Mens Tennis Forums banner

PopCon 2019 Chat Thread - cmchelsea wins!

Tags
popcon
23K views 805 replies 52 participants last post by  cobalt60 
#1 · (Edited)
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.

Here's how ties will work (official):

Head-To-Head vote: only to be used in case of seeding, where the rank will have an effect on the poster's placing in the draw e.g between 2/3, 4/5, 8/9, 12/13, 16/17, 24/25, and to determine who is seeded in case multiple posters have a claim to the 32nd seed.

Qualifying: In the case where the cutoff to the main draw is not clear, there will be only one round of qualifying which will take a variable format, depending on the number of tying users and the number of MD spots available. Most likely small groups/pots from each of which 1/2 can be voted for.

Match Tiebreaks: 1 hour tiebreaks will be used in a free-for-all voting format. If you wish to be involved in the drama and have your vote counted in the TB, try when possible to check in between 11:00 PM GMT and 12 AM GMT
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
 
See less See more
1
#5 ·
Kowchi is the people's choice. Running the line between quality, cringe, and terrible humor. Keeping the forum alive and kicking one post and thread at a time. Posting Endless Loops for the entertainment of the masses. Mocking the silly posters who don't make sense and the ones that take themselves too seriously.

Why waste your time thinking about your nominations? You already know what name you should put down. You may have known him as Endless Loopchi , or Del GOATchi , but he is our main guy, true and true.

As the poster with the SaladTurtle says: The public just adores when this poster steps out on the forum, posting ruins and loops everywhere he goes.

 
#14 ·
Kowchi is the people's choice. Running the line between quality, cringe, and terrible humor. Keeping the forum alive and kicking one post and thread at a time. Posting Endless Loops for the entertainment of the masses. Mocking the silly posters who don't make sense and the ones that take themselves too seriously.

Why waste your time thinking about your nominations? You already know what name you should put down. You may have known him as Endless Loopchi , or Del GOATchi , but he is our main guy, true and true.

As the poster with the SaladTurtle says: The public just adores when this poster steps out on the forum, posting ruins and loops everywhere he goes.

How on earth have you managed to post a gif here. QFs worthy stuff for that alone
 
#26 ·
Btw guys, here's the link to see the sheet. Would be greatly appreciated if in case there's a mistake you can point it out:

 
#36 ·
A vote for Kowchi means you are trying to save Endless Loops / GIFS

see my quoted post to STEVE directly
@Steve or Gerrit.

You guys realize that you have destroyed Endless Loops or GIFs right?

The Gif will be running and working when you drag it into your post and or if you quote someone else you will be able to see the moving gif, but the moment you post it , becomes a still image.

The only Gifs that I have found to work are ones off of official GIF sights. If the GIF is from any Third Party Source the gif does not work. Inserting image doesn't help either. Let me show you.

Djokovic net touch. Posted in multiple formats

Drag and drop:



Direct Link : https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/djokovic-stare.gif?w=1000

Insert image option


Drag and Drop again



Drag and drop Del Potro gif directly from GIPHY
Image result for tennis gif


[The only working gif and you can see that I posted a link, instead of dragging a GIF]

The only one that seems to work is copying a GIF link directly from an official gif link website as the screen shot below shows.
View attachment 352796

Feel free to quote my post and you will see them working in the quoted post, but the moment they go live, they are still. Please explain.
 
#42 ·
Of course big clearwaters is back spambotting the shit out of this fine electronic establishment now there's an opening to vulture Popcon with the field at 5%. Alarmingly reminiscent of her idol's behaviour.
 
#43 ·
Of course big clearwaters is back spambotting the shit out of this fine electronic establishment now there's an opening to vulture Popcon with the field at 5%. Alarmingly reminiscent of her idol's behaviour.
I have probably posted not more than 10 posts this year and all in non-tennis. You think too highly of what I can do, too lowly of what other members (including yourself) have done, and what they know and saw on this fine electronic establishment.
 
#44 ·





  1. Swap guest82(not sure even correct..an evans fan but not seen in a while) for Schumacher please. I only remembered when he posted as not that active but cant forget a slovak :) . Also he is very polite when arguing and seems a good guy
Accepted.

