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Fantasy World Cup

June 1, 2006 5:45 pm Dave Neary guadec

So – a world-changing event collides with a world-stopping event at the end of the month, when GUADEC is happening right in the middle of the FIFA World Cup (TM) (hope I don’t get sued for saying World Cup (TM) or Germany 2006 (TM)).

I have signed up for Channel 4’s fantasy world cup competition – it’s just for fun. The idea is simple – you make your dream international team by picking 11 players in a 1-4-4-2 formation with no more than 2 players coming from any given country. Your players get points for appearances, saving penalties, keeping clean sheets, scoring goals or making key passes. They lose points for goals conceded and cards.

And I’ve created a friend’s league – the idea is to have a bunch of people sign up their teams and then join the league, and we can find out who’s got the best team as time goes on. The end of phase 1 is the first cut-off point of the competition, and it falls right at the start of GUADEC, just before our football competition. So head on over, sign up a team, and we’ll have a little friendly competition to see who’s the besty judge of football in Villanova.

Once you’ve signed up, the league PIN is 8992 (you’ll need that to join the league).