MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER CONTEST #11: distributing the post's SBD rewards (10 SBD min.) & more than 100,000 in POCKET!

in #pocket7 years ago (edited)

What an exciting knockout round it was!

Wednesday night dominating scores of 0-4 (CHI-NYRB) and 5-0 (VAN-SJ) were followed by two amazing games and results of 0-0 (PKs 1-3; ATL-CLB) and 1-0 (HOU-SKC) ending in a shootout (in Atlanta) and in overtime (in Houston) on Thursday night.

Will the four winning teams have enough time to lick their wounds in order to come back in form on the field next Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday?

Four two-legged series start in only two days and in the meantime you'll be asked the clubs who are going to come out on top at the other end.

So again, let it be clear on the nature of the winners and losers you are predicting: it's about the series not about the first and second leg individual games.

Each series starts at home and ends on the road for the lowest seeded team. If there is a tie after 180 minutes of play, the club with the highest number of away goals wins the series. If a draw persists, the second leg continues with a two half of 15 minutes overtime followed by a shootout if necessary.


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THE COST OF ENTRY

- 100 POCKET* tokens (see the rules for the paying method) per participant (only one participation per steemit account will be accepted)

*I'll be selling 100 POCKET for the price of 0.001 SBD to those who need it to enter the contest. All you have to do is to send the amount with a memo asking for your POCKET tokens in return.


THE CONTEST PRIZES

- 75,000 POCKET tokens + 75% of this post's SBD (7.5 SBD min.) for the 1st place

- 20,000 POCKET tokens + 20% of this post's SBD (2 SBD min.) for the 2nd place

- 5,000 POCKET tokens + 5% of this post's SBD (0.5 SBD min.) for the 3rd place

- 2,500 POCKET tokens for the 4th place

- 1,000 POCKET tokens for the 5th place


THE SERIES INVOLVED

1 - West's 3rd VANCOUVER WHITECAPS (VAN) receive West's 2nd SEATTLE SOUNDERS (SEA) on 10/29/2017 at 8:30 PM ET
&
West's 2nd SEATTLE SOUNDERS (SEA) receive West's 3rd VANCOUVER WHITECAPS (VAN) on 11/02/2017 at 10:30 PM ET


2 - East's 6th NEW YORK RED BULLS (NYRB) receive East's 1st TORONTO FC (TFC) on 10/30/2017 at 7 PM ET
&
East's 1st TORONTO FC (TFC) receives East's 6th NEW YORK RED BULLS (NYRB) on 11/05/2017 at 3 PM ET


3 - West's 4th DYNAMO HOUSTON (HOU) receives West's 1st PORTLAND TIMBERS (POR) on 10/30/2017 at 9:30 PM ET
&
West's 1st PORTLAND TIMBERS (POR) receive West's 4th DYNAMO HOUSTON (HOU) on 11/05/2017 at TBD


4 - East's 5th COLUMBUS CREW (CLB) receives East's 2nd NEW YORK CITY FC (NYCFC) on 10/31/2017 at 8 PM ET
&
East's 2nd NEW YORK CITY FC (NYCFC) receives East's 5th COLUMBUS CREW (CLB) on 11/05/2017 at TBD


THE PLAYERS INVOLVED

1 - Fredy Montero (VAN)
2 - Nicolás Lodeiro (SEA)
3 - Bradley Wright-Phillips (NYRB)
4 - Sebastian Giovinco (TFC)
5 - Alberth Elis (HOU)
6 - Diego Valeri (POR)
7- Justin Meram (CLB)
8 - David Villa (NYCFC)

Pick one as your tiebreaker.

This is how the tiebreaker goes from now on (some changes have been made to the chosen stats & order since, with the possibility of overtime in the playoffs, minutes played are not as much relevant):​ the highest number of goals counts first, followed by the highest number of assists, then the highest number of shots on goal, and finally the highest number of shots.


THE RULES

- you have to pay a 100 POCKET fee by starting your comment with this command (followed by a space):

pocketsend:100@heroic15397,

- your have to comment your entry before Sunday, October 29, 8:30 PM ET

- you have to upvote the post

- you have to predict each series as either being a win (W) or a loss (L) for the lowest seeded team

- you have to type one of the players as your tiebreaker


THE EXAMPLE YOU SHOULD COPY-PASTE & EDIT TO REFLECT YOUR PREDICTIONS

pocketsend:100@heroic15397,
1 - VAN (L)
2 - NYRB (W)
3 - HOU (W)
4 - CLB (L)
Tiebreaker - Alberth Elis (HOU)


HAVE FUN!



