The game will start on monday, please no posting in here until then.

I have started this thread now so that I can lay down some of the rules and structure.

I will draw the teams, and who is playing who on Sunday. The table of fixtures will be posted here. the draw will take place in such a manner that after week 1, we will have 4 surviving couples. They will face off in 2 head to head semi finals next week, followed by the final. The first round will include head to head or three way matches or a combination of the two to give us 4 surviving couples at the end of week 1. There will be a second draw at the end of week 1 that will determine all further matches.

Each match will be scored over three rounds. During the rounds, each couple has to try and outscore their opponents. Couples will score points by correctly guessing their partners answers to questions. The different rounds will have different types of questions varying on a range of subjects. Most rounds will have 1 member of the team sent a list of questions via PM, and the other person trying to correctly guess their answers.

There will be no time limit to moving through the rounds. I will start the ball rolling on Sunday evening, and each team will likely have to proceed through 6 actions over the week, total. Actions will include answering questions via PM, or in the thread. There is no problem with 1 team being at a different stage in the round or match to their opponents. In addition, many parts of the game can be played concurrently. I would think that if you can commit 1 hour every other day, that would be plenty.

Obviously there should be no communication with your partner regarding pm's you have recieved from me outside this thread. It would be incredibly easy for any one of us to ace this game by setting up a bunch of protocals regarding different answering strategys. All that would do would be destroy the entertainment of this game, so I trust that you all will answer your questions honestly.

Round 1 -

Heat 1 -
{Siegm + Patton} vs {Books + Gamble} vs {Cueball + Clown}
Heat 2-
{Traz + HBE} vs {Luckay + Herbie}
Heat 3-
{Zero + OH} vs {Jenn + Aj}
Heat 4-
{Vader + Aar} vs {Val + Amp}

1 team will progress from each heat to the semi finals, gl all.

Everyone should have recieved a PM, please PM me if you have recieved more or less than 1. (exception - aar, I believe I may have sent you duplicate pm's)

People not yet responded to PM's -

Cue
+clown
+ seigmund.
+ traz
+ herbie
+zero
+OH
+jenn
+aj
+aar

There are two full teams that heve responded, they cal expect their next PM's in a few minutes, but I will not be revealing points for round 1 until everyone has finished round one, same with rounds 2 and 3.

But that doesn't stop people progressing through them at their own pace.

Still waiting on first round PM replys from -

herbie
+jenn
+aj
+aar

(also clown, but he didn't get his pm yet.)

I am assuming OH and zero are out atm, although that will be confirmed one way or the other tomorrow.

sent

I've been busy/lazy

I'll send it soon I promise

ok, working on it, sorry for the hold up

All I know is that I claim the 'Mr.' in this relationship.

andale andale!

Ok, so I'm gonna do some work on this today, basically rounds 1 and 2 are gonna be done via PM's ONLY, round 3 will have the questions posted in this thread later today, replys to me by PM please.

Everybody has had 1 pm sent, most people have replied to it, I'll post an updated list of who has replied here later.

When both of a team has replied, I have sent another pm, (probably to about half of the field at present) or will do when they are in. I will do some catching up on this tonight.

Basically if everyone get's 3 pm's to me by saturday morning, that's when I'll do the reveal, then rand and send out PM's for next weeks semi's on sunday.

I'll post exactly who is where in the line of completed PM's later today as it will also allow people to let me know if I think they've got their second PM when they haven't.

OK, so here is a list of current actions in no particular order -

BOOKS AND GAMBLE -

Both have replied to the first PM.
Both have recieved the second PM.
Gamble has replied to the second PM.
Awaiting Books's reply to second PM. (by friday is fine)

CUE AND CLOWN
Both have replied to first PM.
Both have recieved second PM.
Awaiting both replys to second PM (only sent today)


JENN AND AJ
AJ has replied to first PM
I am awaiting Jenn's reply to the first PM.
I cannot send second PM's until I get Jenns answers.

LUCKAY AND HERBIE
Luckay has replied to first PM.
I am awaiting Herbie's reply to the first PM.
I cannot send second PM's until I get Herbie's answers.

PATTON AND SEIGMUND
Both have replied to first PM.
Both have recieved second PM.
Patton has replied to the second PM.
I am awaiting seigmund's reply to the second PM.

TRAZ AND HBE
Both have replied to the first PM.
Both have replied to the second PM.
Gold star.

VADER AND ARR
Vader has replied to first PM.
I am awaiting Aar's reply to the first PM.
I cannot send second PM's until I get Arr's answers.

VAL AND AMP
Both have replied to the first PM.
Both have replied to the second PM.
Gold star.

ZERO AND OH
Both have replied to the first PM.
Both have recieved second PM (tonight)
Am awaiting replys to second PM.
Are confirmed in.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

1) IF THE ABOVE INFO IS WRONG PM ME ASAP SO I CAN CORRECT IT.
2) IF YOUR TEAM HAS NOT SUBMITTED ANSWERS TO THE TWO PM'S BY FRIDAY YOU WILL SCORE 0 FOR OUTSTANDING ROUNDS. PLEASE CHASE YOUR PARTNERS AS I DO NOT HAVE TIME TO DO IT.

Round 3 -

Please answer all the following in a PM to me. In each case, please answer the person from your team who is most likely to...

1) be arrested

2) buy a puppy without having planned to

3) cook a three course meal

4) wake up on the bathroom floor

5) wear odd socks

6) make a WSOP final table

7) give $10 to a tramp

8) start a cult

If you and your partner answer the same, you score 1. Otherwise you score 0.

I sent the first one - sorry for the delay

Update -

JENN and AAR are yet to reply to my first PM.

Note ; I cannot send you a second PM until I get the first. I am not online all the time, so you must assume that I will send you the day after I recieve. If I haven't revieved your SECOND pm by saturday morning, you will forfiet that round and will likely be out.

i'll try and send tomorow hitch - didn't envisage current situation when i signed up

NP aar. If you can send tomorrow, then fill in the q's in this thread and 1 more PM I'll send tomorrow you're good.

They shouldn't take more than 5 mins each.

woohoo, i think im caught up now

those round 3 questions are funny... pretty sure alex and i have each done at least one of those things at some point :P

a real couple better win this thing, for realz.. im cheering for oh/zero if alex/me get knocked out, woohoo!!

*ahem*

Luckay and I are a "real" couple too ya know

or maybe i'll cheer for val and amp

(bc i them so)

pics or it didnt happen!!!!

Ok, I think people are caught up.

EVERYONE HAS RECIEVED AND REPLIED TO A PM WITH QUESTIONS IN

EVERYONE HAS RECIEVED A SECOND PM ASKING HOW THEY THOUGHT THEIR PARTNER ANSWERED

IF THE ABOVE IS WRONG, PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP.

So, my work is done here apart from the reveal.

The deadline for entrants, because I want to give everybody the best chance possible, is 12noon GMT Saturday, this will give me chance to process and post results Saturday evening.

Anyone having not completed a round by 12 noon gmt Saturday will score 0 points for their team.

Completed rounds will have included replying to 2 PM's from me, and PMing me the answers to round three questions posted in this thread. gl all.

Reveal coming over the next couple of hours. Entrys are closed.

Heat 1 coming first.