APAT National Online Cup Quarter Final - 8pm tonight!

[Matt D]

8 teams * 4 players a team = 32 players expected.

So far we"ve 25 registered. Game starts at 8pm and has 10 minutes late reg.

If by 7.30pm-ish you notice a team-mate hasn"t registered, try and get in touch with them! You"re going to need all your players to have the best chance of proceeding to Sunday"s Semi-Final!!.

Good luck to those playing

If you haven"t received a PM with tonight"s password, either PM your team captain or me, or guess it using the (extremely) easy clue here: http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=11840

Please only register to play if you are in one of the 8 teams that has made it to the Quarter Final stage. Teams who have made it to this stage are listed here: http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=11840

[Matt D]

Everyone registered bar the following 4 players:

Stockton Massive
PHIL_TC
Erimus (Erimus14)

Debjani"s Devils
blowfly (blowfly34)

N.T.B.A.W.S.
U.T.U.B

[blowfly]

Everyone registered bar the following 4 players:

Stockton Massive
PHIL_TC
Erimus (Erimus14)

Debjani"s Devils
blowfly (blowfly34)

N.T.B.A.W.S.
U.T.U.B

Give us a chance!!!!

[Matt D]

Everyone registered bar the following 4 players:

Stockton Massive
PHIL_TC
Erimus (Erimus14)

Debjani"s Devils
blowfly (blowfly34)

N.T.B.A.W.S.
U.T.U.B

Give us a chance!!!!

lol. It was just that I sent the PM such last-minute due to ECOAP, that I wanted to make sure everyone had read them

[Starshine]

Was really a good game tonite,

i think our table was the funniest, we had a nice fifthfruppling there or whatever the right word is  

[Matt D]

Was really a good game tonite,

i think our table was the funniest, we had a nice fifthfruppling there or whatever the right word is  

Cool, glad to hear it

Will be posting the results tomorrow, but each team has probably already worked out for themselves if they"ve made the QF or not yet

[Sugar_Free]

each team has probably already worked out for themselves if they"ve made the QF or not yet

Nooooooo not more quarter finals. Personally I think our team played so well I reckon I"ve got a Semi

[PHIL_TC]

Was really a good game tonite,

i think our table was the funniest, we had a nice fifthfruppling there or whatever the right word is  

   

each team has probably already worked out for themselves if they"ve made the QF or not yet

Really enjoyed the cup Matt (good to meet you over the weekend by the way!).. might need to look at the format in the next one though. We managed 2 on the final table and will be one of the top teams (Stockton Massive) I would of thought (not done the sums) in last nights game.. but won"t be progressing due to the epic PMS performance.

Feels a bit crap that we did so well and will have outperformed other teams that would have qualifed. Maybe change the QF next time to just the top 4 teams rather than being drawn against another team? Just a thought.

Obviously this would have benefited us last night and I"m biased obviously  

p.s will prepare to edit this later to just "Really enjoyed the cup Matt (good to meet you over the weekend by the way!)" when you put the scores up and we actually came last x

*edited as promised  

[Rhino56]

I too really enjoyed the cup competition and thanks to APAT for running another great fun event.
According to my calculations (might be wrong) the top four teams in the quarter finals all made the semis.
While a great effort from 2 of your players to make the final table Phil, the 2 early exits meant your overall position was no better than 6th.(Obviously subject to official confirmation)
Good luck to all the semi-finalists, but especially to the Fore!

[Matt D]

Hi Phil, good to meet you at ECOAP too

Rhino is right though, the top 4 scoring teams were indeed the 4 teams that Qualified.

Stockton Massive were close, but finished 5th/8 teams in the Quarter Finals.

Still interested to hear any suggestions for the next time we run this though.

[Starshine]

To make it more like a knockout,
I would make the quarter finals 4 tables with 8 players each, so that 1 player of each team is on a table, and not be drawn vs 1 other team,

just you have your table with 8 players, points are 1 - 8 and get counted together for the team once all 4 tables finished

Do I make sense??? sometimes not easy to explain in english what i mean  

[Matt D]

Hi Gina

That makes perfect sense. Will take note of all suggestions like this for when we come to run it again.

Keep "em coming

[Tiger-flash]

To make it more like a knockout,
I would make the quarter finals 4 tables with 8 players each, so that 1 player of each team is on a table, and not be drawn vs 1 other team,

just you have your table with 8 players, points are 1 - 8 and get counted together for the team once all 4 tables finished

Do I make sense??? sometimes not easy to explain in english what i mean  

Good idea Gina, i thought that was going to happen last night but i couldnt believe it when 3 of our team started on the same table  

[Chipaccrual]

Top 4 go through to the semi finals.  Who"d have thunked it  

Could easily have been the case though that the scenarios discussed had come true.  I"ve played the cup competition in the Fantasy Football League for the past few years, and although my teams normally score well across a season, I always seem to draw an awesome team (Or a team that have a flying week) in the early stages on the cup.

That"s part of the dynamics of a cup competition.

[PHIL_TC]

Top 4 go through to the semi finals.  Who"d have thunked it  

Well played to those who got through. All those saying the structure was flawed. Blooming idiots. Who do they think they are  

p.s. I hope this cup is repeated, have enjoyed it immensely. Maybe a team of 5 next time with 4 selected for each game would be better. Was getting "oh but I"ve binked a seat for the half a million DTD tourny.. what if I make it through to day two".. cry me a river style txts the other day  

Seriously though very enjoyable. Good luck to the remaining 4 teams. I have my favourites (you know who you are) but staying on the fence x

p.p.s With the lack of a Thursday afternoon rail thread. Good luck to Brian Harland (Erimus) and Dave Amos (pokerpops) at the DTD £500 buy in today. Run well gents. Remember who your friends are   x