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Posted by: Jold Git
Hi all, Here are the RAGE! teams! Team1 Andrew ÔÇÿProject CHLOEÔÇÖ McClough, The Jevon Adams, Samuel ÔÇÿPaedoÔÇÖ Davies, Christlock Holmes, Hazza Pearce, Jennie ÔÇÖ10,000,000ÔÇÖ Stanford Team2 Matthew ÔÇÿByrneÔÇÖ Bryce, MADison McClougvin, Flerminater Heitz, Hadyn Lucky Parker, Oliver ÔÇÿThe TorrentÔÇÖ Tarrant, Sam ÔÇÿprobably Chaz, maybe DaveÔÇÖ Hennem Team3 Jamie ÔÇÿ3ÔÇÖ Anderson, Anjasaurus Rex Humpert, eRich An-dragon, MArkenstone Hadley, Jeff ÔÇÿLike the wolfÔÇÖ Howells, Lozza ÔÇÿno pains; noÔÇÖ Gaines Team4 Gabriel ÔÇÿKonquerorÔÇÖ Kempski, Matt ÔÇÿBabyfaceÔÇÖ Clough, Emma #Beaney4Beanies, Charlie ÔÇÿSheenÔÇÖ Perera, Philip ÔÇÿShooterÔÇÖ Scholten, Thom ÔÇÿLook LeftÔÇÖ Millward Tuesday 28th April at normal polo time (8-10pm) will see the glorious combatations between Team1 Vs Team2 followed by Team3 Vs Team4 There will be a short preliminary half game, operating a first come first served basis, beforehand. And now, drumroll please, the grand part youÔÇÖve all been waiting for; the battle of wit, arithmetic, nerves and sheer luck. Set to be the proving ground of both polo coaches and venture capitalists of the future. You donÔÇÖt need to be a competitor to have a flutter, all are welcome. This seasonÔÇÖs hottest polo tournament, The Warwick RAGE! League is shaping up to be the biggest tournament ever. Take your time, follow your instinct, get in there quickly with your best entry or, hold back, scrutinise otherÔÇÖs entries first ÔÇô the choice is yours. You are welcome to enter as many times as you like. Player Values (in millions) Andrew ÔÇÿChloeÔÇÖ Clough - £9.77 Matthew ÔÇÿBryceÔÇÖ Byrne - £9.46 Jamie Anderson - £8.21 Gabriel Kempski - £8.13 Matt ÔÇÿbabyÔÇÖ Clough - £8.04 Anja Humpert - £8.00 Madison McClough - £7.54 Jevon Adams - £7.25 Erich Andrag - £6.63 Samuel ÔÇÿPaedoÔÇÖ Davies - £5.92 Florian Heits - £5.63 Haydyn Luke Parker - £5.50 Charlie Perera - £5.42 Mark Hadley - £5.08 Philip Scholten - £4.88 Emma Beaney - £4.83 Chris Holmes - £4.50 Harriet Pearce - £4.35 Rob ÔÇÿJeffÔÇÖ Howells - £4.33 Oliver Tarrant - £4.08 Thomas Millward - £4.04 Jennie Stanford - £3.50 Lauren Gaines - £3.15 Samuel Hennem - £3.04 Entry Fee per team : £2 (No limit on the amount of entries per person) Rules ÔÇó Teams may not be the same as someone elseÔÇÖs - 1st post on the forum 1st served 
 ÔÇó Team value may not exceed £40 million
 ÔÇó Teams may not contain more than 3 players from the same RAGE! team
 ÔÇó Teams must include 7 players
ÔÇó Elect a team captain from your squad of 7 - Their score will be doubled 
ÔÇó All entries must be posted on this news thread by 18:00 Tuesday 28th (tomorrow, sorry) Teams will be input based on posts at this time. Up to that point you are free to edit/withdraw your team. Please do triple/quadruple check your team fits these rules!
 ÔÇó If a player withdraws from competition (the whole league, not just one week) due to injury then they will be replaced in any fantasy teams by a random player of the highest possible value not exceeding the value of the injured player. 
ÔÇó There will be 2 stats takers and refs per game chosen by the exec. Their decisions are final.


