Sir Didier Drogba
Head Official
READ CAREFULLY - ONLY CORRECTLY MADE VOTES WILL BE COUNTED, IF YOU VOTE INCORRECTLY, YOU WILL NOT HAVE THE CHANCE TO VOTE AGAIN.
Welcome to the Group Stage Voting.
Rules for Voters: You must vote for exactly two teams, in the poll. There are no tiebreaker votes this year and as everyone can now access SG, votes will not be accepted via facebook or anywhere else. Due to some voting controversies last year, voting rules are very strict - if you dont vote for exactly two teams, your vote will not be counted and you will not be allowed to vote again (even if you vote for just one team your vote will not count and you cannot go back and add another vote). No bitching, no complaining, GET IT RIGHT. It's a multiple options poll and you vote for two teams at the same time, not one, not three, get it wrong and all your votes are invalid and you cant update them or vote again. No minimum postcount to vote, but obviously suspicious votes will be investigated.
Rules for Players: First place team will go straight through to unseeded quarter finals. Second and third placed teams will go through to seeded playoffs, whereby second placed teams will play third placed teams, for the other four quarter final spots. Fourth placed teams go home. In the case of tied votes, ties between the not so crucial second and third spots will be decided by coin toss, but ties between the crucial first and second distinction and third and fourth distinction will be settled by direct one vote playoffs between the two (or more) tied teams - these playoffs will be very short (probably voting only open for 24hrs) so keep your eyes open. These group polls are open for a long time as I will be away next week anyway.
What you can do: It is permitted to post in this thread to make the case for why people should vote for your team, and to trash talk opposing teams. You may also talk your team up and trash talk opponents in the public facebook chats and group.
What you can NOT do: You may not post in any other forums or threads asking people to come here and vote for your team, nor may you take the trash talking or publicizing your team to other threads (though short references in other soccer forum threads like 'great goal for my draft team star tonight' are permissable). You may not approach anyone directly to ask for their vote in any form, this includes absolutely no draft chat by PM and I will use my admin powers to log in and look at your PMs if there is anything suspicious. This also includes facebook messaging, I can't police this as easily but if the person you write to exposes your messages... breaking this or any of these canvassing rules will result in IMMEDIATE expulsion from the competition and probable ban from future competitions.
Sorry to sound so strict but you all know what has happened in the past both with regards to voting disputes and Private Messaging.
Competing teams will follow in the next post:
Welcome to the Group Stage Voting.
Rules for Voters: You must vote for exactly two teams, in the poll. There are no tiebreaker votes this year and as everyone can now access SG, votes will not be accepted via facebook or anywhere else. Due to some voting controversies last year, voting rules are very strict - if you dont vote for exactly two teams, your vote will not be counted and you will not be allowed to vote again (even if you vote for just one team your vote will not count and you cannot go back and add another vote). No bitching, no complaining, GET IT RIGHT. It's a multiple options poll and you vote for two teams at the same time, not one, not three, get it wrong and all your votes are invalid and you cant update them or vote again. No minimum postcount to vote, but obviously suspicious votes will be investigated.
Rules for Players: First place team will go straight through to unseeded quarter finals. Second and third placed teams will go through to seeded playoffs, whereby second placed teams will play third placed teams, for the other four quarter final spots. Fourth placed teams go home. In the case of tied votes, ties between the not so crucial second and third spots will be decided by coin toss, but ties between the crucial first and second distinction and third and fourth distinction will be settled by direct one vote playoffs between the two (or more) tied teams - these playoffs will be very short (probably voting only open for 24hrs) so keep your eyes open. These group polls are open for a long time as I will be away next week anyway.
What you can do: It is permitted to post in this thread to make the case for why people should vote for your team, and to trash talk opposing teams. You may also talk your team up and trash talk opponents in the public facebook chats and group.
What you can NOT do: You may not post in any other forums or threads asking people to come here and vote for your team, nor may you take the trash talking or publicizing your team to other threads (though short references in other soccer forum threads like 'great goal for my draft team star tonight' are permissable). You may not approach anyone directly to ask for their vote in any form, this includes absolutely no draft chat by PM and I will use my admin powers to log in and look at your PMs if there is anything suspicious. This also includes facebook messaging, I can't police this as easily but if the person you write to exposes your messages... breaking this or any of these canvassing rules will result in IMMEDIATE expulsion from the competition and probable ban from future competitions.
Sorry to sound so strict but you all know what has happened in the past both with regards to voting disputes and Private Messaging.
Competing teams will follow in the next post:
