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Cup Participants: Lylat Wanderers Coloccini FC Winston Gardens FC The Roger Federer Crew bob AFC Dedede Hadens Legends The Familia FC Atlético Aqui1a Leeds M.O.T Russian Revolution Yellow Submarine DuDs Baggies Dragooooo The Cup will take place on the 21st. I will draw the teams on the 17th The Change Report will be at 4am UK time - 16/01/14 (Thursday morning). There is still time to join the cup. Please post here, PM me or reply to the PR on xpert :p

deja vu occurs when something changes within the matrix...

Someone boosted me for the night phase.

Anyone else thinking Chicken Matrix?

All I can offer is that Yvonne targeted Cube last night and was not targeted by anyone. This is not my usual night ability.

I suppose you could put a working hyperlink to an online portfolio in your CV? Chances are they'll be viewing it on a PC anyway...

Oh and of course the cup is on again when this season ends on Tuesday. We will have a break of one match day and the cup will start on Tuesday 21st. If you would like to join in the cup, please post here or in the official press release on xpert. Cup Participants: Lylat Wanderers Coloccini FC

You can long jump and crouch jump just fine. I'm pretty sure you can wall jump too tbh =\

Yeah ok, no worries

Aside from the new item mechanics, I thought the gameplay and dungeons in this were fantastic. Thinking about it now, I'm quite excited for the new main console Zelda. Would it be the same team that works on it?

You could probably make some really tacky jewellery with it and sell it at boot sales or something :p

Happy Birthday N-E and thank you to all of the staff that are keeping it up and running

You should probably stop hounding Dannyboy like that, you're coming across as quite aggressive. There's more risk involved if you leave a child with a paedophile I think but that's because children as less capable of understanding adult situations and wouldn't really know the potential danger they were in. It's more tempting for the paedophile because it's easier to do maybe? Having said that, there's still no way he'd ever get away with it. It would have to involve child abduction (potentially leading to murder) or at the very least he would have to spend the rest of his life on the run. Sure we see news stories all the time of people doing exactly that but that has to be the minority of paedophiles? As Dannyboy says, we don't know enough about it. Is it just a sexual urge most of them can easily ignore? Are there more cases of paedophilia than there are of 'standard' rape?

We could probably cut down to two divisions of 12 or three of 8/9 depending on how many teams quit. I'm in a couple of other leagues where it's three divisions of 8 and it's quite a good pace. Champions League As most of you know, next season we will be changing format to a champions league. This will work in groups and we'll have four. Two will have 8 teams and two will have 7 teams (unless by some miracle we can reach 32 teams and have 8-8-8-8). The top teams from each group (either a total of 8 or 16) will qualify for a straight knockout and the winner of the knockout gets the trophy. For the teams that do not qualify we will probably run a small friendly cup to run alongside until the end of the season. For anyone worried about DV, this will not be an issue. The knockout stages are outside of the system's 'season' and is considered bonus DV. This is an excellent incentive to push your teams to do well but if you don't make it to the knockout stages, you won't miss out on any DV that you would normally gain within a season. After season 30 we might keep the format for a few seasons or we could revert back to three divisions (or less if teams quit). It depends on what you guys want Either way, it will be a bit of a shake-up as the league won't revert back exactly to how it is now. Your placements for the new season are always based on where you end up in the previous season, even across league formats. The knockout stages are a single leg played on neutral ground. This means home advantage won't factor in so it will come down to your own skill and tactics. I really hope these changes will rekindle some competitiveness in the teams that are considering leaving but even if you want a break from Xpert for a while, please always know that you can jump straight back in with a new team as we'll always be open for you guys! (@ReZourceman your team has been accepted) Team Development: Also for anyone developing a team (and two both our newbies @Blade and ReZ) one of the most important rules in xpert now is the average age rule: When selecting your line-up, you will see you have average ages for each position. This rule has no effect on line-ups with an average age of between 25-29. If you deviate above or below that, your team will perform less well and you will gain less match experience (meaning less development value points) from the match. Average age / Performance 20 / 80% 25 / 99% 29 / 99% 33 / 80% Average age / Assimilation of match experience 20 / 80% 25 / 99% 29 / 99% 33 / 80% It used to be viable to create a whole team of youths and work up with them but it's not really the case anymore. You really need a mix of old and young players so purchasing players 26-30 is just as important as purchasing youths. Of course, the youths are the ones you need to develop so the focus should be on them. Starting out now, I'd look for cheaper old players to boost the average age and work on developing youth players to around 24 before buying in new youths.

Yeah but can you confirm that you didn't target me on nights 1 and 2, Rummy?

Oh didn't see Sheikah's post. You got through all right

Apologies to ReZourceman (and you guys) but I also didn't send a target last night. I wasn't prepared for such an efficient night phase... I also don't think my mention came through at the end of the day but I may have just clicked it and forgotten Does anyone else want to come forward as targeting me last night?

Yes. I have no need for one but I might get one anyway :p

Next season will be 8-8-7-7 unless everyone wants a new vote. If anyone has other ideas, please post here or send a PM. If we can manage to get to 32 teams instead of 30 we can do 8-8-8-8 so get recruiting people! @Blade I have accepted your request now. I thought I'd have to wait until the season was over but I don't. You can get acquainted with your team now :p @ReZourceman I have sent you PM regarding this but I can't accept your application as it's saying you'll take over Twozzok's team and I assume you want your own. I may have to reject your application so you can apply again.

Just buy a new printer every time :p

I am quite tempted at that price

I have nothing of worth to report at this moment in time :p

Don't think I've posted yet. My action was successful and my target was Sheikah.