BLC: Big League Chew, Season III Official Main Thread!

Returning due to popular demand, Benjaminbrandt, yossgold and I bring you a third and improved season of the BLC!   The BLC will only be a 13 week season, picking only popular and/or main org events and cards.  A 10 week regular season will be followed by a 3 week playoff - Everyone makes the playoffs!  Seeding is very important, so keep up on your teams and picks!  Here is the BLC information:

RULES:

• 1) Each Team is entitled to one add/drop per week, ending once the playoffs start.
• 2) Each Team's lowest score will be dropped each week, ending once the playoffs start.
• 3) Weekly threads will be posted every Tue (our week will run Wednesday - Tuesday).
• 4) Solo event winners will receive a 100 point bonus for their team.
• 5) We will use a "Tier" format in order to decide what events to chose for the week.
• 6) There will be a three (3) event minimum per week.
• 7) On slow weeks, captains will vote on what other events to chose for the week (3 captains).
• 8) No ammy (with the lone exception if the captain majority choses one on a slow week).
• 9) Events must be watchable (only exception is if an awesome event is not watchable).
• 10) There WILL be an all star game/week at the end of the season!!!

For more info on rules and details, please see this sheet provided by yossgold.

SCHEDULE:

• Week 1: Team 1 vs. Team 6 / Team 2 vs. Team 5 / Team 3 vs. Team 4.
• Week 2: Team 1 vs. Team 5 / Team 2 vs. Team 4 / Team 3 vs. Team 6.
• Week 3: Team 1 vs. Team 4 / Team 2 vs. Team 3 / Team 5 vs. Team 6.
• Week 4: Team 1 vs. Team 3 / Team 2 vs. Team 6 / Team 4 vs. Team 5.
• Week 5: Team 1 vs. Team 2 / Team 3 vs. Team 5 / Team 4 vs. Team 6.
• Week 6: Team 1 vs. Team 2 / Team 3 vs. Team 5 / Team 4 vs. Team 6.
• Week 7: Team 1 vs. Team 3 / Team 2 vs. Team 6 / Team 4 vs. Team 5.
• Week 8: Team 1 vs. Team 4 / Team 2 vs. Team 3 / Team 5 vs. Team 6.
• Week 9: Team 1 vs. Team 5 / Team 2 vs. Team 4 / Team 3 vs. Team 6.
• Week10: Team 1 vs. Team 6 / Team 2 vs. Team 5 / Team 3 vs. Team 4.

TEAMS:

• Team 1 = Team Macho Men (Captain:  ED209).
• Team 2 = The Richard Craniums (Captain:  yossgold).
• Team 3 = The Wolf Pack (Captain:  OldNick).
• Team 4 = The Underdogs (Captain:  NoJuice11).
• Team 5 = The Great Old Ones (Captain:  CthulhuJones).
• Team 6 = Tetes Sans Poulets (Captain:  Sreimuth).

The teams as far as where you were put were based on the order of the draft this time around so the schedule is objective. Also.. team captains: Feel Free to post your logos in this thread if you would like to do so!

Links from years past to help evaluate add/drops & picking/picker's skill:

http://www.tapology.com/forum/open/397378-2012_MVP_league___Final_Results

http://www.tapology.com/forum/open/387829-ITL___RESULTS

http://www.tapology.com/forum/open/478098-BLC_Season_1___Week_10

http://www.tapology.com/forum/open/521000-BLC_Season_2___Playoffs__QF_____Events__Week_10_Re

CREDITS:

Ben: Commisioner handling event management, co-creator of the BLC & the BLC name creator!

Kalibo: Commisioner handling event management, BLC co-creator & season(s) starter/modifier!

yossgold:  Commisioner handling stats/schedules/transactions!

Captains:  NoJuice/Yossgold/OldNick/ED209/Sreimuth/CthulhuJones for volunteering & drafting great teams.

MMAMessiah: I would be remiss if I did not mention Messiah, who's original idea this was born from.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE AND REMEMBER, HAVE FUN!!!!!

* Edited at 02.04.2014, 1:13 PM ET *

First order of business ... since it seems this weekend is way to thin to start on, we have another week to try and vote on the tiers.

@OldManGloom was the first one to offer this in this post. 

Since then there have been a few more offers for tiers 1 and 2 to be populated a tad differently by hiblet, mulefloyd, curtwag84 & Live2wrestle (if I've missed anyone, sorry about that, please feel free to point it out).

