Be Excellent To Each Other

ah, it's getting exciting, can't someone tape the final match in group a with his phone and then upload it?

Curio, I'm giving this game Priority 1, so as not to get killed dead by a Myoptika. So Tuesday's good, or straight after Obscure or Forza nights but I don't know when they will finish.

Also, I know you're both only playing for pride now, but it'd be nice if Runcle and Goatboy could play their last game. Cheers.

I havent seen him online since our last game, but I will get it done sometime, I want to be second.

Indeed! Come on, chaps, the suspense is killing me...

I'll be aiming to finish the match tonight...

*drumroll*

And the scores are in!

Sheepeh 1 - 3 Curiosity

Bugger.

Curiosity vs Sheepeh... THE DECIDER!

In a tense affair, Curiosity's Zombies took an early lead when they were gifted the ball by a Forumite that appeared to be asleep. Undaunted, Sheepeh's Forumites fought back and earned themselves a penalty after a rash challenge in the box... but the Zombie Keeper was up to the challenge and saved both the kick and the rebound!

At half time the score was 1-1.

A throw-in was soon bundled into the goal by the Zombies to give a 2-0 scoreline. Sheepeh's challenge to win by three goals had faded, but could he ruin Curiosity's chances at all? The answer was no, after a lovely through ball by... ummm... an errant Forumite slide tackling gave the Zombie striker a chance to make it 3-0, which he duly took. The FOrumites scored a late goal that they deserved, but the final score was:

Curiosity 3 Sheepeh 1

Congratulations to Curiosity, who joins Romanista and myoptika in the BeeX SWOS Cup's semi-finals.

Now we just await the 'Group of RRoD'.

Booo!

(Well done, Curiosity. Bad luck, fellow sheep-username-guy.)

I will definitely be about tonight to play these games!!

Well, about as definite as always! I'll give you both a shout if I see you about.

Come on chaps, you now all have working 360s so there's no excuses. You have until Monday until I start getting my forfeithammer out.

I'll be around from 8.30pm onwards. The Xbox will be on but I won't necessarily be sat in front of it, so if you see me online and you invite me and don't get a response, chuck me a PM on here and I'll pick it up and move over to the Xbox.

TheXboxVision (Monsters XI) 1 - 1 (Forumites) GazChap

A very well balanced match, with plenty of chances and near-misses for both sides. Half time comes and goes without incident, and the game looks set to go to the very end as a goal-less draw.

Then, in the 76th minute, the Monsters concede a throw in in a dangerous position. A quick throw up the pitch lands the ball at the feet of the Forumites' star striker Clarke, who hoofs it home to put his team 1-0 up.

But before the victory dance can truly get going, the Monsters XI respond with devastating tenacity, forcing the ball down the pitch. A blunder by the goalkeeper sees the ball bounce out of his hands, straight into the waiting foot of the Monsters attacker to put the nightmare creatures level at 1-1.

Great game Gazchap! Really enjoyed it... You almost had me!

And the final results are in.

Match The First!

Dimrill's Dinners 1 - TheVision's Forumites 0

A mental moment of madness with The Forumites goalie allowed the plucky Doughnut to nab the ball of his feet and walk it into the net. Very back and forth and pretty much even by the end.

Match The Second!

TheVision's Forumites 2 - Dimrill's Dinners 2

TheVision textbooked the ball in the diagonal to go ahead twice, but each time was hauled back by the Nasty Doughnut. This one was much more representative of the skill levels of We, I feel.

I agree with Dimrill!! Great games... really enjoyed them dude, and what a bloody nice fella!!

congrats all weith reaching the semi finals, my xbox is back in too, so lets roll on, i'll be on holiday from augsuts 22, so lets try to wrap it it up before that..

can we have an excited draw for the semi's, my optika (althoguh can we see you
're not using 'warmi balls' )

Curse you, Dimrill... curse you

What a lovely surprise! I come back from getting wasted in a field to find all the matches played - my impotent threats seemed to do the trick.

I'll see if I can dig out an old phone to do a live draw later tonight.

Sorry, I've been too ill to do this for the last week. I'll try and get it done tonight.

Semi-Final Draw:

Romanista vs myoptika
Dimrill vs Curiosity

I tried to think of a way to rig it for myself, but then realised that all of the other three are really good anyway.

Remember that this is a two-legged affair, so the winner goes through on aggregate. NB: away goals do not count. If the scores are level after two games, another must be played until there is a clear winner.

I'm not putting a strict time limit on this, but if you could have your games played sometime this week, that'd be great.

so we finally meet, mr. myoptikakaka.... tonight after 9 gmt? or tomorrow during the day?

9pm GMT is 10pm BST isn't it? That's quite doable. Shall we agree one warmup match followed by the two that count (just in case we have comms issues)?

Dimmers... I'm free tonight, big boy!

P.S. Could you please get drunk first so I have a chance of winning?

ah, i meant 9 your time, 10hrs my time (central european summertime), I try to be there until a bit later than, but later then 10.30pm is too late for me

will we do a forumites/emotions overkill combi?
1 friendly is good for me

incidentally, i saw you completed all swos achievements now, did that take long? i tried to get that last one in march, but after 4 times my opponent quitting when i was 3-0 by half time i gave up

Dimrill and I cheated by both entering 10 min ranked matches - there was no one else playing them! I could help you out tonight after our matches if you want that achievement?

9pm my time would suit me better actually - I'll see you then.

