RULES FOR ROUND 3

Congo to Round 2 Winners
Battle hots up now , gets tougher so please pay close attention to rules to plan your strategy.

RULES :
1) You can select any kind of 8 players from any Teams you like from the following matches :
10th May : Delhi vs Hyderabad
10th May : Mumbai vs Chennai
11th May : Punjab vs Kolkata
11th May : Bangalore vs Rajasthan

2) As in round 2 , you can buy up to 3 extra players. Each additional
player will cost you 40 points. For example you take 2 extra players making a squad of total 10 players ,80 points will be deducted from your final points tally. It's not compulsory to take extra players for anyone.

3) You can select 1 substitute player as well which you can use to exchange for any 1 player of your squad of 8/9/10/11 provided that original player doesn't play the actual game or the game is whitewashed without a single ball played. If all your original players play the game , you cannot use your substitute player. It's also not compulsory to use your Sub.

4) NEW : You have to enter your Team in your individual battle thread or have a choice to send me by private message.
a) If you decide to use the pm option , you cannot post your Team in your battle thread at any stage neither you are allowed to change your Team. Once you send me your team through pm , it's final and cannot change by posting in your battle thread or sending pm again. We will post your Team in your battle thread latest by 2:30 pm on 10th May. Time of your pm sent will be treated as time of your entry.
b) If you decide to use Battle Thread option , you can keep changing your Team till the deadline by making a new entry in your thread. Your earlier entry will automatically be null and void. You are also not forced to take extra players if you have taken it earlier. Can keep changing the Team anyway you like.

5) Last date and time to enter your Team is 2 pm on 10th May.

6) NEW : It's not compulsory though but you can choose any one and only one player twice as well. See the examples of a valid entry in my next post.

7) To win , you have to just beat your opponent. Player getting more points win and advance to the Quarter Finals. In case of Tie , player who entered his valid Team ( latest team which qualifies for the points ) first , WINS.

8) In case one of the player doesn't enter his Team at all , other player Wins automatically. In case both the players do not enter their Teams , both are out of the Cup.

9) Please mention the name of the players clearly without leaving any ambiguity. There are certain players with similar names or same names. So in those cases , please mention the Team name as well. In case of any dispute , our decision will be final.

10) If the match goes to Super over , any performance done in super over wouldn't be counted towards the points.

 

Examples of a valid Team entry :

Example 1
Virendra Sehwag
M.S.Dhoni
Amit Mishra : Hyderabad
Dale Steyn
Dale Steyn
Sunil Narain
Gautam Gambhir
Michael Hussey

Substitute Player : David Miller

Example 2
Virendra Sehwag
M.S.Dhoni
Amit Mishra : Hyderabad
Dale Steyn
Glenn Maxwell
Glenn Maxwell
Gautam Gambhir
Michael Hussey
Lasith Malinga

Substitute Player : David Miller

Example 3
Virendra Sehwag
M.S.Dhoni
Amit Mishra : Hyderabad
Dale Steyn
Glenn Maxwell
Sunil Narain
Gautam Gambhir
Michael Hussey
Lasith Malinga
Virat Kohli
K. Pietersen

Substitute Player : David Miller

In example 1 , you will get full points as Team has only 8 players.
Example 2 , 40 points will be deducted from the total points of your 9 players.
Example 3 , 120 points will be deducted from the total points of your 11 players.

Example of an INVALID Entry :

Virendra Sehwag
M.S.Dhoni
Amit Mishra : Hyderabad
Dale Steyn
Dale Steyn
Sunil Narain
Sunil Narain
Michael Hussey
Lasith Malinga
Virat Kohli
K. Pietersen
Substitute Player : David Miller
This entry is invalid because both Dale Steyn and Sunil Narain have been taken twice. You can only take one player two times.

 

Day 1 Points ( Players who have been selected by at least 1 OS member )

Q De Kock : 7
Warner : 46
Raina : 60
Dwayne Smith : 142
S Dhawan : 25
JP Duminy : 14
Pollard : 10
Finch : 14
B Mccullum : 39
Bhuvneshwar Kumar : 40
Ravindra Jadeja : 27
R Ashwin : 75
MS Dhoni : 46
Rohit Sharma : 20
Malinga : 55
Dinesh Karthik : 55
Harbhajan : 15
Corey Anderson : 36
Praveen Kumar : 30
Mohit Sharma : 40
Murali Vijay : 0

Surprisingly , Dale Steyn who scored 95 and 2nd highest for the day was not taken by anyone.

 

Players in contention on Day 2
Praveen Tambe : 25
K.K.Nair : 116
Rajat Bhatia : 20
Faulkner : 132
Sandeep Sharma : 0
Sehwag : 133
Maxwell : 15
Shakib al hasan : DNP
Gayle : 22
Kohli : 5
Watson : 21
Rahane : 49
Miller : 14
AB De Villiers : 125
Sunil Narine : 25
Kallis : 10
Parthiv Patel : 13
R Utthappa : 105

 

Points updated from the first match above on day 2 players.
ankit bro , you forgot to add 25 in sehwag for half century bonus.

 

Yuvi is in form tonight but not taken by anyone