I've summarized all the promotions offered (plus a few minor additions that I thought some people would like to be in tier 2 or at least considered) and we can have another "vote-off" like we did for the rules.

Tier 1 - Automatically in, unless they REALLY **** up
Tier 2 - Card strength evaluated and voted on, needs at least 3 captain votes to get in
Neither - Only gets evaluated if they pull a cracking card out of their asses, needs unanimous decision to get in (this rule basically goes for any card that isn't on the 2 tiers not just the ones that are marked 'Niether' here - that's why I didn't call it tier 3. Tier 3 is every promotion that's not on either of the first 2 tiers).

This is the list of relevant promotions (you can also add if you think I've left out a promotion worthy of tiers 1 or 2, and just post the list with your vote for each promotion as following:

Promotion X: Tier 1
Promotion Y: Tier 2
Promotion Z: Neither

My vote:

UFC - Tier 1
Bellator - Tier 1
Invicta - Tier 1
WSOF - Tier 1
BAMMA - Tier 2
Legacy FC - Tier 2
RFA - Tier 2
XFC - Tier 2
MFC - Tier 2
CFA - Tier 2
Titan FC - Tier 2
EFCA - Tier 2
One FC - Tier 1
Cage Warriors - Tier 1
Tachi PF - Tier 2
PXC - Tier 2
Rings - Tier 2
Shooto Japan - Tier 2
Pancrase - Tier 2
DEEP - Tier 2
DARE - Niether
KSW - Tier 2
RUFF - Neither
Vale Tudo Japan - Tier 2
M-1 - Tier 2
Jungle Fight - Tier 2
Shooto Brazil - Tier 2
Bitetti Combat - Neither
CMMA - Tier 2
CFFC - Tier 2
RFC - Neither
CWFN - Neither
GRABAKA - Neither

By the way, get used to this voting system because that's what we're going to use every week for voting on the tier-2 events, it seems like it worked once and would be an easy clear-cut way to go.

Just as long as at least all captains take their time to vote, this season might even go without arguments and people feeling bad :)

* Edited at 02.04.2014, 12:48 PM ET *

hey @Kalibo our team´s name is Tetes Sans Poulets not Testes

 

Do you have a logo?

^^ Rofl... it was an accident.. I swear!

@Kalibo that´s what she said

Bump for captain's/player's votes on the second post ...

* Edited at 02.04.2014, 3:43 PM ET *

are we including DEEP Jewels  in DEEP?

Works for me

UFC - Tier 1
Bellator - Tier 1
Invicta - Tier 1
WSOF - Tier 1  (Now that they are doing this regional crap with their own belts this might go lower)
BAMMA - Tier 2
Legacy FC - Tier 2
RFA - Tier 1
XFC - Tier 2
MFC - Tier 2
CFA - Tier 2
Titan FC - Tier 1 (as long as they keep putting on cards as good as this first CBS sports one)
EFCA - Tier 2
One FC - Tier 1
Cage Warriors - Tier 1
Tachi PF - Neither    (UFC doomed this league)
PXC - Tier 1  
Rings - Neither
Shooto Japan - Niether
Pancrase - Tier 2
DEEP - Tier 2
DARE - Niether
KSW - Tier 1      (UFC could doom this league but right now they are putting on good shows)
RUFF - Tier 2
Vale Tudo Japan - Tier 1     (Up there with OneFC for Asian talent)
M-1 - Tier 2
Jungle Fight - Tier 2
Shooto Brazil - Tier 2
Bitetti Combat - Neither
CMMA - Neither
CFFC - Neither
RFC - Tier 2  (if this stands for Road FC)
CWFN - Tier 1 (if this is Cage Warriors Fight Night)
GRABAKA - Tier 2
CAGE - Tier 2
GWC - Tier 2  (If they come back not sure what happened to their last show)
Fight Nights - Tier 2
Legend Russia - Tier 2
Inoki - Tier 2
Pro FC - Tier 2


Edit: Updated

* Edited at 02.04.2014, 5:42 PM ET *

That looks good to me curt.  

Cage warriors is usually tier #1, but occasionally they have weak cards.  

@legacy, we're including according to votes, so put your votes in, every vote counts the same. As I said before, I'd like at least all the captains to vote so that each team is represented, but in no way did I say only captains, and every player's vote, captain or not, counts as one vote.

So go ahead and add your 2 cents buddy.

What I'm going to do is tally the votes and every promotion that gets 50% or more of the votes into a tier, will be placed on that tier, the rest will be revisited on a weekly basis (if relevant) and will need a unanimous decision to get counted.

