Boards FIFA 11 Manual Cup

Fowler87

Ive been thinking for a while about setting up a Boards manual cup for anybody interested. I know theres a few on the site playing manual fifa and hopefully a few more will change over from assisted/default settings.

So if ya want a few unassisted and generally more realistic games of fifa, throw yer Boards tag and PSN down below and wel try to get it up and running soon...

First of all, I dont want to take anything away from TheWools who has a cracking setup in the already established leagues on boards. Its just near nigh impossible to find manual matches in the game at times so hopefully wel get a core manual players through the tournament...

Rules

1. No assistance allowed; including auto switching set to manual, auto switch move assistance to none and pass power assistance to off. Analog sprint, however should be set to ON.
2. Pick any 4* club team
3. Boards fifa rules charter to be acknowledged and implemented during the cup

T-b0n3

I'm 100% in. PSN: Adam-88-S

A manual cup would be great fun. If you need a hand doing anything, I'm sure I can help, would love to see this up and running.

Fowler87

Cheers Adam, I see yer flying high in the rankings so would be good to test ourselves against the best:D If ya want mate, Il put ya down as a co-adminstrator along with myself and Gillysome on the soccerrepublic site Im planning to use. Havent a dogs notion on how to use the site but the mods on soccer republic said theyd help me out to organise it. Il PM ya the details of the link if yer interested mate.

I said 4 star teams (as using 5 star teams as ya know can lead to frantic/sloppy play during games) because it will add a bit of more skill and realism to matches. But if anyone wants to pick a lower starred team (as I myself am planning to use Udinese) thats mighty. Hopefully over the next few weeks a few more will drop into the thread and put their name down

T-b0n3

Yea sounds good. Fire away. I'm sure well get a few more anyway.

Just Contribute

Count me in. PSN: Just-Contribute

I'm just playing to have fun and make up the numbers. Never played manual before so not expecting much.

-gilly-09-

I'm definitely in. great idea mate. Psn - Gillly09:D:D:D

Kells...

Im in PSN is Kells97 I neverplayed manual before.

Fowler87

Now we're flying it:pac:

To the lads who havent played manual before, Id get practicing. I dont mean to sound patronising or anythin, its just that its a change from the assisted play and takes a couple weeks to get used to. Probably wont start for another while until we see how many players we have so in the mean time, ditch those assisted settings and see how ye get on! Everyones entitled to take part though, so the more the merrier.

Adam, Il get the site details PM'd to ya.

Töpher

Only seen this now, sign me up. PSN Uroboric.

Philly_C

I'll play aswell.

PSN: philly_c_

neil.p.b

Count me in

PSN:waxandshine

colsku

out of the country till friday, but if I'm not too late I'd love to join. User: colsku

Fowler87

colsku wrote: »

out of the country till friday, but if I'm not too late I'd love to join. User: colsku

No problem as long as you realise its all manual settings we're playing... Planning to get this started over the Xmas period/first week in the New Year.. atm we should have around 8-10 players..

Just Contribute

Ideally, seeing as this is a cup, you would want eight or sixteen players.

You could always make a league?

Fowler87

Just Contribute wrote: »

Ideally, seeing as this is a cup, you would want eight or sixteen players.

You could always make a league?

Well it is gonna be a league but theres gonna be a knockout cup (say top 4 facing off) at the end of it... But if we could get a couple more, maybe we could get two leagues going with the top teams in each group playing each other in the knockout stages... wel see what happens

Töpher

I'd say splitting it into leagues of 4 with the top 2 progressing would be the best idea if possible. If you went for one big league, you might find the guys nearer the bottom would stop playing after 3 or 4 games if they were miles adrift.

Just Contribute

Töpher wrote: »

I'd say splitting it into leagues of 4 with the top 2 progressing would be the best idea if possible. If you went for one big league, you might find the guys nearer the bottom would stop playing after 3 or 4 games if they were miles adrift.

Agreed. Like L'prof's World Cup during the summer, but with four groups of four.

Fowler87

Töpher wrote: »

I'd say splitting it into leagues of 4 with the top 2 progressing would be the best idea if possible. If you went for one big league, you might find the guys nearer the bottom would stop playing after 3 or 4 games if they were miles adrift.