We could possibly help each other out with the achievments if you like? Isn't the one of them about playing online and winning by more than 5 goals? We could manage this to help each other out I'm sure!!

You have to do it in ranked matches, which is slightly more tricky. However, as hardly anyone plays the game these days, just both enter into a ranked match for the same length (try 5 or 7 mins as it's more likely no one else will be playing it) and you'll magically find each other.

This is what me and the Dimdums did, anyway.

ha thanks, would like to complete it

Bloody hell, what a dramatic semi-final day at the BeeX Stadium.

After an action-packed "friendly" (I use quotation marks as I managed to get two players sent off) which finished 2-1 to myoptika's Forumites, we both had problems connecting to each other, which resulted in a bizarre situation where we both saw different teams on the same player selection screen and the game crashing out when the players arrived on the pitch!

A frantic reboot later and we were into the first leg of the semi-final proper! It was an even first half with clear-cut chances for both teams, including an amazing miss from Romanista where the ball was stationary on the goalline.

However, our Dutch master wasn't worrying about that a few minutes later, as on the stroke of half-time gained a corner and took the lead with a slide at the near post. Romanista 1-0 myoptika.

1st leg half-time score: Romanista 1-0 myoptika

An equally tight and tense second half ensued. No further goals were scored until in the 90th minute Romanista broke away from a lacklustre defence and slotted away a second! Romanista 2-0 myoptika

It was the last kick of the match, and at the halfway point in the tie, Romanista was ahead by a clear margin.

1st leg full-time score: Romanista 2-0 myoptika

I knew I had to score (and score early) to stand a chance of getting back into the game. If I managed to let Romanista score again the game would be all over. So what happened? Romanista only went and scored early on. It was now 3-0 on aggregate and it looked like there was no way back for the hosts. At least I'd done better than Switzerland and Austria, I thought to myself. Romanista (3)1-0(0) myoptika

However, this game was not yet over, so I tried to make the scoreline respectable. When a consolation before half-time was curled in from just outside the box, no one could quite believe what was to happen next. Romanista (3)1-1(1) myoptika

2nd leg half-time score: Romanista (3)1-1(1) myoptika

I can't quite remember how it happened, when I scored and how because it was all a blur, but suddenly the momentum shifted; my hands loosened their grip on the controller slightly; my long passes started finding their targets and I managed to score again. Romanista (3)1-2(2) myoptika

After what seemed like only seconds later, I had the ball in the back of the net again! Romanista (3)1-3(3) myoptika

I then tensed up as I'd realised what I'd done. Suddenly passes from both teams were going astray, there was last-ditch defending on the goalline and silly free kicks were given away. I don't know the next sequence of events except that I managed to scramble the ball into the goal once more to take a 4-1 lead on the night and a 4-3 advantage on aggregrate. Romanista (3)1-4(4) myoptika

The last 12 minutes of the match were simply terrifying. I did all I could to keep the ball away from my goal and I don't think Romanista managed to have another proper attack.

As the final whistle went I couldn't contain my delight, but made sure I gave a lot of praise to a worthy opponent. I wasn't sure how I did it, because I wasn't in the game for the first match and a quarter. What an epic semi-final, and one I was proud to be a part of. Bad luck Rick, you don't deserve to be a loser the way you played.

Final score: Romanista (3)1-4(4) myoptika

Our first BeeX SWOS Cup finalist: myoptika

Thanx for the kind words my optika, it surely was an amazing semi finals, compliments for the 'never-giving up spirit'

It truely was one of those miracles of club football, which happens once or twice in any clubs excistence.. It reminded me of Deportivo La Coruña - AC Milan of a few years ago

The emotions were as strong as they can be with real football. I sat confused for 30 mintues after a game, drinking some wine a looking around, but felt proud to have participated in such a game.

Why i lost, probably because i started thinking too much after the 1-1, and not just letting my muscle memory speak for itself.

I hope the final will be as good.

Can people watch the final?

Unfortunately not (unless we play it locally and invite you all round to one of our house's).

Surely you could still play online and have us all come round to one of your houses?

Or, indeed, some at each end.

I'll try to invite Dimrill for some SWOS action at some point soon. I might be out tonight, so it may have to be tomorrow. Or Sunday.

Surely one of you could have your Xbox connected to a DVD recorder and somehow bung the final onto YouTube?

Ah, HDMI. Maybe not. The Xbox 360 is more than capable of recording entire matches, it's a shame they didn't bother adding such a feature.

Oh, and is it so wrong of me to wish Romanista had won that semi-final and subsequently the final, just so I could go around the forum casually mentioning how I'd beat the Official BEEX SWOS Champion in the group stage? That's a rhetorical question, because the answer is "yes, it would be".

i would have hoped you got that reward

Runcle is going to get that award now.

...and Scarysheep3000

*crosses fingers*

Our game will probably be on Sunday now.

Hello!

Any chance of these games being played this week?

Sorry. I've been super busy. Haven't even turned the 360 on for a few days.

I'll be available tonight to get the games done.

Come on you pair of twats - 6 minutes of your life is all I'm asking for.

Useless fuckers.

We tried... just 'Mass Effect' kept on getting in the way!

Right, Dimrill's away until the weekend, then I go away for a week. Can the second semi-final be played at some point next week ready for the final upon my return?

No.

In that case I WIN BY DEFAULT.

Long live the King, etc.

Ah, the two sweetest words in the English language.