This is a chat thread for general discussion. You may post any content you wish here as long as it complies with what is allowed in The Ruins.
This year's standard deadlines are 11PM GMT or 11 AM GMT (in case of some unpleasant circumstances or 36 hrs voting phases from QFs on). This means the same deadlines like in this year's ACC. Check your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/gmt
PopCon
The premise of this contest is simple enough to follow, by expanding the name 'Popularity Contest' it should be self-explanatory how to vote and decide here. If you're still unsure, a good benchmark would be to nominate the posters you like the most, or in a head-to-head match vote for who you like more, or those who you felt have contributed positively to the forum atmosphere. Remember that in a popularity contest there are no unfair results because popularity is not decided by one person, although of course any ruins and meltdowns as a result of failing to understand this are more than welcome.
Contest Format
Nominations - Any poster with 300 posts is able to choose 40 individual others to nominate for participation. Every nomination will be considered and tallied with the top 128 entering the main draw and the top 32 being seeded accordingly. You cannot nominate yourself. Banned users may be nominated if they were unbanned at all in 2019
Voting - The 128 MD participants will be entered into a random draw, and everyone will be able to cast 1 vote for each match in a winner-takes-all format. You can vote in matches concerning yourself. Winners will move on until we are presented with a champion.
All deadlines will be either 11PM GMT or 11 AM GMT as stated above
Nominations Friday 29 Nov - Friday 6 Dec 11 AM GMT
Ties/Qualies Friday 6 Dec
Main Draw Ceremony Saturday 7: 11 PM GMT
R1 (in halves) Monday 9 & Tuesday 10
R2 (in halves) Wednesday 11 & Thursday 12
R3 Friday 13
R4 Saturday 14
QF Sunday 15
SF TBD
F TBD
Withdrawing
There are NO Withdrawals.
Previous Years' Chat: https://www.menstennisforums.com/threads/popcon-2018-chat-thread-final-ibm-wins.955246/unread
Last Year's Nominations: https://www.menstennisforums.com/threads/popcon-2018-nominations-up-to-40-votes-by-9pm-gmt-tuesday.955250/unread
Useful links:
Regularly updated sheet, including Nominations and all Voting:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wSINS7DnsTXhApSb1DHhFDG6Vc9un0pATgJ9I4jUaWg/edit?usp=sharing
The following posters have volunteered assistance (PM any of us for issues or questions): BMT360, Arsen, Monsi, RuRo, clearwaters
If you are interested and willing to help in any manner, please contact IBM or BMT360
Draw/Past Draws
The Live Draw of this event will be made on Saturday 7th of December, 11 PM GMT. There'll be as always a Wikidraw of it, too, which will be updated now and then.
In case you want to see how previous PopCons unfolded with their related draws and chat threads, just visit the PopCon History Thread to get a quick overview.
Honours
Live Draw
[1] cmchelsea vs. Chokehater
swissmaestro92 vs. JediFed
-Samuel vs. yellow grass
ESPNGEEK vs. [30] RocketMan70
[18] masterclass vs. George Stobbart
FelipeL vs. emotion
Nortius Maximus vs. Sara X
scarecrows vs. [16] RuRo
[9] guitarra vs. -Dominator
M. Mecir vs. Police of Mind
PileDrive vs. Djoker
Clay Death Rules vs. [21] Pedigree
[26] paca vs. Snowwy
laughingcavalier vs. POTUS Haase
Mark Lenders vs. hammett
Virtualmorpher vs. [7] Ilkae
[3] Budadiii vs. Ranne
Kyrgyros vs. Pratik
Nachotuerto vs. Joe H
Arsen vs. [27] DieGOAT
[20] AskTheQuestion vs. BauerAlmeida
Break point Dom. vs. Tennis9000+
Tonofdreams vs. Rumour
Ilovetheblues_86 vs. [15] darcis_forehand
[11] Supercell vs. Jolyon
Haneul vs. CooCooCachoo
Swiss_tennisgod vs. Arvind S Chetha
Mimi vs. [23] SetPointDown
[31] skytennis vs. [Q] Mateya
ne znam ali mozda vs. zjtennis
Spectator75 vs. viva-rafa
Cristian vs. [6] Cloren
[8] NextGenKing vs. monfed
HollowTip vs. Chris Kuerten
NDee vs. Litotes
Rob & Stephen vs. [29] Time Violation
[22] Meddy Bar vs. David T Hume
Schumacher vs. Awka Liwen
Jennipeg vs. ibreak4coffee
Tennis Passion vs. [12] enlightenedth
[13] Kowchi vs. The Skipper
The Federest vs. manu_ser
Fedjokodal vs. alejan_milos
Han Solo vs. [19] slamjunky
[28] Radish vs. MalwareDie
Jam vs. JambaJuice85
raysun68 vs. Federer-Fan
InfoKenway vs. [4] IBM
[5] Monsi vs. PortlandTimbers
bighax vs. Stan del Potro
Andrej vs. jervisjames
Sapeod vs. [32] Slasher1985
[17] bilentsob vs. MalvinLuisandy
PetecoKraus vs. Darth Vaderer
Joe Speedboot vs. decentre
Mae vs. [10] Johnny Groove
[14] Orka_n vs. Henrik
[Q] xcom vs. Featherer
[Q] redshift36188 vs. Yuma
n00b vs. [24] BMT360
[25] clearwaters vs. Sham Kay Adams
leng jai vs. Dimitard
Moozza vs. ProudSerb
Devision2002 vs. [2] MWW
This year's standard deadlines are 11PM GMT or 11 AM GMT (in case of some unpleasant circumstances or 36 hrs voting phases from QFs on). This means the same deadlines like in this year's ACC. Check your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/gmt
PopCon
The premise of this contest is simple enough to follow, by expanding the name 'Popularity Contest' it should be self-explanatory how to vote and decide here. If you're still unsure, a good benchmark would be to nominate the posters you like the most, or in a head-to-head match vote for who you like more, or those who you felt have contributed positively to the forum atmosphere. Remember that in a popularity contest there are no unfair results because popularity is not decided by one person, although of course any ruins and meltdowns as a result of failing to understand this are more than welcome.
