• ren33 scored 0/12 in FLC comp, Sat 30-Aug-08
  
• equals the 0/12 efforts of doomed and LeoDaVinci

• won by paper_aero, followed by szabs and LeoDaVinci
  
• no one who was on the podium for the Athens 2004 comp re-appeared in Beijing.
  
• there were 14 entrants in 2004, and 15 runners in this year's comp.
  
• for szabs this is medal number two. His/her first effort was bronze in the Kentucky Derby.
  
• with this form, the next appearance on the podium by szabs should be gold!

• won by ozzz2002, followed by doomed and Howie72
  
• PaulE was the defending titleholder, and srini701 was last year's runner-up.
  
• there were 10 runners this year, and 11 runners last year..

• won by gtho4, followed by paper_aero and Sypher
  
• the defending titleholder was buck5ley, and Sypher was last year's runner-up.
  
• this was the 8th edition of the AFL comp.
  
• Sypher has been on the podium 7 times : 2nd : 3rd : 2nd : 3rd : 3rd : xx : 2nd : 3rd.
  
• buck5ley and gtho4 have won all of the comps between them except for the 1st comp
  back in 2001, when it was won by an expat in London, one of Sypher's work-mates.

triviapaul


• scored 0/64 in US Open comp, Women's Singles.
  
• did not pick any of the 8 quarter-finalists.
  
• matches the effort by ozzz2002 earlier this year at Wimbledon.
  
• this is easily the best spoon score in any tipping comp held here at FT, since
  they began in March 2000.
  
  KrivoyRog
  
  
• collected 5 consecutive wooden spoons : World Football Special weeks 2-6.
  
• he's the 7th tipster to achieve this feat.
  
• many have tried, but no one has come close to the 7 back-to-back spoons
  achieved by Copago in the 2002 AFL comp.
  
  doomed, ElfTwinkle, gtho4 & PaulE
  
  
• 4 consecutive weekly wins in the Super League comp:
  doomed weeks 5-8, ElfTwinkle & gtho4, weeks 6-9, PaulE weeks 12-15.
  
• the record for consecutive weekly wins is still 5 straight.
  
• only 6 players have achieved that feat (in 6 different comps), in the 8½ years
  of FT tipping comps.

Quote:

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many have tried, but no one has come close to the 7 back-to-back spoons
achieved by Copago in the 2002 AFL comp.

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• won by paper_aero, followed by srini701 and triviapaul.
  
• the defending titleholder was srini701, and LeoDaVinci was last year's runner-up.
  
• srini701 was attempting an unprecedented three-peat, as he also won it the year before that.
  
• no one has won a tennis comp 3 years back-to-back. ElfTwinkle and srini701 are the only tipsters who have retained their title in any tennis comp.

• won by LeoDaVinci, followed by ozzz2002 and paper_aero.
  
• the defending titleholder was srini701, and paper_aero was last year's runner-up.
  
• once again no one has collected a grand slam of wins in a tennis comp, or won 3 of the 4 slams.
  
• srini701 becomes the 4th tipster to win 2/4, with two wins in the women's tennis comps this year (Australia + Wimbledon).

• won by Copago, followed by paper_aero and Howie72.
  
• the last time this comp was run was back in 2005-06. No one who was on the podium for that comp re-appeared this year.
  
• for Copago this is her 2nd gold medal in a season-long tipping comp.
  
• it's a long time between drinks. Her first gold was 6 and a bit years ago in the the 2001-02 FAPL comp.

• won by Howie72, followed by ElfTwinkle and Copago.
  
• Nannanut was the defending titleholder, and Howie72 was last year's runner-up.
  
• Howie72 was runner-up the year before that as well, making it his 3rd consecutive podium finish.
  
• this was the 9th edition of the NRL tipping comp at FT. No one has retained their title, but these 4 players have won it twice: Davjack, gtho4, Nannanut and Sypher.

• won by srini701, followed by gtho4 and ElfTwinkle.
  
• the defending titleholder was ElfTwinkle, and gtho4 was last year's runner-up.
  
• this was the 2nd edition of the Super League comp.
  
• many records were set during this comp (see previous post, Record Book update).

• won by ElfTwinkle, followed by buck5ley and srini701.
  
• this was the first running of an end of season comp in the AFL.

• won by Howie72, followed by LeoDaVinci and ElfTwinkle/Sypher in a dead-heat.
  
