chabonowaka

it's a good thing you're paying attention, it seems neither Daineko nor i are! i had communications with him about some troubles with his lineup, but i corrected him incorrectly. i think at this point i have to use drone rules to complete his lineup, but i am going to attempt to get his lineup just in case. deepest apologies to everyone, my gyoji'ing isn't off to a very hot start.

and for heavens sake, group D people make sure i didn't get anything wrong!

Refioji chabonowka here with your Group D Matchups: Daineko (Uruguay) vs Terarno (Costa Rica) Daineko: 1. Brazil, 2. Uruguay®, 3. USA©, 4. Switzerland, 5. South Korea, 6. Spain, 7. Italy, 8. Costa Rica, 9. Netherlands, 10. South Korea vs. Terarno: 1. Argentina©, 2. Colombia, 3. Switzerland, 4. Ghana, 5. Belgium, 6. Ivory Coast, 7. England, 8. Costa Rica®, 9. South Korea, 10. USA and Saruyama (England) vs Harumataikai (Italy) Saruyama: 1. Brazil, 2. Belgium, 3. Mexico, 4. Japan, 5. Nehterlands, 6. Ecuador, 7. Australia, 8. Iran, 9. Greece©, 10. England® vs. Harumataikai: 1. Colombia, 2. Germany, 3. South Korea©, 4. Ecuador, 5. England, 6. USA, 7. Ivory Coast, 8. Switzerland, 9. Italy®, 10. Iran Harumataikai comment: First match against Saruyama and his 'english' team. FORZA ITALIA even if I'm not so confident for their win against the english. Good luck to everyone and many thanks to the refiojis and to the rijicho for this game! refioji comment: i'm not really knowledgeable enough about World Cup to comment intelligently, so i'll just say that after my home country of the USA, the Uruguayan fellow at work has me pulling for them to win the whole thing. he has this whole spiel on the heritage of the World Cup and how other countries got good after stealing all the Uruguayans. it's really very heartfelt, so i go with it. good luck group D!

looks like the going rate is 6 hours, so can group d (excepting harumataikai, who's already done) send me their lineups at least 6 hours in advance of the first match? also, i'm of course rooting for my home country of the usa, but also, i continue to have adopted uruguay from the uruguayan guy at work. also i'd like japan to do well. actually, are there any villains in world cup? i don't really know who to root against. i need a bad guy. who can be my bad guy?

hi all! sorry about being slow about things. it's kind of what i do. i did want to follow up on Jejima's request for refiojis. he's right about it not being too terribly difficult. i mean, i've done it fairly successfully in the past, and i'm a moron. just ask my wife, she'll tell you. :) (i hope i don't overuse that joke.) seriously though, these games are always fun, and that newlywed fellow needs some assistance. and thanks Jezz for bringing this back!

and it was more than that, best as i could tell he intentionally jumped/fell on Takayasu pretty well after the bout was over. is there some sort of particular dislike or grudge there?

does it matter which of the wave messages i go to when i want to join? if this is the right place, i'm picking jk18w-Kaito - based solely on my daughter (known in Bench Sumo as Chibi_IMO) being a fan of the vocaloid singer(program?) called kaito.

Not so fast. I think the match finished 1:1 and Penalty Shootout is necessary. Hopefully, I didn't miss something. I think you forgot that Chabonowaka's chain broke at Slot #2 (Situation #7), and BOTH chains have to be reopened for scoring. At Slot #3 Jakusotsu scores a goal and the score becomes 1:1, and Chabonowaka's chain is broken for the second time at Slot #3. At Slot #4 Jakusotsu's chain remains unbroken, but he doesn't score a goal. At Slot #5 Jakusotsu's chain is broken for a second time and the GAME is OVER. We have to wait for Jejima's confirmation. Sorry if I am not right, and I am sorry if I am right as well. don't things only open back up in the event of a tie? i thought that if both chains are broken but the score is not tied, that's it, end of game. or that was it earlier in the game. if that changed for the later rounds, i missed that bit.

ok, apologies for not doing this before, but here are the lineups for the matches i was gyojiing: Rannohana vs Achiyama: Rannohana: 1. spain 4 2. spain 5 3. italy 1 4. spain 3 5.spain 2 6. italy 3 7. spain 1 8 italy 2 9 italy 4 10 italy 5 Achiyama: 1. spain 2 2. spain 1 3. spain 5 4. spain 3 5 spain 4 and Mischashimaru vs Pitinosato: Mischashimaru: (droning) 1. spain 1 2. spain 2 3. spain 3 4. spain 4 5. spain 5 Pitinosato: 1. spain 2 2. spain 3 3. spain 1 4. spain 4 5. spain 5