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Here are MLS Contest #10's results:

1st: @maarnio had 3/4 correct with 0 GA by David Ousted/Stefan Marinovic (VAN) as the tiebreaker (75% of the SBD + 75,000 POCKET)
2nd: @jsock had 3/4 correct with 4 GA by Matt Lampson (CHI) as the tiebreaker (20% of the SBD + 20,000 POCKET)
3rd: @barcalogia had 2/4 correct with 0 GA & 6 Saves by Tyler Deric (HOU) as the tiebreaker (5% of the SBD + 5,000 POCKET)
4th: @baus85 had 2/4 correct with 0 GA & 5 Saves by David Ousted/Stefan Marinovic (VAN) as the tiebreaker (2,500 POCKET)
5th: @davor27 had 1/4 correct with 0 GA & 6 Saves by Tyler Deric (HOU) as the tiebreaker (1,000 POCKET)

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pocketsend:100@heroic15397,
1 - VAN (L)
2 - NYRB (L)
3 - HOU (L)
4 - CLB (L)
Tiebreaker - David Villa (NYCFC)

I'm glad I didn't miss the contest, although I couldn't put as much time as usual :)

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Cool :-) Good luck!

1 - VAN (W)
2 - NYRB (W)
3 - HOU (L)
4 - CLB (W)

Diego Valeri (POR)

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1 - VAN (L)
2 - NYRB (W)
3 - HOU (W)
4 - CLB (L)
Tiebreaker - David Villa

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pocketsend:100@heroic15397,

VAN (L)
NYRB (L)
HOU (L)
CLB (L)
Tiebreaker - Lodeiro

This is what I think is most likely to happen with the results, but not what I hope happens. I'd like Portland to lose, because Houston would be easier to dispatch in the western final. I'd also hope for the Red Bulls to knock out Toronto so Seattle can host the MLS cup final. Nothing would be better than making it two cups in two years at home, and I'd defenately be there if that were the case.

Good luck!

What do you think of Lodeiro as the Seattle representative among this week's chosen players? I know he was key to last year Sounders' successes but I'm not super aware of how his 2017 season went in general. Clint Dempsey is on a red card suspension, Jordan Morris is injured, and I didn't want to pick Will Bruin because I don't think he is as influential on the field as those other three. I would even have​ preferred picking Ozzie Alonso over Bruin, but he is also injured and never really expected to reap the points anyway.

Lodeiro is ok but I would have selected Bruin if he was an option. Lodeiro will likely be playing deeper in the miss field with Ozzy and Svensonn out, so he's likely to be doing a lot of the creating and earning assists rather than goals. Although Bruin isn't a great playmaker or creating hours own chances, he's on a goal scoring tear right now and is the most likely to be scoring right now. I'm calling at least one Dempsey goal in Seattle though for the second leg, for sure. If Alonso was in he'd be holding the defense and letting Christian Roldan do what he does in the attacking mid so well, making him goal dangerous too... but as it stands now he's hoping to be holding things down defensively to let Lodeiro take the more attacking roll from the back mid.

Whitecaps have a bad defense, but our offense is missing a lot of pieces for today's match. They have been doing well with Freddie Montero (Sounders legend by the way), but our defense is top friggin notch and Stefan Frei is possibly the best keeper in MLS. Only way I'd be concerned is if Chad Marshal is injured for today's match; that would be a huge hit for Seattle's lineup.
I could see today ending as a low scoring draw or Sounders scoring a late winner from Neagel or Bruin making it a 1-0 win. Just limit Vancouver's chances on set pieces and we'll be good.

Thanks for the input! Looking forward to watching tonight's game!

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Vancouver L
NY W
Houston W
Columbus L
David Villa (NYCFC)

Draws can't happen as the result of a playoff series, maybe you would want to think​ about editing your entry.

The corrections have been noted.

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1 - VAN (W)
2 - NYRB (W)
3 - HOU (L)
4 - CLB (L)
TB: David Villa

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1 - VAN (L)
2 - NYRB (L)
3 - HOU (W)
4 - CLB (L)

Tiebreaker - David Villa

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Thanks for your help @pocket-pi!

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1 - VAN (L)
2 - NYRB (W)
3 - HOU (W)
4 - CLB (W)
Tiebreaker - Alberth Elis (HOU)

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1 - VAN (W)
2 - NYRB (L)
3 - HOU (W)
4 - CLB (L)
TB: Bradley Wright-Phillips (NYRB)

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