• this was the first post-seaosn comp in the NRL.
  
• Howie72 was in the lead from start to finish.

• won by dg_dave, followed by ElfTwinkle and PaulE.
  
• the defending titleholder was gtho4, and ozzz2002 was last year's runner-up.
  
• this was the 5th edition of the MLB ctipping comp. No one has retained their title in this comp; there were four different winners in the first four comps.
  
• dg_dave becomes the first player to win this comp twice.
  
• ozzz2002 and PaulE have been on the podium three times in five years, without striking gold.

• won by szabs, followed by KrivoyRog and gtho4.
  
• the defending title-holder was LeoDaVinci,and ozzz2002 was last year's runner-up.
  
• that was the 6th running of the Melbourne Cup tipping comp, and szabs was the 6th winner.
  
• a special mention for szabs: this was her first gold medal!
  
• once again no one has lifted the FT Triple Crown, and no one has gone close (by winning two of the three legs).

• updated for perfect picks of 14/14 by LeoDaVinci, NFL Round 8 on 9th Nov 08.
  
• this is just the 2nd perfect pick in an NFL comp in 9 years.

• comp was won by Sypher, followed by ElfTwinkle and paper_aero.
  
• the defending title holder was doomed, and the runner-up last year was racegirl5.
  
• Sypher is the first player to win this comp twice. His first win was back in 2005.
  
• ElfTwinkle has been on the podium 4 years straight 2005-06-07-08, without winning gold.
  
• Sypher added to Record Book as leader for 29 consecutive weeks.

o County Cricket
o F1 Grand Prix

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  Name	        1st 2nd 3rd  Total
  
 1 gtho4*        30  35  29   94
 2 ElfTwinkle*	 29  28  35   92
 3 Sypher*	 23  28  20   71
 4 Howie72*	 14  12  12   38
 5 srini701*	 13   8   7   28
 6 LeoDaVinci*	 12   9  14   35
 7 silverginger	  9   7   6   22
 8 wez	          8   6	  3   17
 9 ozz2002*	  7  15  18   40
 10 paper-aero*	  6   8	 5    19
 11 doomed*	  6   8	 4    18
 12 Copago*	  6   7	 4    17
 13 Nannanut*	  6   4	 6    16
 14 Blinkybill*	  6   2	 6    14
 15 PaulE*	  5   5	 6    16
 16 buck5ley*	  5   2	 2     9
 17 izzi	  4   3  2     9
 18 dg_dave* 	  3   1	 2     6
 19 halfbakedangi 3   0	 3     6
 20 ASA*	  3   0	 2     5
 21 jonnowales*	  3  0	1      4
 22 oleg_mcnoleg   2  4	1      7
 23 KrivoyRog*	  2  3	5     10
 24 Moo	          2  3	1      6
 25 Davjack	  2  2	0      4
26 LordAndry      2  0	1      3
26 Grover	  2  0	1      3
28 spanishliz*	  2  0	0      2
28 thejazzkickazz 2  0	0      2
28 Exit10	  2  0	0      2
31 Sarah606	  1  8	1     10
32 szabs* 	  1  2	0      3
33 JuniorTheJaws* 1  1	3      5
34 marchmadness	  1  1	1      3
34 Engadine*	  1  1	1      3
36 jill-geo*	  1  1	2      4
37 DakotaNorth	  1  1	0      2
37 WoolDog3	  1  1	0      2
39 Dazzy_D	  1  0	1      2
39 Bertho	  1  0	1      2
41 Bracklaman	  1  0	0      1
41 Pommie_in_oz	  1  0	0      1
41 WorldB	  1  0	0      1
41 Kaushik_twin	  1  0	0      1
41 CarolinaCarol  1  0	0      1
41 steveo_fun	  1  0	0      1
41 ralzz          1  0  0      1
48 Eraserhead*	  0  3	1      4
49 TemplarLLM	  0  1	2      3
49 Manvinder01	  0  1	2      3
49 ekaterina_tony* 0  1	2      3
52 sue943*	  0  1	1      2
52 ace_sodium	  0  1	1      2
54 racegirl5* 	  0  1	0      1
54 treble99	  0  1	0      1
54 JaneMarple*	  0  1	0      1
54 Pling	  0  1	0      1
54 Plugger	  0  1	0      1
54 sparky2512	  0  1	0      1
54 AussieBrit	  0  1	0      1
61 gillyharold*	  0  0	3      3
62 triviapaul*    0  0  2      2
62 Leau           0  0	2      2
62 superferd	  0  0	2      2
65 DanielPoulsen* 0  0  1      1
65 Leprechuan	  0  0	1      1
65 Nightmare*	  0  0	1      1
65 skunkee*	  0  0	1      1
65 Yeti 	  0  0	1      1
65 fringe 	  0  0	1      1
65 rudogg	  0  0	1      1
65 linkan	  0  0	1      1
65 makoto	  0  0	1      1
65 dph1619	  0  0	1      1 
75

