The Eurovision Striking Contest - The Battle Begins!

[wisla_krakow]

Move to Fulham still in the Championship /o\ though at least moving up the teams there, hopefully not another season of relegation troubles .

And damn you Stoke for rejecting Pompey bids!

[ManU@oldtrafford]

move to Chelsea for 17.5 mil and on 39.5 k

lets hope I play games and there is more chance of getting picked by the England manager maybe

Wi and Dillon Partnership

[spartans5]

Hey, Walcott's, now that the semester is almost over, I am thinking about doing an African version of this, with your permission of course. I will even save you a spot in there if you so choose.

[Haowan]

great updates once again!

How old are we by now?

and what was Blackburn's last position in the league?

[birdy123]

I really hate Vicenza

Can't believe I've stayed there :/

[Ridleys]

Lowest wage and a club that I've never heard of \o/

My player looks decent though and there is 3 Greek clubs interested.

KUTGW

[5ergio]

I really hope that LFC will be a fresh start for Kapono. Me & Jim Alex should be rocking the charts or there is something wrong there Eagerly waiting for the next batch WW. KUTGW.

[SJ234]

kutgw

[Sidnv]

Marek looks good. Natural fitness 17 really surprised me.

Where is Paderborn?

[Walcott\'s Wonderkids]

Your questions answered:

Haowan

- All the original guys are now 23, the 4 newbies are age 18. All their birthdays are 1st July each year.

- League tables are back on page 17 if you want a detailed look, Blackburn finished 7th and qualified for the Inter Toto Cup.

Spurs + Eastbourne

- It's just listed on your personal page as 'x clubs interested in you'. I vaguely remember Fulham, Villareal, Valencia and Aston Villa.

The Newbies

All 4 of you have been assigned to a random 2nd division side in a 'regional hub country', just as the other 49 players did when the sign up began 5 seasons ago.

It was split up as such:

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Portugal - Player plays in Spanish 2nd Div

Holland - Player plays in the German 2nd Div.

Cyprus - Player plays in rhe Greek 2nd Div.

Norway - Player plays in the Swedish 2nd Div.

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You will get a league table in November-ish time when I do all the league tables.

Spartans5

Go for it fella, was thinking the other day an African version would be good as they also have regular int league games. Yeah, I'll be interested in joining as well.

[Walcott\'s Wonderkids]

Season Preview

Due to the retirement of 4 wonderstars, they have broken the rules of the Eurovision Striking Contest and those 4 nations have been demoted to the European Third Division. This means that some players / nations get bumped up / saved from relegation because of this:

Eurovision Striking Contest 2012/13

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Eurovision Striking Contest 2012/13 Top 10 Table

Total

Pos Player Name Country App Goals Points

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Eurovision Soccer League 2012/13 Tables

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Eurovision Premier Division

Player Team Total

Pos Player Name Country App Goals MoM Yel Red Points Bonus Points

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1 Robert Dillon Luxembourg

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2 Mini Saville Austria

3 Brendan Petersen Liechtenstein

4 Magnus Donaldson N Ireland

5 In Der Van Dude Slovenia

6 Diego Polo San Marino

7 Robert Boyle Estonia

8 Paddy O'Furniture Finland

9 Chu Haowan Hungary

10 Ulf Chaoc Georgia

11 Kyle Van Smith Albania

12 dafuge Macedonia

13 Mike Bird Croatia

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14 Felix Lithuania

15 James Knowles Germany

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16 Jason Healy Scotland

17 Derren Brown Serbia

18 Sneaky Ninja Moldova

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Eurovision Second Division

Player Team Total

Pos Player Name Country App Goals MoM Yel Red Points Bonus Points

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1 Ryan Andrews Faroe Islands

