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How did you do this week

It’s been another rollercoaster in the Top and Bottom 10s with a new leader yet again

1	? 2		Die Kriek	85.00
2	? 1		The Ice	83.58
3	? 3		Kitchener	83.00
4	-		ShaunR	82.75
5	? 3		Truth be told	82.25
6	? 1		Big Joe	81.75
7	? 3		Whistleblower	81.50
8	-		Gilly	81.25
9	? 2		Marcus C	80.67
10	? 1		REM	79.25

And one less Stormer in our Top 10, me likes!

47	? 3		powa	66.42
48	? 4		snoekie	66.17
49	? 6		cupboards	65.50
50	? 3		darwinia	64.92
51	? 2		Rocky	63.50
52	-		Skully	62.58
53	? 2		Charmaine	62.25
54	-		lobo	56.00
55	-		Aragorn	20.25
56	-		bigbadbill	9.50

In our Bottom 10, a few of the regulars I thought would be heading up, have proven me wrong, but we do have a few departures this week. The gap between 10 and 47 is starting to grow a bit now, heading towards 15 points, still two good weeks could turn that right around

As for our Yellow Capper of the week, a very big congratulations to StormyRodger, the first FTW player to take the cap for a second time! Well done Stormy! Hope to see you in the Top 10 again soon.

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StormyRodger

76.00

The Junior World Cup and Winter Tests are fast aproaching, remember there is an FTW for each of them as well, so come on, jion us, you know you want to!

JWC

Pool Name: FTW

Pool Code: heelkent

WT

Pool Name: FTW

Pool Code: sunstaps

Only two weeks of Super Rugby left until we break for the Winter Tests, will you be pushing it all the way, or taking an early break? Lets hope our teams pick the former.

We have no change to our Top 2 this week, but the rest of the Top 10 has been a rollercoaster ride, with the Highlanders vs. Canes and the Chiefs vs. Reds games being very tough on a few of us. Then there was also the ‘Unpickable’ Saders vs. Rebels game, only 2690 out of over 150 000 players got that one correct!

Here is our Top 10 for week 12

1	-		The Ice	78.58
2	-		Truth be told	76.50
3	? 1		Die Kriek	76.25
4	? 1		ShaunR	75.75
5	? 2		Big Joe	75.00
6	? 2		Kitchener	74.50
7	? 1		Marcus C	74.17
8	? 2		Gilly	74.00
9	-		Potyster	73.83
10	? 2		Whistleblower	73.25

I distinctly remember asking for LESS Stormers in the Top 10, why do they populate 6/10 spots, including the top 2? Come on guys, we can’t have this! We are making them look good here! Put some fight into it!

As for the bottom 10 

47	? 1		darwinia	61.42
48	? 4		vossie	61.08
49	? 3		HiltonH	60.75
50	-		powa	58.67
51	-		Charmaine	55.75
52	-		Skully	55.58
53	-		Rocky	55.00
54	-		lobo	50.50
55	-		Aragorn	20.25
56	-		bigbadbill	9.50

Is my entire pool made up of Stormers? At least they are allowed in this round up 

And our MBET.co.za voucher winner for the week is . . . 

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Bloues

70.75

Not a Stormer! Congrats Bloues! Spend that money as wisely as you made your picks!

Good luck to all for what I hope will be a lucky Week 13, for the superstitios players, hope you have some Defaults left 

And remember to join us for the Junior World Cup and Winter Tests

JWC Pool Name : FTW

Pool Code : heelkent

WT Pool Name : FTW

Pool Code : sunstaps

What a week! 

The Sharks finally came through, and I have my first ever GSP, but enough about me

Before we get to the top 10, another interresting bit of info this week:

Unchanged

Only 4 unchanged, and of those, only two are still playing, we seem to have lost bigbadbill and Aragorn. For the rest of the pool, everyone went up or down this week. We have yet another new leader, the former dominator Tapper has fallen completely out of the top 10, basicly a week full of moving and shaking, the pool is truly wide open!

And now for our top 10:

1	? 2		The Ice	73.83
2	? 1		Truth be told	72.00
3	? 1		Big Joe	71.00
4	? 5		Die Kriek	69.75
5	? 8		ShaunR	69.75
6	? 2		Marcus C	69.67
7	? 4		Fragile	69.58
8	? 7		Kitchener	69.00
9	? 4		Potyster	68.83
10	? 2		Gilly	68.75

Congratulations The Ice on a fine performance, top spot is now yours, but it will be a fight to keep it, any takers?

As I mentioned above, Tapper is now gone, and with only 5 points seperating 1 from 10, the business end is going to be a true free-for-all!

Our MBET.co.za voucher winner of the week is REM, he must’ve used his blog background to distract the opposition! 

