From the news yesterday: “It’s been rather busy around here, what with all the changes being made to the Altador Cup tournament… What? You haven’t heard about the changes? Well – I will try to give you the quick run down. Now listen carefully! The Altador Cup officials have decided to change the tournament style up a bit, I hear. The biggest change is that there will no longer be a Finals bracket. Instead, there will be four rounds with each round lasting six days long– hold on a moment, will you? I need to take care of something. Oh good, you’re still here. Anyway, as I was saying, each round will consist of three brackets with six teams in each bracket. And yes, don’t worry, we still have all
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This summary will go through day 22 (yesterday’s matches), mostly because I want to do one of these with KI at #1. Heh. That means that this article will cover changes in the last 8 matches, and each team’s outlook as we begin the last 12 matches before finals. Also, because I’m a bit low
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So I was reminded that I forgot to post one of these this week. Oops. I’ll cover the interesting stuff during the June 8th – June 15th matches this “week”… Previous week’s position in parentheses. I’m lazy and not including the results that came out as I finished this up. 1. Kreludor (6) I was
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Each week, I’m going to do an update on each team, discussing the big stories, upsets, and trends, as well as each team’s chance at winning (for now). I’ll be going in order based on the standings at the time. What a crazy AC week it has been… 1. Darigan Citadel Darigan Citadel, the largest
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Here we go! ACVI has begun. I expect a good number of upsets today, but we’ll see what happens. I’m keeping today’s post particularly brief (mostly because TNT hasn’t fixed the YYB timer yet), but here are my predictions: Krawk Island vs. Altador = KI-D-KI-KI This should be a fairly simple match for KI, barring
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I decided it would be interesting to go through each team and briefly explain why each has at least the slightest chance of winning. Especially among the top 12 or so teams, this Altador Cup seems unpredictable. Most people cite the following reasons for this shift toward an even competition: Good players going to worse
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Throughout my years on the AC boards and visiting a few AC petpages or blogs, I’ve often come across predictions or articles saying that “X team really deserves to win,” usually with some reason behind the comment – dedication, sportsmanship, etc. Now, I personally don’t like the idea of a team “deserving” to win; in
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Our views are down, so I thought I might as well post something to perhaps generate some discussion here. In the Virtupets Board on Neopets, mythress (host of a popular prediction page) made a prediction board, so I posted my predictions a few minutes ago. I kept them fairly brief, and they’ll probably change a
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http://www.neopets.com/altador/colosseum/2010/prizes.phtml I love the KI-themed prizes… Wait, what’s that? The Pirate PB costs 40k points? …. Sad Neon is sad.

(Unofficial, I suppose) http://www.neopets.com/altador/colosseum/winners.phtml 1. LD 2. KD 3. DC 4. RI 5. MQ 6. VP 7. KI 8. MD 9. TM 10. TY 11. SK 12. HW 13. BV 14. MI 15. FL 16. KL 17. AL 18. MT