2 Arthur White Azerbaijan

3 Tyler Burrows Bosnia

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4 Tom Healy Wales

5 Tom Collantine Spain

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6 Jason Demir Kazakhstan

7 Triple H Armenia

8 Adam Wilkinson Latvia

9 Alexei Lloyd-Hooker Andorra

10 Arthur Li Montenegro

11 Brucie Bonus Belarus

12 Julius Kapono Denmark

13 Jim Alex Romania

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14 Pendros Greece

15 Parker Reynolds Poland

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16 Juan King Turkey

17 Adam Moxon Sweden

18 Yhon Wi England

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Eurovision Third Division

Player Team Total

Pos Player Name Country App Goals MoM Yel Red Points Bonus Points

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1 Damon Lowe Iceland

2 Steven Kemp Malta

3 Suk-Yo Bum Bulgaria

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4 Robaldinho Czech Rep

5 Jaradafred Zadabheer Israel

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6 David Pitt Slovakia

7 King Queen Ukraine

8 Alex Drew Rep. Ireland

9 Pablo Gonzalez Switzerland

10 Benjas Kyriagkos Belgium

11 The Man Norway

12 Adam C Portugal

13 Bobinho Cyprus

14 Joo Russia

15 Larry De Poopinho Italy

16 Bob McBob France

17 Marek Almonde Holland

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The Points System

Int Appearance = 5

Int Goal = 10

Int Own Goal = -10

Int MoM Award = 5

Int Yellow Card = -3

Int Red Card = -8 (2 yellows --> 1 red = -8)

Team Win = 3

Team Draw = 1

Bonus Points:

Top scorer in the EURO / World Cup Qual Tournaments = 25

First to 100 Caps = 25

100 Caps = 15

First to 50 Goals = 50

50 Goals = 35

Break National Caps Record = 25

Break National Goalscoring Record = 25

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Effects of the Retirements

Everyone who was automatically relegated last season has still been relegated. Those people in the relegation playoff zones have all been saved from relegation. To equal up the numbers, the 6th placed player / nation in the Third Division has been promoted to the Second Division.

Mike Bird & Felix have avoided relegation from the Eurovision Premier Division due to the retirements of Ben Arsenal & Bob Van Bob.

Brucie Bonus & Julius Kapono have avoided relegation from the Eurovision Second Division and Yhon Wi, who finished 6th in the 3rd Div last season has been the lucky person to gain promotion.

Eurovision Striking Contest Roll of Honour

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2007/08 - Robert Boyle / Estonia ( 73 points)

2008/09 - Paddy O'Furniture / Finland ( 94 points)

2009/10 - Mike Bird / Croatia (128 points)

2010/11 - Diego Polo / San Marino (163 points)

2011/12 - James Knowles & Bob Van Bob / Germany & Portugal (158 points)

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September update coming soon.

[dafuge]

I know it's a bit late, but shouldn't it be called the 'Eurovision Premier Division , First Division and Second Division' rather than 'Eurovision Premier Division , Second Division and Third Division'?

[aaberdeenn]

Great work.

[ManU@oldtrafford]

Promoted to 2nd division

come on England play me please

[DodgeeD]

Still stuck in the second division... Oh well, I'll just have to play my way out. Who knows? Maybe Jason Demir was one of the hat-trick heroes for September.

[Walcott\'s Wonderkids]

September 2012 Fixtures

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Eurovision Striking Contest 2012/13

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Eurovision Striking Contest 2012/13 Top 10 Table

Total

Pos Player Name Country App Goals Points

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1 Kyle Van Smith Albania 1 4 53

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1 Tyler Burrows Bosnia 1 4 53

3 Magnus Donaldson N Ireland 1 3 43

4 In Der Van Dude Slovenia 1 2 33

4 Chu Haowan Hungary 1 2 33

4 Jason Healy Scotland 1 2 33

7 Tom Healy Wales 1 1 18

7 Tom Collantine Spain 1 1 18

7 Pendros Greece 1 1 18

7 Damon Lowe Iceland 1 1 18

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Eurovision Soccer League 2012/13 Tables

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Eurovision Premier Division

Player Team Total

Pos Player Name Country App Goals MoM Yel Red Points Bonus Points

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1 Kyle Van Smith Albania 1 4 1 0 0 50 3 53

