Six Nations Round 1 Results

So, Engand foxed everyone by picking up most points, which meant that no one got a joker bonus this week. Dec got hammered for backing the Welsh at Twickenham and three people actually ended the first week in positive points.

Position Score 1 9 Me 2 4 Dave 3 3 Alex 4 -11 Ant 5 -27 Dec

Six Nations Round 1

Me Dec Alex Pease Dave Ireland vs Italy Ireland by 20 Ireland by 26 Ireland by 19 Ireland by 24 Ireland by 17 England vs Wales England by 10 Wales by 7 England by 5 England by 2 England by 6 Scotland vs France France by 8 France by 18 France by 12 France by 18 France by 6

Everyone picked Ireland as their joker, everyone has a mulligan available.

New Six Nations

A new round with enhanced rules!

Each person puts £10 in.
Winner takes all.

For each game pick a winner and by how many points.

+5 for the right winner
+10 for the exact right points difference
-1 for each points difference out

e.g. England vs Italy guess England win by 10 points.

If England win 23-13 – +15
If England win 23-12 – +4
If England win 23-15 – +4
If England lose 23-13 – -20

Bonus rules:

1 Mulligan: Once throughout the game you can select a result to ignore. This must be nominated within 2 days of the result and cannot be transferred. E.g. if you selected England to beat Italy by 10 pts and England lost 23-13 you’d normally lose 20 pts. If you select this as your Mulligan, you score zero points.
Weekly Jester: Pick the team you think will get the most points that week. If you’re correct, you get the points that team got.

For example, you pick Ireland

Ireland – France – 30-15
England – Wales – 29-12
Italy – Scotland – 6-3

You would get 30 points. If you picked any other team you would get 0 points.

Winner is the one with the most overall points at the end.

Back Office Systems

There should be two principles to back office IT.

1) Make monkeys redundant.
2) Free up good guys time.

It’s not difficult. It’s not complicated. It will save money.

All Your Money Is Belong To Me

Final scores!

Position Score 1 -27 Me 2 -58 Dave 3 -107 Dec 4 -112 Alex 5 -154 Pease

Well, it was a great tournament. By which I mean that I won the betting. I think Dec, who would normally be eternally shamed at losing a bet to me, will trade it for the Irish Grand Slam. Pease and The Grad though? Very poor showing.

And Finally…

Will Ireland get a Grand Slam? Will Dave or Me win the money? Will Ant set new record levels of sucking?

All this, and more, to be revealed:

Me Dec Alex Pease Dave Italy vs France France by 18 France by 18 France by 14 France by 15 France by 19 England vs Scotland England by 15 England by 15 England by 22 England by 18 England by 13 Wales vs Ireland Ireland by 1 Ireland by 7 Wales by 9 Wales by 5 Wales by 2

With One Round Remaining…

The status is as below. The big three figures for Pease!

Position Score 1 -16 Me 2 -40 Dave 3 -75 Alex 4 -92 Dec 5 -126 Pease

6 Nations – Round 4

Predictions for this weekend are:

Me Dec Alex Pease Dave Italy vs Wales Wales by 10 Wales by 15 Wales by 18 Wales by 25 Wales by 18 Scotland vs Ireland Ireland by 5 Ireland by 12 Ireland by 12 Ireland by 15 Ireland by 8 England vs France England by 3 France by 8 France by 5 France by 7 England by 2

Oenology

What wine goes with fishfingers, alphabites and spaghetti-os?

Amy says: Blue Nun
Dave says: Muscadet
I say: A preconception-busting Syrah.

Six Nations Round 3 Update

Current status is:

Position Score 1 -3 Me 2 -19 Dave 3 -40 Alex 4 -55 Dec 5 -75 Pease