It's the return of the Survivor Pool after a one year hiatus. We'll play the same way we did in recent seasons (those rules are incorporated and adopted here), but generally speaking, the pool works this way: Each Spieltag, you pick one team per week to win. You must pick that team before it plays its game that Spieltag (e.g., if you want to pick Bremen to win and they play Friday at 20:45, your pick as to be in by Friday at 20:44). If the team you pick does not win (i.e., either a tie or a loss; note that a postponed game is considered a loss if the game is not played before the next Spieltag), or you do not make a pick, that is a strike. In a marriage of soccer and baseball (or the American penal system), the rule is three strikes and you're out. In other words, after three strikes, you are eliminated. We play until everyone is out (e.g., has three strikes) but for one, who is our Survivor winner. If, after a round, there is no survivor (e.g., everyone goes out), the winner is that player who last picked up his or her first strike (and if that doesn't yield a winner, the tiebreaker goes to the player who last picked up his or her second strike). Once we have a winner, we will immediately commence a new competition in the next Spieltag. Simple, right? The big twist is that once you pick a team, you cannot pick that team again in that same competition (except if you've already picked all 18 1.BL teams during the competition, in which case you can begin repeating teams, but this has never happened before--competitions generally last between 10-12 Spieltags). So, if you pick Bremen in Spieltag #1, you can't pick Bremen again until either (a) the competition ends with a winner and a new one starts; or (b) you've picked all 18 teams in the current competition and have no other team left to pick. This game is largely self-governing. When you make your pick, please do so in the following format (or something like it): Sp. 1: Bremen Then, in the next week: Sp. 1: Bremen Sp. 2: Schalke Then, in the next week: Sp. 1: Bremen Sp. 2: Schalke Sp. 3: Augsburg If Augsburg loses, when you make your next pick, place an X next to Augsburg, indicating that was a strike: Sp. 1: Bremen Sp. 2: Schalke Sp. 3: Augsburg X Sp. 4: Bayern That way, everyone (including me) can follow easily who made what picks and how many strikes each player has. With all of that being said: Diggity, diggity, diggity, let's play, Amen.
Games for Spieltag #1: 1. Spieltag 1. Spieltag, 05.08.2011 20:30 Borussia Dortmund : Hamburger SV 06.08.2011 15:30 1. FC Köln : VfL Wolfsburg FC Augsburg : Sport-Club Freiburg VfB Stuttgart : FC Schalke 04 Hannover 96 : 1899 Hoffenheim SV Werder Bremen : 1. FC Kaiserslautern 06.08.2011 18:30 Hertha BSC : 1. FC Nürnberg 07.08.2011 1. FSV Mainz 05 : Bayer 04 Leverkusen FC Bayern München : M'gladbach
Woo Hoo! The return of Survivor! I missed this game last season. @ IASocFan Any chance this could be placed in the Prediction Master Thread? 1. Sp: Borussia Dortmund
Great idea! I put vfbstuttgartfan's Season Standing in there too. I'll try to keep both competitions in the Master thread.
About a half-dozen strikes in Week #1 (thanks, Bayern). Spieltag 2: Bundesliga, 13 Aug 11 - 09:30 EDT Wolfsburg v Bayern Munich Bundesliga, 13 Aug 11 - 09:30 EDT Freiburg v Mainz 05 Bundesliga, 13 Aug 11 - 09:30 EDT Hoffenheim v Borussia Dortmund Bundesliga, 13 Aug 11 - 09:30 EDT Nurnberg v Hannover 96 Bundesliga, 13 Aug 11 - 09:30 EDT Hamburger SV v Hertha Berlin Bundesliga, 13 Aug 11 - 09:30 EDT Schalke 04 v FC Cologne Bundesliga, 13 Aug 11 - 12:30 EDT Bor. Monchengladbach v VfB Stuttgart Bundesliga, 14 Aug 11 - 09:30 EDT Kaiserslautern v Augsburg Bundesliga, 14 Aug 11 - 11:30 EDT Bayer Leverkusen v Werder Bremen My pick: Sp. 1: Bayern X Sp. 2: Kaiserslautern