With the 2013 MLS season about to get underway on Saturday it’s time to launch this year’s <b>Last Man Standing</b> competition.
The competition is open to all fans of all teams. It doesn’t matter who you support, or where you live, so take part today. And yes, there will be prizes!
Last year Dirty Sanchez 333 walked away with the top prizes. We’re hoping it can last more than five weeks this time around though!
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<b>You do have to be a registered member of the site and signed in to be able to take part. All unregistered entries will not count, even if you submit it with your name.</b> This is just for easy tracking and avoid people playing silly buggers! If you haven't already signed up to the site, it's quick and easy, so do it now.
So what is 'Last Man Standing'?
Well, it’s a competition we’ve run on AFTN in Scotland since 2010 and launched it here last season. It’s been popular on a number of football websites in the UK long before that.
With MLS having an uneven number of teams and a sometimes weird and wacky fixtures list, it makes it a little bit more complicated than how we’ve previously run it, but we thought we’d give it a go and it didn’t end up as a disaster.
The competition will run every weekend from now until we crown a winner, but only when there are at least six MLS matches scheduled to be played over the Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Midweek games will not be included.
Here are the basic rules….
<b><u>COMPETITION RULES:</u></b>
- Every week we will list the eligible fixtures and you pick one of the teams involved that you think will win.
- If that team wins, you are through to the next round. If they lose or draw, then you are out of the competition.
- You will only be able to pick a team once, until you have selected all 19 teams, so choose your weekly selection wisely. You don’t want to be left with the crappy teams playing the top ones if you can help it! He who dares, wins.
- The exception to the "pick only once" rule will be towards the end of the first 19 week cycle when you might only have a selection(s) left that have bye weeks. In such a scenario, you are free to pick a team you have already selected for that week only, but that team cannot be selected for a third time later.
- We will be keeping a running tally of who has picked what team.
- You have to enter the competition in Week One (this week). Late entrants cannot join.
- Selections must be made before the first game of that week kicks off. This time will be clearly laid out.
- Anyone posting their entry after the first kick off time any week will automatically be knocked out.
- The thread will be closed for new posts and amendments after the first game has kicked off.
- Anyone selecting a team they have already selected in a previous week will be disqualified. If you notice you have selected a team you've already picked, you have until the first game kicks off to change it.
- If you fail to make a selection in time one week, you are automatically eliminated.
- The competition will run up until we have crowned the winner. In the unlikely event that we are still going at the end of the regular season, we will carry it on into the playoffs on a knockout basis. If there are only a handful remaining we may give prizes to all. This will be entirely up to our discretion, but we will keep you posted.
- The winner will be the last man/woman/alien standing, who will then have the crown until next season. (Note – there is no actual crown, although if I end up winning I will buy myself one).
- Prizes are football related memorabilia from over the years, some, but not all, will be of a Whitecaps nature, so if you don’t want that either don’t enter or sell it on ebay!
Long winded, but hopefully that will explain all you need to know for those of you unfamiliar with such a competition.
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So, with all that out of the way, here are the nine eligible fixtures for this first weekend:
Philadelphia Union v Sporting KC
Vancouver Whitecaps v Toronto
Houston Dynamo v D.C. United
Dallas v Colorado Rapids
Seattle Sounders v Montreal Impact
Chivas USA v Columbus Crew
LA Galaxy v Chicago Fire
Portland Timbers v New York Red Bulls
San Jose Earthquakes v Real Salt Lake
<b>The first game kicks of on Saturday at 4pm EDT/1pm PDT, so you have until then to enter the competition and make your first pick.</b>
Just sign in and simply leave the name of the team you are picking below.
Good luck!
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