2014

Preliminaries

Everything's coming to a very exiting climax... The Bachelor, X Factor and PunchDrunk Finals. Oh, and the footy. Here's the next chapter:

Weekend of upsets last weekend. No-one more upset than Andy and Juzzy.

And this (below) is as close as we'll get to understanding what's going on.

SEMI'S.

2 fewer Drunks following last week's outings.
We'd obviously had our fill of Phils by last week, cos we lost both of them, Taffs and Smith.

 In the rush to get the tips out at the end of the day last Friday I got not one, not two but THREE tips wrong. We got them sorted by score time and ultimately no damage done, but apologies all round

One of those games was the Swans v Freo game, where Lloydy had it right up until the last kick of the game, an after the siren behind to the Swans.

And here's the lay of the land from here on in. Lex and Bobcat Sam are sitting in their preliminary chairs already waiting for their adversaries to get through this week.

Save the date

THE LEX-FACTOR

This tantalising season comes to an end with Lex standing triumphant at the top of a huge pile of Drunks.

This year was one of the closest I can recall, with about 4 weeks to go any one of about 12 Drunks were in genuine contention. Even in the final week there were about 5 real chances depending on who rolled the dice, how the cards fell and how big the roulette wheel was.
6 weeks out, Lex was still out of the top 8 and Ando who finished 3rd was sitting around 16th (a few weeks before that he was about 24th, we're still waiting on his test results from the lab).

The final round saw Lloydy give it a red-hot go. He zigged when most zagged 3 times, winning 2, losing 1. If he won all 3, I think that means he would have pulled of a storming win.


So congrats, and a huge pile of cash to Lex, she led early in the season, drifted off the pace just a tad mid-season, then made her decisive move in round 20, when she also took out a very healthy jackpot, and leapt back to her rightful spot where she would never be headed.

I've just noticed I haven't updated the totals on these damn ladders, will fix asap.

FINALS

Congrats to the top 8, you now go straight into the finals campaign.
Here are your games this week. Basically the format follows the AFL finals Higgs-Bosun method or whatever they use.
I'll check and see who's pre-paid and who owes, but go at it Drunks:

The final head is done. Grand Final crooners, the apallingly bad and the good (well, memorable). The image of Meatloaf vomiting tunelessly into his mic only slightly less indelible than Angry's spin in the Batmobile.

Harv picked up both heads again, Taffa had a valiant crack, but his Neil Craig, Daniel Craig, Joel Edgerton combo fell just short, as has Taffa throughout the season.

Celeb Head has been an on-going campaign most years for the best part of 11 or 12 years and Harv has won them all. Except for the year Nick Weller tasked the whole JWT creative department with solving the Head each week, even then it was a close-run thing with Harv hot on their heels.

As a campaign the Heads have had legs, but those legs have run out of legs, so I reckon this is the end of an era.

Congrats to Harv, I'd love to say you win a New Car or a Telly or a Bertocchi Ham or something. But  you don't.

LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY DRUNKS

We have a WINNER.
Lloydy was involved in everything this week. He gave the PunchDrunk Cup a good long hard look, gave it a red-hot go, made up ground, fell short.
BUT he pulled of a sensational win in the Dreamteam Comp over Jim's 'Cheesedale'.
Lloydy's Lads 2259 v Cheesedal 1957.

I'll go through the records and see how many that is for him now. Just a sec, I'll be back...

Yep that's right, Lloydy lost last year by 10 points to Sammy.
He lost the previous year by 57 points to Jim.
So this must be a victory like no other for him. Vengeance, the coldest, most deliciousest dish of all.

Congrats Andy