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Congrats to all the winners!! and thanks to @avongirl your time and effort in running this comp. much appreciated.

Congrats to all the winners!! and thanks to @avongirl your time and effort in running this comp. much appreciated.

As is often the way in the final week we finish the season with our lowest number of weekly wins, only 13, and biggest overall loss, as the gamblers go big and the risk averse go small odds.  But this doesn't detract from what has been a record breaking season!  Every Division bar one made a substantial profit overall and the losing Division only made a small loss.  And it wasn't just thanks to one or two big individual winners, a fabulous 43 players finished in profit or breakeven and 96 of 108 finishers had at least one winning bet.
At the top of the overall league is first season player @HERE who has been magnificent with 8 wins and has staked big but wisely with their bank never being in danger of going bust.   Level with 8 wins, and ahead for much of the way, is @corky.  These 2 will share the new prize for most number of wins over the season.   
A long way behind our winner, but with totals over £600 which would have won in some previous seasons, are @ivailobg, @Cuko and @Data with less than £20 between them, followed by @thebestthere also finishing over £500.
Our winner for the highest odds win is @Cuko with the 38.628 treble (5.5*2.62*2.75) in week 9.
Everyone who completed will be allocated a new Division based on finishing order, for the season to start after the International Break and I'll invite those who busted 'all in' back into Division 6 along with any new or rejoining players. 
Overall table here and Division winners below.  Full details of how to claim your prize shortly...

Good luck all. Final week for Last Man Standing 1. If all 4 lose then we'll divide the £250 into 4. If all win, the same outcome.

Have you factored midweek fixtures into that? Not sure how many there are in a typical season.

no, but we sometimes do mid-week fixtures too on the last man standing. As long as there are a couple of days to get everybody notified. Either way, 12 weeks is better going forward as we tend to have lots of players get through to week  10. Even if that meant we would have to cut to 2 LMS instead of 3.

Hoffenheim v Frankfurt - Over 2.5 @ 1.67
Norwich v Leeds - Over 2.5 @ 1.67
 
Double - 10 pts

This was supposed to be at Kempton. Sorry had forgotten to mention course

Spurs v Shef Utd - Over @ 1.5
Barcelona v Betis  - Over @ 1.57
Double - 15pts

435 Bellewsrown - Indiana Grey @ 23 Bet365 EW

435 Bellewsrown - Indiana Grey @ 23 Bet365 EW

Most winners
@waggy maintains his 3 lead with 4 days to go

We are back with the 2023/24 Punters Lounge Football Tipsters Challenge Competition.
Season One 23/24 starts with this weekend's matches including the Friday night games of 18th August.  Odds and selection threads should be up on Thursday. 
Our football year will have 3 mini seasons of 10 weeks again with a week (or two) in between aiming to end close to the actual end of Season in May.  Due to the number of drop outs we tend to get (and to reduce admin a little) I'm going to increase the size of Divisions from 15 to around 20, which will mean we'll likely have 6 Divisions overall with most of the rejoiners and newbies in Div 6.  Depending on uptake this year I might need to extend Div 5 and 6 to allow everyone in.
I'm looking at the prize structure with the intention of paying 4 places in the top 2 Divisions and 3 places in the others.  Will update before kick off.
All previous rules apply, including the All In option at £10 bank.
Everyone who completed last season will be automatically allocated to a Division as usual based on finishing bank.  Everyone else, please post in the new player thread HERE - I'll remind All In Busteds to reapply; No shows need to reapply; New players welcome to join in. 

Good luck to the elite!
@nawoo @thebestthere @Data @Dramfech @Fader @Heisenberg68 @Wtrylika @Chris P @Tiffy @bymatrix @1945harry @andellio @harry_rag @stuboy43 @Squirrel Nutkin @Xcout @Craig bluenose @Bedlam @vangovin @Skittle

Thanks for allowing but I feel I will have an advantage (of 1 team) over those who actually lost in GW1, so in fairness to those members who lost, I think I will just wait for the next edition.

Thats true.
Happy to play in consolation though

550 Haydock - Exceedingly Royale @3 Bet365

820 Yarmouth - Gatwick Kitten @ 5 Bet365

2023/24 season:
I was initially thinking we would start weekend of 12th August when the Premier League matches start rather than this weekend with the Championship and lower leagues, although I'm sure you are all disappointed not to have the 200 FA Cup Qualifying matches to pick from.   However I notice that weekend the German and Italian matches are their cup competitions, so I may yet defer another week to weekend of 19th August if all the leagues will get going then.  Let me look into that to see how it pans out.  My plan would be to run 3 full seasons of 10 weeks again with a week off between restarts.  No doubt some international breaks will give us the odd rest too.
Everyone who completed last year will automatically be allocated a league place, and I will invite back those players who lost their 'all in' bets and were eliminated.  I'm hoping to tinker a little with the league structure, fewer Divisions with more players, but better prizes.  We will still have room for new players, or those who have dropped out previously, so please reply in this thread if you'd like to request to join in.

535 Goodwood - Kitai @ 3 Bet365

Team name - FC Germany
Name - Mohammed Idrees Hassan
 
 

Hello everyone!
You will be delighted to hear that the new game for the 2023/24 Fantasy Premier League season has been launched. Punters Lounge will be running a competition once again and we have set up a new league for you to join!
Joining the league couldn't be easier. Simply use the link below and you'll be added automatically after you've entered the game.
https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/qvh08s
League Code: qvh08s
This season's competition will have the same prize structure as last season with free entry.
Winner: £100
2nd Place: £50
3rd Place: £25
Plus, a monthly prize valued at £35 for Manager of the Month in the form of one of the following...
- £35 Mystery Football Kit Box from MysteryKits.co.uk
- £35 vouchers for Tiny Rebel brewery online at TinyRebel.co.uk
- £35 M&S vouchers at Marksandspencer.com
- £35 donation to a charity of your choosing
Remember, in order to be eligible to win any of these prizes you must have joined the private league via the link above and be a registered member of this forum. Prizes must be claimed within 90 days of being announced. Once you have joined, please confirm your team name and real-life name in this thread so we can identify you if you are eligible to win one of the above prizes.
Can you beat the reigning champion @Gazza's United? Get involved if you think you have what it takes!