Be Excellent To Each Other

When Dimrill returns... I shall crush him.

Achievement unlocked: Holiday 100% complete.

Front door unlocked: My fiancee came home so I can get back into the house!

Could tonight be the night, Dimmers?

It very well might be.

I am appalled at the state of computer refereeing. That is all I can say.

Second Semi-Final.

Leg One.

Dimrill's School Dinners took on Curiosity's Zombie United.

The first half saw domination from Curiosity. Shots were flying towards the goal of the Dinners, but were mostly either wide or directly at the goalkeeper. Dimrill had a few bursts forwards, but nothing came of any chances.

0-0 at half time.

Second half saw Dimrill take the game by the scruff of the neck, creating opportunities, but only to be thwarted by the Zombie goalkeeper. Then Curiosity had a break, the ball went up and one of the Zombies came in at an angle and belted the ball into the net.

Dimrill 0 - 1 Curiosity

The rest of the half continued in much the same vein. Dimrill attacked and attacked, hitting the crossbar with one headed effort, but it looked like Curiosity was going to take an advantage into the second leg.

But wait! There goes a School Dinners player and it's a late equaliser!

Dimrill 1 - 1 Curiosity

A very even game was tied... we even had 50% possession each.

On to game two.

A close, tense first half was being contested, until a Zombie was hacked down from behind when... ummm... running away from goal. The referee decided he couldn't be doing with such matters, and sent off Pizza, one of the defenders for Dimrill's School Dinners. Oh no! To combat any holes at the back, Dimrill decided to create a hole in midfield, and one of his lads ended up out of position at the back.

The inevitable happened shortly after, and Curiosity got a goal to go ahead in the tie.

Dimrill (1) 0 - 1 (2) Curiosity

Half time was reached with Curiosity edging it, and making the extra man tell.

The second half started cagily, and after a shot had been parried for a corner, Curiosity whipped in a ball that was headed nowhere at all until DImrill decided to hack someone down in the area. PENALTY!

Chug stepped up and dispatched the goal (his second of the game) to send the Zombies one step closer to the SWOS Final.

Dimrill (1) 0 - 2 (3) Curiosity

It looked over for Dimrill. Both sides were having attacks (and Curiosity was cynically stopping them by hacking down any strikers that got near him, which earned two yellow cards), but it got into the 80th minute and there looked to be no way back for Dimrill... until he ran forward, evaded a string of attempted lunges and buried the ball into the net with something like 8 minutes left on the clock. Could he emulate Myoptika's comeback?

Dimrill (2) 1 - 2 (3) Curiosity

The Zombies kicked off, considering some dastardly timewasting tactics, and soon hoofed the ball from defence up to the strikers... where Chug slipped his marker darted into the box and slammed home his third goal of the night!

Dimrill (2) 1 - 3 (4) Curiosity

Chug hat trick had sealed the deal, as there were scant seconds left, and though the Zombie keeper made another top class save, it would have been too late.

Final Score: Dimrill 2 Curiosity 4

With a red card and a penalty to his favour, Curiosity was happy that he had bribed the referee beforehand.

A couple of good spirited and often very funny games (we kept on leaving the ball on the floor behind us). Cheers Dimrill!

So, Myoptika... we meet again!

I'm going to lose.

Let's do this shit before you flee the country.

I can play tonight at any time other than when Villa are playing Spurs.

What time can you realistically play at the earliest? My plan is to have you rush through the door and have to play immediately with no tea or anything. I'll have had 4 hours practice, as I'm leaving at lunchtime especially.

Some or all of the above paragraph may or may not be true.

I don't need practice. I've not played any SWOS games all season apart from these cup games. I have tenacious natural ability.

So there.

I'll be home around 6. My availability for the match tonight depends almost entirely on whether or not Maria 'needs' me to do 562347853 things to prepare for the holiday or not.

I'll be asleep by 6.

Snore.

The Final: myoptika (Forumites) vs Curiosity (Zombie United)

A thrilling finale to BeeX's football showpiece event was a fitting end to a tournament played in great spirit by all participants.

The first half was an end-to-end affair with plenty of chances for both teams. The woodwork was hit twice by both players and myoptika was lucky to avoid conceding a penalty, bringing down one of Curiosity's jinking maestros on the very edge of the box.

It looked like both players would have to be satisfied with going in level at the break, when Curiosity bent one in out of nowhere to make it 1-0 on 43 minutes.

Half-time score: myoptika 0-1 Curiosity

The second half was a lot less even. myoptika's Forumites were getting back into the game, squeezing Curiosity's charges under immense pressure. However, it wasn't until the 68th minute when a lofted corner found the boot of myoptika's striker, prodding into the net from 6 yards - 1-1

The pressure was unrelenting, and only a mere matter of minutes later was it 2-1 to the Forumites. Curiosity finally cracked when with 12 minutes to go and not having touched the ball all half, he tried dribbling the ball out of his penalty area with his goalkeeper. This moment of madness produced disastrous results when his keeper was dispossessed, the ball played across square before myoptika shooting into a goalmouth only protected by a lone defender. He was helpless to stop the ball hitting the back of the onion bag to make it 3-1 to myoptika.

