World Cup 2010 Sweepstake!

[Zooggy]

Hoy,

That makes sense!

It does, tbh.

In any case, I didn't mean to come on all crabby and crap. Hope y'all have fun with it.

Cheers,
J.

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

Team Selection

It is now time to pick the teams for the World Cup Sweepstake! Since I don't have a velvet bag full of balls or a celebrity to draw them out (well, I do have D, but he's on the wrong side of the Atlantic) I'll be using this eye-socket corroding generator thingy ma-dingy (upon discovering that the Chris Moyles one is from 2006). I'm afraid you're going to have to place faith in me that I'm not going to fix it or anything, I just hope I don't get Spain or Brazil to assuade any suspicions you might have No, I'm going to put the names in the generator ONCE, press generate ONCE and that will be it.

We had 15 people voice an interest in playing, who will be entered first into the generator (not that it matters when you are entered, o'course). To make things more fun (I hope), I've semi-randomly selected the other 17 players from the forum member's list, gauged on how interested I think they'd be (played in previous sweepstakes, is active, enjoys sport etc. etc.). If you aren't happy with being selected in this fashion then let me know and I'll replace you with the next name down the list.

Anyway, less chat and more selection:

waterproofbob - Nigeria
Nanor - Korea Republic
Macca - Brazil
T-Bone - Italy
Kateryne - France
thatbloke - Paraguay
Wol - Portugal
Panda with issues ... - Serbia
Twisto - Germany
Taffy - New Zealand
BiG_D - Ghana
Ashya - Spain
Skcornnelg - Uruguay
SgtFury - Australia
Tetsuo_Shima - Mexico
DocBot - Greece
Haven - Korea DPR
Ki!ler-Mk1 - Chile
KillCrazy - Cameroon
Wraith - Switzerland
Iron Fist - Algeria
Dezmond - Honduras
VibroAxe - Slovenia
elDiablo - Ivory Coast
Huung - South Africa
Psi - Argentina
Ronin Storm - Netherlands
Traxata - Denmark
Tingham - USA
Dragon - Slovakia
Gombol - England
Angelic - Japan

The first match, between my magnificent Mexico and Huung's stalwart South Africa, kicks off tomorrow at 15.00 BST! Let the good times roll!

 

[Taffy]

Lol at table fail. Also, NZ?!?!? Sucks to be me!

 

[Nanor]

C'mon South Korea!

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

Lol at table fail.

A nightmare, sir. An absolute nightmare. Sorry I couldn't manage a better team for you

 

[Huung]

I hope I lose and DIAF.

 

[thatbloke]

OMFG Paraguay... I got them in my Work sweepstake :/

 

[Panda with issues...]

Panda with issues ... - Serbia

Fuck!

 

[Traxata]

I've got Denmark, I don't really follow football, but assume they're pretty useless

 

[Kasatka]

I have France, and like Trax and not knowing football either, have to work on the assumption they are ok but not amazing.

Also being of French descent, my English tendency to be xenophobic is quashed

 

[Huung]

I'm doing a terrible job of failing.

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

Seth Efrica 1-1 Méhícó

Should have been a victory for the Mexicans, probably would have been if I hadn't gotten them! Still, I guess it's a good idea to throw the host nation a bone early on ...

Oh, and Kateryne, France are actually one of the more favoured teams. They always are, as they are a team that consist of big names who play at high levels of club football (Thierry Henry, Franck Ribery, Eric Abidal and co.), but they tend to have problems gelling as a side. They'll come good again one of these days, but it'll have to be soon as their best players are starting to age ...

 

[Gombol]

Um. Woo. I got England i guess. they are good in Failball? I don't follow it. At all.

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

Um. Woo. I got England i guess. they are good in Failball? I don't follow it. At all.

Yes, they are an excellent side, however much it pains me to say that. Their new blood have started to settle in now, which gives them a real good chance of coming good at this year's world cup. Helped in no small part by extremely fortunate group selection, mind you.

 

[Kasatka]

Can we get the OP updated with results as we get them, or a feed to some sort of official site so we are all looking in the same place?

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

Can we get the OP updated with results as we get them

I can do that, and I'll try to sort out a fixture list as well. It might turn into a mess, but I'll try.

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

Uruguay 0 - 0 France

An exciting game in spite of the scoreline, but France fail to impress once again! Failure to make the most of their early chances and slack, frenzied play in the latter stages prevented them from attaining victory over a 10-man Uruguayan side. Yes! The first red card of the World Cup, brandished in the direction of Nicolas Lodeiro for picking up a second yellow after a filthy lunge on Bacary Sagna.

So, two draws to start us off; one point a piece for the teams in Group A.

 

[Gombol]

An exciting game in spite of the World Cup.

Fixed. You accually watched it? You're mad.

 

[Nanor]

And the Uruguayan manager "laughed off" comments about being a violent team. Good one. Did anyone so RSA's goal? Cracker!

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

South Korea 2 - 0 Greece

Just watched the highlights, and I get the impression that S. Korea bossed it for most of the match. In fact, with the influence of Man U's Park Ji-Sung, they actually looked good. Unfortunately I lost some e-monies over it, but Nanor should be happy!

The match between Argentina and Nigeria has just gotten underway, I'll keep you updated after it finishes.