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25 Jan 10
18:06
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A belated happy New Year to all of you.
I have replicated Undecided's recent post below, and as you can see the new season is almost here, and the competition has a different format to last year.
First things first, can we have a headcount - please sign in to confirm that you have seen this post and will be playing again this year.
I have been in touch with Young Inca who has advised that he will not be participating ths year, YI was one of the founding members of the Punts, therefore it would be amiss of me not to thank him for his valued contribution to Team over recent years. Best wishes YI.
Unless anyone knows of a replacement,l we may as well wait until everyone has signed in- there will probably be other teams with vacancies, and as such there will probably be a post at somestage inviting new players.
undecided 21 Jan 20:07
Time to gather up the crew, the fun begins soon
This year we are going back to all teams in one, the basic format/rules are the same but I'll highlight the differences from last year.
Duplicate selections will be allowed during the week up until 2pm on Saturdays. No duplicates within teams at any time though.
The scoring will be as follows:
For each monthly round, weekly winners get 9pts, runners-up 7pts, down to 1pt for 8th spot.
Bonus points will now be earned on a weekly basis, so as the average weekly score per team was about 65pts when we were last all in one 2 yrs ago, teams will be able to earn 1 bonus point for each 66pts scored in any one week. For example a team scores 210pts in a week, they will receive 3 bonus points for scoring over 198 (3 x 66).
For the yearly comp, monthly winners will get 8pts, runners-up 7pts, down to 1pt for 8th spot, there will be a 8pt bonus at the end of the year for the team with best profit.
There will be a Champions League mini tournament at the end of the year, after the league finishes on November 27th, lasting two or three weeks (format yet to be finalised) and open to any team that completes 4 top 4 finishes in the 8 monthly rounds.
Dates for this years comp:
31 Jan - 27 Feb - Month 1
28 Feb - 27 Mar - Month 2
28 Mar - 3 Apr- KO Cup Quarter Finals
4 Apr - 1 May - Month 3
2 May - 29 May - Month 4
30 May - 5 Jun - KO Cup Semi Finals
6 Jun - 3 Jul - Month 5
4 Jul - 10 Jul - KO Cup Final
Summer Break
5 Sep - 2 Oct - Month 6
3 Oct - 30 Oct - Month 7
31 Oct - 27 Nov - Month 8
28 Nov - 18 Dec - Mini Champions League (TBC)
I have replicated Undecided's recent post below, and as you can see the new season is almost here, and the competition has a different format to last year.
First things first, can we have a headcount - please sign in to confirm that you have seen this post and will be playing again this year.
I have been in touch with Young Inca who has advised that he will not be participating ths year, YI was one of the founding members of the Punts, therefore it would be amiss of me not to thank him for his valued contribution to Team over recent years. Best wishes YI.
Unless anyone knows of a replacement,l we may as well wait until everyone has signed in- there will probably be other teams with vacancies, and as such there will probably be a post at somestage inviting new players.
undecided 21 Jan 20:07
Time to gather up the crew, the fun begins soon
This year we are going back to all teams in one, the basic format/rules are the same but I'll highlight the differences from last year.
Duplicate selections will be allowed during the week up until 2pm on Saturdays. No duplicates within teams at any time though.
The scoring will be as follows:
For each monthly round, weekly winners get 9pts, runners-up 7pts, down to 1pt for 8th spot.
Bonus points will now be earned on a weekly basis, so as the average weekly score per team was about 65pts when we were last all in one 2 yrs ago, teams will be able to earn 1 bonus point for each 66pts scored in any one week. For example a team scores 210pts in a week, they will receive 3 bonus points for scoring over 198 (3 x 66).
For the yearly comp, monthly winners will get 8pts, runners-up 7pts, down to 1pt for 8th spot, there will be a 8pt bonus at the end of the year for the team with best profit.
There will be a Champions League mini tournament at the end of the year, after the league finishes on November 27th, lasting two or three weeks (format yet to be finalised) and open to any team that completes 4 top 4 finishes in the 8 monthly rounds.
Dates for this years comp:
31 Jan - 27 Feb - Month 1
28 Feb - 27 Mar - Month 2
28 Mar - 3 Apr- KO Cup Quarter Finals
4 Apr - 1 May - Month 3
2 May - 29 May - Month 4
30 May - 5 Jun - KO Cup Semi Finals
6 Jun - 3 Jul - Month 5
4 Jul - 10 Jul - KO Cup Final
Summer Break
5 Sep - 2 Oct - Month 6
3 Oct - 30 Oct - Month 7
31 Oct - 27 Nov - Month 8
28 Nov - 18 Dec - Mini Champions League (TBC)
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I'm in. Hopefully joining you later this year in the esteemed Golf competition were you have immunity thus far I see ;-)
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Evening Mully, hope things are well with you.
