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

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In please

I'd like to play please !

That's 20 players so far! I plan on making the video for the first round on Friday evening so anyone else who wants to play has approximately 48 hours to enter!

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I was saying before that now that this game has become more than just a gimmick that would collapse after a few editions like I originally expected, I really out to take the record keeping side of it more seriously. So what I've done is I've gone through every page of both the threads to work out our list of past winners and how many rounds they lasted. I also figured that it would be cool to have somewhere on the site where you can check them easily at a glance. This game also also got me curious as to what the pick % of someone who made random UFC picks using the wheel method would be. So, to kill both of those birds with one stone, I'd like to introduce you to.....

@The Wheel

On it's profile info, I'll list all the previous winners for you guys to check at any time! As for the random predictions, I created this separate wheel that I'll spin while going through the card on the account and select whatever option it lands on for each fight. I know there's @OddsBot and @FantasyBot but they pick every event or at least the major ones and I was curious about what it would be for only the UFC. It also gives you someone to directly vent against when the wheel knocks you out the game lol! Should be an interesting little experiment lol! 

https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=Home+-+KO%2FTKO+-+Round+1&c2=Away+-+KO%2FTKO+-+Round+1&c3=Home+-+Submission+-+Round+1&c4=Away+-+Submission+-+Round+1&c5=Home+-+KO%2FTKO+-+Round+2&c6=Away+-+KO%2FTKO+-+Round+2&c7=Home+-+Submission+-+Round+2&c8=Away+-+Submission+-+Round+2&c9=Home+-+KO%2FTKO+-+Round+3&c10=Away+-+KO%2FTKO+-+Round+3&c11=Home+-+Submission+-+Round+3&c12=Away+-+Submission+-+Round+3&c13=Home+-+KO%2FTKO+-+Round+4&c14=Away+-+KO%2FTKO+-+Round+4&c15=Home+-+Submission+-+Round+4&c16=Away+-+Submission+-+Round+4&c17=Home+-+KO%2FTKO+-+Round+5&c18=Away+-+KO%2FTKO+-+Round+5&c19=Home+-+Submission+-+Round+5&c20=Away+-+Submission+-+Round+5&c21=Home+-+Decision&c22=Away+-+Decision&col=pastel&t=UFC+PICKS&time=5

This is the coolest alt idea I’ve ever seen on Tap! 👍

A few points I wanna make sure we're clear on:

• I do not discriminate. I despise you all equally
• I won't follow anyone. I must be impartial and can't show any favouritism
• My picks are random. If your UFC picks are worse than mine, then you're picks are literally worse than random guesses

Good luck in the game. You're gonna ******* need it!

**** you Wheel 

@Stephen Terry, The Best Tapologist Ever !

I gave the wheel it's first downvote.

The Wheel is such stuff as nightmares are made on (semi-quote)

Damn Evil Wheel❗️

I'm about to record the video so the deadline for entrants is over. Good luck everyone!

Here it is! Everyone's favourite wheel based, MMA forum game, video series is back!

* Edited at 01.13.2023, 8:31 PM ET *

**** no! I don’t pick her/him ****❗️

For anyone who can't or doesn't want to watch the video, the matchups are:

• AyyLmaonnaise -  Umar Nurmagomedov
• Bellatrix - Raoni Barcelos
• BoomShakaLaka - Carlos Hernandez
• Bronco - Nassourdine Imavov
• CangrejoRuiz - Mateusz Rebecki
• CaptnKbec - Carlos Hernandez
• Casual008 - Sean Strickland
• Cheeseball - Claudio Ribeiro
• Hippie - Ketlen Vieira
• kushycake - Charles Johnson
• mulefloyd - Nick Aguirre
• Nuggetheel - Claudio Ribeiro 
• PiggyBank - Carlos Hernandez
• Schatte - Carlos Hernandez
• Schwerindustrie - Roman Kopylov
• Sigu - Mateus Mendonca
• Stephen Terry - Nassourdine Imavov
• TARTARA - Abdul Razak Alhassan
• Ubermacht - Daniel Argueta
• WastelandWanderer - Daniel Argueta 
• Xconchris - Umar Nurmagomedov 

Good luck everyone!

I'm not here to make friends but I want to give a shout out to @TARTARA for making this cool AV for me! It's much better than the ****** screenshot that my so called master @Stephen Terry originally burdened me with!

💩 ****!

For the sake of it, there are the odds ! Tough week for the majority of us ! 
8 players have a favorite
4 players have a Pick-Em
8 players have an underdog 

Biggest favorite : AyyLmaonnaise and Xconchris (Umar Nurmagomedov)
Biggest underdog : Bellatrix (Raoni Barcelos)

Best of luck to you all !

* Edited at 01.13.2023, 9:06 PM ET *