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07/03/06	BACK OF THE NET!! I am proud to announce that today saw us breaking into unknown terroritory. Today was the first day that we officially broke into the top 100,000 sites on the internet We were ranked at around 80 thousand. While this may not seem a lot 3 months ago we were 2 million odd. And that is over the ENTIRE internet, every single site. Im glad you can all be a part of it! Lets help keep BOTN strong! Posted by m0nkeymafia
06/03/06	MINICUP REPORT 5TH MARCH 2024 MINICUP 5th MARCH 2024: Time: 20:30 hours. The theme was set for Spurs vs Blackburn, two pretty even teams both with a fairly quick accurate attack and both sides with a darn good keeper. With this in mind, there were either going to be loads of goals, or no goals!!! 1st Round: A good turnout of 15 members signing up and therefore only one person would get a bye into the next round, the lucky sod was EREC SHAUN 360. TOMSKI was very unhappy about this, a bye would have been his only way of getting into the 2nd round!! Instead TOMSKI is drawn against LUKE3300, not a chance of Tom getting through that one you would have thought? Well you thought right, even though he hit the bar in the last min, Luke is again to much for 'The Boss' and sails through to the second round leaving TOMSKI to lick his wounds and think about trying again next week. We again welcome a couple of newcomers to the Minicup for the first time, H3AVY and SMIVADEE. However both are drawn against veteran minicup players and both JOKER0074 and CRAZY GOONER have too much experience and dont let either newcomer through to the next round. There are also a couple of very close games, CS STEVE beating CAPTAINCOD1 1-0 (finally playing after having 'connection' problems), MANC 4 LIFE beating NEIL363 2-1 on pens, even after missing his first 3 penalties!! And PROROBBO beating BISCUITS007 4-2 on pens. However the player of the 1st round must be A HERO EMERGES. Up against ALEXWILLIAMS15, HERO goes 1-0 down but comes storming back to beat ALEX 5-1 with the help of cracking goals by Keane and Defoe. Alex is well beaten and cant take anymore and withdraws his men from the field before the final whistle is even blown, shame on you!! Quarter Finals: 8 men left, only 4 can go through. A HERO EMERGES is full of confidence and sees of CRAZY GOONER 1-0 to book his place in the Semi, while CS STEVE and PROROBBO square up for the chance to meet HERO. PROROBBO beating STEVE comfortably 4-2 to seal his Semi final spot. The top half of the draw sees MANC 4 LIFE vs JOKER0074 and after a close fought game JOKER just squeezes through 2-1. We now get a first glimpse of EREC SHAUN 360, his opponent the MINICUP mad, LUKE3300. Another easy game for LUKE who is 'ace with Blackburn' and eases through to the Semi final place 3-0 with EREC SHAUN 360 completely outplayed. Therefore that is the only glimpse we see of SHAUN, maybe more next time? Semi Finals: The bottom half of the draw saw A HERO EMERGES going for another Minicup final up against PROROBBO, on a roll after scoring 4 goals in each round so far. Not much to say other than PROROBBO turns out to be the dark horse of the tournament and leaves HERO trailing to seal a first ever final spot. The top half sees LUKE going 1-0 down to JOKER0074 before coming back to score a last minute winner. LUKE3300 will obviously have to play better in the final if he wants to win his first Minicup!! Final: So we have it, LUKE3300 (in his 4th Minicup final, still looking for a win) vs PROROBBO (the minicup dark horse!). Will ROB be able to stop LUKE3300 from fulfilling his lifelong dream? Or will he blow LUKE away like all previous opponents. Again, I'll leave it to our NEW MINICUP CHAMPION LUKE3300 (yes thats right HES BLOODY WON!!), to sum up the final. 