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The HoF has been updated for the following comps:

• won by srini701, followed by ozzz2002 and KrivoyRog.
  
• the defending titleholder was paper_aero, and Howie72 was last year's runner-up.
  
• there were 11 runners in last year's comp (the first at FT), and 7 runners in this year's comp.

• won by paper_aero, followed by srini701 and DanielPoulson.
  
• the defending titleholder was jill-geo, and Sypher was last year's runner-up.
  
• this was the 5th edition of the F1 GP tipping comp; no one has retained their title in this comp.
  
• Sypher is the only tipster to win this twice: he won the first comp back in 2004, and the 3rd edition in 2006.
  
• there were 20 runners this year, one short of the all-time record of 21 (set last year).

• won by Sypher, followed by srini701 and paper_aero.
  
• the defending title-holder was dg_dave, and gtho4 was last year's runner-up.
  
• this was the 9th running of the NFL tipping comp, and Sypher was the 9th different winner!
  
• there were 17 runners this year and 23 last year -- the all-time record is 24 runners back in 2004.

• won by paper_aero, followed by FussBudget and Sypher.
  
• the defending title-holder was ElfTwinkle, and doomed was last year's runner-up.
  
• this was the 4th edition of the A-League tipping comp, and paper_aero was the 4th different winner.
  
• there were 11 runners this year and 13 last year (which is the all-time record for this comp).

• updated for perfect picks or near miss of 15/16 by doomed, NFL Round 15 on 19th Dec 08.
  
• two tipsters collected 4 consecutive wooden spoons in the A-League comp: ElfTwinkle weeks 8-11 and gtho4 weeks 14-17.
  
• most weekly winners: 11 of 18 tipsters were weekly winners in the FAPL comp Round 22 Sat 17th Jan 09.

Four comps awill be finishing over the next month: Australian Open (men's and women's), Super Bowl, and World Cricket.
Final Standings to come for NCAA College Bowls comp.

HoF has been updated for the following comps:

• won by Sypher, followed by ozzz2002 and dg_dave.
  
• the defending titleholder was srini701, and Nannanut was last year's runner-up.
  
• there were 13 runners in this year's comp. The all-time record is 20 runners back in 2004/5.
  
• it's a clean sweep for Sypher, as he also won the NFL regular season tipping comp. He's the 2nd to achieve this feat. LeoDaVinci was the first to sweep both comps, back in 2006/7.
  
• this was the 6th running of the Super Bowl tipping comp. No one has succesfully defended their title, but Sypher is the first to win this twice (he won the first edition back in 2002/3).

• won by paper_aero, followed by Howie72 and ElfTwinkle.
  
• the defending titleholder was spanishliz, and Howie72 was last year's runner-up (same as this year).
  
• this was the 5th edition of the Australian Open (Men) tipping comp; no one has retained their title in this comp, and no one has won it twice.
  
• there were 7 runners this year. The all-time record is 11 tipsters, set two years ago.

• won by srini701, followed by paper_aero and KrivoyRog.
  
• the defending title-holder was srini701, and LeoDaVinci was last year's runner-up.
  
• srini701 becomes the first player to successfully defend his title, and the first to win this comp twice.

• won by srini701, followed by Howie72 and Eraserhead.
  
• the defending title-holder was Copago, and paper_aero was last year's runner-up.
  
• this was the 5th edition of the World Cricket tipping comp, and srini701 is 5th different winner.
  
• there were 11 runners this year and 8 last year. The all-time record is an unbelievable 19 runners back in 2004/5 (remember, this is cricket, not soccer or some other sport played in heaps of countries).

• updated for 20 consecutive weeks as leader of the WFS comp by Sypher.
  
• and for 15 consecutive weeks as leader of the cricket comp by srini701.
  
• a Golden Wood 0/12 by LeoDaVinci in week 35 of the FLC comp.

