AQL Season 8 IYKYK updates

 Sorry Platinum. The youngest child always loved, the oldest child always in the way, the middle child (Gold) always overcompensating. It's Platinum that always gets forgotten so today we plan to rectify that. EUREKA MOMENT are champions of Platinum - having bought a few terrific new female players by the looks of it when I drop in to their matches. They are again the epitome of "it takes a relegation to make a team better", as they were just moribund in their last season in Gold when they went down with a whimper (I am not even sure there was a whimper). This season Eureka lost to Nylon in the group stages and finished second in the group, but in the end "we meet again" in the finals and Eureka exacted their revenge. Of course it was a somewhat meaningless match promotion wise as both teams went up irrespective but it's nice to hold on to that air trophy for Christmas. The all important third place playoff happens soon with Calicut Cartel taking on WAGMI. B...

An improbable end to an overpowered season, where one of the best teams in Ruby is still stuck there for another season, and a team that was established on the back of a napkin essentially and is named after the guy whose napkin it was! In the finals of Ruby, Quiz and Qurious finally smashed their way back to Prem after digging around for a bit in the nether regions of Ruby, but they did make it out in the end. They defeated Movin's Minute Men 40-30 in a nice high scoring clash which signalled both of them being promoted anyway, so honestly no loss for either side to just turn up. Trivia Matters won the decisive third place playoff and collected their bronze medals (and the promotion place) against Carlo Rossi, who are really not half bad as a team but just suffered from a surfeit of good teams in Ruby this season - I would say 3M are not even really a Ruby team and will thrive in higher leagues as well. In other news TK became the undisputed champions of the so called bottom 4 pla...

 PREM is the one league that has not ended yet - and now we are going into the El Clasico finals, where a team that has won AQL before will win it again. 120 Days of Sodor are heavily tipped to win it as they come into the finals with large sized defeats of various theoretically very strong teams. Matunga edged last season's champions (now this year's semifinalists) Ship of QDeus by a tight one point in a 40-plus match for all, however, so they have played against some of the best and survived. My money? Matunga has a habit of thriving in high stress high yield situations, whereas 120 Days have the sheer star power to do it. But Matunga is a better oiled machine so if held at gunpoint I would vote them to lift the silverware again.  On the other end, FCA won three out of three relegation playoff matches and ensured that The Sign of Four, Doctors Proctors, and SxSE will move to the Championship League next Season. No shame as this has been the hardest Prem in a long time - Vonm...