A couple of weeks ago we announced the TSA FIFA Ultimate Team Competition. We had loads of entries, nearly all of which were for PS4, so apologies to the three of you who wanted to enter this on PS3 but this competition will only run on Sony’s latest hardware.
Though we weren’t completely sure of the direction the competition would take, we had a ton of interest, which has been enough to completely fill a large full 32-man competition. However, it’s not too late to put your name in as, in the event that some people drop out, we will want backups to fill the spots.
The format will be the same as the UEFA Champions League. Starting next week, each team will play the other teams in their group twice. There are three points for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss. The top two teams from each group will progress to the knock-out stages. In the case of points being tied when all games have been played, the team to progress to the knock-out stages will be decided firstly by goal difference, then by results between the two teams. If the teams still can’t be separated then it will go down to a random draw.
Prizes for this tournament will be as follows:
- Overall winner will win 150,000 FUT coins
- Losing finalist will win 80,000 FUT coins
- Both losing semi-finalists will win 35,000 FUT coins
Everyone that stated interest and has the PS4 version of the game has been randomly drawn into the following groups:
Known PSN IDs are noted with an asterisk if the same or are stated in brackets if different.
Group One
- Roynaldo *
- Marvzilla *
- jimmy-google *
- tomhlord (THLNetwork)
Group Two
- Yung Jones (YungJones)
DevansqewAmphlett *- Taylor Made (Virgo21Child)
- Topgearsam *
Group Three
- Baggyg (baggyg187)
- wick15 *
- jonny_bolton *
- commisar_dave *
Group Four
- Hennerzcfc *
- Tarbun84 *
- xxAlisha1995xx (x-Alisha-xx-1995)
- shoebak (Sh0bista)
Group Five
- BerackyWack *
- loay123 *
- BrendanCalls *
Pixel_nmeSpaaarKY *
Group Six
- spartanstriker *
- Yiddo (yiddo93)
- Crazy_Del *
- XBLakie_ChanX *
Group Seven
- Blackredyellow *
- nidasbym (murguia_martin)
- Ro6afc11 *
- Pocono *
Group Eight
- Youles *
- dellboy1983 *
- GazPhillips (Gazaldo)
- MrJaggySnake *
Reserves
- Amphlett * – Now in Group Two
- SpaaarKY * – Now in Group Five
- colmshan1990 *
- HatifH (Azian-Temptazian)
- Razzle (razzzle)
- SpikeyMikey23 *
While we’ve tried to mark those whose PSN IDs match with asterisks and put differences in brackets, we don’t have everyone’s PSN ID for sure. Before these games are played, what we need from each of you is your PSN ID so your opponents in your group can invite you to a game. Please provide us with your PSN ID in the comments section below or as a reply to the previously sent out emails no later than 6pm on Sunday 6th April. After that point, we will look to replace unknown entries.
An article will appear on TSA on Wednesday 9th April informing you all of your fixtures for the week and going into greater detail about rules, so don’t play any of your matches until after then!
So if you’re in this tournament, post your PSN ID in the comments section below. You still have more than a week to get some practice in and finalise your Ultimate Team before the matches begin.
Written and organised by Tony Cawley.
Taylor Made
Virgo21Child
Taylor Made
My team going suck big time, never bothered with FUT just for platinum sake
Stefan L
Ta. I’ve added that and a few more asterisks to indicate known PSN IDs. :)
spartanstriker
My PSN is spartanstriker
jonny_bolton
PSN: jonny_bolton
Just to make the guys in my group aware – I currently have BT standard braodband (like 2Mbps) but on Friday the 11th I’ll be back on BT Infinity so would ideally want to hold off playing until then if that’s alright with everyone?
baggyg
No problem for me.
Youles
Youles is my ID. I have already sent messages to my Group 8 competitor! :)
tonyyeb
Could there be something similar for PES2014 as it will be free on Plus starting today perhaps?
Taylor Made
lol April fools was yesterday
tonyyeb
Meaning that you can’t run an online tournament with PES2014?
tonycawley
If somebody else wants to organise it, I’ve got my hands full with this and the plus points contest. Judging from experience, I really don’t think the pes would be very popular for 2 reasons.
1 it’s on ps3 and there’s a lot less interest in that platform judging off number of entrants to the fifa tournament for each platform.
2 it’s pes, which is very niche.
jimmy-google
PSNID is jimmy-google.
baggyg
As in brackets my PSN ID is Baggyg187. Looking forward to this. I’ve probably got slightly more chance than England in the real World Cup.
xxAlisha1995xx
My PSN name is perfectly right now, thanks for editing it since the email :) Ive added all the people from my group 4!
Crazy_Del
I have added and sent out messages to Group 6 for their availability dates and times.
Good luck to everyone :-)
dellboy1983
My PSN ID is: DeLLboy1983 (not sure if the capitalisation actually makes a difference, people always seem to find me fine either way)