Unless I've missed something, we're now up to date. All that's left is the Final Standings to come for the College Bowls comp.

• 20 straight weeks as leader : Sypher : WFS : week 4 to week 23.
  
• 17 straight weeks as leader : srini701 : FT-PL : week 12 to week 28.
  
• 5 consecutive weekly wins : gtho4 : Super 14 : week 1 to week 5.
  
• 5 consec wooden spoons : dg_dave : NBA : week 12 to week 16.
  
• 35 weeks without a spoon : KrivoyRog : FLC : weeks 44-46 of 2007-08 season plus weeks 1-32 of 2008-09 season.
  
• most tipping comps running at once : 19 : Sat 4th April 09 : see list below

AFL
Darts Premier League
Euro Rugby (Heineken Cup)
ERU (Guiness Premiership)
F1 Grand Prix
FA Cup
FA Premier League
FT-PL (FT Premiership)
FLC
Grand National
March Madness
Nascar
NBA
NHL
NRL
Super 14
Super League
UEFA Champions League
WFS World Football Special

This will take a while to collate:

56 weeks : ElfTwinkle : NHL : all 26 weeks of 2004-05 comp, all 28 weeks of 2005-06 comp, plus weeks 1 and 2 of 2006-07 comp .. equals 2 years and a week, or thereabouts.
35 weeks : KrivoyRog : FLC : weeks 44-46 of 2007-08 season plus weeks 1-32 of 2008-09 season.