'After 3 defeats before, I took a rather more cautious approach to this one, but none the less, found myself 1-0 inside 2 mins. I thought to myself," is this too early to score". i pressed for a 2nd but couldnt get it, he was blocking everything. at the other end i was defending properly, and stopped him scoring, which in fairness, he did have a nice attacking game going on. anyway into the 2nd half and i cant find a second goal, i decide im not gonna get 1, and instead of going all out for the 2nd, learn from past mistakes, and defend properly, not concede a goal and learn how to win 1-0 ffs! and thats wot i did. i had a throw dont his end in stoppage time thinkin ive won it, but he didnt thhink so, he had other ideas, and soooo nearly equalised, my keeper at full stretch to deny him after a low shot from a flowing attacking move, the ball didnt cross for a corner, i booted long, and there it was THE FINAL WHISTLE, i had done it , i had won a mini cup at long last!' SO congrats go out to LUKE3300 for his first ever minicup final victory, bad luck to PROROBBO but I feel his overall Minicup performance shows that there is now another serious contender for the trophy. Maybe next time ROB!!? Thanks to all involved in this weeks cup, it was another good one (but not much controversy, or match reports!!!). Please feel free to go and place your votes now in the minicup forum to decide next weeks theme, just make sure you all pick a team that LUKE doesnt like!! Cant have him winning two on the trot can we? CONGRATS LUKE(minicup)3300! Posted by neil363
03/03/06	BoTn World Cup 2 Ok guys and dolls The signup for the World Cup is now open. It's an open to all tournament however before you sign you must be aware that, The teams will be seeded Randomly so you could end up with Brazil or Iran. The World Cup will be set fixtures released every 4 days from the start date. There will be 8 groups of 4 players the top 2 players will go through to the second round. The winner will get a World Cup[ trophy added to there Trophy cabinet. You must be able to paticipate if you signup if you sign up and do not play you will recieve a warning and your inactivity wil be noted in your notes. Now that you have all the information you need, Sign Up Posted by Tomski
27/02/06	MINICUP REPORT 26th FEB The place: BoTN. The date: Sunday 26 Feb 2024. The time: 20:30hrs. The reason: Another superb Minicup!! So the theme was decided and the Geordies took on the Toffees. One quick and powerful attack against one rock solid defence. Which would be the winning formula?? 1st Round: The draw is made and we see a couple of new faces in the 1st round. We would also see one of those new faces definately through to the next round as SMOKEY657 and CAPTAINCOD1 drew each other. Luckily for 'The Cod' he has the power of Shearer and the pace of Owen, with both those players scoring first half goals to see of SMOKEY 2-1. The 1st round also sees the return of NEIL363 to face 'The Boss', TOMSKI. A dodgy penalty for Neil sees him fight his way past the new-found form of EL1's whipping boy to take his place in the 2nd round of the Minicup for the first time ever! Other notable results in the first round see last weeks Semi-Finalist, BISCUITS007, beaten by ALEXWILLIAMS15 and A HERO EMERGES just scrapping by against JOKER0074, in a game that both players admitted should have gone to the JOKER! Obviously the new name for Joker didnt see him have any new luck! Two other games were very close both going into Extra time but BOB88 finally sees of THUGGIE BEAR and LUKE3300 knocks BARNDAN out with the latter moaning that he 'hates Everton'. 2nd Round: With both MANC 4 LIFE and JONBOYO receiving byes into the second round they meet for a place in the Semis. JONBOYO has the better game seeing of previous Minicup champ MANC 4 LIFE, and progressing to the semis. We also have ALEXWILLIAMS15 and 'THE COD' battling it out for the other bottom half semi final but even with COD on a roll from his first tournament win he cannot get past the stubborn defence of ALEX and goes down 2-0. The top half of the draw sees the two who always seem to draw each other, A HERO EMERGES and LUKE3300 going head-to-head again. It was always going to take something special to seperate these two, so Luke just had to show who was boss. A freekick on the halfway line should be no real trouble. It becomes trouble however when the defending keeper has a slight lapse in concentration, skill and anything else that helps him stand up. Running out to meet the freekick he inexplicably allows it to sail over his head and into the back of the net giving Luke a 2-0 lead. Although Hero rallies his troops to get it back to 2-1 he doesnt have enough time for anymore and Luke is through to the Semis. The other 2nd round game has NEIL363 (in his first ever 2nd round match) up against BOB88. 