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

Everyone except Royval by submission.

What can I say? See you in the next edition because this will be another first round exit for me 

New game, lots of action. 20 players with 7 doubling up on the same fighter so 13 fighters, only 2 of the 14 fights with nobody in this game. 

I must apologize to ccollins44, who along with me has Lucie Pudilova. The wheel clearly hates me and wants to stress me out by linking my fate to a women's MMA fight but at least we don't have to wait long as it's first out of the gate. And I think we might actually have a chance despite Lucie's subpar UFC record and the fact that she was cut, her opponents list is pretty strong. 

Next up, Bellatrix and BoomShakaLaka have Aaron Phillips, the 2nd of the 3 fighters on their 2nd UFC run. 

In the 3rd fight we have our first solo flier with Cheeseball being matched with Bruna Brasil, Nuggetheel has Lando in the 4th fight before we have our first break with nobody having Piera Rodriguez or Gillian Robertson. 

In fight 6, Cangrejoruiz and UNDER SURVEILLANCE will be crossing their fingers and hoping for no hometown decision as they have Ed Herman who's taking on Kansas City's own Zac Cummings followed by Schwerindustrie and TARTARA hoping this is the ringing in of The Year Of The Raw Dawg! 

Xconchris has Bill Algeo in fight 8, the prelim headliner before our 2nd and last break in the main card opener between Clay Guida and Rafa Garcia. 

Then we get to our biggest fight of the card as we have 2 on 2, head-to-head, tag team action: kushycake and Stephen Terry backing Chris Gutierrez vs. Rigno and Schatte with Pedro Munhoz. 

Continuing with the 11th fight, CaptnKbec has Ion Cutelaba, then Ayy has Dustin Jacoby before Kkkomboo has Edson Barboza in the co-main. 

And lastly in the main event both PiggyBank and Ubermacht have Arnold Allen. 

Should be an interesting card. 

@mulefloyd 

Awesome breakdown of the order of the card yet again! 

Thank you, thank you but apparently not good enough for mercy from the wheel. On a rampage again, the wheel is guaranteed to at least cut the field in half in this first week.

Oh nice, easy game

7 make it through

A lot of fallers at the first fence! 20 entered. Only 7 live to fight another round. A 65% elimination rate from the wheel! The remaining lucky bastards are:

• CaptnKbec
• Kkkomboo
• Rigno
• Schatte
• Schwerindustrie
• TARTARA
• Xconchris

Good luck you guys! You're gonna need it!

HELL YEA! The 2nd round does exist...

Here's the draw for the 2nd round!

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

• CaptnKbec - Karol Rosa
• Kkkomboo - Brady Hiestand
• Rigno - Jared Gordon
• Schatte - Francis Marshall
• Schwerindustrie - Mohammed Usman
• TARTARA - Sergei Pavlovich
• Xconchris - Junior Tafa

Good luck!

Once again using the wheel in the link below, I have randomly selected these outcomes which I'm sure will all be perfect!



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

Put the house on Usman´s first round submission

@CangrejoRuiz 

It's always interesting to see the insane predictions made using that wheel lol! It's been an interesting little side experiment so far. I think once I've picked about 20 UFC events with it, I'll post it's user stats to see how successful it's been, what it's best result was and how often it picks certain outcomes. 

The wheel is the result of Oddsbots split personality

@Schwerindustrie

That's given me an idea! I don't think @OddsBot accepts fantasy game challenges but it doesn't hurt to try so I'm going to log in as @The Wheel and challenge @OddsBot to a UFC fantasy game and see what, if anything happens! 

Just checked his profile and @Oddsbot has his fantasy challenges turned off. Disappointing. 

Damn, forgot. 3 more out so far, 2 thru, and 2 left to see.

Well I finally made it to the finals