2000-2004 standings Code: Name 1st 2nd 3rd Total 1 gtho4 15 15 10 40 2 Sypher 12 10 8 30 3 ElfTwinkle 8 7 7 22 4 silverginger 6 6 5 17 5 wez 6 6 2 14 6 izzi 4 3 2 9 7 Copago 4 2 4 10 8 ozz2002 3 4 6 13 9 doomed 2 1 1 4 10 LordAndry 2 0 1 3 11 thejazzkickazz 2 0 0 2 12 ASA 2 0 0 2 13 Grover 2 0 0 2 14 PaulE 1 1 1 3 15 Davjack 1 2 0 3 16 WorlDog3 1 1 0 2 17 Moo 1 2 0 3 18 marchmadness 1 1 1 3 19 Bertho 1 0 1 2 20 Dazzy_D 1 0 1 2 21 CarolinaCarol 1 0 0 1 22 pommie_in_oz 1 0 0 1 23 Blinkybill 1 0 0 1 24 halfBakedangi 1 0 0 1 25 stevo_fun 1 0 0 1 26 oleg_mcnoleg 0 3 1 4 27 Sarah606 0 2 1 3 28 manvinder101 0 1 2 3 29 TemplarLLM 0 1 2 3 30 JuniortheJaws 0 1 1 2 31 Sue943 0 1 1 2 32 ace_sodium 0 1 0 1 33 aussiebrit 0 1 0 1 34 Eraserhead 0 1 0 1 35 pling 0 1 0 1 36 sparky2512 0 1 0 1 37 gillyharold 0 0 3 3 38 buck5ley 0 0 2 2 39 Leau 0 0 2 2 40 ekaterina_tony 0 0 1 1 41 yeti 0 0 1 1 42 Nightmare 0 0 1 1 43 Leprechaun 0 0 1 1 43 fringe 0 0 1 1 43 rudogg 0 0 1 1 43 Engadine 0 0 1 1 43 Nannanut 0 0 1 1 43 makoto 0 0 1 1 43 dph1619 0 0 1 1	2005 standings Code: Name 1st 2nd 3rd Total 1 gtho4 6 5 5 16 1 ElfTwinkle 5 8 7 20 3 Sypher 4 10 2 16 4 Nannanut 3 0 0 3 5 LeoDaVinci 2 1 5 8 6 Blinkybill 2 1 2 5 7 wez 2 0 1 3 8 silverginger 2 0 1 3 9 buck5ley 2 0 0 2 10 Moo 1 1 1 3 11 oleg_mcnoleg 1 1 0 2 12 PaulE 1 0 2 3 13 dg_dave 1 0 0 1 14 kaushik_twin 1 0 0 1 15 Exit10 1 0 0 1 16 JuniorTheJaws 1 0 0 1 17 halfbakedangi 1 0 0 1 18 ozzz2002 0 3 6 9 19 Copago 0 2 0 2 20 Sarah606 0 2 0 2 21 doomed 0 1 0 1 22 Eraserhead 0 1 0 1 23 treble99 0 1 0 1 24 kevinatilusa 0 1 0 1 25 superferd 0 0 2 2 26 ace_sodium 0 0 1 1 27 linkan 0 0 1 1 28 Grover 0 0 1 1	2006 standings Code: Name 1st 2nd 3rd Total 1 ElfTwinkle 5 6 6 17 2 LeoDaVinci 4 3 6 13 3 Howie72 4 3 0 7 4 Sypher 3 5 2 10 5 BlinkyBill 3 0 3 6 6 gtho4 2 5 5 12 7 Nannanut 2 2 2 6 8 ozzz2002 1 4 1 6 9 halfbakedangi 1 1 2 4 10 doomed 1 1 1 3 11 silverginger 1 1 0 2 12 Copago 1 1 0 2 13 srini701 1 0 0 1 14 Engadine 1 0 0 1 15 Exit10 1 0 0 1 16 ASA 1 0 0 1 17 oleg_mcnoleg 1 0 0 1 18 Davjack 1 0 0 1 19 buck5ley 1 0 0 1 20 WorldB 1 0 0 1 21 DakotaNorth 0 1 0 1 22 ekaterina_tony 0 1 0 1 23 Sarah606 0 1 0 1 24 Plugger 0 1 0 1 25 KrivoyRog 0 0 2 2 26 dg_dave 0 0 1 1 27 PaulE 0 0 1 1 28 Eraserhead 0 0 1 1 29 JuniorTheJaws 0 0 1 1
	2007 standings Code: Name 1st 2nd 3rd Total 1 Howie72 6 6 6 18 2 ElfTwinkle 5 3 8 16 3 srini701 5 3 4 12 4 gtho4 3 5 7 15 5 PaulE 3 1 1 5 6 Sypher 2 3 2 7 7 LeoDaVinci 2 2 2 6 8 paper_aero 2 2 0 4 9 buck5ley 2 1 0 3 10 KrivoyRog 2 0 1 3 11 Sarah606 1 3 0 4 12 doomed 1 1 2 4 13 dg_dave 1 1 1 3 14 Nannanut 1 1 1 3 15 jill-geo 1 0 2 3 16 bracklaman 1 0 0 1 17 jonnowales 1 0 0 1 18 spanishliz 1 0 0 1 19 ozzz2002 0 3 2 5 20 jill-geo 0 1 0 1 21 Eraserhead 0 1 0 1 22 Copago 0 1 0 1 23 JaneMarple 0 1 0 1 24 Engadine 0 1 0 1 25 racegirl5 0 1 0 1 26 ASA 0 0 1 1 27 skunkee 0 0 1 1	2008 standings Code: Name 1st 2nd 3rd Total 1 srini701 7 5 3 15 2 ElfTwinkle 6 4 7 17 3 paper_aero 4 5 5 14 4 gtho4 4 5 2 11 5 Howie72 4 3 6 13 6 LeoDaVinci 4 3 1 8 7 ozzz2002 3 2 2 7 8 doomed 2 3 1 6 9 Sypher 2 0 6 8 10 jonnowales 2 0 1 3 11 szabs 1 1 1 3 12 Copago 1 0 1 2 13 dg_dave 1 0 0 1 14 spanishliz 1 0 0 1 15 ralzzz 1 0 0 1 16 DakotaNorth 1 0 0 1 17 KrivoyRog 0 3 2 5 18 PaulE 0 3 1 4 19 Nannanut 0 1 2 3 20 jill-geo 0 1 0 1 21 buck5ley 0 1 0 1 22 BlinkyBill 0 1 0 1 23 triviapaul 0 0 2 2 24 DanielPaulson 0 0 1 1 25 JuniorTheJaws 0 0 1 1 26 ASA 0 0 1 1

• 4 consecutive weekly wins : paper_aero : ERU : week 2 to week 5.
  
• 4 consec wooden spoons : ozzz2002 : ERU : week 13 to week 16.
  
• 5 consecutive weekly wins : ozzz2002 : Darts PL : week 7 to week 12 [equals all-time record for any tipping comp]
  
• 5 consec wooden spoons : JaneMarple : FT-PL : week 34 to week 38  [to be continued next season]
  
• 39 weeks without a spoon : srini701 : FT-PL : last week of 2007-08 & entire 2008-09 season.