First, a nod toward Jakusotsu for a game well played, and thanks for defeating Asashosakari for me. Next, i'd like to thank Jejima for creating and running another interesting and fun game. also thanks to the gyojis, for trust me, that wasn't always an easy job. i would wonder if the trouble of automating this game for world cup 2014 would be worth the benefit that said automating would give. i've seen enough code in my time to understand how it would work, but not really enough to know how difficult or time consuming it would be to do it. but that's for another time. i'd like to take a lot of the credit for the win based on my vast wealth of football knowledge, except that i'm lacking a lot in the football knowledge department. i understand the game, and came to learn the tendencies of the teams involved, even though they didn't always perform as expected, but a football expert i am not. a lot of my victory is due to the bookmakers, as i watched them closely throughout the tournament, and also i got lucky a few times, especially early on with matchups working out in my favor. still, i did my best, and the results were quite positive. i thoroughly enjoyed the game, and do look forward to participating again in world cup 2014.

congratulations to Harinezumi, and thanks to Kintamayama for running this one. it was something of the calm, normal version of bench euro 2012, if you see what i mean. :)

and i've calculated the matches i was gyoji-ing! the first match is for 7th place, and features Rannohana (Ukraine) vs. Achiyama (Greece). Rannohana has both teams active, while Achiyama has only the Spaniards on his squad. in the first slot, both players win, so no goal. in the second slot, Achiyama's spain (1) wins, but Rannohana's spain (5) does not, so goal for Achiyama! in the third slot, Rannohana took italy in the 1st section, and they lost, while Achiyama had spain (5). no goal, but Rannohana is out! chain broken! that seals the win for Achiyama, and he is unable to score in his last two slots, so the win is for Achiyama, 1-0! congratulations Achiyama! the second match is for the Bench Bowl! this one features Mischashimaru (Sweden) vs Pitinosato (Germany) well, this one has both players going with Spain only, so i think there is no way it can end with any other result than a shootout. so i will leave it to Jejima. (this is right, yes?) (also, should i, for posterity sake, post the lineups for my matches, even though it's late now?)

my fault there, as i was waiting it out, hoping i would get a lineup from the last of my folks for whom i was gyoji-ing. i didn't see it come in, so if Mischashimaru put in a lineup, did you give it to someone else by mistake? or did i just miss it somehow? either way, i'm going to go and calculate the matches i was gyoji-ing now. (victory speech later, yay me!)

hi all, for the record, i'm still waiting for lineups from Mischashimaru and Pitinosato for the final. match starts in 3 hours-ish. quick, get me your lineups! (i really need this match to be over so i can concentrate on getting my bench team together.) :)

Just so you know, Chabonowaka is also in the final of the Bench Sumo rule version. Well done!! thank you, sir! but i think it's more like well-lucked, than well done. this all hearkens back to something you said about the euro championships being a crap shoot. (also, you said something about italy winning it all, if i recall.)

i certainly don't mind your gyoji-ing. actually, thanks for putting another set of eyes on the matches. i think your help changed the score of one of the earlier rounds i mis-gyoji'd, so i don't mind if you put another set of eyes on the matches i'm doing at the end, too. definitely no offense taken here.

that bit about me being correct, that's rare. i should really send that to my wife, prove that it's even possible. :)

hi folks, here are the results for the matches i was gyoji-ing. of course, this is all presuming i understood correctly the rules for extra-time. (and i have a little brain, so i might have gotten something wrong. again.) for the plate! XiaoTan (Netherlands) vs Rannohana (Ukraine) the first slot is out, in the 2nd slot, XaioTan is broken by Germany, but Rannohana fails to score. in the third slot, Rannohana is broken, so we go to extra time, tied at 0-0! in extra time, the first slot sees a couple of ties, the second slot has Rannohana score a goal! third extra time slot sees ties, then XiaoTan ties it back up at 1-1! immediately thereafter, Rannohana is broken again, but no goal by XiaoTan then XiaoTan is broken, too, so that's it! we're off to penalty kicks! (jejima?) For the Bowl! Harinezumi (Czech Rep) vs Mischashimaru (Sweden) Harinezumi scores right off with Germany in the first slot, 1-0 but Mischashimaru comes back immediately and ties it up at 1-1 in the 2nd slot then some ties 4th slot sees Mischashimaru broken! 5th slot sees Harinezumi broken! we go to extra time starting with the 6th slot! first shot is tie-tie, so no goals then in the next slot, Mischashimaru scores with an Italy 1st period vs. Harinezumi's Italy 2nd period! that breaks Harinezumi! Mischashimaru wins 2-1 in extra time! (i hope i got all this right.) (i've been terrible about this so far.) (quick, someone check my work! also maybe my understanding of the english language.)

i can confirm the reception of Achiyama's lineup. i wasn't looking at my messages when i got it though, as i had already gotten all of the lineups for the bouts i am gyojiing. otherwise, i would have forwarded it to XiaoTan, had i known, and/or mentioned it to Achiyama. for what it's worth, here is his lineup as copied from the PM he sent me: Hi Chabonowaka, Here is my squad for the semifianls,: 1.) Germany (E) (1st) 2.) Spain (1st) 3.) Germany (E) (ET) 4.) Germany (E) (2nd) 5.) Spain (ET) 6.) Spain (2nd) heck, if someone wants, they can have permission to log into my account and check the message for themselves. also, i must apologize yet again for yet another mistake i made with my lineup. i believe my penalty for an improper lineup is a red card?

