Monday, July 12, 2010

Pool Standings: Round 5 - The Finals


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The cup has been raised, and the champions celebrate their spoils!

Hearty congratulations go to Night Rider for an epic battle of wits and stamina that saw him ride a pool-high 26 correct picks to the century mark. The team stuck in second place made a powerful last-minute move to climb to the top of the tables and secure victory. Claret & Blue, the front-runner for so long, chose to live and die with his England pick. Tonight we honor and respect the "win or go home" play that, sadly, saw him go home.

In his stead Real Marin re-emerged as prize winners; a fervent support of La Furia Roja carried them into the winner's circle. And the no longer Clueless in Denver outsmarted an experienced stable of soccer buffs and swiped an England jersey for her wardrobe.

It was great fun, and we salute the Spaniards for their difficult double, capturing consecutive Euro and World Cup hardware. But the real winners were the young Haitian footballers who so greatly need a reason to play. We look forward to many great tournaments to come, and we'll hope jv is re-energized for another blogscapade during next season's Champions League. Let's all take a moment to recognize all of the hard work he and lizzie put in to making this such a special session of the Friends Pool. I'm blowing my vuvuzela right now. Hear it?

See you next time!

23 comments:

canarinhos said...

Yay, thanks Jeff for organizing this fun pool! I'm sad that the tournament is over now. But I'm looking forward for the next one in Brazil!! I hope I can go!
And very cool that you guys are giving part of the "prize" to Haiti! They still need so much!

I hope to meet everyone on this pool before the next tournament :)
See ya!
Nancy

Liz said...

Well played, all, and big congrats to Spanish Fingerboarder and La Furia Roja!

Sad that the WC festivities are drawing to an end, but already looking forward to BRASIL 2014.

Hambani kahle for now, poolers!

The Claret and Blue said...

Did you all hear that whooshing sound on Sunday? That was me falling past you in the rankings. ;-)

Seriously, though. That was a lot of fun and I'm glad to have been able to give a little something to the kids in Haiti. Great job on the blog, y'all and I hope to see you all around September for the Champions League group stage, maybe. I'm in if you are.

JoshTarner said...

Fantastic pool and for a great cause - all of you deserve credit for participating and the organiser should get special mention. Great blog and great to follow.

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