Posted
11:22 PM
On the pain of 2nd prizeSo, I am sure many of you are familiar with the concept of fantasy sport teams. You pick some real-life players from a given sport based on certain criteria, and then you get points depending on how those players perform in real life. He whom gets the most points over the course of a season/competition, wins.
I was invited to join such a competition with regard to the British & Irish Lions' tour of South Africa (rugby union). Entry was free, and I feel I know a fair bit about rugby, so I entered. I was doing surprisingly well, I was inside the top 50 (out of about 8,000) for most of the first third of the tour. The matches happened every Saturday and Wednesday, so I made sure to change my team before every game, as the teams were extensively changes for each match. However, about two thirds of the way through the tour, a game happened on a Tuesday instead of a Wednesday! Also, it happened at lunchtime instead of the evening (I would've been more likely to pick up on the fact if it was an evening game due to my regular evening web-surfing). Consequently, I scored but a handful of points (as most of my players, whom I had selected for the previous game, did not play this time) and plummeted down to about 350th. I felt quite sad and a bit annoyed as I was doing so well up to that point.
However, I continued to pick teams for subsequent game and fought my way back up the rankings; first inside the top 100 , then top 50, then before the final game to 21st (top 3 get cool prizes; 4th to 13th a rugby top). The last match went well for me, and I finished inside the top 13, netting myself a rugby top.
IF I HAD KNOWN ABOUT THE GAME THAT HAPPENED ON THE TUESDAY AND PICKED A TEAM FOR IT I WOULD'VE FINISHED 1ST AND WIN A HUGE TV, SPEAKERS AND A 12 MOTH PAY-TV SUBSCRIPTION!!!!!!
I'm so annoyed.
Link to my teamLabels: rugby