Contest Format
Nominations - Any poster with 300 posts is able to choose 40 individual others to nominate for participation. Every nomination will be considered and tallied with the top 128 entering the main draw and the top 32 being seeded accordingly. You cannot nominate yourself. Banned users may be nominated if they were unbanned at all in 2019
Voting - The 128 MD participants will be entered into a random draw, and everyone will be able to cast 1 vote for each match in a winner-takes-all format. You can vote in matches concerning yourself. Winners will move on until we are presented with a champion.
Schedule
All deadlines will be either 11PM GMT or 11 AM GMT as stated above
Nominations Friday 29 Nov - Friday 6 Dec 11 AM GMT
Ties/Qualies Friday 6 Dec
Main Draw Ceremony Saturday 7: 11 PM GMT
R1 (in halves) Monday 9 & Tuesday 10
R2 (in halves) Wednesday 11 & Thursday 12
R3 Friday 13
R4 Saturday 14
QF Sunday 15
SF TBD
F TBD
Withdrawing
There are NO Withdrawals.
Previous Years' Chat: https://www.menstennisforums.com/threads/popcon-2018-chat-thread-final-ibm-wins.955246/unread
Last Year's Nominations: https://www.menstennisforums.com/threads/popcon-2018-nominations-up-to-40-votes-by-9pm-gmt-tuesday.955250/unread
Useful links:
Regularly updated sheet, including Nominations and all Voting:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wSINS7DnsTXhApSb1DHhFDG6Vc9un0pATgJ9I4jUaWg/edit?usp=sharing
The following posters have volunteered assistance (PM any of us for issues or questions): BMT360, Arsen, Monsi, RuRo, clearwaters
If you are interested and willing to help in any manner, please contact IBM or BMT360
Draw/Past Draws
The Live Draw of this event will be made on Saturday 7th of December, 11 PM GMT. There'll be as always a Wikidraw of it, too, which will be updated now and then.
In case you want to see how previous PopCons unfolded with their related draws and chat threads, just visit the PopCon History Thread to get a quick overview.
Honours
Live Draw
[1] cmchelsea vs. Chokehater
swissmaestro92 vs. JediFed
-Samuel vs. yellow grass
ESPNGEEK vs. [30] RocketMan70
[18] masterclass vs. George Stobbart
FelipeL vs. emotion
Nortius Maximus vs. Sara X
scarecrows vs. [16] RuRo
[9] guitarra vs. -Dominator
M. Mecir vs. Police of Mind
PileDrive vs. Djoker
Clay Death Rules vs. [21] Pedigree
[26] paca vs. Snowwy
laughingcavalier vs. POTUS Haase
Mark Lenders vs. hammett
Virtualmorpher vs. [7] Ilkae
[3] Budadiii vs. Ranne
Kyrgyros vs. Pratik
Nachotuerto vs. Joe H
Arsen vs. [27] DieGOAT
[20] AskTheQuestion vs. BauerAlmeida
Break point Dom. vs. Tennis9000+
Tonofdreams vs. Rumour
Ilovetheblues_86 vs. [15] darcis_forehand
[11] Supercell vs. Jolyon
Haneul vs. CooCooCachoo
Swiss_tennisgod vs. Arvind S Chetha
Mimi vs. [23] SetPointDown
[31] skytennis vs. [Q] Mateya
ne znam ali mozda vs. zjtennis
Spectator75 vs. viva-rafa
Cristian vs. [6] Cloren
[8] NextGenKing vs. monfed
HollowTip vs. Chris Kuerten
NDee vs. Litotes
Rob & Stephen vs. [29] Time Violation
[22] Meddy Bar vs. David T Hume
Schumacher vs. Awka Liwen
Jennipeg vs. ibreak4coffee
Tennis Passion vs. [12] enlightenedth
[13] Kowchi vs. The Skipper
The Federest vs. manu_ser
Fedjokodal vs. alejan_milos
Han Solo vs. [19] slamjunky
[28] Radish vs. MalwareDie
Jam vs. JambaJuice85
raysun68 vs. Federer-Fan
InfoKenway vs. [4] IBM
[5] Monsi vs. PortlandTimbers
bighax vs. Stan del Potro
Andrej vs. jervisjames
Sapeod vs. [32] Slasher1985
[17] bilentsob vs. MalvinLuisandy
PetecoKraus vs. Darth Vaderer
Joe Speedboot vs. decentre
Mae vs. [10] Johnny Groove
[14] Orka_n vs. Henrik
[Q] xcom vs. Featherer
[Q] redshift36188 vs. Yuma
n00b vs. [24] BMT360
[25] clearwaters vs. Sham Kay Adams
leng jai vs. Dimitard
Moozza vs. ProudSerb
Devision2002 vs. [2] MWW