Guys as for organization reasons I beg you to choose wisely and in case you want to swap to tell me that directly either here or in the voting thread and to tag me. However, I friendly ask you to try to avoid to swap nominations.

@Orka_n and @decentre you guys have one nomination left since you both nominated two guys (Orka TV twice, decentre ACC-legend Ilkae). You can pick another one
 
#46 ·
Here's an update on the vote count. Finally got back in front of a computer. Please check for mistakes with the numbers, as the sheet is mostly manual work.

NextGenKing is the #1 seed at the moment with cmchelsea, Groove, IBM, Budadiii, and MWW not far behind. Close race for the top and things will surely shift around as the week goes on.

As of Post #63 in Nomination Thread...
NextGenKing14
cmchelsea13
Johnny Groove12
IBM12
Budadiii12
MWW12
RuRo11
Monsi11
Orka_n11
Supercell10
Kowchi10
Ilkae10
guitarra9
enlightenedth9
bighax9
darcis_forehand9
Cloren9
masterclass8
Joe H7
Mae7
DieGOAT7
bilentsob7
Radish7
Slasher19857
AskTheQuestion7
Time Violation6
leng jai6
SetPointDown6
paca6
Meddy Bar6
Swissmaestro926
Schumacher6
Joe Speedboot6
clearwaters6
Jam6
Clay Death Rules6
BMT3606
Pedigree6
Tonofdreams5
Mimi5
RocketMan705
Snowwy5
Dimitard4
skytennis4
Kyrgyros4
Break point Dom.4
Arsen4
Sapeod4
Ne znam ali mozda4
Han Solo4
ESPNGeek4
JediFed3
Moozza3
scarecrows3
Manu_ser3
Virtualmorpher3
zjtennis3
MalwareDie3
MalvinLuisandy3
Darth Vaderer3
Tennis Passion3
-Dominator-3
monfed3
Henrik3
ProudSerb3
Police of Mind3
Jennipeg3
Sara X3
Cristian3
PortlandTimbers3
Roxitova2
VamosRafa1232
Unbiased2
PetecoKraus2
POTUS Haase2
bry17may2
a1canada2
FelipeL2
acacacacademy2
hammett2
M. Mecir2
InfoKenway2
Andrej2
Haneul2
Ranne2
Piledrive2
Fargif2
n00b2
xcom2
Rob&Stephen2
BauerAlmeida2
NDee2
Litotes2
alejan_milos2
rusca_djokerfan2
Tezza121
Tennis9000+1
Steve1
sheep851
Nachotuerto1
Matt011
FlameOn1
Djoker1
Arvind S Chetha1
Buddyholly1
DjokoKing1
Fedjokodal1
Nadalism1
Arctan1
jojjeshruk1
Federer-Fan1
Griezmann131
Looch1
Tennis Pacifist1
2MatchPointsDown1
Dominic S1
George Stobbart1
HollowTip1
Maranza1
Martin911
chilazon1
just1ce1
Nortius Maximus1
Chris Kuerten1
raysun681
JambaJuice951
Subliminal1
devision20021
isidore771
viva-rafa1
Mark Lenders1
David T Hume1
The Skipper1
The Federest1
Coolybri1
cowgomoo2391
Hidalgo1
Lupojohn1

PopCon 2019 Spreadsheet - Check link here!
 
#47 ·
Here's an update on the vote count. Finally got back in front of a computer. Please check for mistakes with the numbers, as the sheet is mostly manual work.
There's no Mateya on that list although I nominated her.

I hope more people nominate her btw, as one of the treasures of MTF it's ridiculous that she isn't a top seed.
 
#48 ·
#49 ·
Rob & Stephen - I think you will still hear him giggle even if you stuff him in a box.
Thanks, Matt. Stephen had a good laugh at that one and said "too true".;)
 
#50 ·
Although of course any ruins and meltdowns as a result of failing to understand this are more than welcome.
That's never happened before. :giggle:
 
#55 ·
Kowchi and Supercell in the same tier.

