Fellas, we'll grade hockey probably today but not quite sure - getting a bit late already. Most of the results are settled anyway.

As already said, we proceed with the Cup. We will have 2 rounds as usual.

The questions for the Cup are here!

The deadline is the usual one, Tuesday May 14th, 17:00 GMT.

The Round 2 pairs are:

Slissy - Woodie
Dittoup - notblox1
shogun47 - B1g4udge
Harkorede - Charaf_chenina
vd309 - strongkored
dbshck - Ulven
execijutiere - jayce
Hhampuz - buwaytress

If somebody wants a sidebet, I'm all ears. I'm on a losing streak so it's basically free money.
You can pick if it's in Round 2, Round 3 or both rounds combined (with penalties in Round 3 as a tiebreaker then).
I'll even go against Mafia himself!

I think there are a few others ready to mess up our plans. cls63 looks a bit ahead, it will all come down to the captains I think.
That's the main reason I went with Jackson - Haaland was the safe choice but wouldn't be much of a differentiator.

If you ask me, none of us is winning this - but it will be close.

Agreed, this was one of the most unsatisfying rounds I have played. Literally nothing went my way and almost all my picks turned out to be bad.
I knew jeremypwr was out for blood after the last round in which he failed to submit but I didn't expect to be hammered like this.


And also some teams from Division 2 - we'll see at the end of the season which ones and how many points will be deducted. It will all be done for the fairness of the competition, of course.

Surely, but how are we gonna measure it? Transfermarkt value, value of the next transfer, something else?
I'm sure Real won't be buying him at all.

@famososMuertos, please check the submission form.
There's a user with wrong BTT username (row 15) with SB username Fmbet - that might be you?

@BitcoinHunt3r - you marked yourself as not part of any SB pools. I changed it for you - this means you have free entry because you play BSFL.

We will tag you on time for sure.
The preliminary round (winner, best goalscorer etc) and Round 1 will probably have the same deadline, which will probably be 1h before the 1st EURO game.
Last Man Standing will of course have different submission deadlines than BSFL.


This has been added to the OP so you can track the balance more easily.

Yup, I checked the stats before answering - I also wanted to make some bets on United winning, Arsenal not winning etc.
The fact is that Arsenal is playing great football and this United team is so unbalanced and full of egos unable of playing collectively as a team.

I think Arsenal walks over them this time.


Against the team in brackets, yes. We had to put opponent teams in brackets because all teams play more games until Sunday.

I think he won't be retiring, he debuted for Spain last year aged 33 and already has 10 caps and 5 goals.
He'll surely be a part of the EURO team and I would not be surprised if he'll want a World Cup experience as well.

I think he plays for a few more years - he's that type of player that won't lose much with age. He's not a pacey dribbler - most of his quality comes from positional experience that he increased with age.

Meni su poslali nekakav claim acceptance form koji sam potpisao i iznos BTC-a mi je bio isti onom kojeg sam imao u trenutku hacka.
E sad, koliko ću dobiti - javim ako ikad stigne.

Slažem se oko Grant Thorntona, baš pederski odigrano.

He's 34 years old, so not really
It is a great story, a fan of the club getting his chance at the end of his career and dragging them to a CL final.

He's on loan from Espanyol who's chasing promotion from La Segunda, he'll probably return there at the end of this season.

Ja sam dobio 'soon' za BTC isplatu - to me zapravo jedino i zanima.
Shitcoini tek u kasnijoj turi, sumnjam da će ove godine.

Najjače je što svako malo dobiješ neki usrani pamflet od likvidatora di ti raspišu toškove koje imaju i koje će si podmiriti iz stečajne mase, a na tome doslovno piše sat administrativnog radnika 65$ ili tako neka ludost.

Koliko sam doduše čuo, BTC će biti vraćen u 1:1 omjeru - al ne vjerujem im ništa.

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Tenks za linkove za FTX - malo čudno moram priznat. Ne znam za što točno im treba taj silan kapital i očekivao bih da exchange pokrenu oni koji i dalje sjede na hrpi FTT tokena sami od sebe ako je potrebno.

I'm being bossed around, what to say.
Crazy thing about it - I'm 3 goals down and can still theoretically win. The odds on it would be like 30 though - I roughly calculated just now.


Yup, was a nice marketing stunt. I see him in Arabia or USA though - he'll get huge offers for sure.

Oni koji budu pokradeni u ovom bull runu će valjda prije dobit BTC nego mi s Cryptopije

Ovo je odlična vijest ako se pokaže istinitom, ne bi bilo loše kupiti i malo FTT tokena. Možda ponovno pokrenu mjenjačnicu, o tome se već šuškalo i prije.
Na stranu SBF i njegovi otoci i ružne žene, exchange kao takav je bio jako dobar.

Nope, incorrect. The referee has to trust the linesman - he's too far away to make that call and to let the play go on. What if it was 1m offside? He'd look like an idiot.
Linesman is the one that has to keep the flag down if he's not sure, and in 99th minute of the game he surely should not have been sure in a situation like this.

It's really 100% blame of the linesman - not the main referee.

Playing is for the weak, I'm winning.

On a more serious note, yeah - we plan to. This is something I wanted to play for years already, same as BSFL. Would be a bummer to have to watch from the sidelines.
As you from BSFL already know, in case we come close to the prizes we'll create some new rules for us so that there's no doubt in legitimacy of our answers.

Mafia's got you covered

I give Dortmund ~20% chance of winning. Madrid is so experienced at this level, and is overall a much better team as well.

I'd really love Reus to win it, he's one of my favorite players and would be at KDB's level if he didn't have so many injuries.
As a LFC fan, BVB is a club I admire so I really hope they prove me wrong.

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I checked the pools, no way to lose 2nd place in any of them. A really nice haul overall

buwaytress - I hope you keep working on the format. Was fresh and fun.

13. Derrick Lewis
12. Joaquin Buckley
11. Carlos Ulberg
10. Mateusz Rebecki
9. Sean Woodson
8. Robelis Despaigne
7. Chase Hooper
6. Esteban Ribovics
5. Tabatha Ricci
4. Trey Waters
3. Jake Hadley
2. Kevin Jousset
1. JJ Aldrich

NOT go the Full Distance 4

Game 1:  47, 38'
Game 2:  47, 47'

They couldn't look at it after the whistle was blown. Real players basically stopped playing - if they continued, Bayern maybe (probably?) wouldn't even have scored.

As said already - I don't blame the ref. The linesman has to be 100% sure it's the right call - if he flags, you trust him.
Linesmen were bad throughout the whole game though - I don't know how he could have flagged Joselu's 2nd goal. It was right in front of him and was a clear goal.

That's the goalkeeper's curse, ain't it?

A bad mistake, not really sure how Real always gets these breaks when they need them.
They have done this over and over again, I wouldn't bet on them losing if they were 2-0 down with 2 minutes to go.

Modrić was really good yesterday again and his game awareness is on the next level. Will be a shame when he retires, I hope he returns to Croatia for a season or 2 before that.