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Mr. McBurns has made it to the finals (Game 7 tomorrow) which means that the final standings as we ready for the semifinals will be decided on the the very last game played from all qualifying leagues.

But all too aware of thanksgiving weekend coming up I am thinking it would perhaps be too much to ask to try loading this week, therefore:

Happy Turkey Day to all, I for one wish you all the very best of times and for those who'll be participating on the semifinal round please check back in on Monday Nov 30th. League assignments will be up, hoping for a prompt load we'll aim at starting Semifinal league play on Monday Dec 7th.

IF ya'll want to load this week we can go right ahead but knowing (and wishing) everyone lots of time with family and loved ones I think our cyber game can take the back seat, even if for a few days ;)

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I'm here. I'll check in

I'm here as well.

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Soup is good food....

I checked in 11/16

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Updated top post :)

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wow. the semi-finals is an autodraft! i just realized this because i have been waiting for the announcement of when the live draft starts and never saw one. not only is there no advantage to being ranked higher vs. scraping by in the last few slots, but we are also autodrafting which leaves most of this to luck. glad to see we didn't correct the mistakes of last year that kept so many top 12 finalists out of the finals league.

Good call Spicki and to be honest this is an issue I have been thinking about for quite some time, two thoughts:

1) My main goal with this years' championship was to get it going (as we started quite late) and also do so in a way that would allow us to start [i:44d3c696e4]next[/i:44d3c696e4] years' championship on a better schedule so as to allow us more time to include live drafts, which as we know are a bit more time consuming.

2) given that this is the holliday season going live draft now might be even more cumbersome for some managers.

I understand the desire to go live on the semis but the rules are set and I think we can still enjoy the championship a lot the way it is. I will remind you that there IS an advantage to being ranked higher: The FINALS' live draft order will be determined by rank. I know you know your chops well enough to make it to the finals, again... your rank will pay off then. :)

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