UTG Season 4: Finals Discussion & Banter Thread

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The place for all finals related discussions. Please do not submit teams in this thread.

Week #1
Qualifying Final 1: Gigantor vs. JV
Qualifying Final 2: Nige vs. Tom
Elimination Final: LS vs. Holz
Mass Elimination Final: Koop vs. GL vs. BM

Week #2
Semi Final 1: Nige vs. Koop
Semi Final 2: JV vs. Holz

Week #3
Preliminary Final 1: Gigantor vs. Nige
Preliminary Final 2: Tom vs. JV

Week #4
Grand Final: Winner of Preliminary Final 1 vs. Winner of Preliminary Final 2

No 'Home Ground Advantage' or consumable usage permitted in finals.

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Seeding explained,

Seed #1: Gigantor - Most Weekly Wins (5 in total - 5A, 8, 11, 18A & 18B)
Seed #2: Nige - Most Points Scored, (19640, at an average of 935)
Seed #3: Tom - Second Most Weekly Wins (Also 5, however scored total points than Gigantor)
Seed #4: JV - Second Most Total Points (885 per week)

Seed #5: LS - Most Weekly Wins (GL the only other to record a weekly win, LS scored more total points thus claiming seed)
Seed #6: Holz - Most Points Scored (Average of 847)

Leaving Koop, GL & BM to compete in the 'Mass Elimination Final'

Normally 5 would face 8, but given we have 9 teams competing, they will play 6 under the notion that one opponent is preferable to two.

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Gigantor has created a wonderful spreadsheet to keep track of your head-to-head matches throughout the UTG Finals.
http://bit.ly/UTGFinals2019 for all scores and fixtures.

[GoLions]

Noice

[GoLions]

Danger you little shower

[Nige]

Danger you little shower

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Qualifying Final Results



Despite the best efforts of Dom Sheed on Sunday, Gigantor secured a preliminary finals appearance with Dayne Zorko suffering a hamstring injury in his efforts to chase down the winning score for JV.

In the other qualifying final, the work of SE Bachar Houli was undone by a miserable performance by Patrick Dangerfield, allowing Tom to comfortably progress over Nige.

So Gigantor & Tom take next week off, while Nige & JV will look to avoid a straight sets exit.

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Elimination Final Results



The only coach to crack 1200, Holz progressed comfortably over LS, with Williams, Macrae and Grundy doing most of the heavy lifting.

Meanwhile, our mass elimination final was a thriller, 10 points separating all three coaches. Despite the injury to Zorko, Koop emerged victorious, beating GL and BM by 10 and 2 points respectively, both of whom would be regretting some of their decisions at the selection table that would have changed the result.

With Holz & Koop progressing, we unfortunately bid farewell to LS, GL and BM for the 2019 season. I'd like to personally thank the three of you for your involvement and commitment to UTG throughout the entire season, and hope you'll be back for redemption next year!

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Score Summary



As we turn to the fixture for next week,

Week #2
Semi Final 1: Nige vs. Koop, winner to play Gigantor
Semi Final 2: JV vs. Holz, winner to play Tom

[Nige]

Highest scoring team for the season copping all the bullshower to have the worst score week one on finals. 

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Semi Final Results



Despite earlier declaring a straight sets exit on Discord, Nige prevailed over Koop in the first of our semi finals. Houli & Walters were the main culprits, while both coaches had some big scores on the bench, particularly from Brisbane midfielders. Nige will be facing Gigantor next week, while we farewell Koop for a season highlighted by a nailbiting win in our mass elimination final last week.

It all fell apart up front for Holz, with none of Boak, Walters and Lynch reaching the 60 point barrier. Jarryd Lyons nearly covered all three scores combined with a monster 158 for JV. Holz's star unique Jack Macrae did all he could, but a mid-game injury to Sloane summed up a disappointing performance as Holz bowed out for the season. JV will be hoping for more of the same up against Tom next week.

[Nige]

Aw shiiiit

[Gigantor]

Aw shiiiit

Feel free to continue to bench Worpedo this week

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Prelim Previews

Gigantor vs. Nige
On Paper: Gigantor (1123.3) lost to Nige (1124.1)
Key Match-Up: Josh Dunkley vs. Patrick Dangerfield

A ridiculously close match-up on paper, with Nige to win by less than 1DT point on season averages. With both coaches set to run with Newman, Worpel, Kelly & Lyons, there's only 7 uniques for each side. Gigantor will be hoping to take advantage down back, with Zac Williams poised against Nige's Connor Blakely. Both sides will also run with Bachar Houli, however Gigantor will be hoping he doesn't go too large with Nige running the SE. On the other side of the ledger, Nige will be hoping to capitalise with recently crowned pig Brodie Grundy up against Todd Goldstein. Gigantor will surely be relieved to see Adelaide name 2 rucks against the Pies' superstar. Finally, the matchup that may decide the game, Josh Dunkley up against Patrick Dangerfield. Dunkley has been nearly unstoppable since the bye, whereas Danger's form has been a little less reliable. Nige will be hoping to break even with the Doggies' young gun.

Tip: A monster from Dunkley to carry Gig over the line on Sunday for a 30pt win.

[Gigantor]

I was fielding Worpel before he was cool