Fantasy Sports Arena Champions League - Charity Event

Iused2likebusts

I meant to set this up over the last international break. As discussed in pre season we were hoping to run a CL style competition for a charity of zarquon's choice( Hope your doing well). I was thinking of a voluntary donation to enter minimum 5 euro. FHFC said he will help out with organising so details to follow on payment etc. The idea would be to get in as many as possible and then work out how to structure it. May I suggest you thank this post if you think you would be interested in joining so we can get a rough idea on numbers

Missing Links

Great initiative.

iroced

Je, iroced, France, suis zarquon .

CSF

Highest finishing member of the Qualifying League in this will get a spot in League 2.

jimmii

CSF wrote: »

Highest finishing member of the Qualifying League in this will get a spot in League 2.

Great idea!

FHFC

Just bumping this. Also, I'm sure there are those who don't know the background. Zarquon is an FSA stalwart since well before I stumbled in here, and was the inaugural FSA Premier Champ. Sadly less frequent contributions last season and recently shared with the forum that he has been battling serious illness, and inspiring us to put our obsession to some use by doing a forum charity competition.

iroced

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

[...]for a charity of zarquon's choice (Hope your doing well).[...]

Initially I did not get the part in between brackets. Thought it was just a general comment (how you're doing pal?) related to you, zarquon, posting less in this forum lately.
But...

FHFC wrote: »

[...]and recently shared with the forum that he has been battling serious illness, and inspiring us to put our obsession to some use by doing a forum charity competition.

So I searched the forum and eventually found your touching post about "it". I totally missed it since it was during my 2 months summer FPL break. Sorry to hear about "that" zarquon and kinda feel a bit stupid now about my previous post... though it can somehow suit the situation.

I know, well no I actually don't and hope I never will know, what you're going through, but I've externally experienced it with some close relatives of mine who've been and still are fighting serious illness and/or poor prognosis and are still there. Human body sometimes find resources defying any science. I deeply wish this applies to you too.

PARlance

I completely missed out on the news, great idea and my thoughts are with you Zarquon.

Iused2likebusts

If somebody wants to link zarquons post I didn't know how to do that.

POKERKING

PARlance wrote: »

I completely missed out on the news, great idea and my thoughts are with you Zarquon.

Me too, happy to get involved.

Scorpion Sting

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

If somebody wants to link zarquons post I didn't know how to do that.

Here is zarquon's post.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=100603165&postcount=95

POKERKING

Scorpion Sting wrote: »

Here is zarquon's post.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=100603165&postcount=95

Thanks, very emotional reading that for a guy i never met but know by name around here only. It takes a strong person to post that and i have nothing but respect and best wishes for Zarquon.

Absolutely count me in for this if only just to contribute as im not sure i have the time to do another team.

Thanks

Iused2likebusts

POKERKING wrote: »

Thanks, very emotional reading that for a guy i never met but know by name around here only. It takes a strong person to post that and i have nothing but respect and best wishes for Zarquon.

Absolutely count me in for this if only just to contribute as im not sure i have the time to do another team.

Thanks

Great post. You will be just using the team you already have. We will take the scores from that.

zarquon

Thanks guys (and gals!) for your efforts and thoughts here. I'm managing, often it's a struggle but by the grace of God i get to enjoy another gameweek - of course i use the word enjoy sparingly - continuing to experience poor gameweeks makes FPL seem like masochism at the best of times but i'm enjoying a good tussle with Swiper in the FSA premier league so all is not lost for now

I would like to nominate the galway hospice foundation as the recipients of any proceeds for all the tremendous work they do, not just in my life but in the lives of so many in their final stages. The staff and facilities are incredible and serve a wonderful purpose so it would please me greatly to be able to contribute to the good work they do.

steve_r

All the very best Zarquon

Iused2likebusts

We are going to get this up and running over the international break. FHFC will post up payment details its a minimum 5 euro donation to enter. The charity is the galway hospice foundation. The deadline for entries is Midnight on monday 17th october. When we have final numbers we will discuss the layout but there will be atleast 6 group games.

FHFC

Payment.

Paypal to trevg1977 at gmail.com. (posting email to avoid having to reply to 50 pms, but trying to avoid being harvested for spam there but you hopefully get the picture).

V Important. Please when using paypal select the 'friends and family' option and NOT 'pay for goods or service' as the latter will see a significant fee deducted my end. Any I recieve like this will be refunded.

Also, a tip, when paying friends and family using a credit/debit card there is still a small fee which should be deducted your end (you get to select who pays the fee - select you pay or its getting refunded too!! ). However if you transfer money from you card into PayPal first, or already have a balance in PayPal then there is NO FEE for anyone.

Anyone wanting to do an online bank transfer pm me and I'll sort you with BIC and IBAN.

In both cases when transferring include you BOARDS USERNAME as a ref.

Please then post here with your FPL ID and once I get payment cleared will add you to the competition.

GLaDOS

Paid there

FPL ID: 21353

FHFC

GLaDOS wrote: »

Paid there

FPL ID: 21353

Gotcha.

From here on in, taking a leaf from the book of the well oiled CSF machine I'll thank post to confirm I've received people's payments.

Scorpion Sting

Paid, ID is 157.

ID - 5245

patmac

CSF wrote: »

Highest finishing member of the Qualifying League in this will get a spot in League 2.

Maybe those entering from League 2 get a spot in League 1 only if they win mind.

tailgunner

Just paid. ID is 81324.

spock.

Paid there

ID: 185

patmac

Paid
ID:2757

Kankan14

Sent by bank transfer from ulster bank.

Team id: 42211

manual_man

Paid(bank transfer)

ID: 17999

CSF

patmac wrote: »

CSF wrote: »

Highest finishing member of the Qualifying League in this will get a spot in League 2.