Curiosity's dreams of Cup glory laid in tatters, but he managed to dust himself off for one more attack, jinking around the Forumite defence, only to be scythed down cynically by the last man. A red card and well-placed free kick made it 3-2, but Curiosity had left it too late - myoptika was crowned the champion of all BeeX!

Final score: myoptika 3-2 Curiosity

FIX!!!

Oh I forgot, awards to follow!

BeeX SWOS Cup Awards

So, exactly four months and 29 games after the first match kicked off, it's finally over. A big thank you to everyone who took part - I really enjoyed putting this together and hope you all had as much fun as I did. I've put together a few awards below fo

Champion: myoptika
Well what can I say? I almost definitely fixed it, but there's no way of you finding out, muwhahaha!

Runner-up: Curiosity
This chap had a great tournament - he was only hampered by the fact he supports Villa, hence not knowing much about real football.

Golden Boot Award (AKA Goalscoring Superstar Hero): Ramsea
The Islander banged in an incredible 11 goals in his four matches, including six in one match alone.

Most-Improved Player Award: Mark X
Came back from a 6-2 mauling from Ramsea early in the tournament to register two excellent results against semi-finalist Romanista. Watch out for him next time!

Down to the Cuticles Award: Curiosity, Scarysheep3000 & Sheepeh
A real group of death with all three players able to qualify for the semi-finals with one game remaining.

Well, that's it. Again, I hope you've all had fun and if there's sufficient interest I'd love to do this all again - perhaps in the New Year?

I was clearly robbed.

Not only did Myoptika foul all my players to within an inch of their lives, he spent about half an hour fine tuning his tactics, formation changes and substitutions. To my mind, that's cheating!

Congratulations Myoptika, and thanks for organising it.

congrats myoptika...next time, maybwe niext time.... grrrr

(mark x is the favourite then i think)

Ha! If only that were true - I think my performances against Romanista were my personal "Croatia 1 England 4", with the next few performances due to be "struggling to break down an Andorran defence consisting mainly of postmen". Time will tell, of course.

After my (limited to the group stages) experience with online SWOS, it's really annoying how no patches have been issued to improve the online experience. My matches against Ramsea had a couple of false starts - luckily for me, including one where I'd scored a comical 45-yard own goal - and my headset wouldn't even start working against Romanista. There really should be some sort of system where the BeEx SWOS Classic could be organised wholly through the game itself, with people opting into the league and matches being filled in accordingly.

What chances a FIFA09 league at some point in the future?

I'd have to buy FIFA 09 and I won't do that full price, I'm afraid. I choose SWOS because (a) it's the best football game ever (natch), and (b) it's cheap so even if someone wanted to join in it'd be easier to be an impulse buy.

I have to say that the semi-final and final matches did not suffer from any lag at all, so perhaps they've sorted it out...

No, they haven't sorted it. Codemasters won't be releasing any sort of patches for the game at all, they've already announced this.

No change there then, really.

Weird then, as I haven't had lag issues in ages.

Probably just nobody playing it any more

Would anyone be interested in another one of these this year, or has this game's time passed?

Given your record, I'm not sure there's enough time left this year for you guys to run another season.

Football seasons always straddle year boundaries in this country.

I'd be interested, although I've not played SWOS on the Xbox since... well, pretty much since the last BeEx cup, so the results will be interesting for me

I played one match while waiting for BF1943 on Wednesday night. That's been it. I did thrash Spain 5-1 as England, though.

Yeah, I'd be up for it. I SHALL HAVE MY REVENGE!!!

I'll play if everyone else is.

What is SWOS?

How old are you? Sensible World of Soccer.

Oh Sensible soccer. Im not good with word things.

Is it on 360? and how much?

Must get on and get this. And then, yes, that would be excellent.

Yes. 400 points.

I probably wont be able to get this any time soon

Yes

I'd be interested.

Cool, seems to be enough interest. I'll put up a new thread asking for entrants in August.

i'm in too

I think you might have played it a couple more times over the last few months as well.

Does xbox360 SWOS still have terrible network code?

I'm going to this next week in poland, can drive along with another dutch guy


http://www.sensiblesoccer.de/forum/inde ... ic=25713.0

the official world cup...
last time i ended in at the round of 16... let's see if i improved (haven't played it much so probably not)

That's brilliant and I'd be all over that if it was closer to home.

Good luck and let us know how you get on!

"Wij houden van Oranje!" Romanista

Good luck. What's the joystick of champions?

Thanks for the support

@kern i've got a the arcade joystick i'll bring along..

Dat 1. Survived the group stage in pc version. Got knocked out in knockout stages. 1 englishan in knockout.

Still in xbox tourney. Last 32

Lost in classic tournament in fitst round.

Tomorrow amiga.
Pc tournament will lfinish somewhere tonight.