THE PADME CUP! (Padme League 2019) (Page 1 of 2)

First week is always tough.  Still, the results so far don't seem like anything that couldn't randomly happen in the middle of the season.

Gotta love these first weeks of the season eh...dartboard season indeed!

Brisbane
This one was the big one, being potentially worth almost double what you can get at a 280.  So who did the best?  Adunar, with 4 QFists, including the Winner.  Not the greatest result, but enough for the High Score of 771 points.  BHP finished last with 1 SFist and 3 Zeroes for a total of only 243, 528 points behind the winner.
7 Jedi got the Winner, Pliskova, correct, so it was really avoiding the Zeroes that helped the most.  Adunar, Edu, Snolly, and TE are the only ones to have no more than 1 Zero, with Ad and Edu being the only 2 of that group with the Winner.

Shenzhen
Yet another tournament with an abundance of Zeroes and 7 Jedi who had the Winner, Sabalenka.  This seems pretty standard for the WTA so far.
However, because of the abundance of upsets here, those who had the winner really separated themselves from those who didn't.  That was a highly valuable 280 points, considering that the most points acquired from any player not named Sabalenka was only 60. HTS finished with the high score of 371, beating last place TE by 338.

Auckland
Only Arvis, Spotec, and Edu failed to pick the winner, Goerges, here.  Adunar got the high score of 510, only 2 match wins away from a PT.  Well done, Arnie!  That result put him up 397 points over last place Edu.  Also, Adunar got High Score on 2 of this week's tourney, including the big 470.  Where does that put him in the standings?

Padme Standings
1. Dtrain: 1567
2. Murree: -38
3. Adunar: -185
4. Snolly: -210
5. Arvis: -234

Dtrain finished 2nd in both 280s and 5th in Brisbane.  Great start to the Padme year, D!

Uh, yeah, suuuurrrrre Murree, whatever you say.  PFFT.

(actually, that's true, I just clicked Overall and wrote down the scores as I saw them, oh well)

PSS to Arvis
Dont get a big head over his praise ya big head

Thanks for the summaries as always Arvis.

Sydney
Only two Jedi backed Kvitova on their Padme teams to get this win, Tono and HTS!  Both broke 700 points and put quite a lot of space between them and the rest of the field.  Tono got the win with 778, which included THREE ZEROES!  You'll rarely see a three Zero team win, but his other two players were both Finalists! 
Edu just couldn't get anything to go his way here and finished last with only 113 points, 665 behind the winner.

Hobart
Nobody had either finalist here, but TE did enough to barely break 200, finishing with 201.  Johnny and Drivers both ended up in last, as they both managed the dreaded All Zeroes, finishing with only 4 points and no match wins at all.

Padme Standings - Week 2 (plus Round 1 of AO because I don't want to do a bunch of math)
1. Adunar: 2483 ↑2 ranks
2. Tono: -11 NEW
3. Dtrain: -89 ↓2 ranks
4T. HTS: -94 NEW
4T. Arvis: -94 ↑140

Thanks to Tono's picking Goerges at the AO, Adunar sneaks past him for the #1 slot!  But both are still very close.  Will that Goerges pick continue to haunt Tono as the rounds move further forward?  How long until Arnie losers a player?
The margins among the Top 5 are much smaller now after a second week of tournaments.  Will they stay close after the AO?

Last edited by Arvis (Jan. 15, 2019 10:06am)

Thanks for the updates as always Arvis.

That Goerges pick might take the whole season to recover from.

Last edited by Tono (Jan. 28, 2019 8:56pm)

Padme is fast becoming PadMEH for me this year.

Thank You Snolly!

Dubai
Hey, who has two thumbs and totally had Bencic on his Padme team??  ......nobody.  Nobody had Bencic on their team here, thumbs or no.  Not sure why I even brought up thumbs.
However, EVERYBODY had runner up Kvitova so it was a pretty lucrative tournament.  Even last place Adunar almost broke 1000.  We had four winners, all with almost identical teams, who scored 1421 total points.  Great job Dtrain, Dwight, TE, and BHP!

Budapest
Some people had some players.  Whatever.  Who cares?  Not me!
Adunar beat Arvis by 600 points here.  Adunar also sucks and is a horrible person.  No he isn't.  I didn't mean that.  Seriously, though, how are you gonna get two wins away from a PT in a dartboard tournament like this?  In the ONE tournament I forgot about that HAPPENED to have a late draw and early closing?  Why?  Why!?

Padme Standings
1. Edu: 9665 ↑4 ranks
2. Snolly: -178 ↓260 ↓1 rank
3. Tenedab: -183 ↓98
4. TE: -269 NEW
5. Arvis: -310 ↓178  ↓1 rank
--- Drivers knocked off ---

Fortunately, it seems like the players ahead of Arvis didn't accomplish much in Budapest.  Not that surprising to see TE in yet another Top 5 spot.  But of course, huge props to Edu for jumping from 5th to 1st last week!  Is Edu gearing up for another great Padme run?