Congrats REM, yellow cap 11 is yours!

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REM

66.50

On to our Bottom 10:

47	? 2		Dean	57.25
48	? 1		darwinia	56.92
49	? 7		Nelster	56.08
50	? 3		powa	55.17
51	-		Charmaine	52.75
52	? 1		Skully	52.08
53	? 1		Rocky	52.00
54	-		lobo	44.00
55	-		Aragorn	20.25
56	-		bigbadbill	9.50

After another week of pushing and shoving at the top of the FTW pool, we finally have a new leader  but it isn’t me 

Tapper has been knocked off the top, rather hard, and our ‘tell-no-lie’ blog bud, Hanjo, now leads

1	? 3		Truth be told	64.00
2	? 7		Big Joe	63.50
3	? 3		The Ice	63.00
4	? 7		Marcus C	62.67
5	? 2		Potyster	61.33
6	? 5		Tapper	61.08
7	? 5		Stevo26	60.83
8	? 9		Whistleblower	60.00
9	? 1		Die Kriek	59.75
10	? 2		Cheeto	59.67

Heading into week 11, there are a few Bottom 10 regulars who seem poised to make the ‘Great Escape’ 

46	? 2		Francois	48.83
47	? 2		powa	48.67
48	? 3		TheGreenMan	47.50
49	? 1		darwinia	47.08
50	? 1		cupboards	47.00
51	? 2		Charmaine	46.25
52	? 2		Rocky	46.00
53	? 1		Skully	44.75
54	? 1		lobo	36.00
55	? 1		Aragorn	20.25
56	? 1		bigbadbill

As for our Yellow Capper, Pauljay can wear it with pride this week, and if his Bru name is anything to go by, this will also be his last. 

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One Time

54.75

Good luck to everyone for this weekend’s picks, it’s going to be a tough one!

In other news this week, FTW is heading into new territories, the Winter Tests and Junior World Championships pools are now open

Winter Tests:

Pool Name: FTW

Pool Code: sunstaps

Jonior WC:

Pool Name: FTW 

Pool Code: heelkent

No matter how bad things seem, there is always hope!

Just ask our resident bottom feeder, Darwinia. I jokingly referred to her when the competition was introduced, saying anyone can win the weekly R100 prize, even Dar. Well, guess what, Darwinia is our week 9 Yellow Cap winner! She has actually done it

As for the top 10, I had one of my worst weekends, even though I finnished with 5/6, many recieved the much prized GSP to shoot up the rankings

1	-		Tapper	57.58
2	-		Stevo26	55.33
3	? 4		ShaunR	55.25
4	? 4		Truth be told	55.00
5	? 6		The Ice	54.50
6	? 8		Potyster	54.33
7	? 5		Die Kriek	54.25
8	? 4		Big Joe	53.50
9	? 6		Kitchener	53.50
10	? 3		Marcus C	53.17

Congrats to Tapper on his 8th week in a row at the top. Will anyone dethrone him in time to claim the grand prize, or has he already signed his name to the voucher?

As for the bottom 10, this week it will be a source of pride, rather than mockery

47	? 1		Francois	42.33
48	? 5		powa	42.33
49	? 4		darwinia	41.08
50	? 1		cupboards	41.00
51	? 1		Skully	40.75
52	-		Charmaine	39.75
53	? 2		Rocky	39.00
54	-		lobo	33.50
55	-		Aragorn	20.25
56	-		bigbadbill	9.50

Because of that little yellow cap next to her name, Darwinia has given hope to every other name on that list. You are all still in it, still have a chance to fight, if not for the final prize, then for every week’s voucher

Congratulations to Darwinia, Tapper, and everyone who made the 6/6 this weekend!

And so another wonderful week of rugby comes to a close

Most of the games this week were hit or miss affairs, with only two games where more than 80% picked the winning team on SuperBru, and this has caused quite a shuffle at the top of FTW.

Top 3 remains the same, but from 4 to 10 we see a complete reshuffle

1	-		Tapper	50.75
2	-		Stevo26	48.83
3	-		Die Kriek	48.75
4	? 1		Kitchener	47.50
5	? 20		Whistleblower	47.50
6	? 2		Bloues	46.25
7	? 3		ShaunR	45.25
8	? 2		Truth be told	45.00
9	? 2		Sizers	44.50
10	? 7		Max	44.08

Things are definately hotting up as we head towards the halfway mark, as for the bottom 10 (sorry Dar)

47	? 3		Ballboy	36.50
48	? 1		One Time	35.00
49	? 2		cupboards	35.00
50	-		Skully	34.75
51	? 5		Rocky	33.50
52	-		Charmaine	33.25
53	? 1		darwinia	30.08
54	? 1		lobo	29.50
55	-		Aragorn	20.25
56	-		bigbadbill	9.50

It seems we have a casualty of war at the bottom, but things are moving higher up, with a few regulars having departed our bottom 10, and a few new faces joining the party

Another interresting thing to note is the score differrence between 10 and 50, less then 10 points! This is definately one of the most competitave pools I have played in. A single good week can see you climb very quickly, as our YellowCap winner of this week has proven, with a 20 spot gain!

