Tourney: Cambridge National Series 19-20/5/2012

Awesome, Felix and me can give you cash if you want?
Hackney Goal Snotters unite

Yeah, sort it out down there. I've also knocked up a banging victory tune.

Another great day for tags.

hey antonio still want to play. jiji just let me know

Might still pop by to spectate/hackle/makeafoolofmyself.

Does anyone know where the Cambridge trophy is? Do Cosmic have it?

We're down in London next week so are looking to collect it and polish it up ready for the tournament.

*Shame list:

*GettinWild - Paid by Hayden
Cambridge team 1(who's in this team?)
What a Mess (cams)
Dr.
MCR (team name tbc) Moar Coffee - Paid
Jess, Ades, Andy Stabbath (name tbc)
Cambridge 3 (team name tbc)
Convicts
Rule of Thirds
Sensible
Le BigMac
Mavericks - Paid by Bogey

How many theme tunes have you received?

You should give terrible one's to any teams that don't provide.

^
Anything by Scouting For Goals Girls
Any live recording of Kanye West 'singing'
Crazy Frog
Whatever's at number 1 in the hit parade

Nyancat

Rick

Friday

Ah nyancat would be awesome...

I was thinking more like ace of base or venga boys...

I guess that's the problem, one persons shit song is the next person's awesome!

PartyIlluminati theme song bite sent :)

Beiber.

Also Ste suggested venga boys for bubonic plays, kinda glad we pulled out.

Just sent our sample.

Useful tools:
Youtube -> MP3, http://www.video2mp3.net/
MP3 cutter, http://mp3cut.net/

has anyone run a challonge with a shuffled seed rather than manually doing it? wonder if it would screw things up/make it interesting in the morning? any other reason not to pre-shuffle seeds?

Yes, because you just lose accuracy, if you do it right it's almost as good as an extra round of swiss. It's better to come up with a rough seeding. It doesn't have to be perfect, but ideally each pair of games in the first round should be an easy win for the first team (doesn't always work out, of course).

Given this theoretical example, if you have 8 teams, ordered 1-8, in a rough seeding. Challonge will make the first round 1-5, 2-6, 3-7, 4-8.

Theoretically the first team in each pair should win.
Then the four winners will play each other, then the two winners of those games. At the end of that you should have a perfectly ordered list of teams (if all games go to form).
It doesn't matter so much if 1-4 are in the wrong order, that should all work out, but the initial pairings should be teams of quite different ability.

But if say you end up playing 1-2 in the first round (which you might with a random seeding), you'll mess up the games for quite a few rounds, as team 2 will have to get out of the losers half, and lots of other teams will get "unfair" pairings compared to the teams around them (giving less accurate final standings).

If anyone needs any poles/heads/fixcraft balls for Cambridge, please order it from www.lhpba.org/shop before tomorrow.

For Harvey balls go straight to the source.

Thanks for the explanation John, I'll work up a rough seed in that case.

just bought a head john, any chance you can give it to emmet tonight at NE?

Sure, no problem B

thanks dude.

what train(s) are londoners getting?
group save?

*Shame list:

*Gettin wild.
Cambridge team 1(who's in this team?)
What a Mess (cams)
Dr.
MCR (team name tbc) Moar Coffee - Paid
Jess, Ades, Andy Stabbath (name tbc) Out
Cambridge 3 (team name tbc)
Convicts
Rule of Thirds
Sensible
Le BigMac
Mavericks - Paid by Bogey

We can't make it now I'm afraid. Bit gutted :( Sorry for the short notice!

Update for everyone coming this weekend .
We now have a proper toilet with running water and a sink.
Also we have a pool table . :-)

Also we have a pool table . :-)

Sur-weet. I'm coming up just to win the pool tournament...