamir Untied" -- in case anyone was wondering.

[Sleepy Ranger]

Actually I'm the only one who knows the player to player counterpart.
Anyway, AS and I are just in it for the fun we don't get the big prize in the end. Ah, yes, of course theres a prize my precious...

While it would be a bit inconvenient since the list would probably begin to grow too large, I'll talk to Arcticstorm about editing the original lists with the points tally.

Thenamir Untied, that reminds me of that entire Elrohir trip goal last time around...

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Thenamir

DOUBLE TAKE: Is there anyone else who sees a twinge of conflict-of-interest in ArcticStorm participating, since AS has knowledge of the real-life counterparts of the ME players?

I kind of tried to put this same question as I said that Rune's Reds were leading after the first day matches (while it clearly was Arcticstorm who lead and Sleepy was tied with Rune)... I mean this is fun and should be that way and I don't think this should be raised as an issue but surely if someone else is pondering on this so... Looking at the fair-play point of view both Sleepy's and Arcticstorm's participation is kind of odd as they have a lot of knowledge we others don't. Then again I can see this as just too much fun for them to miss it...

But their status surely is questionable from a fair-play point of view.

Maybe we could say that for those two to win they need to gather 30 points more than the next one or something?

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I took a little time to look at the teams of the participants. Now some of them have names and some do not... and in Arcticstorms last report some were handled with the "team-name" and others were not.

So just to be slick and cool, should everyone have a team name or should we refer to each other only by forum names?

Here's the list of the "teams" at the moment:

Arcticstorm
The Fifth Wall (Volo)
Nogg’s Ball (Nogrod)
Saucepan (Un)Athletic
Second Best (Sleepy) ???
Elmo
Thenamir Untied
The Reds (Rune)
Glirdan
the phantom
The Ka