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We interrupt your regularly scheduled Players Championship for an important announcement

As most of you will have probably seen in the discussion thread, I'm starting the process of travelling abroad on holiday today and here are the main things to be aware of

  • I may find it difficult to respond to guesses between windows
  • 1. I may not immediately provide scoring updates between rounds
  • 2. Sat 10am image is likely to be posted an hour early
  • 3. Sat 10pm image may not be posted at all, it depends on whether I can get online on the plane
  • 4. There is a high chance that the image posting windows will shift forward by a couple of hours to accommodate the new time zone I will be in, although I expect to initially keep to the current times. I will do my best to give notice ahead of this happening

In short, there may be a few hiccups over the next few days, but hopefully they won't be too noticeable.

I'm also posting the last Leaderboard update now as I won't have a chance to do so tomorrow, plus there are only three rounds left (including the current one) so it seems a better time to give everyone a chance to see where they are coming into the final straight! :)

The Players Championship Week 3 Leaderboard

1st snallygaster 19
2nd Maaxwell 13
3rd Victoriouz 11
4th Brickwall 9
5th bowfinger 8
6th cosmicmonkey 7
7th= mattorama12 6
7th= dunbar 6
9th CMonster 5
10th= paulofilmo 4
10th= cet1412 4
12th= kasper l 2
12th= akilnayak 2

Well it's been all about the snally this week hasn't it? The rounds have been tough and low scoring since the last leaderboard which is why there has been little movement and that makes snallygaster's 9 point total in that period even more impressive! Let's face it, it's going to take a miracle for him to be caught but let's see how it goes. Maax slips to second but is still the best of the rest and that's probably where the competition now lies in the closing days of TPC. Victoriouz remains third, just two points behind and brickwall engineered a massive leap to 4th thanks to his 50 shades round. He'll be looking to capitalise on that in the final rounds for sure. Perennial challenger bowfinger drops to 5th but has been more active than brickwall so will be looking to retake a higher place, and we can still expect some activity from the players just below with cosmicmonkey, mattorama12 and dunbar tightly packed in mid table and eager to climb. With three rounds and two bonus rounds left, every point scored can make a difference so good luck to all the players over the final days!

Now we return to the Maaxwell round …

One incorrect guess for image two so here's …

Round 9 Image 3

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nothing again, are we heading for our first shut out of the competition?

Round 9 Image 4

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The answer was … Mean Creek (2004)

We had three correct answers for the final image

4pts -
3pts -
2pts -
1pt - brickwall Dunbar mattoRama12

The round average was 1 so that's also what Maaxwell gets! And now for his bonus round …

Bonus Round 5

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A reminder that I won't be replying to guesses during this window

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Greetings from 10,000 feet (or whatever height I am right now ;) )

Obviously the answer to the bonus round was … Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Only two players got that? Are u guys still playing or is there just some maaxwell boycott I don't know about? Well done brickwall and mattoRama12 :)

And now with two rounds to go we reach the turn of the two captains. First up, defending Tournament champ and currently hibernating captain of Team CET …. cet1412!

Round 10 Image 1

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Sorry I'm late posting due to the travel situation. I think at this stage it's safer to just switch the posting times for the rest of TPC to ...

12pm and 12am BST, 7am and 7pm EST (where I am now) and 4am and 4pm PST

No activity for the first image … I feel like I'm playing with myself these days ;)

Round 10 Image 2

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One correct answer, two incorrect guesses there …

Round 10 Image 3

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Two more correct answers for image 3 ...

Round 10 Image 4

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no further activity to close out the round …

The answer was … Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1991) (Three Colours: Blue)

4 pts -
3 pts - paulofilmo
2 pts - snallygaster, cosmicmonkey
1 pts -

The round average was 2.3 so cet1412 gets 2 points

The Civil War remains one sided with SNALLY on 57 and CET on 47, so it looks virtually impossible for the lead to be cut ... unless ... *Phil looks over to Thanos* ...

Thanos: ... What? again? Jesus, phil! Team S are kicking ass left right and centre! Do you really want to ignore that just to manufacture some sort of last minute drama for your stupid secondary scoring system?

Phil: Yes. Yes I do!

Thanos: Well you'll have to do it without me. My Infinity Jock Strap is in the washer and it's set for a long wash cycle

Phil: Fine then I'll do it myself! ... Double Points for Team CET for the last round!

Thanos: Well that was a bit crude, but I have to admit it was effective.

PhIl: Thanks, Thanos. I thought so myself ;)

So there we go people. Purely in an attempt to make things exiting for the Civil War, it's double point for Team CET players in the final round with the following important clarifications ....

1. The round submitter does not get round averages that includes the double scores
2. The double points do not count for the subsequent bonus round.
3. The double points do not count in the primary individual scoring system.

So without any further ado, I give you the last round of TPC 2018, submitted by Snallygaster!

Round 11 Image 1

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No activity for the first image …

Round 11 Image 2

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Lots of activity there! 5 correct answer which I believe is the highest number for a single image this competition!

Let see if we can snag a few more …

Round 11 Image 3

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