Congratulations Whistleblower! Your numbers has earned you week 8′s Yellow, and a few extra numbers to play with, in the form of a R100 betting voucher. 

Finally! Feels like coming home from a visit to the in-laws!

Anyway, Telkom’s world class service was renderred useless for me the past few weeks due to oppurtunistic entrupreneurs (for the non-yarpies, read cable thieves) but I am back, rescued by the equally speedy  responses of South Africa’s mobile broadband operators.

So now the big question, anyone miss me?

Just kidding, of course you did (except maybe Count TruVanHugosuchandSuch)

So, heading straight back into the action, I was filled with joy each week to see my fellow bloggers still faithfully making their SuperBru picks. I have missed a few cappers, and am still easing back in, so a personal congratulations will follow in due time, for now, you know who you are, well done!

As for the past week, Round 7 Top 10:

1	-		Tapper	45.75
2	? 4		Stevo26	43.00
3	? 1		Die Kriek	42.75
4	-		ShaunR	42.25
5	? 2		Kitchener	40.25
6	? 1		Potyster	40.00
7	? 1		Cheeto	39.92
8	? 9		Bloues	39.75
9	? 2		Fragile	39.58
10	? 3		Truth be told	39.50

Not the best of weeks for me, but a better week for some, Stevo26 climbing to 2nd spot. and Nagapie 

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nagapie

38.75

I will leave out the bottom 10 this week, ease it back in next week.

Good luck to everyone in round 8

A hectic week, with yet more upsets, but a few of you got smart/lucky/clairvoiant and made the upsets less upsetting, for yourself at least.

As for me, 6 out of 7, bloody Crusaders! Just missed the yellow cap!

Tapper is still in the overall lead, and continues his good form, but relinquished the yellow cap this week

FTW Week 3 Top 10:

1	-		Tapper	27.75
2	? 26		StormyRodger	21.00
3	? 3		Die Kriek	20.50
4	? 2		The Ice	19.25
5	-		Bloues	19.00
6	? 1		Big Joe	18.25
7	? 1		Marcus	18.25
8	? 4		Nelster	18.00
9	? 1		Ballboy	17.50
10	? 4		ShaunR	17.50

Congrats StormyRodger! The first MBET.co.za R100 betting voucher is yours, proudly sponsored by HiltonH

As for the Bottom 10:

47	? 1		cupboards	12.00
48	? 3		Dean	11.75
49	? 16		vossie	11.50
50	? 3		lobo	11.00
51	? 3		Skully	11.00
52	? 1		Baylion	11.00
53	? 1		Charmaine	11.00
54	? 12		Rocky	10.50
55	? 24		bigbadbill	9.50
56	? 1		darwinia	9.50

Quite a few Cheetahs have left the chasing pack and made way for a few Stormers  things are looking good!

Good luck to everyone for week 4, and remember, anyone can win the R100 voucher, even Darwinia!

Reading REM’s latest blog http://blogs.sport24.co.za/Randy85/sjoe, I got myself an idea, a crazy one, but one LD said was too long for a comment, so I made it into a post

I propose a Sports24 Bloggers rugby team to play Super Rugby, still working on a name, but give us a shot ahead of Cheeky and his gang, hell, we know more than the Kings anyway.

I already have a fair idea of our best starting XV:

15. Hugo (hy’s altyd heel agter)

14. Inhlanzi (0-Incredible in 2 seconds flat)

13. Bloues (Quick wit, able to stand his ground)

12. Darwinia (Tannie Reliable)

11. Lobo (Jonah wie?)

10. REM (Cool, calm en VatiKaki)

9. Kitchener (He knows just how to get his backline racing!)

8. Hanjo (Strong push from behind)

7. Sheriffff (Tune hom daars Richelieu in en hy Fetch elke bal)

6. Darth Maul (Straight vir die enkels)

5. Met Uysh (Straigt up! Die lineout man!)

4. Johann (Daai ‘power’ stop jy met niks minder as feite, and even then you will struggle)

3. Powachair (Sit net vir hom ‘n Turbo op, vaskop elke scrum)

2. Black Beauty (Hak Hak . . . )

1. Baylion (Nie te veel los in die kop)

Coach : HiltonH (Hy ken mos die nommers!)

I think we may even have a shot at the title!