Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the launch of our Last Man Standing Competition. We have moved across to the new swanky Community Football on Hive because we figured football would do well having its own community. You can make your way over to this new community here. We are the team that bring you Hive FPL and we have the most motleyist of motley crews. We spend most of our time slagging each other off on Discord and it is a great place to go when there is a football match currently underway.
Last year we carried out two last man standing competitions. One was pre world cup and the other was post world cup. We received around 40 entrant in each competition so I am looking to increase this this year. Hivebuzz are coming on board soon but more to come on this. I said I will kick things off and explain the roles.
The name of the competition is last man standing and around 1 million people enter the big competitions in the UK and Ireland every season because it is a great laugh and it keeps you interested in football matches. Now first of all apologises for the blatant sexism in the name. I should be calling it last person standing but it doesn't sound that great so all you women out there that would like to enter well we will be delighted to have you on board.

Rules of the Competition

This competition is an English Premier League Football Competition. Now many of you on Hive do not know the difference between a rugby ball and a football. This is OK. We have had many winners in the past that didn't could not tell a Tottenham Hotspurs from a Boston Red Sox. Some say the less you know about football the better. Our resident experts @talesfrmthecrypt , @amirtheawesome1, @belemo know more about football than Statto himself but they always hit a stumbling block looking too far ahead. So lets go through what you have to do.

1.Participants are asked to pick a team that they believe will win in a particular round of games. The first round of games will commence on Gameweek 1 on the 11th August 2023. See below the games on that date. If you want to enter just comment below and pick a team. It is that simple.

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2.If the chosen team wins their match, the participant advances to the next round. If the team loses or draws, the participant is eliminated from the competition. A results post will be published straight after teh round of fixtures and we will post up the fixtures for next round.

3.Now here is the fun part!! Once a participant has chosen a team, they cannot choose that same team again for the remainder of the competition. This rule encourages strategic thinking, as players must consider not just the current round, but future rounds as well.

4.The game continues until there is only one participant left, hence the "Last Man Standing". This participant is declared the winner.

5.If all remaining participants are eliminated in the same round, then the game rolls over to the next week where there is eventually one winner.

Strategy

Now this competition is great fun especially when there is strategy involved in winning your games. Some players plot 6 weeks ahead. They go for the weak teams first so they have the stronger teams to pick later on in the competition. This is the reason some of the Hive FPL experts get knocked out early. But as Mike Tyson said "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face"
My sister for example knows nothing about football and she picked the top teams and made it through to the final and won 5k with a major betting firm.
Now there is normally an upset during one week where everybody picks a Man City or a Liverpool (who are the top teams) against a Burnley or an Arsenal (the bottom teams 😉). A shock upset leads to half the field exiting during that week. This is called a major bloodbath so it will be interesting to see when this takes place this year.

Prizes

I have not finalised the prize pool. @nathen007 was good enough to sponsor us some Ecency points a couple of months ago.
@blanchy is putting up 50 HBI and we hope to get some more nice prizes to be won.

What to do Next

So look at the fixtures above. Spread the word out. The more that enter the better. Comment on a team before 11th August so that your team is in. That includes you @deniskj!! And let's have some fun with this one. I will post again closer to the competition but feel free to sign up below.