If we get 16 players, I agree with ya, thats the best option. However, I reckon 10-12 players is the maximum we're gonna get and we'll be left with odd numbers during knockout then. So splitting the leagues into 5/6 per league with top two in each facing off respectively to get a winner is probably the best route... However, if we do get the 16 players, we'll go with the 4 group champions league style cup;)

Gillysome

Fowler87 wrote: »

If we get 16 players, I agree with ya, thats the best option. However, I reckon 10-12 players is the maximum we're gonna get and we'll be left with odd numbers during knockout then. So splitting the leagues into 5/6 per league with top two in each facing off respectively to get a winner is probably the best route... However, if we do get the 16 players, we'll go with the 4 group champions league style cup;)

Just say we only get the 12. Could we not have 4 groups of 3 with the top 2 progressing. That way we would have 8 players, then 4 and then the final?? Or am I miscounting? Maths was never my strong point:pac::P

T-b0n3

Gillysome wrote: »

Just say we only get the 12. Could we not have 4 groups of 3 with the top 2 progressing. That way we would have 8 players, then 4 and then the final?? Or am I miscounting? Maths was never my strong point:pac::P

Yea that would work too. 16 would be ideal though. I suggest playing everyone twice in the group stages also.

neil.p.b

If we get 16 and do it champions league style, i think having a uefa cup type knock out for the bottom two teams of gthe groups would be good. It'd just mean even if you're not doing too well in the league you've still something to play for and it should stop people dropping out if they lose their first couple of group games.

Just Contribute

neil.p.b wrote: »

If we get 16 and do it champions league style, i think having a uefa cup type knock out for the bottom two teams of gthe groups would be good. It'd just mean even if you're not doing too well in the league you've still something to play for and it should stop people dropping out if they lose their first couple of group games.

In theory, that is correct. However, this was tried in the Fifa 10 Knockout Tournaments, and there were a lot of unplayed games.

bigred100

I'd be up for that

PSN: BPK27

Fowler87

Lads just letting ye know that my PS3 has shat out over the weekend while playing fifa and wont read any disk now:( (only 2 years old... thank you Sony:rolleyes:)... So when the league starts, Il have to give it a miss cos I probably wont have my PS until the middle of January.

Still want to get this league up and running ASAP though and will help out the other two admins (Gillysome and T-b0n) if need be on any recording of results etc..:)

tiernanmul_gos

ill enter tiernanmon_94 but iwont have fifa 11 till chrimbo

obliviousgrudge

I'm in, PSN: emmetmcl

DH2K9

I'm in: PSN:DHUSSEY1

neil.p.b

4 more spaces left if we're doing it champions league style

ShagNastii

I'm in. PSN: fr_dick_byrne

Sephiroth_dude

im in,psn: sephiroth_dude,whens it taking place?

T-b0n3

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

im in,psn: sephiroth_dude,whens it taking place?

January some time, we will keep you posted.

Sephiroth_dude

Good stuff,better brush up on my skills so

Gillysome

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

im in,psn: sephiroth_dude,whens it taking place?

Very soon all going well. Ideally we need two more heads but if not we'll work something. We should get started b4 new year anyway. I'll pm ye all a few days b4 we start.

obliviousgrudge

When is this starting?

Just start off the odd numbered groups if someone else doesn't sign up soon.

Gillysome

Right lads were not looking good for getting the numbers to do it champions league style. How do ye feel about the two leagues idea with the top 4 from each going thru to the ko stages? At least that way we'll all get a good run of games regardless of where we finish. 4.5 star teams or lower are winning the poll so we'll go with the majority. If ye want to start picking teams we can start to generate the leagues and fixtures. Pick 3 teams in order of preferance(4.5 star or lower). Pm ur picks to me or one of the other administrators and we'll get motoring. Should we say next Monday to start it? That way everyone has a days grace after the new year celebrations. I'll pm ye all just incase some people have forgotten they put their name in

T-b0n3

Gillysome wrote: »

Right lads were not looking good for getting the numbers to do it champions league style. How do ye feel about the two leagues idea with the top 4 from each going thru to the ko stages? At least that way we'll all get a good run of games regardless of where we finish. 4.5 star teams or lower are winning the poll so we'll go with the majority. If ye want to start picking teams we can start to generate the leagues and fixtures. Pick 3 teams in order of preferance(4.5 star or lower). Pm ur picks to me or one of the other administrators and we'll get motoring. Should we say next Monday to start it? That way everyone has a days grace after the new year celebrations. I'll pm ye all just incase some people have forgotten they put their name in

Sounds good to me. I'm heading skiing from the 8th-16th of Jan (so is gillly09) Hopefully that doesn't call too many problems. We can try get a good few of our games played before we go, and the catch up asap once were back, hope thats alright. I'll pm you my teams now mate.