hi all, here are the matches for which i am gyoji for the next round of knockouts! For the Plate! XiaoTan (Netherlands) vs Rannohana (Ukraine) XiaoTan 1. Germany (2nd), 2. Germany(1st), 3. Spain-E (1st), 4. Germany (ET), 5. Italy (ET), 6. Spain-E (ET), 7. Italy (1st), 8. Spain-E (2nd), 9. Italy (2nd) Rannohana 1) Germany (2nd) 2) Spain (E) (2nd) 3) Germany (1st) 4) Spain (E) (1st) 5) Italy (1st) 6) Spain (E) (ET) 7) Germany (ET) 8) Italy (2nd) 9) Italy (ET) gyoji comment: similar teams, as i imagine they all are these days, but XiaoTan with a slightly better trust in germany. For the Bowl! Harinezumi (Czech Rep) vs Mischashimaru (Sweden) Harinezumi: 1. Germany X second 2. Spain w second 3. germany extra 4. Spain extra 5. germany first 6. Spain first 7. Italy second 8. Italy extra 9. Italy first Commento: Three teams in the bowl semis, not bad. None lft to cheer for really but hopefully some good football to watch at least. Mischashimaru: 1. Spain (E) (2. Half) 2. Germany (2. Half) 3. Spain (E)(1. Half) 4. Germany (1. Half) 5. Spain (E)(ET) 6. Germany (ET) 7. Italy (1. Half) 8. Italy (2. Half) 9. Italy (ET) Comment: GOOO GERMANY!!! Take the Cup!! gyoji comment: we've got the same teams, but some different configurations for germany and spain.

first, thanks to jejima for posting the results to the bouts i was supposed to be gyojiing in the quarterfinals. i checked into the forum a couple of hours after the post, and seeing that done tried to come up with an interesting spin on the results, but fell short, so just left it as is. second, i'll be sure not to repeat my disappearing act this round. and finally, i'm refereeing XiaoTan vs Rannohana in the Plate, and Harinezumi vs Mischashimaru in the bowl. i already have teams from XiaoTan, Harinezumi, and Mischashimaru, and await that from Rannohana. i got Rannohana's lineup in email last round, so expect the same this time. i'll send him a note to be sure.

This reminds me that I do miss kintaros musings. Do folks know if he has quit the sumo list, or sumo itself? I, for one was guilty of quitting the while thing for about a year and a half.

hi all, and here's the lineups for the matchups i'm gyoji'ing! for the cup! Asashosakari (Croatia) vs Rannohana (Ukraine) Asashosakari: 1. © Portugal 2. Germany 3. (E) Spain 4. France Comment: Darn, I was hoping France would avoid Spain in the QF. If I had any clue who's going to win between England and Italy I'd pick that team for my extra, but as I don't I'm just making the lazy España pick and hope to get three teams into the semifinals that way. vs Rannohana (Ukraine) 1. Germany 2. (E) Spain 3. Italy gyoji comment: Rannohana is down to 3 teams, but whatever else happens, i'm guessing Asashosakari's © Portugal could be a big player. For the Bowl! Doitsuyama (Ireland) vs Mischashimaru (Sweden) Doitsuyama (Ireland) 1. © Germany 2. Spain 3. (E) Portugal 4. Italy Comment: My squad may be reduced to four teams now, but at least I feel that all of them are favourites. Having Counterbalanced Germany should help in case of a draw after 90 minutes so they go to the top position. vs Mischashimaru (Sweden) 1. Germany 2. (E) Spain 3. Italy 4. © England Comment: Let´s take the BOWL!!! gyoji comment: again, we have a © in the first match, so things could get interesting quickly!

Crap and double crap! i apologize (again) to everyone, and thank all who noticed my mistake. pretty much everyone other than me is correct. Rubensan's chain was broken on the 2nd slot, and Asashosakari did score there. then the game continued without any more scores through the finish, giving Asashosakari the win. this does in fact change the standings, in that n Asashosakari is through as the group winner, and Kintamayama as the group 2nd place. about the only thing i did get right in my original post was who was going through, though i even had their placements wrong. so again, congratulations to Asashosakari and Kintamayama. in that order. and for what it's worth, unless Jejima wishes to fire me from gyoji'ing, i intend to continue. and hopefully do a much better job. now, off to pick my penalty-takers, so i don't get another red card.

here are the final standings for group C in the group stages: (for the love of things you love, someone check this!) in 1st place, going 1-2-0, for 5 points, and with a goal differential of +3 (4 vs 1) Kintamayama!!!!! in 2nd place, going 1-1-1, for 3 points, and with a goal differential of +2 (4 vs 2) Asashosakari!!!!! in 3rd place, going 1-1-1, for 3 points, and with a goal differential of -2 (2 vs 4) Rubensan in 4th place, going 0-2-1, for 2 points, and with a goal differential of -3 (3 vs 6) Doitsuyama so congratulations to Kintamayama and Asashosakari for moving on, and to Rubensan and Doitsuyama, we'll see you in the competition for the bench bowl! again, please, someone check this!