The A2K Fantasy Olympics Beijing 2008

Thank you again, fb, for putting this all together.

The time zone thing messes with my head. We are now into day 2 or maybe into 3.
My team did good today, but so did the other folks who have the American Men. 20 of us.

Results after 2 days of competition. On real time!

1. alex - 81 points
2. jpinmilwaukee - 81
3. hingehead - 79
4. jespah (Ring-o-leave-os) - 73
5. Capitalgull (British Dreamers) - 73
6. ossobuco (Dolphinkicking Dogpaddlers) - 71
7. MyOwnUsername - 69
8. wandeljw - 69
9. Patada Veloz (Fantasy Warriors) - 69
10. Calamity Jane - 67
11. Barneyhull - 64
12. fbaezer - 64
13. markr - 61
14. fom2020 (Pancho's Olympic Team) - 61
15. realjohnboy (WIFF's) - 60
16. EhBeth - 57
17. cicerone imposter - 54
18. Diane (PDQ Geckos) - 46
19. Pantalones - 44
20. McGentrix - 43
21. Imur (THIOS) - 43
22. Foxfyre (Night Owls) - 41
23. fidell (Castro's Champion Kiwis) - 40
24. tgordon92 (Chicago 2016) - 39
25. George (TGIF) - 39
26. MrKingsley - 39
27. Ticomaya (Ticolympians) - 37
28. ElStudHoncho (Fighting Gerbils) - 33

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Alex is the leader, according to the tie-breaking rule. He has 6 points from group D, while jp has only 1.

"Dream Team" after 2 days.

China Women
China Men/ US Women

South Korea
Italy
Japan/France

Czech Republic
Thailand
Sweden
Austria
Turkey

North Korea
Vietnam
Zimbabwe
Georgia/Switzerland/Indonesia/Chinese Taipei/ Uzbekistan/Algeria (choose 2)

hey, what about Croatia! :wink:

Well, MOU, YOU are doing quite well in the competition. Your country just isn't quite up there in dream team territory but hey, anything can happen, yes? My fortunes slipped in the last 24 hours but never fear, I've got you all right where I want you. (cough)

Yeah, Croatia too.

Ah, the glory that is 4th place!

Enjoy while it lasts, jespah. I was second yesterday, forgotten today

I am impressed by France and Italy - Germany oh my, we used to be good!

Foxfyre - yeah it is actually fbaezer just forgot it :wink:

this group from D - Georgia/Switzerland/Indonesia/Chinese Taipei/ Uzbekistan/Algeria - are teams with bronze medal, Croatia has one too.


and great day for us today, perfect start in team sports:

Handball: Croatia-Spain 31:29
Waterpolo: Croatia-Italy 11:7
Basketball: Croatia-Australia 97:82

Oh well then, way to go!!!!! (Wish I had picked Croatia. Oh well. Next time.)

Isn't there traditionally a party for Sweet 16 ?

being in the gang without a tv at home, I watched the opening ceremony in the bbc website live stream and there weren't any commercial interruptions, but the audio transmission had a quite loud background noise, as if coming from the other end of the world!

unluckily for me i haven't watched any olympica games, but i'll be looking forward to all those that I can't watch in a pub (that's pretty much every olymic sport but football).

OK, the Fighting Gerbils have ya'll where they want you! It can only go up from here!

The method of scoring in boxing is terrible. I saw 2 knock outs today and neither knock out punch was awarded a point! The judges are not consistent. Some score for body shots and some don't........most do not and a body shot resulted in one of the knock outs.

Yeah honcho, they changed the rules a while ago. I know the Australian boxers had to be retrained after Sydney 2000, not to box, but to win using the new olympic point scoring system. Basically to get a point the white dot on the front of the gloves has to connect with a designated part of the head or body of your opponent. The power of the hit doesn't come into it, and if the 'wrong' part of your glove hits, or if you connect with the 'wrong' part of your opponent you get no points, even if you knock the bugger down. On top of that two of the three judges have register it as a hit for it to count.

It was dull as dishwater to watch. But at least no-one's going to get permanent brain damage. I hope.

Memories of the old days of my tv watching youth.. interesting, my parents let me watch boxing with my father. Marciano, Liston. Lots of other names. I probably wasn't such a youth in Ali's time but paid attention.

One of my friends' father was a boxer of some renown in southern California in the forties. He got the boxer's syndrome very similar to alzheimer's and died with many distressful happenings for him and the family when we were around twenty. Years later, perhaps when we were in our later forties, she and I met for coffee and a pastry and conversation at Napoleon's in Santa Monica, and who should be walking by as we went in but Mohammed Ali and a companion. She gasped! He kissed her hand. We all walked on.
Big memory for her. Not a bad one for me either.

Having a good day with my tipping today - 3 gold out of 4 so far, and the 4th was won by an Australian so I'm not even sad about that....

Prophetic.

Realist.

Results after 3 days of competition.

1. Capitalgull (British Dreamers) - 122 points
2. hingehead - 115
3. alex - 115
4. jpinmilwaukee - 112
5. Patada Veloz (Fantasy Warriors) - 109
6. MyOwnUsername - 106
7. ossobuco (Dolphinkicking Dogpaddlers) - 104
8. realjohnboy (WIFF's) - 103
9. jespah (Ring-o-leave-os) - 103
10. Calamity Jane - 103
11. wandeljw - 100
12. fom2020 (Pancho's Olympic Team) - 100
13. markr - 97
14. fbaezer - 94
15. McGentrix - 93
16. EhBeth - 88
17. Barneyhull - 87
18. cicerone imposter - 86
19. George (TGIF) - 78
20. MrKingsley - 77
21. tgordon92 (Chicago 2016) - 70
22. Imur (THIOS) - 68
23. Pantalones - 67
24. Ticomaya (Ticolympians) - 66
25. Foxfyre (Night Owls) - 62
26. fidell (Castro's Champion Kiwis) - 62
27. Diane (PDQ Geckos) - 62
28. ElStudHoncho (Fighting Gerbils) - 41

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A different leader every day.