Marcos

4 minutes ago, It's Pronounced Zoom-E said:

Jordan Henderson: 2019/2020 FWA Footballer of the Year

 

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You would guess it's been weighted on off-the-pitch reasons as well, because you could quite easily say he's not been the best player in the league (De Bruyne), nor the best Liverpool player (Mane) nor the best Liverpool midfielder (Fabinho) or even the best Henderson in the league (Dean)!  However, given Marcus Rashford finished in the top five, I guess it's to do with non-footballing reasons as well.  

21 minutes ago, kurgan said:

Just a real quick temperature check... Should we aim to start Friday, or hold off for Monday??  I can push to start Friday since I do not want to lose momentum, and I do not want to start on a weekend.  I would prefer to start on a week day.

Just weigh in if you care... 

I will still take a couple more if someone else wants to play.  If not, I will get started on the assignments.

I'd say get started as soon as you want/can. Friday or Monday suits me fine so just whenever you're ready and then just tag everyone in the main thread when we've started.

In!

99 silver

51 minutes ago, DFF said:

I'll hold off discussing this until after the game ends; it's only respectful to Azazel. However, saying we should be ashamed is a bit much. 

To get things to some lighter side of things,  I decided to have a read back on the first ever EWB Mafia. Boy, things are different! 

• Game starts at night
• Everyone allowed to talk during the first night
• The first ever post is a roleclaim
• The second and third ever posts are a roleplay
• Zan (The Mod) quickly points out they don't need to roleplay
• Originally the first night was ONLY going to be a Mafia kill, but Zan decides mid-night phase to allow everyone to use their abilities.

All this in the first half a dozen replies! 

Here's the link: 

 

Half my life I've been playing mafia!

Although at least I've got better over time having read that one back!

@Naitch or @C-MIL maybe?

I enjoyed the last Thing game so I'll play as well!

I'm in. If I'm mafia again I'm going to kill Kurgan on day one again!

Was Ruki not in?  I don't see him in the sign-ups between me and DNB when it looked like he said he would play.  But obviously things might have changed.

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The 2020 Formula 1 season will start in Austria on 5 July, the first of a run of eight races in Europe.

An F1 statement said the championship would begin across three consecutive weekends - two in Austria on 5 and 12 July and a third in Hungary.

There will then be a two-week break before two consecutive races in Britain and events in Spain, Belgium and Italy.

All will be run behind closed doors with participants following guidelines to minimise the spread of Covid-19.

The British Grands Prix at Silverstone will be held 2 and 9 August, followed immediately by the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona on 16 August.

The Belgian and Italian Grands Prix will complete the European part of the season on their original dates of 30 August and 6 September.

Plans for the remainder of the season were not announced, because of the uncertainty of the coronavirus situation in the various countries that would have made up the original schedule.

However, F1 said it had "an expectation of having a total of 15-18 races before we complete our season in December".

It is understood that F1 is highly confident of finishing the championship with races in Bahrain on 6 December and Abu Dhabi on 13 December.

Before that, the low incidence of coronavirus in China, Vietnam and Japan makes races in those countries a strong probability in October.

The Russian Grand Prix, which is pencilled in for after the European events along with the race in Azerbaijan, and those in the US, Mexico and Brazil are more uncertain because of the high rates of infection in those countries.

F1 2020 opening calendar

3-5 July Austrian Grand Prix (Red Bull Ring)

10-12 July Steiermark Grand Prix (Red Bull Ring)

17-19 July Hungarian Grand Prix (Hungaroring)

31 July- 2 August British Grand Prix (Silverstone)

7-9 August 70th Anniversary Grand Prix (Silverstone)

14-16 August Spanish Grand Prix

28-30 August Belgian Grand Prix

4-6 September Italian Grand Prix

First eight races have been confirmed.

In please.

If we were to go based on hours played it would just be five versions of Championship Manager/Football Manager, however, making things a bit more unique:

1: Championship Manager 01/02 - I could spend hours playing this without even noticing it.  Since then I think I've bought every CM/FM release since.  

2: Civ III - Reading the Twitter thread Benji posted it seems that Civ III was the 'bad one' of the Civ early games due to it not being done by Sid Meier, but I could still lose myself in the full game and no other Civ before or since has caught my interest like Civ III

3: Broken Sword: The Shadow of Templars - I was slightly late to find Monkey Island and all it's variants, so Broken Sword was really my first point and click to find clues style game.  Plus as a youngster Nico Collard was my first video game crush!

4: Driver - Was my first real driving game and has always just stuck as being addictive and fun!  Sort of when downhill after the first one though

5: Kessen - As you can see, outside of Driver, I was a kid that liked the nerdy stats and tactical style games!  Kessen was another one of those and the first war style game that I played.  Plus it has given me a weird knowledge of Japanese history 

Honourable mentions for Rollerocaster Tycoon 1 and Age of Empires 2 as well.   

Outside of the two Mercedes drivers, Verstappen and Leclerc, Sainz is the best driver on the grid (outside of Kimi, but obviously with a lot more potential than Kimi!) so not a surprise to see Ferrari go for him.  Still surprised that Sergio Perez is never really discussed when these top 3 positions open up.

Will be interesting to see how Ricciardo copes at McLaren though, he was consistenly beaten by Verstappen in 2018, found more of a better level at Renault when he had Hulkenberg as his partner, but is now going back to a team with a young promising driver who will likely upstage him similar to Verstappen.  

I'd play if you got the numbers.

I'll play.

Bobby Firmino was a level above everyone else on the pitch tonight. Salah gets most of the credit for Liverpool this season but Firmino showed tonight how much of a worker he is.  

2 hours ago, The Evil Kokichi Omalord said:

Marcos you need to clear your inbox  

Done.

Yep I'm in.

I'll play.

I'm in please.

As like last game if you get more than 18 I'm happy to be sub but if not I'd like to play. 

2 hours ago, Lineker said:

It's increasingly likely now that Argentina will not qualify. They have to go up to lofty Ecuador, where they have a poor record in Quito, and win, whilst hoping that other results go their way.

They only have to win to be guaranteed a playoff position, so it's still in their hands.  Very likely they'll miss out though with the Ecuador record being so poor but hopefully they turn up.  

I'll happily play if you need the numbers but feel free to leave me as reserve if you get over the 18.

Please.

Think it's @Maxx or @SeanDMan next depending on if Maxx is ready.  

Maybe games need to be slightly smaller?  Say a max of 12-15?  More active players are usually offed first which means the game slowly grinds down to only a select group of people posting.  If game runners get more selective about who they are picking and then you should have another one or two reserves who can jump in if need be and prove themselves as being reliable so they should hopefully get selected next time.