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ROUND TWO SUMMARY
The second round saw no real surprises as all EBBL sides cruised through to book their spots in the third round. The highlight match up of the round saw new jersey2 take on BC Wild Hawks. The game was closely contested through but the former managed to show their class and edge away in the second half to win the game by a score of 98-87. The division II clashes were all fairly close as Doncaster Hawks outplayed Derby County winning by a margin of 22, WTK Trail Blazers overcame Mortal Vombats to win by a similar margin. JA Miami were defeated by Spoiled by a score of 61-78 whilst Arsenal 98 romped Vector BC away from home to secure a place in the third round.

The third round sees more computer teams depart, once again giving some intriguing match ups. The pick of the games this week see two EBBL teams rank up against teams inside the top 40 of England with Tatatallfella travelling to the home of the Flaming Carrot Unit whilst last seasons finalists, Durham Wasps, take on an ex-division II.2 opponent in BC Snaiperiai. There are also a number of tasty-looking division II match ups which see 29th seed, Whetstone Wizards, host Realdemardi who are ranked 54th, Arab City play BC Giants, Southern European take on Upton Tigers and Optic Fibres host the Lusitania Brasil All Stars.

Good luck to all teams next week.

Teams are as follows:
EBBL (14/16)
II.1 (11/16)
II.2 (16/16)
II.3 (11/16)
II.4 (13/16)

ROUND THREE SUMMARY
The third round saw two highly rated EBBL sides in Tatatallfella and Durham Wasps take on some class division II opponents in Flaming Carrot Unit and BC Snaiperiai respectively. Both games were both a bit anti-climatic as the EBBL sides blitzed their way into the next round, both winning by margins of 40. The four all-division II clashes saw Whetstone Wizards lose to Realdemardi in an absolute belter of a game, by a score of 163-142. Arab City played a weakened line-up giving Bc Giants an easy passage to the next round with the latter winning by 68. The game between Upton Tigers and Southern European was closely contested with the former edging it 109-92 and Optic Fibres prevailed against Lusitania Brasil All Stars.

The draw for the fourth round will see Durham Wasps drawn against an EBBL team for the second time this season, travelling to the home of Club Deportivo San Andres. All of the other EBBL sides managed to avoid each other, but a select few still received tough draws with Tatatallfella playing 14th seed, Triximos Tricks, Sabre of Valiente hosting JR Knights and M Dogs packing his bags for a trip to LT-UniTed.

Teams are as follows:
EBBL (14/16)
II.1 (8/16)
II.2 (11/16)
II.3 (10/16)
II.4 (10/16)

Good luck to all teams next week.

As you said, my second all EBBL game this week. Having had a pretty nice draw last season, and truthfully in some other seasons that I went deep into the tournament, I can't really complain. Plus both my games against EBBL opponents have been at the Nest so it could have been worse.

I also noticed that there are no bot vs bot games in this round so we'll see the last of the bots go out.

Plus both my games against EBBL opponents have been at the Nest so it could have been worse.

Not sure what kind of idiot doesn't know if he's at home or away but there you go. Still thought we'd have enough to win tonight but it wasn't to be. I felt the game shape and enthusiasm advantage would be enough but clearly was wrong. Not helped by fouls (Fallon and Mouchot, the others were too late to make a difference) and a lack of rebounding but those are the risks you take with fcp.

I'm pretty sure Deportivo's opponents on saturday will be happy they crunched tonight. ;)

5 d2 teams gone out to d3 opponents this round! Shows how hard it is to balance league and the cup I guess / how competitive most d2s are.

I won by 40 vs a d3 who'd won all his game this season on TIE. Before the game I worried about being crunched and his extra enthusiasm which made him just dangerous enough for me to normal...In the end he only normaled too.

Just 2 bots left, who gets lucky?

Just 2 bots left, who gets lucky?

I said there would be no bots after the last round. I couldn't even get that right, I'd only looked at the first page of fixtures. Whoops.

Seems js8 is too busy to do the tournament reports atm, shame - they're good. Someone else should have a go maybe.

Scares for Tata and Phx Warriors today! Some good teams have actually gone out too.

Composition of the last 32: 11 dI, 11 dII, 10 dIII. I'm sure not many would've predicted that even a split before the season.

I got through by 15 but it was pretty unimpressive. 4 out of 5 rounds I've been at home so far, can I get another one?

double posting coz why not.

Next round matchup highlights:
5 Sabre of Valiente - Galaxy Walkers 10
1 Tide of Fire - Phoenix Warriors 4
2 Tatatallfella - new jersey2 6
19 Doncaster Hawks - Lithuania BC 13
62 Extremadabra - M Dogs 23

3 more d1 matchups! Extremadabra who knocked out d1 opposition Deportivo San Andreas in the last round get the chance to knock out the team sitting bottom of the other side of the conference next week. Doncaster Hawks (the highest ranked d2 team) get d1 opposition also. That makes 4 teams who if the draw fell differently could expect to make the last 8 at least are going out, good news for those rooting for the outsiders. On that note, two d3 teams will be guaranteed to be in the last 16.

I don't get another home draw but instead get the lowest ranked team left, heh. You could say I'm feeling like someone needs to point me in the direction of some toast and peanut butter...



Last edited by Bergkamp at 3/24/2016 5:02:52 PM

Thanks for the report mate! What a set of matchups next week!

Double posts in a thread like this are fairly common and appropriate.

Though this one isn't!