2016 WXV Awards Night

[Purple 77]

These were so much fun to read  :D

[meow meow]

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[Nige]

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[Ricochet]

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[Adamant]

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[ossie85]

Please sir

[Levi434]

More what? :P

[DazBurg]

fun fact 1: there are 6 original coaches in WXV still in charge of their original team (m2 ofc is number 7 but his in charge of a separate team)

which leads into

Fun Fact 2: M2 is the only World coach to ever start 2 teams into existence

Fun Fact 3: after the Initial draft there was a trade period before the 2012 season started
of the 18 teams 17 total trades were done
with Berlin, Cairo, Moscow, Tokyo all leading the way with 3 trades each

(note in counting the trades remember 17 in total is at least 34 teams not including if 3 way trades etc...BTW there was no 3 way trades anyways)

Fun Fact 4: New Dehli and Wellington were the only teams not to have a trade in the before season 2012 trade period

[Purple 77]

You're right, those facts were fun!  :D

[RaisyDaisy]

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And, I LOL'd at winning the vote for best dressed - I don't even own a suit!

That being said, I'd make sure I looked sharp at the Awards Night, but I pretty much wear jeans/shorts with Hoodie etc every day including to work so I don't think I deserve the award haha

Cried not getting a single vote as being wanted as an assistant  :'( Guess my rep around here isn't too good  :-[

[Levi434]

Awards Night starts at 6:30pm AEST be there!

[ossie85]

Ok guys... to start of Awards Day, Purps and I noticed an error in the stats from a while ago.... that actually caused a significant change in results.

This unfortunately means that NEW DELHI did not make the Grand Final.

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kidding!



But we did find a mistake, that impacted the result of the 2015 Rep match between EurAsia and AAP Alliance that quite frankly was amazing that nobody picked up.

The result was this:

AAP bliCaves in to EurAsia Goldstein

Wow! WHAT A MATCH! The Alliance seemed to be just in front the whole match, but lost the lead at the end! In the final sprint, there was only one man left standing; enter Kade Simpson. The man that won last year's Worlds Medal for best afield; he needed 96 points to bring it home for the AAP. Heart-breakingly for AAP, he fell 8 points short, as the Holz coached EurAsia defeated the JROO8 coached AAP Alliance in a 1 point (7 SC points) victory for the ages!

The 4th occurrence of the epic encounter is perhaps the most memorable, with the win to EurAsia squaring up the ledger to 2-apiece.

The game saw an incredible 16 centurions (9-7 to EurAsia) and is unsurprisingly the highest scoring match so far in the year. Perhaps the most unique stat of the match was that 4 ruckman played between the teams (2 each), where they combined for 573 points (captain bonuses aside). Furthermore, two of these ruckman (as hinted in the headline); Goldstein (154) and Blicavs (153) were the captains for the game and the two highest scoring players  :o

Both teams had their disappointments; for EurAsia, look no further than Tom McDonald (36) and Luke Hodge (57), and for the AAP Tom Mitchell (49) and Steele Sidebottom (70) crumbled under the pressure. EurAsia had 4 scores under 70 compared to the AAP's 1, but it was the inspired performances of Dublin's Goldstein, Moscow's Nic Naitanui (146) and Berlin's Nat Fyfe (138) that got them over the line in the end.


EurAsia (25.18.168) def AAP Alliance (25.17.167)

Best

EurAsia: Nat Fyfe (Berlin), Patrick Dangerfield (Seoul), Dan Hannebery (London), Callan Ward (Moscow), Todd Goldstein (Dublin), Dane Swan (PNL), Matt Priddis (PNL), Nic Naitanui (Moscow), Alex Rance (Dublin)
AAP Alliance: Heath Shaw (New York), Scott Pendlebury (Toronto), Dayne Beams (Cairo), Mark Blicavs (Cape Town), Brett Deledio (Mexico City), Stefan Martin (Cape Town), Josh P Kennedy (Cape Town)

Late Changes
EurAsia: Kurt Heatherley (Dublin), Jaeger O'Meara (Moscow) replaced by Nic Naitanui (Moscow), Alex Rance (Dublin)
AAP Alliance: Michael Johnson (Mexico City) replaced by Liam Picken (Christchurch)

TODD GOLDSTEIN wins the EURASIA Medal and the WORLDS Medal
MARK BLICAVS wins the AAP ALLIANCE Medal

However, unfortunately a mathematical error occurred!

EurAsia finished on 1668 points.

AAP Alliance finished on 1673 points.

So instead of it being a 7 SC point victory to EurAsia, it was actually a 5 SC point victory to AAP Alliance.

Not sure how it happened! But we've tripled checked.

So sorry Holz, this is a bad week for you, we have to give the official victory to JROO8's AAP Alliance.

[Ricochet]

Os


flower me



Do not do that again!

[Purple 77]

 :-[

I noticed it by complete fluke when I was trying to merge my EurAsia/AAP records with ossies.

I was doing a weird thing at the time where I would cease automatically calculating a value when I thought it no longer needed to be calculated... ugh. I felt a lot of embarrassment when I realised the error, that's for sure  :-[

[ossie85]

Os


flower me



Do not do that again!

just to keep you on your toes!