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Fed up of watching re-runs of 'Hancock's Half Hour' and 'No Minister' ? | |
We can't give you real Aunt Sally during the lockdown, but in an attempt to be creative, we are going to run a VIRTUAL LEAGUE. | |
We've now got 60 teams registered and have a created a league of 6 sections, loosely based on last year's finishing positions with the traditional | |
promotions and relegations. | |
So, let's play safe Aunt Sally! | |
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How will it work? | |
A fixtures list has been created (see League->Fixtures List) for an 18 week season, starting as usual on the first Thursday in May (7th). | |
Note that in the case of multiple teams, no attempt has been made to avoid 'home game conflicts', because this is virtual. | |
In the early hours of each Friday morning, HAL9000 (Google it if you don't know!) will work his magic and randomly score each of the 30 games. | |
Each game will be RANDOMLY ascribed a winner and loser with leg scores and doll scores (based on ranges from last season's sections) | |
- thus at the end of the season there will be a clear section winner. | |
The 'Team Status' page on the web site will update at the same time and display the current section results, so that you can follow it. | |
Each section winning team will be presented with £60 (real!) to distribute amongst its players. | |
Can I get involved? | |
Not physically, obviously, but for the duration of the Virtual League, we're going to run an on-line Forum, so you can add your comments to the | |
on-going proceedings. It will be moderated, so please keep it clean and reasonably polite. | |
Competitions | |
Looking at the 'Virtual Key Dates' list will show that we've incorporated all of the usual competition heats on Sunday nights. | |
The eventual winners of each competition will be allowed to keep the approriate trophy for a year and will be rewarded with a shiny £10 note. | |
Captains will need to do a bit of work here - Competition Registration will be open between May 7th and June 7th - and you'll need to register | |
your entrants in the usual way. | |
On the night, you'll be able to log onto the heats page and watch HAL will draw the first round. Shortly afterwards, the page will refresh with the first | |
round results. Subsequently round two is drawn and so on until we're down to finalists. | |
Once lockup is lifted, we're intending to hold a (real) Finals Night to play off these competitions and to award trophies and cash. (TBC) | |
Next Steps | |
We've already emailed all captains, which is probably why you're reading this right now. | |
We're prepping the web site for a kick-off on Thursday May 7th, so start checking the web site around then. | |