Maybe those entering from League 2 get a spot in League 1 only if they win mind.

No can do unfortunately.

FHFC

Please remember to put boards name in as reference on bank transfers. Otherwise I've no way of knowing which boardsie it's relating to.

Boots234

Paid(bank transfer)

ID: 3072

harps1954

Paid (paypal). ID: 1481

greedygoblin

Paid (bank transfer)
ID: 9785

Swiper the fox

I've done that now, hope it's alright as I'm still a bit of an amateur with paypal

ID 85684

FHFC

For some reason some bank transfers are not showing the comments/reference people add. Got one today with just a name on it (so dunno if its Boots or Greedygoblin), but I know people are putting refs that just aren't coming through.
Something to do with it coming from a different bank I suspect.

Apart from manual man and KanKan14 if you've bank transfered me please drop me a PM with the your name (or the name of the account it's coming from if different).

Please any bank transfers from now on do this too.

Boots234

PM sent

FHFC

Just a quick one on this for peoples thoughts.

As people are paying various different amounts of donations it makes this slightly difficult to ensure the integrity of the thing (or more importantly my integrity as the bag man) is not open to question.

I.e. if it was ten euro each and 40 people entered then I have to cough up €400 when all is said and done.

But as nobody but me knows what anyone else donated then I can embezzle as much as I like. As donations are voluntary I had originally not intended to post a list of the individual donations so as not to put any pressure on what people feel they can give. But unless that list is on the record, such that everyone can see that their donation, at the correct amount, is included in the total I am sort of in a difficult situation where ye are all putting complete and absolute trust in me not to run off with half the cash and say that everyone donated a fiver.

Equally I don't want to throw up the list of donations without the consent of the donors.

Any suggestions on how to verify the donations other than publishing a list of names and amounts??

wonski

FHFC wrote: »

Just a quick one on this for peoples thoughts.

As people are paying various different amounts of donations it makes this slightly difficult to ensure the integrity of the thing (or more importantly my integrity as the bag man) is not open to question.

I.e. if it was ten euro each and 40 people entered then I have to cough up €400 when all is said and done.

But as nobody but me knows what anyone else donated then I can embezzle as much as I like. As donations are voluntary I had originally not intended to post a list of the individual donations so as not to put any pressure on what people feel they can give. But unless that list is on the record, such that everyone can see that their donation, at the correct amount, is included in the total I am sort of in a difficult situation where ye are all putting complete and absolute trust in me not to run off with half the cash and say that everyone donated a fiver.

Any suggestions on how to verify the donations other than publishing a list of names and amounts??

A poll maybe with various amounts, but anonymous? As long as you set it with 5 euro intervals it should work.

We trust you, though

Iused2likebusts

We trust you. Its a fair point you make but I can't imagine anybody has an issue. I also see no harm in putting up a list but some may have an issue with this which is fair enough.

manual_man

The only way to ensure anonymity would be to do something like this as far as I can see:

Example - 40 donations so assign each person a random number between 1 and 40 and pm them their number (so only the two of you know what their number is). Then post here on the thread the numbers with the correspending donation amount so each person can see that the donation amount corresponds to how much they donated, and in so doing would show the total amount in donations also.

CSF

More than willing to place my trust in this being done properly without needing it all itemised. Will try get my payment in over the weekend.

Kankan14

Happy to take your word for it.

manual_man

CSF wrote: »

More than willing to place my trust in this being done properly without needing it all itemised. Will try get my payment in over the weekend.

I don't think making things transparent can do any harm. I'd be very surprised if there was anything untoward was going on, but the majority of us don't know one another other than by our boards persona, so transparency can just put everyone's mind completely at ease and who knows may even encourage a few more donations. It requires some more admin - I'd be glad to help with that - but I definitely think it's a good idea.

FHFC

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

We trust you. Its a fair point you make but I can't imagine anybody has an issue. I also see no harm in putting up a list but some may have an issue with this which is fair enough.

I'm not doubting that people will generally go on trust. But its a bit too unaccountable for my liking in (highly unlikely) event of it being questioned. Plus if even a minority of people are reluctant to hand over money to a stranger on the internet on those terms it'll affect the venture.

Anyhow. Manual man's idea works perfectly. I'll receipt everyone by PM with a reference number and list total without names when we're done. Very little extra work in that.

zarquon

Honestly, happy to trust you, FHFC. The fact that you are looking for a method of accountability shows the integrity that you have.

With that in mind im happy to entrust you with the 2k i sent or are you going to say you didn't get it :O

In all seriousness though, i dont feel there is a need to burden yourself further

GLaDOS

I can understand FHFC wanting to protect himself tbf

FHFC

zarquon wrote: »

Honestly, happy to trust you, FHFC. The fact that you are looking for a method of accountability shows the integrity that you have.

With that in mind im happy to entrust you with the 2k i sent or are you going to say you didn't get it :O

In all seriousness though, i dont feel there is a need to burden yourself further

That could all be part of the cunning plan!

It's fine now lads. Its sorted. I'm happy to just send an extra pm with a reference number to everyone as they pay.

I don't want any room for doubts, spoken or unspoken.

iroced

@ FHFC: I trust you... unless you don't trust your own pants :pac:.

FHFC

Yis won't be laughing when yis see "Boards FSA" listed as match sponsor for Finn Harps next home game...

GLaDOS

FHFC wrote: »

Yis won't be laughing when yis see "Boards FSA" listed as match sponsor for Finn Harps next home game...

Given the amount of people here in the FH league, we practically are official sponsors :pac:

dahat

Donation sent, will source the team id later as on mobile just now.

Team ID 11550.

Scorpion Sting

dahat wrote: »

Donation sent, will source the team id later as on mobile just now.

Yours is 11550.