Euro 2008 Competition

[owen]

Rules are simple. Pick one team from each pot. Pots are based on the team's seeding per uefa. Switzerland and Austria, as co-hosts, and Greece, as defending champions, were seeded first automatically. Pots were taken from wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_2008#Seeding

Pot 1

Switzerland
Austria
Greece
Netherlands

Pot 2

Croatia
Italy
Czech Republic
Sweden

Pot 3

Romania
Germany
Portugal
Spain

Pot 4

Poland
France
Turkey
Russia

This means, of course, that you can pick teams that are in the same group. Only 2 teams can get through to the next round, so bear that in mind.

Points will be awarded as follows:

2 points for a win
1 point for a draw
0 points for a lose



Any problems with the rules, tough shit.

Prizes up for grabs are:

an old brown shoe
an apple
bill wyman's biography
signed daniel o donnell t-shirt
and of course, a pet of your choice

[manho]

include me in, as sam goldwyn didn't say.

my teams are as follows:

turkey
portugal
romania
france

hopefully, the rule whereby no two contestants can choose the same four teams is in play.

i'll think of a prize later.

[owen]

portugal and romania are in the same pot

only one team allowed from each pot

[owen]

my team is:

netherlands
italy
portugal
russia

the reason you have to choose one from each pot rather than group is that it means everyone has to pick one of the lesser teams.

[manho]

sorry, i was mixing up the pots with the groups.

i'll go for these:

portugal
turkey
greece
croazia

[zilla]

I don't understand pots or groups but would love to win that Bill Wyman biography to go along with the other useless copy I still have on my bookshelf for no apparent reason. Maybe I'll donate my copy to the local library and stick a note in around page 40 or so saying "You loser, you're still reading this shit?" On second thought count me out of the competition.

[dino]

Greece
Italy
Spain
France

[david]

Greece
Italy
Germany
Turkey

[owen]

only kidding about the bill wyman book, zill. knew it would get a funny reaction.

all you have to do is pick one team from each pot. the pots were used by uefa to pick the groups. pot 1 has the best teams, pot 2, the second best and so on.

the previous winner and hosts automatically go into pot 1.

as usual, we're just playing for fun. people can throw in prizes as they wish.

[Steve]

Netherlands
Croatia
Alemania
Polska

[Cat Stevens]

"only kidding about the bill wyman book, zill. knew it would get a funny reaction."

so I guess the rest of your list is for real then, eh?

I was actually hoping the wyman book is the only "non joke" item, but there you go.

oh well, at least I ended up in 2nd place in Island's 2006 competition, still got your present cool fella, you know who you are.

[owen]

1. lenny 6
2. manho 4
3. owen 4
4. dino 3
5. conc 2

well done len, 3 out of 4 winners

[Steve]

awriyt!!!

[owen]

after round 2:

lenny 11
owen 11
manho 10
dino 6
conc 5

[owen]

groups are finished. it stands like this (feck all change):

steve 17
owen 17
manho 14
dave 11
dino 10

[dino]

what the fuck

[owen]

blame the eyetalians, reigning euro champs and the lazy french.

then again, you are the only person with spain who i have a sneaking feeling could win it.

[dino]

italy vs spain, go figure it

[dino]

go home ronaldo asshole of the year

[owen]

hopefully cheat ballack will be heading home soon too