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2 Magnus Donaldson N Ireland 1 3 1 0 0 40 3 43

3 In Der Van Dude Slovenia 1 2 1 0 0 30 3 33

3 Chu Haowan Hungary 1 2 1 0 0 30 3 33

3 Jason Healy Scotland 1 2 1 0 0 30 3 33

6 Sneaky Ninja Moldova 1 1 0 0 0 15 0 15

7 Derren Brown Serbia 1 1 0 -1 0 12 0 12

8 Paddy O'Furniture Finland 1 0 0 0 0 5 3 8

8 James Knowles Germany 1 0 0 0 0 5 3 8

10 Felix Lithuania 1 0 0 0 0 5 1 6

10 Diego Polo San Marino 1 0 0 0 0 5 1 6

11 Robert Dillon Luxembourg 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

11 Brendan Petersen Liechtenstein 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

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11 Robert Boyle Estonia 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

11 Ulf Chaoc Georgia 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

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11 dafuge Macedonia 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

11 Mini Saville Austria 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

18 Mike Bird Croatia

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Eurovision Second Division

Player Team Total

Pos Player Name Country App Goals MoM Yel Red Points Bonus Points

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1 Tyler Burrows Bosnia 1 4 1 0 0 50 3 53

2 Parker Reynolds Poland 1 2 1 0 0 30 3 33

3 Tom Healy Wales 1 1 0 0 0 15 3 18

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3 Tom Collantine Spain 1 1 0 0 0 15 3 18

3 Pendros Greece 1 1 0 0 0 15 3 18

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6 Ryan Andrews Faroe Islands 1 1 0 0 0 15 0 15

6 Triple H Armenia 1 1 0 0 0 15 0 15

6 Jim Alex Romania 1 1 0 0 0 15 0 15

9 Julius Kapono Denmark 1 0 0 0 0 5 3 8

10 Juan King Turkey 1 0 0 0 0 5 3 8

11 Arthur White Azerbaijan 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

11 Jason Demir Kazakhstan 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

11 Adam Wilkinson Latvia 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

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11 Alexei Lloyd-Hooker Andorra 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

11 Brucie Bonus Belarus 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

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16 Arthur Li Montenegro

17 Adam Moxon Sweden

18 Yhon Wi England

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Eurovision Third Division

Player Team Total

Pos Player Name Country App Goals MoM Yel Red Points Bonus Points

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1 Damon Lowe Iceland 1 1 0 0 0 15 0 18

2 Steven Kemp Malta 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

2 Suk-Yo Bum Bulgaria 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

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2 David Pitt Slovakia 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

2 Bobinho Cyprus 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 5

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6 Robaldinho Czech Rep

7 Jaradafred Zadabheer Israel

8 King Queen Ukraine

9 Alex Drew Rep. Ireland

10 Pablo Gonzalez Switzerland

11 Benjas Kyriagkos Belgium

12 The Man Norway

13 Adam C Portugal

14 Joo Russia

15 Larry De Poopinho Italy

16 Bob McBob France

17 Marek Almonde Holland

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The Points System

Int Appearance = 5

Int Goal = 10

Int Own Goal = -10

Int MoM Award = 5

Int Yellow Card = -3

Int Red Card = -8 (2 yellows --> 1 red = -8)

Team Win = 3

Team Draw = 1

Bonus Points:

Top scorer in the EURO / World Cup Qual Tournaments = 25

Top scorer in the EURO / World Cup Finals = 50

First to 100 Caps = 25

100 Caps = 15

First to 50 Goals = 50

50 Goals = 35

Break National Caps Record = 25

Break National Goalscoring Record = 25

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Kyle Van Smith & Tyler Burrows have kicked off the season in fine form, smashing 4 goals in their game for Albania and Bosnia respectively! If they continue like this, one of the Wonderstars may have a chance of being the Top Scorer in the qualifying tournament.

Magnus Donaldson was also in fine form, scoring a hattrick for N Ireland as the Eurovision All Time Top Goalscorer increased his lead over his Eurovision rivals.

