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January 18, 2007
At Last the Ashes Update: A final wrap up. Unlike the real thing, the trophy stays in Australia, but the Costanza goes elsewhere.
Wow, you'd have to have been perfect at picking players to bet her. Good on ya onyanellie. Congrats.
posted by apoch at 04:15 AM on January 19, 2007
Congrats to all the winners. I had no idea what I was doing but it opened my eyes to another sport - thank you!
posted by skydivemom at 08:52 AM on January 19, 2007
7th place never felt so good - especially considering how badly onyanellie kicked our asses. Nice performance from Fat Buddha - maintaining the old guards' status is important. And for the love of god, I am SICK of TBH just barely beating me at everything. Pistols at dawn, sah!
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 10:29 AM on January 19, 2007
Awww, now skiydivedad can get a Costanza to match skydivemom's.
posted by gspm at 11:35 AM on January 19, 2007
Hey I don't want the "Costanza" I want that other thingy owlhouse mentioned in an earlier post! Ya know the one name that symbolizes total "Cricket Ineptitude" Seems a better description of my Cricket pick'em ability. Crap what's his name? Anybody got time to find it?....
posted by skydivedad at 12:51 PM on January 19, 2007
The Tufnell!! I never forgot. It's an awesome name for a Trophy.
posted by apoch at 12:58 PM on January 19, 2007
Well to look on the bright side I did do better than five other people. That should count for something.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 01:45 PM on January 19, 2007
My total domination of sixth place makes me proud to be an American.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 02:43 PM on January 19, 2007
Yea That's it! The Tufnell Trophy! The only photo I could find he was wearing a Santa Hat. Seems like an ideal pic for a Trophy. I'll Photoshop one up for myself when I can find some time soon....... Wow a little further research into Tufnell reveals he has quite a budding Television (wikipedia) career going. Hey, I won the Tufnell! Yippee.....I Think......
posted by skydivedad at 03:49 PM on January 19, 2007
It's yours to keep, skydivedad! I should probably work something similar out for the cricket World Cup in March. Maybe with picking one player per team, which could add to the volatility. A confidence pool would also be good, if I can get someone to show me how to set them up like the others.
posted by owlhouse at 05:33 PM on January 19, 2007
Here you go SDD. If that isn't an award-winning pose, then I don't know what is.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 06:21 PM on January 19, 2007
Owlhouse the confidence pools are really quite simple, and actually pretty self explanitory if you're trying to set one up.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 06:10 AM on January 20, 2007
Tufnell in action! (This defies logic.)
posted by afx237vi at 08:55 AM on January 20, 2007
yikes...........
posted by skydivedad at 11:01 AM on January 20, 2007
Mr. Bismark, apoch and afx237vi......... you rock.....Thanks
posted by skydivedad at 11:04 AM on January 20, 2007
Yeah, I won. Well done to Fat Buddha. What a victory and I might even be talked into venturing into other fields of play so to speak. How about the world swimming comp? Thanks to owlhouse for setting it all up.
posted by onyanellie at 05:38 PM on January 23, 2007
Swimming would be sweet.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 08:00 PM on January 23, 2007
Sorry for the delay, folks. The final table after the Fifth Test is: 1. onyanellie 2260 2. Fat Buddha 2162 3. owlhouse 2083 4. gspm 2007 5. cabuki 1905 6. The Black Hand 1876 7. Mr Bismarck 1855 7. Weedy McSmokey 1855 9. skydivemom 1830 10. Ying Yang Mafia 1712 11. JJ 1703 12. apoch 1664 13. afx237vi 1560 14. No Mich 1399 15. skydivedad 1223 Fat Buddha also came closest in picking the series result - he nominated Australia by 4-0. Hope you had some money on it, mate. Next best was Mr Bismarck who had Australia at 3-0. Individual players with the top scores for each side, under our points system: England - Pietersen 520, Collingwood 503, Flintoff 474, Bell 381 and next best was Cook on 296 Australia - Warne 660, Ponting 606, Clark (Stuart) 605, Hussey 508, then Hayden 483 and Gilchrist 479. Therefore onyanellie had the top two Aussies and 1st and 3rd in the English, which is pretty good going.