Forgot to say neil.p.b is also coming skiing with us. So thats the 3 of us out of action for a week, but as I said we can get a good lot of our games played before, and then catch up with anything we miss straight after, hope thats okay.

Gillysome

T-b0n3 wrote: »

Sounds good to me. I'm heading skiing from the 8th-16th of Jan (so is gillly09) Hopefully that doesn't call too many problems. We can try get a good few of our games played before we go, and the catch up asap once were back, hope thats alright. I'll pm you my teams now mate.

Forgot to say neil.p.b is also coming skiing with us. So thats the 3 of us out of action for a week, but as I said we can get a good lot of our games played before, and then catch up with anything we miss straight after, hope thats okay.

Thats 100% man. Ye can get yer fixtures in advance if ye want or just catch up after yer back. Sorry about the lack of info on this lately....between 1 thing and another i havnt been online much. Im gonna get cracking on the pm's now. All going well we should have a shape on things by the end of the week. I may get bk playing fifa too, havnt been on in a week:pac:

Gillysome

All pms sent now. Start adding each other on the psn and we should be good to go next week

Desire to Aspire

If it's alright, I will be replacing Just Contribute in this tournament as he will not be able to complete his fixtures?

Kells...

Gillysome I sent my teams.

Gillysome

Desire to Aspire wrote: »

If it's alright, I will be replacing Just Contribute in this tournament as he will not be able to complete his fixtures?

Yep no problem. You happy to go with his team pick or do you want to change it?

Gillysome

TroutFisher wrote: »

Gillysome I sent my teams.

Just updating the teams now, think everyones picks are in. Post the list up shortly:D

Desire to Aspire

Gillysome wrote: »

Yep no problem. You happy to go with his team pick or do you want to change it?

I'm happy with his team, yeah.

Kells...

Come on the Villa.

Gillysome

T-bon3................................................Tottenham Hotspurs
Neil.p.b................................................Bayern Munich
-gilly-09-..............................................Arsenal
Topher.................................................Lyon
Gillysome............................................Boca Juniors
Just Contribute................................Sporting Club Braga
Sephiroth Dude..................................Liverpool
Bigred100............................................Athletico Madrid
DH2K9.................................................Newcastle United
Emmetmcel..........................................Celtic
Colsku.................................................Hoffenheim
Troutfisher.........................................Aston Villa
Desire to aspire.....................................Valencia
Shagnastii...........................................Still to pick
Tiernanmul_gos.................................Still to Pick
Philly C................................................Sunderland

Desire to Aspire

Will you be using League Republic to organise the tournament?

Gillysome

Desire to Aspire wrote: »

Will you be using League Republic to organise the tournament?

yep fowler87 has it kind of set up already. He started the thread and put me and adam as admins. Fowlers playstation kicked the bucket since though:eek:

Desire to Aspire

Gillysome wrote: »

yep fowler87 has it kind of set up already. He started the thread and put me and adam as admins. Fowlers playstation kicked the bucket since though:eek:

Alright. When will the groups be decided? I'm itching to go... :pac:

Gillysome

Desire to Aspire wrote: »

Alright. When will the groups be decided? I'm itching to go... :pac:

Good question:pac: I actually miscounted on the number we had. There are 15 of us in it. odd number what ever way we do it:( I was favouring splitting into 2 leagues with 7 in each and the top 4 from each going to the ko stages. we could do it champions league style though with 4 groups of 4(1 with 3) and the top 2 go thru. I dont mind either way thou what ever way ye want it

Kells...

Champions league sounds the best way.

Desire to Aspire

I don't mind either way. If you like, I can get Just Contribute to play to make up the numbers?