Great results for Albania, Montenegro and Scotland, who kept up their great form of late, beating Holland 2-1 at home.

Wales beat Latvia thanks to an injury time winner from Tom Healy and the Lithuania v San Marino game was goalless until the 90th minute, San Marino equalising with the last kick of the game, scoring the rebound after the Lithuanian keeper had saved the penalty.

Croatia were the only team not to play in this round of fixtures btw.

Eurovision Striking Contest Roll of Honour

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2007/08 - Robert Boyle / Estonia ( 73 points)

2008/09 - Paddy O'Furniture / Finland ( 94 points)

2009/10 - Mike Bird / Croatia (128 points)

2010/11 - Diego Polo / San Marino (163 points)

2011/12 - James Knowles & Bob Van Bob / Germany & Portugal (158 points)

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[DodgeeD]

Originally posted by DodgeeD:

Still stuck in the second division... Oh well, I'll just have to play my way out. Who knows? Maybe Jason Demir was one of the hat-trick heroes for September.

Wow! That was quick

Obviously my above prediciton was way off. Still got a game though.

Play me and the goals will come.

[Robert_296]

After my hattrick it is back to normal it seems. Although it was against Portugal

[Walcott\'s Wonderkids]

Originally posted by dafuge:

I know it's a bit late, but shouldn't it be called the 'Eurovision Premier Division , First Division and Second Division' rather than 'Eurovision Premier Division , Second Division and Third Division'?

Haha, yeah I know what you mean. However, it is done on purpose!

It always annoys me that leagues go Premier, First, Second etc - after all, Premier = First (well at least it does in my mind), so I set the leagues up as Premier, Second, Third!

[dafuge]

Originally posted by Walcott's Wonderkids:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by dafuge:

I know it's a bit late, but shouldn't it be called the 'Eurovision Premier Division , First Division and Second Division' rather than 'Eurovision Premier Division , Second Division and Third Division'?

Haha, yeah I know what you mean. However, it is done on purpose!

It always annoys me that leagues go Premier, First, Second etc - after all, Premier = First (well at least it does in my mind), so I set the leagues up as Premier, Second, Third! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Fair enough

[Scott1990]

Nice update! What's not so nice is that Bulgaria is absolutely horrible. I thought that the would be a terrific country to be from in this signup. They have a chance to qualify for the major tournaments and they also aren't so overloaded with stars so you have a chance of playing. Unfortunately, neither seems to be working out in this

[Blackcats]

Good update as usuall but still i'm not playing for Switzerland and i seem to have no desire to leave crappy Pisa. Grr

[aaberdeenn]

Germany win, I play, I don't score.

Shambles tbh.

[Walcott\'s Wonderkids]

Some of the scores emerging in the game are incredible atm, plenty of high scoring games. Still suppose that's great news in terms of this Striking Contest!!!

Sign up now on 20,000+ views!

[aaberdeenn]

Great stuff only 4 threads on here now with more views right?

dafuge's & Gundo's challenges, off topic thread and kipfizh's thread.

[PaulHartman71]

TBF There are loads of OTF threads with more views/comments, then this one. KUTGW WW

[Ridleys]

Originally posted by PaulHartman71:

TBF There are loads of OTF threads with more views/comments, then this one. KUTGW WW

The amount of users that visit OTF compared to this forum regularly has to be at least 5 times more though.

[aaberdeenn]

I meant in the challenges section though.

Obviously there are many more threads with 20,000+ views in OTF as there are many more users and you can speak about anything in there whereas this is a specific forum for challenges, etc only.

[Walcott\'s Wonderkids]

Originally posted by PaulHartman71:

TBF There are loads of OTF threads with more views/comments, then this one. KUTGW WW

Haha, yeah for sure - compared to OTF this is run of the mill viewing standards.

Was talking in comparison to other threads in this forum more specifically, as if you look down the threads here then the average post/view amount is far far less than OTF.

Looked down all the threads in this forum and there are 12 (excluding mine) with 20,000+ views, although a few of those relate back to the days when challenges / sign ups were in the GQ section.

