The Lucky Bastard Game

WHAT IS IT?

In short, it works similar to the Tapology Survivor game in the sense that it continues every week until there's a winner (or in some cases in this game no winner) but instead of picking your fighters, get assigned a random fighter from the upcoming UFC card and hope they win. 


FORMAT:

1) To enter, simply say that you want to enter at the start of a new game. The length of the games depend entirely on how long it takes to either find a winner or eliminate everyone.

2) Then, you will randomly be assigned a fighter from the upcoming UFC card. This will be decided by me using this site I found wheeldecide.com and putting all the fighters names on a wheel and going through the list of players one by one and spinning the wheel to decide which fighter they get. I'll make a very low quality video of the draw and post it here to show I'm not deliberately messing with anyone in particular. It might mean that some people end up with the same fighter but that doesn't affect the game as it's more of an everybody fighting for themselves kinda game rather than a head to head game.

3) If your randomly assigned fighter wins their fight then you're through to the next round. If their fight get cancelled or postponed then I'll count it as a loss as it would be considered unlucky. Draws and no contests will also count as losses for the same reason. This happens every week until there is only one left and they will be the winner. In a unique twist to make the game as stupid as possible, if everyone eventually goes out, then nobody wins the game and the game will be marked in the record books as "nobody ******* won" or something like that. For example, if there are 2 or 3 people left and they all have losing fighters then nobody wins the game. I feel this also adds weight to the game as you have to be REALLY lucky to be a winner as you literally have to be luckier than every other competitor to be the only one left standing!


WHAT DOES THE WINNER GET?

A place on the list of winners that will be displayed on the opening post of every new game and their current AV put on the new game poster (see below) in the middle of the horseshow so they effectively become the poster boy/girl/other for the new game!

Any questions, just ask! And remember, please don't take this game too seriously! I mean, it's practically a satire of the Survivor Game when you think about it lol!

For the sake of record keeping and historical intrigue, here's the link to the Tapology Lucky Bastard Game: 1st Edition that was on a separate thread: https://www.tapology.com/forum/threads/68098

Rolling with JDM ! Time to win this competition again !

Using the wheel in the link below and spinning again when it landed on a 4th or 5th round option for a 3 round fight, here are this week's wheely random picks!

For anyone unfamiliar, this post isn't a part of the game, I just use this account for various experiments and to see what the pick % would be by making predictions using the random wheel method. It's not important so feel free to ignore this post.

https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Home%20-%20KO%2FTKO%20-%20Round%201&c2=Away%20-%20KO%2FTKO%20-%20Round%201&c3=Home%20-%20Submission%20-%20Round%201&c4=Away%20-%20Submission%20-%20Round%201&c5=Home%20-%20KO%2FTKO%20-%20Round%202&c6=Away%20-%20KO%2FTKO%20-%20Round%202&c7=Home%20-%20Submission%20-%20Round%202&c8=Away%20-%20Submission%20-%20Round%202&c9=Home%20-%20KO%2FTKO%20-%20Round%203&c10=Away%20-%20KO%2FTKO%20-%20Round%203&c11=Home%20-%20Submission%20-%20Round%203&c12=Away%20-%20Submission%20-%20Round%203&c13=Home%20-%20KO%2FTKO%20-%20Round%204&c14=Away%20-%20KO%2FTKO%20-%20Round%204&c15=Home%20-%20Submission%20-%20Round%204&c16=Away%20-%20Submission%20-%20Round%204&c17=Home%20-%20KO%2FTKO%20-%20Round%205&c18=Away%20-%20KO%2FTKO%20-%20Round%205&c19=Home%20-%20Submission%20-%20Round%205&c20=Away%20-%20Submission%20-%20Round%205&c21=Home%20-%20Decision&c22=Away%20-%20Decision&col=pastel&t=UFC%20PICKS&time=5

@kushycake 

Yes, it is! Though I will admit that I made a mistake in the video. In the video, I stated that there were 32 entrants but there are actually 33!

ccollins44 has Joanne Wood vs. Cheeseball, Duck, Schatte, and Sigu all with Maryna Moroz 

Calfoth and UNDER SURVEILLANCE with Asu Almabaev vs. C.J. Vergara

CangrejoRuiz with Robelis Despaigne vs. Schwerindustrie with Josh Parisian 

Rat with Michal Oleksiejczuk vs. TARTARA with Michel Pereira 

Bellatrix with Philipe Lins vs. Rigno with Ion Cutelaba 

Ok that gets us to the ESPN prelims

Dixgo514, FresnoMMA, and myself all with Kyler Phillips vs. Pedro Munhoz

Trail Allman with Mateusz Gamrot vs. trig with Rafael Dos Anjos 

Themmahistorian with Maycee Barber vs. Katlyn 

Mason0 with Curtis Blaydes vs. Jailton Almeida 

Ayy with Song Yadong vs. Petr Yan 

Oh boy! That sure didn't last long.

@mulefloyd 

Cool breakdown of the head to head matchups in this round! It makes the always chaotic 1st round a bit easier to follow! 

@Schatte 

That's 4 out after just 1 fight! Better luck next time mate! 

CaptnKbec with Jack Della Maddalena vs. djtommyteknique and Kkkomboo with Gilbert Burns 

kushycake and Xconchris with Michael Page vs. PiggyBank and Troz with Kevin Holland 

BoomShakaLaka with Benoit Saint-Denis vs. Cozstradamus and Foghorn Sam with Dustin Poirier 

Drmaxis2 and Stephen Terry with the underdog challenger Marlon Vera vs. Clown Head 

Burns😭😭😭 I wish him get full recovery and come back

* Edited at 03.10.2024, 12:12 AM ET *

Holland why bruh... I still haven't made it past the first round yet lol

Another 1st round exit but I can't be mad at Dustin

Got passed the first round finally hah think thats thats the first time i got passed the first round that means im winning then that titles mine hah! thats watsup thats my girl Maycee barber 

@Troz 

u will trust me haha u got em next time

A record 33 people entered the game. Only 17 make it through to the 2nd round. A 48.48% elimination rate from 

@The Wheel 

The 17 remaining lucky bastards are:

• Bellatrix
• Calfoth
• CangrejoRuiz
• CaptnKbec
• ccollins44
• Cozstradamus
• Dixgo514
• Foghorn Sam
• FresnoMMA
• kushycake
• Mason0
• mulefloyd
• TARTARA
• Themmahistorian
• Trail Allman
• UNDER SURVEILLANCE
• Xconchris

Good luck to the remaining lucky bastards!

Here's the draw for the 2nd round! Good luck everyone!

For those who can't/don't want to watch the video, the matchups are:

• Bellatrix - Jafel Filho
• Calfoth - Ode Osbourne
• CangrejoRuiz - Ovince St. Preux
• CaptnKbec - Marcin Tybura
• ccollins44 - Christian Rodriguez
• Cozstradamus - Josh Culibao
• Dixgo514 - Macy Chiasson
• Foghorn Sam - Gerald Meerschaert
• FresnoMMA - Bryan Barberena
• kushycake - Josiane Nunes
• Mason0 - Mitch Ramirez
• mulefloyd - Bryan Battle
• TARTARA - Josh Culibao
• Themmahistorian - Ovince St. Preux
• Trail Allman - Cory McKenna
• UNDER SURVEILLANCE - Gerald Meerschaert
• Xconchris - Bryan Barberena

Good luck everyone!