Its time to lace up your boots ladies and gentlemen. The FIFA 11 tournament is a go and some very interesting fixtures have been drawn up for those that entered. My thanks go out to all the competitors for such a varied set of team choices making my job much easier than it could have been.
We have a total of 26 entries which for the first round means 6 of you will automatically go through to the next rounds draw. The remaining 20 will be battling it out in a 1 vs 1 single match with a few minor rules to follow:
- If any competitor disconnects in the second half of the game they automatically forfeit the match.
- If there is any more than one disconnect from a single competitor at any time that person automatically forfeits the match.
- No Virtual Pros or created players are allowed.
- Matches are to be 5 minute halves
- If after 90 mins the match is drawn Extra Time is to be played
- If Extra Time results in a draw then penalties are played to decide the match
Now that the rules are out of the way we move onto the fixtures themselves. PSN IDs are in brackets where they differ from TSA counterparts and team selections are in italics:
- 4. pitchforkdisney Leeds Utd vs 20. marc1991 Blackpool
- 5. The Vader (gamer0808) Lecce vs 19. brendancalls FC Utrecht
- 7. Ryan1991 Standard Liege vs 21. Raen (halbpro) Brighton
- 8. Tobo_56 Notts Forest vs 2. Vaile23 Cardiff
- 9. Guyers94 (alex500) Crystal Palace vs 22. TwoJay Sparta Praha
- 10. arrybags (spixworthblue) Southend Utd vs 12. jammie_dodger (collison08) LA Galaxy
- 11. beeje13 NY Red Bulls vs 26. Roynaldo Hull City
- 14. PoolieMike QPR vs 24. djhsecondnature Salvador
- 17. Hoopiness Caen vs 23. archer184 Portsmouth
- 18. Avril_14th Santos Laguna vs 25. kitt_007 Real Betis
The following competitors have a free ride (or bye) into the next round:
- 1. Burgess_101 Accrington Stanley
- 3. Mark0605 Feyenoord
- 6. Yung Jones (YungJones) Middlesborough
- 13. Lfc-Gaz Bologna
- 15. stingraz Burnley
- 16. R1MJAW SC Freiburg
Matches are to be played by Saturday 13th November 11pm and you are responsible for contacting your opponent and organising a day and time to play before the deadline. If there is any concerns regarding this then please contact me at my email, [email protected] to resolve any problems. All results are to be sent to the same address after you have played.
Good luck everyone (Except beeje13, you are my nemesis!)
This post was written and submitted by Roynaldo.
tobo_56
Not questioning the reasoning or anything. But why have some lucky buggars got a free bypass? Would just like to know ;)
Roynaldo
Its a 32 player tournament, it is the only way it can work. 16 fixtures in total when 10 are only possible due to numbers. 6 people are left to make the next round a full set of 16 players with 8 fixtures.
Hope that makes sense. It is all random aswell. The 6 with byes are just lucky sods ;)
TwoJay
Yay, got off to a shaky but good start (:
Guyers94
Yep he beat me, I was 1-0 up or the whole second half, looking comfortable then he scored a header in the last minute to go to Extra Time. I tookthe lead again but he got ANOTHER late equaliser before the lag got the better of both of us on pens, but he got the luck of the draw.
Very enjoyable game and good luck with the rest of the tournament everyone.
TwoJay
I must say I consider myself pretty lucky :P
Avril_14th
Hi kitt_007, I’ve sent you a friend request on the PS3. We can organise our match on there.
pitchforkdisney
So I lost my game – but typical FIFA glichy madness; My ‘Leeds United’ squad seemed to be made up of a bunch of Korean guys and some players who just didn’t have names at all – mysterious strangers…rubbish strangers. Obviously Leeds have hit hard times again.
marc1991
Yeah that was very strange. Youre more than welcome to a rematch with the real Leeds players if you wish.
Roynaldo
I insist you replay the match with the real squad. A glitch is a glitch.
As stated in the article, any concerns should be emailed to me. Its only by chance i have seen this. You have not emailed me the results either.
This is not the place for results.
Roynaldo
As stated in the article the email address for concerns and results is [email protected].
Hoopiness
Friend request sent to archer184 last night.
Avril_14th
Hi kitt_007, I’m online waiting to play our match.
TwoJay
Hope you guys can play tonight or something. He was busy yesterday.
TwoJay
EDIT: Something cropped up.
Avril_14th
That’s ok, hopefully we can play later tonight.
PoolieMike
Friend request send to djhsecondnature. Bring it on!
djhsecondnature
Was waiting for a response in the TSA PMs. Game tonight?
arrybags
The mighty Southend just beat LA Galaxy in a hard fought 2-1 AET victory. but jammie_dodger it was a good game!
Avril_14th
Triple fails!!! I was whopped 3:0…well played kitt_007!
TwoJay
Oh really? Have to congratulate him then (:
Vaile23
5 minutes?! how awkward is that.