[minisav]

An appearance. I can cope with that.

I need to win this year!

Good updates KUTGW

[5ergio]

I assume Kapono is still considered as the sub-striker in national squad Have to show some good finishing in EPL to make the national 11.

[Haowan]

May I ask what does OTF stand for?

[Walcott\'s Wonderkids]

Originally posted by 5ergio:

I assume Kapono is still considered as the sub-striker in national squad Have to show some good finishing in EPL to make the national 11.

Nope, Kapono actually started the last game for Denmark.

Bendtner just hogged all the goals with a hattrick!

[Ridleys]

Originally posted by Haowan:

May I ask what does OTF stand for?

Off Topic Forum

[minisav]

Off Topic Forum

[aaberdeenn]

http://community.sigames.com/eve/forums?a=corfrm&cf=8191933985

Off Topic Forum, it's fun.

[AhJoo]

Argh.. Still no caps.

May I know who are the strikers for Russia?

[Walcott\'s Wonderkids]

Originally posted by AhJoo:

Argh.. Still no caps.

May I know who are the strikers for Russia?

Good timing, was just shutting FM down! Here is the Russian squad:

Russian Squad

[NeoAC]

Actually scored for once! Too bad the Faroe keeper is a sieve.

Surprised Nikita Andreev hasn't made it up to the main squad either. He usually turns out very well in games I play.

[coldkohmew]

Great results for Albania, Montenegro and Scotland, who kept up their great form of late, beating Holland 2-1 at home.

Scored both goals and MOM,This year would be very tight.

But our form will push me up!!!

[jimalex]

Romania lost 2-1 at home but i did get the goal so it's not all bad.

Great updates

[Walcott\'s Wonderkids]

Eurovision Poll - Please Vote

Thanks to the wonders of Mini Scout, I am able to draw up a shortlist of everyone's Current Ability. Now I know that some people may not want to know their players CA, so I have set up 3 options for people to select which way they would like it presented:

1. Do nothing, leave the game a mystery for everyone.

2. Post a screenshot showing the distribution of players CA, but not which CA belongs to which player.

3. Post a screenshot showing the 53 players CA so people can see what level everyone is at.

If there is a difference of opinions between 2 and 3, I would post 2 screenshots, both clearly labelled so people don't click on the wrong one. If the majority want me to do nothing, then no screenshot will be posted.

Your thoughts please, you have until next Saturday at noon to vote.

Whatever is decided I would not post it until the end of the season so that the new players CA can develop a bit.

[dafuge]

I vote for 1. I'd rather not know anything about the CAs at all.

[Ridleys]

I vote the first option

People who have a low CA will be unhappy whereas the people who have a high CA will be happy, so I think it's best left mysterious

[minisav]

I'm not to bothered tbh. I'd vote 1 if I was forced to vote at all.

[ManU@oldtrafford]

Originally posted by minisav:

I'm not to bothered tbh. I'd vote 1 if I was forced to vote at all.

same here

[minisav]

So we have Europe, South America and Africa. How long until there is an Asian one of these

[AhJoo]

Vote 1 too. Don't think I'll be too happy if my CA is low.

[Walcott\'s Wonderkids]

Originally posted by minisav:

So we have Europe, South America and Africa. How long until there is an Asian one of these

Well the benefits of Euro / African / S American versions of it are that they do a league format so everyone plays a similar amount of games. In Asia, some nations play far fewer games than others.

Saying that, wouldn't surprise me if someone did an Asian one sooner or later.

[NeoAC]

Originally posted by Walcott's Wonderkids:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by minisav:

So we have Europe, South America and Africa. How long until there is an Asian one of these

Well the benefits of Euro / African / S American versions of it are that they do a league format so everyone plays a similar amount of games. In Asia, some nations play far fewer games than others.

Saying that, wouldn't surprise me if someone did an Asian one sooner or later. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think I may be one of the few people who's a member of all three actually

I vote for one as well. It's bad enough I'm stuck in the Faroes. Don't need anymore misery.