We’re pleased to announce that Oakley have come on board to offer a superb prize for the winner of our 2012 Super Rugby Last Man Standing competition on Justrugby.net.
The Last Man Standing will win a pair of limited edition Oakley Antix shades that are… wait for it… branded in Sharks colours! Now if that isn’t the coolest thing since rugby players lost the baggy jerseys then I just don’t know what is!
So what is Last Man Standing? Well, the objective is very simple. Select one winning team each week to stay alive and in the competition. If you choose a non-winning team you die. Once you have chosen a team once you will not be able to choose them again. The Last Man Standing is the winner.
Due to the mismatch of Super Rugby rounds (18) and the number of teams (15) we have decided to award (3) selectable byes to each player. All you have to do is select a bye when you wish and you will stay alive for that round.
The training wheels have come off this season and if you don’t keep your wits about you, you will be eliminated chop-chop. There are no default picks. If you forget to make a pick or pick a team that is not playing in a particular round, you die. Due to lessons learned from last year’s competition, though, we have reintroduced the lifeline concept this season, meaning that you won’t die outright the first time you pick a non-winning team.
NOTE THAT THE ROUNDS WILL CLOSE AT 6AM SOUTH AFRICAN TIME ON THE FRIDAY MORNING BEFORE EACH ROUND. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED AND WILL BE WARNED A FEW MORE TIMES.
In an effort to make the tie break at the end of the competition less biased towards Sharksworld posters we have implemented a new tie break system. A time stamp will be assigned to each pick made, recording the elapsed time from the round being opened to the selection being made. This elapsed time will be totalized each week and at the end of the tournament the smallest elapsed time will be used as the tie break to determine the winner. The opening of the round will NOT be at a fixed time and could be anytime between the completion of the last match and Monday morning. All we can guarantee is that it WILL be open by Monday morning 8am SA time.
Get on over to JustRugby.net and get your teams registered. Your Sharksworld login details can be used to login to Justrugby.net.
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BOOYA!
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I NEED those shades
I need to get past 2 rounds 😯
@JarsonX (Comment 4) :
Super rugby is a lot more tricky then CC …
I will nogals look vrek cool in a pair of Oakleys 😎
@JarsonX (Comment 4) : Simple, week 1, bye, week 2, bye, week 3, bye, week 4, lifeline, and you have made it to round 5! from there, you are on your own
@Die Kriek (Comment 7) : hey! That’s MY strategy 🙂
Here we GO!! There ain’t no stopping me this season!!! 👿
until aout round 5 that is. 😳
Was just suggesting 🙄
My strategy, full fixture list, one black pen, one red pen, if I say any more I may have to kill you
crap – I just looked at the round 1 fixtures… Rebels have a bye and I don’t see how you can pick a winner in any other game!
@robdylan (Comment 11) : I think that is why we got 3 byes
@Die Kriek (Comment 12) : one step ahead of you 🙂 I just made my pick for round one and it was the same as the Rebels 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 11) :
haha . not going with the strategy of the Lions loosing every game are we :p
i tried the rebel trick last year and it didnt work out so well
Nice one Rob / Oakley!
@vanmartin (Comment 3) : go buy your own, these are mine 😛
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 6) : sharks branded, 😎 you getting there 😉
@Die Kriek (Comment 7) : @robdylan (Comment 8) : 😆
@robdylan (Comment 11) : I also had a look, half of the contenders on lifelines after round one 🙄
@robdylan (Comment 13) : You guys know that picking so far in advance doesn’t give you a timestamp advantage right? 😉 😛
Waste of a bye IMO. wait until closer to the time to see is my strategy.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 20) : I think my pick should be solid. And my picks are mostly worked out up to week 10, with a bit of room here and there if it gets tight.
@Die Kriek (Comment 21) :
you have to much time on your hands 😯
@Zibbie (Comment 22) : it doesn’t worry you more that he’s AN INSECT THAT CAN TYPE?
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 6) : actually, they don’t have a logo on them… just in Sharks colours
who won last years CC, LMS?
