2012-13 NCAA College Basketball (Rescued)

[Frito Bandito]

My deepest regrets to all involved in my favorite CC event, but I must absolve myself from this website. My marriage has collapsed and my addiction to sites such as this one has played a sizable factor in that. I post this message with a hole ripping through my heart. Please take care to make your relationships a priority, so that games such as this don't suck time away from those closest to you. Many can manage to keep those things in a healthy balance. I cannot. I failed in attempts previous to this, and now have decided to leave the site (and others) permanently, although I regret I may be too late to repair the damage done to my marriage.



flex

Best of luck Flex...

[DoomYoshi]

Holy Cow. We don't know the schedule, so I don't think anyone can actually rescue this.

But, I agree with the others. Best of Luck to you and thank you for making this site a better place while you were around.

[MudPuppy]

You'll be missed by your CC family but putting your real life family first is the way to go. Kudos to you for making a difficult but very appropriate decision. Hopefully your actions will communicate the renewed commitment you have to your family far more than any words could.

Best of luck, Flex.

MP

[Robespierre__]

I volunteer to save this tourney if Flex is willing/able to pass along the info how to run it. I am sure a team of us can do it. It is too good a tourney to let die.

[schiballs]

I volunteer to save this tourney if Flex is willing/able to pass along the info how to run it. I am sure a team of us can do it. It is too good a tourney to let die.

I AGREE!!

[RobbieDub]

I volunteer to save this tourney if Flex is willing/able to pass along the info how to run it. I am sure a team of us can do it. It is too good a tourney to let die.

I AGREE!!

Google docs must be able to make this happen but will we be able to find flex?
I feel for the guy and am hesitant to offer my help for the same reasons he has had to stop playing.
I hope we can finish this season if only to pay tribute to how awesome he has been at organizing this tourney.

[Robespierre__]

It will all be about divide and conquer ... if we get a team of people and divide up the responsibilities (creating games, reporting results, formatting the results, writing a weekly summary), we will not find ourselves in the spot our awesome but troubled friend is in. No one wants to be buried by something that is simply supposed to be fun. I have written two members of the Tournament Organizers offering my help (as well as reaching out to FLex to see if he would share his docs) ... let's see what happens ...

[DoomYoshi]

Ok, I will work out a schedule. I will wait a week to start in case we are able to get docs from flex, I don't want to do stuff he already did.

[musicalmaven]

thisn is to inform you that i won game # 11968649 against the crown, but he'll take the other two.

[Hath]

It will all be about divide and conquer ... if we get a team of people and divide up the responsibilities (creating games, reporting results, formatting the results, writing a weekly summary), we will not find ourselves in the spot our awesome but troubled friend is in. No one wants to be buried by something that is simply supposed to be fun. I have written two members of the Tournament Organizers offering my help (as well as reaching out to FLex to see if he would share his docs) ... let's see what happens ...

If you guys need my help in someway...let me know. This is by far my favorite tourney on CC, and if I can do my part to help save it, I will.

And good luck, Flex. Hope everything works out for you, man.

[mcshanester29]

I am currently trying to get access to flex's docs and schedules, etc.

[DoomYoshi]

Ok. I don't have as much time as I thought. I will make a barebones schedule if you want. Basically, it will be that every team plays every team in their conference. Then I fill up to 16 games with interconference games. It won't be based on the actual schedule at all. If that is fine, I will go ahead. I also need to know that there are actually one or two people willing to run this after I make the schedule, as I have no interest/time for running this sort of tournament.

[Dukasaur]

My deepest regrets to all involved in my favorite CC event, but I must absolve myself from this website. My marriage has collapsed and my addiction to sites such as this one has played a sizable factor in that. I post this message with a hole ripping through my heart. Please take care to make your relationships a priority, so that games such as this don't suck time away from those closest to you. Many can manage to keep those things in a healthy balance. I cannot. I failed in attempts previous to this, and now have decided to leave the site (and others) permanently, although I regret I may be too late to repair the damage done to my marriage.



flex

I've come close to that point. It's tough to find the right balance. Good luck!

[plash.ricrem]

My deepest regrets to all involved in my favorite CC event, but I must absolve myself from this website. My marriage has collapsed and my addiction to sites such as this one has played a sizable factor in that. I post this message with a hole ripping through my heart. Please take care to make your relationships a priority, so that games such as this don't suck time away from those closest to you. Many can manage to keep those things in a healthy balance. I cannot. I failed in attempts previous to this, and now have decided to leave the site (and others) permanently, although I regret I may be too late to repair the damage done to my marriage.



flex

I'm so sorry to hear that, Flex. I wish you the best of luck!

[Robespierre__]

OK .... so we are going to try to save this. I appreciate Doomyoshi's offer to make the schedule, but I think we can do better than the quickie schedule that he proposed since I think a good chunk of the fun is the fact that the teams follow the actual schedules of the college season. Is anyone out there besides Hath of the mind to volunteer to help? The goal is going to be divide and conquer. We can't let the tournament consume any one of us.

Robes

[ubcman64]

OK .... so we are going to try to save this. I appreciate Doomyoshi's offer to make the schedule, but I think we can do better than the quickie schedule that he proposed since I think a good chunk of the fun is the fact that the teams follow the actual schedules of the college season. Is anyone out there besides Hath of the mind to volunteer to help? The goal is going to be divide and conquer. We can't let the tournament consume any one of us.

Robes

I agree.....plus flex always had the bonuses that could be earned in the little mini tournaments that took place. I think the actual schedule needs to be followed or abandon the tourney altogether.

[GeneralJestix]

OK .... so we are going to try to save this. I appreciate Doomyoshi's offer to make the schedule, but I think we can do better than the quickie schedule that he proposed since I think a good chunk of the fun is the fact that the teams follow the actual schedules of the college season. Is anyone out there besides Hath of the mind to volunteer to help? The goal is going to be divide and conquer. We can't let the tournament consume any one of us.

Robes

I agree.....plus flex always had the bonuses that could be earned in the little mini tournaments that took place. I think the actual schedule needs to be followed or abandon the tourney altogether.

It is not possible to follow the actual schedule as Many of the schools that are in this tourney play games vs schools that are not in the tourney.

For instance my team Missouri does not play TCU at all, but my week 1 game was vs TCU. I dont think SEMO and Appalachian state are involved in this tourney and they are both on the Tiger's schedule.

Many teams in the small tourneys that start the season arent in this tourney either.

[agentcom]

I think what flex did was try to match those teams up against other teams that were free that week. He also combined certain leagues and recreated their schedules when there were enough holes in a league-wide schedule.

[frank_tank]

i am playing at home and my map isn't what i requested... don't know if error????

[shoop76]

i am playing at home and my map isn't what i requested... don't know if error????

the game is part of a preseason tourney, so its on a neutral map.

[frank_tank]

got it...

thanks for the quick response!!!!

i forgot they had preseason tourney this year

thanks

[ViperOverLord]

After finding no luck in their first game; Tennessee avoided a second loss after getting 2nd turn in all 3 games. "An 0-2 start would have put us in a bad state of mind," Coach VOL declared. "We have a tough conference schedule. We need to rack up wins and build momentum ahead of that."

[Jessamine]

Hello, I'm catching up on things within this event. If I can assist, please let me know. I'm anticipating some "down" time during the holidays, which would allow me to contribute further in coordinating schedules, etc...

Please let me know.

[ViperOverLord]

I didn't want to possibly say anything insensitive; so I did not comment initially. But let me say now that I wish Flex good fortune going forward. Cheers on starting the greatest tournament. May it continue to go forth.