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That new NT Scout online is great, has a botification date column.

Who thanks that's an awesome tool!

A very important win yesterday for the NT against Turkey, that could mean a qualification for the second round of the consolation tournament, unless we screw up in the last 3 games against supposedly lesser teams...

Our GS was exceptionnal this week, with 11 players at GS9, a first during my tenure as NT coach! And in the usual starters, only Jarvis was out due to his poor GS. His manager won't answer my bb-mails and have him play 3 games a week... hopefully it will get better in 2-3 weeks.

As you can see, our roster is now complete with 18 players, with the selection of Gawlas for yesterday game. This means a fierce competition even to make it on the lineup each week, and GS is an important part of the selection. Keep up the good work!


Last edited by Fwinns at 4/25/2017 12:45:01 PM

Yeah, saw the result. Good job! Important bounceback after rough start to the season. Get that HCA!

Yeah the game against Romania was weird, don't know why they normaled. Same for Slovenia who has a better team than us...
Usually it takes a 5-3 record to go to the playoffs, so we're still on track. I was theoretically possible without winning against Turkey, so now we have a slightly bigger margin of error. If GS remains the same I'm confident we can do something

Good morning everyone.
Part 1 of the consolation tournament went as expected, with a bonus win against Turkey. Gameshape was more than good for the first part of the season, congrats to all the managers for that, it made a big difference.
Now we need to focus on the playoffs, with a very bumpy road ahead. Our first opponent is Slovenia, with a really strong team (just go take a look at their roster...!) with really good gameshape. And if that wasn't enough, the winner of the game will probably face #1 seed Germany with its perfect record.
We played once against Slovenia this season (41604), let's try to do better this time! Our focus is still to bring next season America's championship to Canada, which means we need to go further than any other american team. Chile was ahead of us for 1 point in the ranikngs, so a win is mandatory in the first game, even if all other american teams lose.

To all managers with a NT player, please be especially careful with minutes this week, we need as much player as possible with GS 8 or 9 to even have a chance of winning the first game. The next few weeks are crucial, or all would have been for nothing!

Chile was ahead of us for 1 point in the ranikngs, so a win is mandatory in the first game, even if all other american teams lose.

That's some shit luck right there mate.

Yeah, I think that's the right term, but at least we got HCA for the first game ;)

Here is the situation: 4 american teams in the playoffs : Chile (15), Canada (16), Brasil (27) and Mexico (30)

The last team standing hosts the next America's championship. In the event of multiple teams eliminated at the same round, seeding determines who gets it. So we need to go one round further than Chile, and we can lose in the same round as Brasil and Mexico.

Chile plays Makedonia in the first round, a strong team with really good GS so far, but so does Chile. It will be a tossup, of all the american teams, I think they have the best chance of making it to the next round.

Brasil plays Bulgaria, a well rounded team, but with some important players with poor GS. Brasil played the worlds 2nd chance tournament, that's why they are seeded that low. They lost against Chile in the first stage (in Chile mind you), and they play on the road, won't be easy but a win is possible if they don't get too cocky (happened in the past).

Mexico plays @Israel, the strongest team of the bunch, with a slightly worse GS than Bulgaria. I don't really see how Mexico can win that one unless someone in Israel screws up. They also played the 2nd chance tournament, which cost them the HCA for the first game of the playoffs...



Last edited by Fwinns at 5/17/2017 10:22:43 AM

Yes, I know the rules :)

I've long been a proponent of 0-2 records not carrying over to the consolation tournament. Unless you have a really good shot at making worlds, it's actually better NOT to qualify for second chance. So they are making intentional losses before then the smart plan. Flawed system and not very sporting. (reminds of the Olympic badminton match where both teams were intentionally missing serves and shots in order to lose the game and have an easier next match)

Yeah that's what I did last season (after being screwed in my first consolation tournament ^^), you've got to use the system to your advantage sometime...

Last edited by Fwinns at 5/17/2017 1:12:43 PM

On the chat right now if anybody's interested.
Mexico and Brasil are out, and the winner of our game will face Germany next monday.
Chile is winning against Macedonia right now (it's half time over there and there are 23points ahead with greater effort), that's not the greatest news for us but we'll see.
Slovenia got the focus wrong and put less enth than us into the game, we should be able to win that one.

The winner of Chile - Makedonia will face Portugal, so an equally hard second round than us/Slovenia.

+16 at the end of the 1st quarter, feels like I wasted enth but better safe than sorry I guess

+13 at half time, Chile still comfortably ahead at the end of 3rd quarter

Easy win in the end. Chile won as well, so we need to beat Germany next week, we'll see how it goes...

Last edited by Fwinns at 5/22/2017 11:05:21 PM