April 19, 2019

Is this the beginning of the end for T100?

T100 was and still is,for me at least, the best game world in SM and probably the reason I still play the game. It's been around a few years and until lately didn't scream dramas like some other gameworlds.

Now however you can't get through a day without becoming involved in news feed squabbling because of managers refusing to follow new rules, brought in to make the game fairer for those in different time zones around free agents, and their defiance is getting tiresome for me at least. However I've also noticed a lot more things that are not representative of T100 of the past, non responsive managers to PM's and transfer bids and a lack of representation in the friendly tournaments run, at a lot of effort by those people organising them, just 39 managers signed up for the world club cup(wednesday) and currently at time of writing this 23 managers have replied to Stephens post on the news feed in last 48 hours with entries into the youth competitions, this used to stand t100 out imo as the best stand alone gw, so the question I ask is simple... Is this the beginning of the end for T100?

I genuinely hope not, if this GW went tits up I'd probably call it a day with SM, and to be honest these daily dramas just make that day seem closer than ever, so this is an impassioned plea that if you are in T100 play the game as intended, follow the rules and fully participate in the features of this GW which make it the best one in SM.

Hopefully we all see the benefit in T100 continuing as the best around.

April 16, 2019

World Club Cup Season 10

Thirty-nine managers entered their clubs into this season's World Club Cup revival competition, after a couple season's without a tournament.

For those of you who don't know, the World Club Cup is a unique to Top 100 friendly schedule based competition, open to all teams, with no restrictions on who can play (unlike the Youth Cup).

A bit of World Club Cup history can be found here.

This season's competition will be in two parts:

Regional Group Stage and Finals
- Five regions, with a total of 13 groups with 3 teams in each group:
  1. Iberia and South America
  2. Italia
  3. Germany
  4. England
  5. Rest of the World
Knockout Stage and Finals
- World Club Cup for Regional Finalists and best Group runners-up
- World Club Shield for the best of the rest

Due to the odd number of teams, groups and regions, there will be an odd fixture schedule for the Regional Group Stage, similar to NFL scheduling (i.e., teams also play against teams not in their group).

In summary, all teams in the same region will play the same number of games (either four, or five), before proceeding to regional finals, some of which (but not all) will be over two legs.

The Regional Stage, therefore, will see the finalists play a maximum of eight Wednesday night matches, starting 1 May, and ending 19 June.

The best sixteen teams will then play for the World Club Cup, while the next best sixteen will compete for the World Club Shield.

The Knockout Stage will comprise one-legged rounds of 16 and 8, prior to two-legged semi-finals and finals, a maximum of six Wednesday night games for the finalists, starting 3 July, and ending 7 August.

April 16, 2019

WCC Regional Groups S10

Draw

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Regional Group Stage

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April 16, 2019

WCC Regional Stage Fixtures S10

Iberia & South America

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Italia

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Germany

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England

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Rest of the World

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April 15, 2019