@Die Kriek (Comment 21) : And you live in utopia where EVERYTHING goes according to plan? 😈
🙂
@robdylan (Comment 23) :
No thats normal 😛 having so much time is not 😛
@Salmonoid (Comment 25) : some oke whose name I’ve forgotten 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 28) :
may i ask if you have time at some stage (when you are not busy with contemplating this years FL and LM ) if you could maybe email me the time difference for the guys that were alive at the end of the currie cup . im just interested in seeing them . no deputes or anything . IF you dont mind .
@Zibbie (Comment 29) :
sorry im being rude . i meant to say please somewhere in there 😕 😛
@Zibbie (Comment 29) : I’ll do that sure… I promise you I did actually look at it… there was a bug in the program somewhere that caused his to display as a negative, so I went and did the diligence on it and found that he did actually win.
I didn’t do an article on it cos I didn’t really want to point out my buggy programming skills to the whole world 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 24) :
Logo is edged in on the actual glass 😉
@robdylan (Comment 31) :
hehe . being in programing myself i know bug happen a lot so no issue .
but im just interested in seeing it . stats and those things i enjoy 😀 Not auditing you in any way . 😛
@robdylan (Comment 31) :
Do you program FL and LMS yourself ?
@Morné (Comment 32) : really? COOL!
@Zibbie (Comment 34) : I do, yes
I`m gonna kick OP`s butt!
@Flasher Girl (Comment 37) : and then you’ll play LMS? 🙂
@Zibbie (Comment 33) : I mailed something to your hotmail address… it’s rough but should make sense.
@robdylan (Comment 36) :
Very very awesome !!! i must say im very impressed !! Well done Rob !
@robdylan (Comment 39) :
cool thanx a lot
@robdylan (Comment 35) :
Yup, Sharks logo is edged into the left corner of the glass, and it comes in a Sharks branded bag.
@robdylan (Comment 39) :
ive come to the conclusion that the other guy is a freak 😯
thought it might have been closer . thanx for the effort Rob . Much appreciated !
@robdylan (Comment 24) : Well now!
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 44) :
win it and sell it to the highest most desperate bidder 😛
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 44) : nope – I was wrong.
Guess we’ll need to make another plan
@Morné (Comment 42) : and the stormers one has a yellow dhl inprint on the center of the glass, the bulls one say, ‘ag shame’, and the lions one say ‘never again’
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 44) : win it and send it to me
@KSA Shark © (Comment 26) : Yes, mostly . . . Not really, just like to feel in control
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@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 44) : @Franshark (Comment 48) :
see . we already have our first bidder 😛
Ive got a better chance at winning FL than LMS, luck never seems to go my way 😈
@Franshark (Comment 48) : Hehehe no ways, if i win, i keep. Im selfish like that, plus…its Oakleys
@JarsonX (Comment 52) :
yea . The leopard Pumas game in the currie cup made it for me . my thinking was if the Leoperds where going to have even the smallest chance of winning a game that would be it . but i prepared myself for losing a life
when i heard they won i downed a few drinks hahah . probably cause me to make my next pick to late hahaa
@Zibbie (Comment 54) : That trick didnt work the previous year, Leopards lost both.
@Franshark (Comment 16) : Sorry friend but I have a surefire strategy for winning LMS and when it inevitably fails I plan on hacking justrugby.net.
@vanmartin (Comment 56) : did not think of that, good plan 😛
@JarsonX (Comment 55) :
Hence why i was so very surprised … im NEVER that lucky …
@Zibbie (Comment 58) : So what was your FL prize?
@JarsonX (Comment 59) :
A signed copy of Vic matfields Book
Verry chuffed with that !!! Awesome prize !!!!!
@Zibbie (Comment 60) : Not bad 😎
@KSA Shark © (Comment 20) : Not sure how I should go about this years` LMS.
Did the whole advance planning thing last year and it still didn`t work out.
@Flasher Girl (Comment 37) :
LMS is not Superbru !
@Original Pierre (Comment 62) :
No its rather easy to kick your butt . even this Lions supourter has more cups than you .
*Zibbie points at his shiny cup
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@Zibbie (Comment 63) : Joh, harsh words . . . but I`ll take it on the chin.
@Original Pierre (Comment 64) :
haha ! getting psyched up for SR !!!!