5-1 to Bob is the score. End of story, enough said!! Semi-Final: Woooaahh, what a draw for the Semi Finals. For JONBOYO and ALEXWILLIAMS15 this must be the biggest game they have played on BoTn, but unfortunately for them the other Semi is a real grudge match. Not much to say, but JONBOYO scraps through as Newcastle to book his place in his first Final. The second Semi sees the return of the BOB88 and LUKE3300 meeting, like I say, a real grudge match if there ever was one. Bob eventually goes on to win 3-0 but the real talking point is how his first goal came about. Ferguson on the floor injured, Bob plays on and scores. Luke is not happy about this act of non-sportsmanship and cant regain his composure. He eventually loses 3-0, with Shearer tackling Martyn in goal for the 3rd. The question is: Should Bob have kicked the ball out to allow the injured man to receive treatment, or is it just sourgrapes from Luke?? VOTE IN THE FORUM NOW!!! Final: After the controversy of the Semis we see BOB88 meet JONBOYO. Bob having last won a Minicup over a month ago and going for his second victory up against the relative new-comer in JONBOYO (although he's getting on a bit now!!). JONBOYO obviously delighted that the other semi was as much a mental battle as it was physical for Bob, and therefore sensing his first ever trophy. As is always the case now, I pass you over to the words of our NEW MINICUP CHAMPION, JONBOYO. 'After scraping through to the final after winning the semis with Newcastle, I knew I was playing with a player for player weaker team as Everton in the final. I found the other semi was somewhat more controversial, with Bob88 causing chaos in Luke's mindset after not kicking the ball out after a critical injury.Luke returned to the shoutbox swearing like a trooper. Yet I've never kicked a ball out myself after such an injury, so was somewhat baffled about this gentlemanly behaviour I have never acquired. So to my 1st minicup final. My plan was simple - to beat Bob88, or more accurately not to let Owen break or Shearer shoot...and it paid off with minimal incidents...My Everton only had height in the box but were surprisingly composed passing in the midfield with some strong challenges. It looked like another penalty shootout was on the cards (as in my 1st round) when in the 84th min I had a break the size of a tsunami. After subbing big Duncan Ferguson I had some other big bloke upfront who was lucky to receive a slightly deflected pass and shot home. It was then a case of just holding on but always the knowledge that a stoppage time equaliser could break the scousers hearts. Then to my surprise a whipped in cross saw a header pound the back of the net from Bent. At last trophy for my virtual cabinet!' So its there for all to see. Congrats to JONBOYO for sealing your first BoTn trophy, bad luck to BOB88 (maybe next week!!). Final result: BOB88 (Newcastle) 0 - 2 JONBOYO (Everton) Thanks to all involved in another great Minicup, please remember to go and vote in the MINICUP forums for next weeks theme (oh and in GENERAL DISCUSSION to settle the gentlemans behaviour disagreement!). See you all same time same place next week for another fantastic installment of BoTn's Sunday Minicup. Posted by neil363
25/02/06	BOTN Report Hi guys, I thought id let you all know how BOTN has been doing recently. Heres just a few facts about our progress recently. - Our potential reach of new members has grown from just under half a million to around 3.5million on average, with ur currently at 6 million today! - Our internet site rank has risen almost a million places recently to site us as one of the most popular sites on the entire net! This has been thanks to everyones continuing support for BOTN [and a fair amount of hard work on the admins part] so please keep supporting BOTN however you can by recommending us to friends or by linking to us from your website. Lets hope this trend continues and we get even better!! Posted by m0nkeymafia
