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

@CaptnKbec 

Here you go mate! Your place in the game is secured for all eternity! Or at least until the death of the game anyway!

@Cheeseball 

I hadn't thought of it like that lol! @TARTARA holds the unique distinction of only having won the game once but appearing on the two posters for it due to @PiggyBank 's win lol!

@UNDER SURVEILLANCE 

@The Wheel cannot be bribed, coerced or manipulated in any way whatsoever, it simply exists to wreak havoc indiscriminately against everyone and everything! 

@Stephen Terry  IF YOU HAPPEN TO WATCH THE NEWS FROM HERE IN THE STATES. THERE IS AH WAY IN DOING ANYTHING ANYTIME ANYWHERE IF IT EXISTS OUT THERE OR IN THE MIND.

I'm in

@Stephen Terry

Thanks man !

* Edited at 05.02.2023, 3:04 PM ET *

As I'm sure you all know, as well as for the purposes of the game, I also use this account for various experiments on Tapology. A couple of weeks back, I tried to see if I could make a fantasy game against @Oddsbot but unfortunately he doesn't accept challenges because he's a bum who ducks everyone! However, through trial and error, I have discovered that if you make a 5 event, 1V1, Head to Head fantasy game and set it to private and select "use bot player" and don't invite anyone, you end up in a 1V1 fantasy game against @FantasyBot who randomly selects a winner for every fight on Tapology. Yes, I know, you're probably wondering how the **** I discovered that little loophole and all I'm gonna say is that it's a very long story! Anyway, that's what I've done! I made a private fantasy game for the next 5 UFC events and won't invite anyone so that @FantasyBot joins and we can see which method of randomly selecting fighters is superior! Will my "random wheel method" win or will @FantasyBot's "coin flip algorithm" method be victorious? When the first event starts and @FantasyBot has joined then I'll post the link to the game so that you lot can keep track of the score! I'm not 100% sure what will happen but I'm sure it'll be a lot of random madness!

I'll be making the video for the first round draw tomorrow night so anyone who wants to enter who hasn't done so already has about 24 hours to do so!

I'm down!

I’m down to play

* Edited at 05.05.2023, 1:58 PM ET *

I'll be making the video for the first round shortly so anyone else who wants to join will just have to wait until the next game to play. We've got 22 players in this one which I'm certain is the most so far! They are:

• AyyLmaonnaise
• Bellatrix
• BoomShakaLaka
• CangrejoRuiz
• CaptnKbec
• ccollins44
• Cheeseball
• FresnoMMA
• horatiosanchez
• Kkkomboo
• kushycake
• mulefloyd
• Nuggetheel
• PiggyBank
• Rigno
• Schatte
• Schwerindustrie
• Stephen Terry
• TARTARA (Reigning, defending Lucky Bastard Game Champion)
• Ubermacht
• UNDER SURVEILLANCE
• Xconchris

Good luck everyone and the video will be up shortly!

Here's the draw for the first round of the Tapology Lucky Bastard Game: 9th Edition! Has @The Wheel been kind to YOU?

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

• AyyLmaonnaise - Xiaonan Yan
• Bellatrix - Virna Jandiroba
• BoomShakaLaka - Kron Gracie
• CangrejoRuiz - Movsar Evloev
• CaptnKbec - Charles Jourdain
• ccollins44 - Claudio Ribeiro
• Cheeseball - Jéssica Andrade
• FresnoMMA - Belal Muhammad
• horatiosanchez - Claudio Ribeiro
• Kkkomboo - Henry Cejudo
• kushycake - Rolando Bedoya
• mulefloyd - Jéssica Andrade
• Nuggetheel - Drew Dober
• PiggyBank - Kron Gracie
• Rigno - Aljamain Sterling
• Schatte - Kron Gracie
• Schwerindustrie - Virna Jandiroba
• Stephen Terry - Devin Clark
• TARTARA - Drew Dober
• Ubermacht - Aljamain Sterling
• UNDER SURVEILLANCE - Braxton Smith
• Xconchris - Aljamain Sterling

Good luck everyone! 

Using the wheel in the link below, here are my wheely random picks for this week!



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

One mistake that I'll own up to is that in the video, I refer to Kron Gracie as "Despite the Gracie name, he's a bit of a knockout artist" but after double checking his record, I'm obviously mistaking him for one of the other Gracies lol! I should really double check these things before winging the video on the fly lol!

I'm gonna guess you were thinking about Neiman Gracie