2014-2015 Boards FSA Champions Cup

The competition
The Boards FSA Champions Cup, known simply as the FSA Champions Cup to some, is an annual continental fantasy football competition organised by Lemlin. It is one of the most prestigious fantasy football tournaments in the world and the most prestigious fantasy club competition in Irish fantasy football.

The entrants:
64 teams seeded into pots of four and drawn into 16 groups of 4 in a fight to the death until only one remains.

Roll of honour:
2012-2013: Pokerking
2013-2014: Boots234
2014-2015: ?

The fixtures:

Match 1 - GW22
Match 2 - GW23
Match 3 - GW24
Match 4 - GW25
Match 5 - GW26
Match 6 - GW27
GW28 will be for any potential play offs.

Round of 32 (2 legs) - GW29 & 30
Round of 16 (2 legs) - GW31 & 32
Quarter Final (2 legs) - GW33 & 34
Semi Final (2 legs) - GW35 & 36
Final x 1 - GW38

You get 3 points for a win and one for a draw as per a normal football table in the group stages. Groups will always be sorted in 4 teams. 2 teams from each group will go through to the knockout stage.

Rules:

1. Like the actual Champions League, teams will be seeded for the draw so everyone will need to provide their rank from last year. They will also be seeded in the first part of the second round knockout stage, just like the CL. From there on, its open draw. I think seeding based on last year alone is the fairest way to do it as some people are playing longer than others.
2. The closing date for entries will be Sunday 11th January at 12 midnight.
3. If two teams are equal on points after the group stages, like the CL it goes to head to head record against each other (e.g. who won the most of their two games against each other). If both won one game against each other, then there'll be a final play off round in Gameweek 28. This will not go to aggregate scores between their two games.
4. From the second round onwards, games will be aggregate based over two gameweeks like the real CL.
5. For future rules we need, I will try to go with general consensus and what people want but if agreement can't be reached then the mods (FutureGuy and Nody) have final say, unless a decision directly involves them if they enter.

Invigilators:

Copper_pipe - Groups A & B
Iused2likebusts - Groups C & D
FinnHarpsboy - Groups E & F
iroced - Groups G & H
FrClintPower - Groups I & J
OneColdHand - Groups K & L
G1032 - Groups M & N
FHFC - Groups O & P


Seedings:
Pot 1:

Steven81
Lemlin
iroced
Thunderdog
Iago
JR6
irish son
FHFC
Dearg81
Swiper the Fox
Iused2likebusts
CSF
Boots234
Zarquon
Dónal
Qwabercd

Pot 2:

alchemist33
FrClintPower
ScienceNerd
TaytoCrisps
skippy15
El festino
KevIRL
P.Walnuts
remoteboy
Pokerking
kevinroche3333
Lucas Hood
tom_k
Trigger Happy
Sooner Or Later
km79

Pot 3:

G1032
Dahat
Hackers
AdpRo
The_dazzler
Futureguy
jebforever
SantryRed
ItsChecoTime
Kilburn
Nib
finnharpsboy
Posada
Mr Prodston
AdMMM
PARlance

Pot 4:

Rikand
manual_man
jimmii
Ziegler1988
F1ngers
menoscemo
CrabieCrawford
richieffff
Sheroman01
LeaveItOff
Ace2007
Copper_pipe
spock
OneColdHand
internet_user
$hifty

The Prizes
Winner - €50 Paypal payment (kindly donated by Iago).
Second Place - €25 One4All voucher (kindly donated by FinnHarpsBoy)
Third Place - €20 Ruaboutie.ie voucker (kindly donated by jimmii)
Fourth Place - €10 Amazon voucher (kindly donated by Ziegler)




Entrants for the Last Longest competition.
jimmii (paid)
KevIRL (paid)
Hackers (paid)
$hifty (paid)
jebforever (paid)
Iago (paid)
Dahat (paid)
Qwabercd (paid)
AdpRo (paid)
Spock (paid)
SantryRed (paid)
Finnharpsboy (paid)
Boots234 (paid)
menoscemo (paid)
internet_user (paid)
AdMMM (paid)
Dearg81 (paid)
FHFC (paid)
km79 (paid)