Re the Golf Comp - I did OK last year and so I get a bye for the first phase. |
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you can ask me to join as i am now full time on here and elsewhere
not sure of rules and availability issues so let me know ta |
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Hi Hoof and the rest of the Northern Punts.
Signing in ;-) |
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duke-are you northern? :-)
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no quite stuck in the middle
but i once visted morpeth whilst working in whitley bay |
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I'm sure we could do with you. See what the captain says :-)
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i'm in but........
baby due in 5days! so if it becomes clear that i'm struggling to find time, i will let you know asap. |
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Good luck with the new arrival this week gart.
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Good luck with your forthcoming new arrival Gart.
DukeofPuke - You're more than welcome as far as I'm concerned, feel free to ask any questions, alternatively if you want to speak off line please initially e mail me on hoofhearted2@btinternet.com and I will get in touch ASAP.I will notify Undecided, the competition's main man of your involvement. I will give it a few days to give everyone a chance to sign in. Has anyone any thoughts or issues they want to raise - be it use of wildcards, tactics etc? |
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I am here to sign in if still wanted for the year. Happy belated New Year to all.
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I´m in, though I couldn´t pick my nose at the mo.
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first up with luska lad 3.00 punchestown on sunday!
9lb reversal with hollo ladies and now going right handed are the plusses. Has form with voler la vedette etc, when it had the lead at the last, so this grade 2 novices should be winable. gl. |
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which won at 7/2
which was nice and welcome to the dukeofpuke if you are joining us which i hope you are. |
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Well done gart, an excellent start to the New season.
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ew though
will probably go this route this season... ew on shortish priced one on a sat/sun in a decent race if one stands out. gl everyone this week. |
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Nice start Gart-great win! :-)
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gart 31 Jan 15:14
which won at 7/2 which was nice and welcome to the dukeofpuke if you are joining us which i hope you are. yes i am but it looks like i have got a lot to live up to |
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the oft used phrases
"don't judge a book by it's cover" may apply here :^0 or "one swallow doesn't make a summer" regarding my recent top guess. |
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WD gart, what a great start - I´m a poet, an´I don´t knowit.
Gone for Near the Water tomorrow - all in. If Folke abandoned then I´ll be going for Whistlejacquet. Lets see if we can press home an advantage... |
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Excellent start - well done TTO,
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hoof you have mail
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TTO-I put your horse on my blog today. Had three winners at Taunton :-) Well done!
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I´ll email you with my bank details for the fee steve.
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I even layed the Nicholls horse which was the paper favourite, on the back of your tip :-)
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:)
two outa two courtesy of tto |
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dukeofpuke - I've responded
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Had a nice return on Whistlejacquet - PP were going 5-2 until an hour before the race to win and had a saver on 1-2 finish at 6-4. I even had a couple of quid on the fc - wee bit disappointed with a 49 quid return though. But all in all can´t complain.
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Well done you two, thought i was looking at the wrong forum page when winning tips were appearing from us.
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LOL tt. Lets just say that we´ve wintered well. The pressures now on the rest of you!
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Hi lads, will be playing tomorrow
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Nice one Derhandy! A nice solid selection to keep the run going...
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I tried to pick something out today but couldnt pin anything down, so will be tomorrow
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Just seen Derhandys winner, well done
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well done today Derhandy
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cheers guys.
well done to all winners so far! Hopefully we'll be up there at the end of Saturday ;-) |
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Talk about pressure on Saturday lol.
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gl everyone today.
for next week's punt, i am keen on money trix in the gold cup at leopardstown tomorrow. e/w at 7/2. any views on this? |
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I've Gone for Mad Max 225 today.
It appears that everyone has signed in, so we should not have any problems with anyone not posting. For the benefit of Duke of Puke,(and to an extent other relatively new team players ), how we tend to play things on saturdays is that anyone who is around in the afternoon should just keep an eye on things. If we are getting very close to the final deadline for selections and someone hasnt posted play a wild card rather than lose a selection. We tend to enquire on the thread if anyone else is looking in and often gain opinion as to a selection. Again to help us all, if you are intending play late (or very late!) on Saturday just put this fact up so we are all aware and we will not then post on your behalf. Finally if you know you are not going to be able to post any week(s) eg holidays please advise then we can arrange a wild card in your absence early in the week rather than a last minute job. Best of luck today Regards HH |