* Edited at 02.04.2014, 5:33 PM ET *

@Cthulhu, like I wrote earlier, 'neither' doesn't mean out, it means that counting it in has to be unanimous among captains, I'm pretty sure that if they put on good cards they'll get voted in.

@NoJuice, what works for you? Vote man! I want as many votes as I can so that the distribution of people that decided will be as cross-teams as possible :)

It's your duty as captain to set an example :)))))

* Edited at 02.04.2014, 5:30 PM ET *

@Cthulhu, sure thing man, I'll let you guys know when I start tallying and will use the last one you post. No hurry, I'd say we've got a good few days to let this thing run ... when I see people haven't added anything for a few days I'll count and post results.

In the mean time I'll just bump every now and then, maybe repost on each page of the thread.

* Edited at 02.04.2014, 5:32 PM ET *

• UFC - Tier 1
  Bellator - Tier 1
  Invicta - Tier 1
  WSOF - Tier 1
• Cage Warriors - Tier 1
• One FC - Tier 1

• BAMMA - Tier 2
  Legacy FC - Tier 2
  RFA - Tier 2
  XFC - Tier 2
  MFC - Tier 2
  CFA - Tier 2
  Titan FC - Tier 2
  EFCA - Tier 2
• Tachi PF - Tier 2
  PXC - Tier 2
• KSW - Tier 2
• M1 - Tier 2
• Jungle Fight - Tier 2
  Shooto Brazil - Tier 2
• Pancrase - Tier 2
• CFFC - Tier 2
• CMMA - Tier 2
• Vale Tudo Japan

• Rings - Neither
  Shooto Japan - Neither
  DEEP - Neither
  DARE - Niether
  RUFF - Neither
  Bitetti Combat - Neither
  RFC - Neither
  CWFN - Neither
  GRABAKA - Neither

Tier 1
UFC
Bellator
WSOF
ONE
VTJ - easily the most talent rich cards in Asian MMA and they stream. Their first 3 cards had 10 fighters combined that have fought in the UFC and more that have fought in other major orgs. Their 4th card already has a former UFC fighter, a former top 10 BW and 2 elite prospects all in only 4 fights.
KSW - consistently good cards and stream
Cage Warriors - consistently solid cards plus stream
RFA (if no ammy's of course)
Titan FC - televised and consistently strong events
PXC - many top prospects (many going to the UFC lately including Smolka, Tanaka, Chope, Kimura, Delos Reyes and Doane among others) and strong vets plus stream
Invicta
M-1 - consistently good cards with UFC level talent plus stream

Tier 2
BAMMA 
XFC
MFC
CFA
EFCA
Tachi - their latest cards have been stinkers though, UFC really killed their roster
Shooto
Shooto Brazil
Pancrase - pretty much only their main numbered events, plus co promoting with WSOF should beef up some of their events
DEEP (mainly their Impact cards, those are their main series)
RUFF - always stream plus have some good cards with high level talent lined up
ROAD - their main series of events are better than ONE's usually plus stream. Have sent fighters to the UFC such as Nam Yui Chul, Bang Tae Hyun, Kang Kyung Ho, and have had champs in other major orgs such as Koji Ando, Kim Soo Chul (in what seems to be a unanimous tier 1 org nonetheless), and Andrew Leone who is fighting for a ONE title. They also signed a massive media deal so they are now putting on more cards and bringing in more international stars. Their next card includes a former UFC fighter, a DEEP Future King, former ONE champ, a highly ranked Japanese prospect, a vet that has fought in many major orgs, a Sengoku Rookie Champ, and a prospect out of Brazilian Top Team among others
Jungle Fight


Out the ones that have been listed that I would put under neither are
RINGS
DARE
CMMA
CFFC
GRABAKA

That's all the orgs I can think of at the moment that might be included

Obviously Tier 1 should be:

Super Fight League
Sugar Creek Showdown
Wild Bill's Fight Night
Hardrock MMA

Tier 1:
UFC
Bellator
WSOF
Invicta
Cage Warriors
One FC
SFL


Tier 2:
M-1
Bamma
Jungle Fights
Legacy
KSW
TitanFC
Tachi PF
RUFF
RFA
XFC
PXC
EFCA
Deep 
VTJ
CFA
Shooto Japan




Neither:
Grabaka
Bitteti
Dare
CFFC
Rings
CMMA

* Edited at 02.04.2014, 8:57 PM ET *