22/02/06	Kudos Ranking I have introduced a new ranking system into the site called Kudos rank. Seraphs21 gave me the initial idea which I have built upon, so credit to him for the initial idea. Kudos is basically a word meaning acheivement, and thats what this new ranking system is based on. Everyone starts off with 500 Kudos. You receive and lose Kudos to players you beat and lose against. If you win against a player with MORE Kudos than you then you will in turn receive a bigger reward for beating them. This should be a more accurate way of ranking people on the site as more merit will be given for beating harder opponents. The site ranking link on the left has now been replaced with the Kudos Ranking where you can see your current progress. Note that everyone will initially start on 500 Kudos so you may have to wait a few days and play a good number of games to start seeing results! Good luck and have fun! As always any questions PM me! Posted by m0nkeymafia
22/02/06	Late Night Cup After Having two Good Late Night Cups we Are Going to try And have one EVERYNIGHT!!!!! For this we need more players everynight so its not the same players over and over, so if you know any of your friends who play evo then get them to come to BoTn, The more players the better. I am going to set up a thread in the forums, Reply to the thread and your in. Remember If we have enough players at an early enough time we can start whenever. Cheers Posted by Erec Shaun 360
20/02/06	Minicup report 19th Feb The latest Minicup was themed Liverpool vs Man Utd. The tie of the first round was most definately Thuggie Bear vs Luke3300. Luke still trying to win his first ever minicup up against Thuggie 'I wont lose my temper and break my new pad' Bear. Unfortunately for Thuggie his new pad didnt pay off and Luke soared into the 2nd round with a 6-3 thrashing of 'The Bear'. Also the first round saw EL1's Tomski pitted against non-league player Bob88. With Tomski taking the lead with a lovely Stevie G freekick, he thought his 62% possession would have been enough to earn him the victory. How wrong was he!? Possession dont mean points, goals mean points and in this case a place in the next round, and with Bob88 scoring a last minute winner with a 'crap cross' (Tomski's words not mine, lol), Bob went through to meet Luke in the next round!! The Quarter Final stages saw the meeting of Bob and Luke and after a little controversy, Luke is given a 2-0 win! The other 2nd round matches see Crazy Gooner seeing off the World Number 5, Vortekz 88, 2-0 and Frinkulator just squeezing past triple Minicup champion A HERO EMERGES, 6-5 on penalties. Semi Final time and the quiet man of the Minicup, Biscuits007 sees himself up against Frinkulator, however the finishing of Frink is too much for Biscuits and Frink bursts into the final 2-1. The other Semi, sees Luke (still on course for yet another Minicup final) up against the 'Crazy' one! With Crazy Gooner riding high on confidence after his beating of Vortekz, his all-round play is too much for Luke and Gooner sails on into the Final with a 3-1 win. Crazy Gooner is so good that although Luke looks in his 'bag of excuses', even he cannot find one and must admit defeat!! (another first for BoTn) So onto the final between Crazy Gooner and Frinkulator. On paper, a win for Gooner, in reality football and PES is a funny old game. I asked for match reports from both finalists but the only response Gooner could come up with is 'frink won on penalties. I was winning 4-3 in extra time and he got a penalty in the dying seconds even tho i pressed nothing. Sorry neil im annoyed'. Obviously not a happy chappy!! I'll therefore leave it our NEW MINICUP CHAMPION, FRINKULATOR to sum up the final, and I quote 'crazy Gooner 4-4 Frinkulator Frinkulator wins 5-4 on penalties A truly outstanding game which saw 8 goals, a sending off for Frinkulator after 6 minutes and a dodgy injury time penalty in extra time. Gooner was 4-2 up and looked set to win the cup but for Van Nistelrooy to score two late goals to send the match to penalties. The match was eventually won when van der saar saved a Cisse penalty to leave the Frink jubulent' So there we have it, another successful Minicup sees us have a new champion. Well done Frinkulator!! Posted by neil363
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