Makes sense that Dustin Brown and Ernest will be around long enough to cause the big upset to NextGenDull or Chmchelsovic
 
#57 ·
Halftime boys and girls after ESPNGeek's vote and there seems to be a long list of qualifiers ahead of us. Projected seeds and MD cutoff:

[1] cmchelsea18
[2] NextGenKing17
[3] MWW16
[4] IBM15
[5] Budadiii15
[6] Johnny Groove14
[7] Orka_n14
[8] RuRo14
[9] Supercell14
[10] Monsi13
[11] Ilkae13
[12] guitarra13
[13] enlightenedth13
[14] Cloren13
[15] Kowchi12
[16] darcis_forehand11
[17] masterclass11
[18] Radish11
[19] bighax11
[20] AskTheQuestion10
[21] Time Violation10
[22] SetPointDown10
[23] Joe H10
[24] clearwaters9
[25] Slasher19859
[26] Mae8
[27] DieGOAT8
[28] leng jai8
[29] Swissmaestro928
[30] paca8
[31] Meddy Bar8
[32] bilentsob7
Joe Speedboot7
Clay Death Rules7
Pedigree7
Mimi7
RocketMan707
Sapeod7
BMT3607
Schumacher6
Jam6
Ne znam ali mozda6
Snowwy6
monfed6
Tonofdreams5
Han Solo5
M. Mecir5
Arsen5
Cristian5
Dimitard4
skytennis4
Kyrgyros4
Break point Dom.4
ESPNGeek4
Manu_ser4
Jennipeg4
scarecrows4
MalvinLuisandy4
Tennis Passion4
Ranne4
BauerAlmeida4
PortlandTimbers4
Main Draw Cutoff
JediFed3
Moozza3
Virtualmorpher3
zjtennis3
MalwareDie3
Darth Vaderer3
-Dominator-3
Henrik3
ProudSerb3
Police of Mind3
Sara X3
Piledrive3
Nortius Maximus3
Stan del Potro3
hammett3
Haneul3
PetecoKraus3
Andrej3
Litotes3
Potential Direct Entries
Roxitova2
VamosRafa1232
Unbiased2
POTUS Haase2
bry17may2
a1canada2
FelipeL2
acacacacademy2
InfoKenway2
Fargif2
n00b2
xcom2
Rob&Stephen2
NDee2
alejan_milos2
rusca_djokerfan2
Djoker2
devision20022
Nachotuerto2
Mark Lenders2
coolybri2
Hidalgo2
tribalfusion2
QR2
Tezza121
Tennis9000+1
Steve1
sheep851
Matt011
FlameOn1
Arvind S Chetha1
Buddyholly1
DjokoKing1
Fedjokodal1
Nadalism1
Arctan1
jojjeshruk1
Federer-Fan1
Griezmann131
Looch1
Tennis Pacifist1
2MatchPointsDown1
Dominic S1
George Stobbart1
HollowTip1
Maranza1
Martin911
chilazon1
just1ce1
Chris Kuerten1
raysun681
JambaJuice951
Subliminal1
isidore771
viva-rafa1
David T Hume1
The Skipper1
The Federest1
cowgomoo2391
Lupojohn1
Mateya1
RajFederer1
mcekovic1
Raiden1
Seconddeuce1
SuperG1
Rumour1
lukasgigler1
-Samuel1
Alex9991
swiss_tennisgod1
aerosmash1
Ponas Donny1
jervisjames1
EdwardHaney1
QR1 (for now)


As for now: You are for sure in the MD with 4 nominations at least, you're probably In with 3 and you maybe go to qualies with 2. For sure you have to qualify with one nomination if you even can.
 
#59 ·
So many angry Fedtards among seeds is expected and we know why. Fine posters like Andrej and Darth Vaderer being under-nominated, and tribalfusion not nominated at all, is also expected for the same reason. But what about swiss_tennisgod having only 1 nomination? Since he is not only Fedtard, but Fedtard with a sense of humor, this is pretty unexpected. Maybe his "problem" is too much humor and too little hate and anger?
 
#62 · (Edited)
Not bad. Barring a disaster (i.e. failed doping test), I should make it into the main draw.
 
This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.
Top