AQL Season 8 IYKYK updates

So Gold finally ended with Chiltern Chillies poised to take their trophy - but somehow they lost their first match in the ENTIRE competition with a 30-47 reverse at THE QUADS MUST  BE CRAZY, who themselves take their first AQL Gold title. Both teams thankfully were going up to Champ anyway, and are joined by the winner of 3rd 4th. CARPAL DIEM thus become one of two sides to have played in four leagues finally, as they won the million dollar playoff against We have ghats to pass. The latter will go up of course if dropouts happen as they occupy the all important fourth place seat. On the other end of Gold - the hitherto meaningless 13th 14th place playoff carried huge stakes this season as we decreased the relegation slots on the final day from 4 to 3. The two teams contesting this match had both come up from Plat and did not want to go back down as one of them has gone back down three times at last count. Unfortunately that team now goes back down for what seems like the 4th time, ...

 Oh you are all wondering how it ended as they extended two weeks to MD9, and we did not have a proper swansong for Champ. Now that I appear to have 48 unique readers, none of which are flaming me now, let's do the post. CROUCHING MIMIR as we have mentioned have gone up, and with that, the rags to riches story is complete, from fifth world to first. Now we postulated multiple scenarios, and AGEING BULLS were quite clear in following the formbook, as they did what they needed to at Tequila Mockingbird 40-31. So they sealed their promotion in the clinical fashion after one season out of Prem. Now they need to keep their place again as they've yo-yoed five seasons now between 1 and 2. Mango a Go Go helped themselves to a customary win over a team that didn't need it anymore (against a team that didn't need it either) and find themselves ending in a nice 4th place right outside the promotion zone. You Lot were also supposed to win their final match and just confirm their fi...

 APQC 2024 came and went at G Hotel Gurney, Georgetown, and for a change, we had a Malaysian team consisting of individuals who actually lived in Malaysia; India turned up as they always do, with a Greatest Hits of India players of tournaments past; Singapore set a record of sorts with a 19 year old turning up; and Australia setting another record of sorts with 3.5 teams appearing, necessitating the use of BLUE as a colour and a team of spares, who duly were called THE SPARES. Defending champions: INDIA, last year's positions being 2nd place Malaysia (albeit with some assistance from foreign imperalists) and 3rd place Australia Gold sans external assistance. Participating teams: AUSTRALIA: 3 (Gold, Green, Blue) MALAYSIA: 2 (A and B) INDIA: 1 SINGAPORE: 1 PHILIPPINES: 1 Multinational: 1 Individual rounds were very heated, with AUSTRALIA GOLD racing to an extremely large 50 point lead (one of those so called unassailable ones) and 3 out of 4 of the top individual scores. AUSTRALIA GR...