 Scoring 
Points are awarded as follows: 
 ÔÇó Goal 5 points
ÔÇó Assist 3 points (an assist is any piece of play that leads directly to a goal eg. Pass or GOOD breaking up of zone) ┬À Winning Possession 1 Point (intercepting a pass, winning a sprint to a loose ball, etc) ┬À Binning an OPPONENT 1 point (must be legal) 
ÔÇó Save 3 points for their first save and 2 points for every subsequent Save (any stopped shot on target) 
ÔÇó Man/woman of the match 5 points (as decided by tournament organisers/ exec, anyone I deem important enough to appoint this duty on the night)
 ÔÇó Green Card -1 point
 ÔÇó Yellow Card - 3 points
 ÔÇó Red Card - 10 points 
ÔÇó Appearance + 1 point 
 ÔÇó A players (real life) teams goal difference is added to their score (if they played in the match.) i.e. No appearance = 0 points regardless of the goal difference as they weren't responsible for it. Appearance and 3 - 2 victory = 1 (appearance) + 3 (goals for) - 2 (goals against) = 2. Appearance and 4 - 1 loss = 1 (appearance) + 1 (goals for) - (4 goals against) = -2

 Winnings
 Prizes (as a percentage of entry money) Top scorer etc. Will be taken from fantasy league entrants only. Most cards will come from anyone you have been warned - play fair boys and girls
 ÔÇó Winner of fantasy league - 40 %
 ÔÇó 2nd in fantasy league - 25% 
ÔÇó 3rd in fantasy league - 10% 
ÔÇó Last in fantasy league - 5%
 ÔÇó "The Glory Hog Award" (Top scorer) - 5% 
ÔÇó "The Team Player Award" (Top assister) - 5% 
ÔÇó "MVP" (Highest fantasy points) - 5 % 
 ÔÇó "The Wise Buy Award" (Best points/cost ratio) - 5% 
ÔÇó "The Naughty Boy Award" (Highest negative points for cards) - Paddle (dirty) Some ÔÇÿInterestingÔÇÖ Stats

 The total value is £141.28 million The mean player value is £5.89 million making Sam D the most average player in the club by mean.
 Closing Remark
As Henry Clay once said;
ÔÇ£Statistics are no replacement for judgementÔÇØ
 Choose wisely and may the best team manager win. polo loath, Jamie

Posted by: Bryce
Hello polo people, I will be making sure the boats and rest of the kit is ready to go to BUCS tomorrow from about 5.30 onwards. If you can drop down for a couple of hours it would be much appreciated - most of the work done will be checking and redoing bumpers and labelling kit. I'm picking paddles up at 5pm so if I'm not there when you arrive start getting boats out and checking they have bumpers and look at the paddles and decks to find which ones have a little "W" on the grab handle and which ones have a size aswell. Cheers, Bryce

Posted by: Jold Git

Hi all you poloerÔÇÖs :)

The prodigious RAGE! League entrants have volunteered as tribute!
All members shall view and rank this band of couRAGEous polo players!

Anja Humpert

Jamie Anderson

Erich Andrag

Matt ÔÇÿBabyÔÇÖ Clough

Jevon Adams

Charlie Perera

Thomas Millward

Mark Hadley

Madison McClough

Oliver Tarrant

Andrew ÔÇÿChloeÔÇÖ McClough

Rob ÔÇÿJeffÔÇÖ Howells

Lauren Gaines

Florian Heitz

Jennie Stanford

Phillip Scholten

Gabriel Kempski

Matthew ÔÇÿBryceÔÇÖ Byrne

Harriet Pearce

Samuel ÔÇÿPaedoÔÇÖ Davies

Emma Beaney

Hadyn Luke Parker

Samuel Hennem

Chris Holmes

Cast your judgement upon these brave many.
Rank players from 1 to 10 inclusive with 1 being the worst and 10 the best. Men and women are obviously on the same scale. The rating should be based on how good the player is in general: things like passing, catching, play making, tactics, polo paddling tekkers, shooting, saving, etc.
Please dont be nice and give everyone high scores as that will skew the system. Also dont rank too low, you mean bastards.

Please send your rankings to j.anderson.2@warwick.ac.uk by midnight of Friday the 24^th April!
This is essential to the smooth running of the RAGE! League so please be prompt with your ranking response :)

Yours in polo,
Jamie :)

Posted by: Gabs
Canoe and Canoe Polo elections will be happening on 30/04/15 (Thursday week 2).

Posted by: Jold Git

Hiya all Poloers,

After the BUCS event in the first weekend of term 3 (24^th April) we will have little left to distract us from that living hell of studying our arses off to acheive.
We need a way to releive the stress and pressure.
Therefore I present to you the Annual Canoe Polo Warwick RAGE! League!
We sort out 4 teams based on how you rank each other as polo players so that the teams are as fair and equal as possible and this means that players of all abilities can play.
Then, each tuesday starting on the 28th April (week 2), each RAGE! team will play one game as part of the league, with the remaining pool time in the session being just for fun!
The winning RAGE! team at the end of the 6 weeks of matches will win street cred and a fabulous prize!

IF you would like to play in the RAGE! league, please sign up on the trips section of the website. Closing date will be tuesday 21^st April.
 (It doesnt really matter if you cant make a couple of the weeks as there will be 6 weeks worth of matches, but dont sign up if you know that you will be away for the whole term. There will still be games for non-RAGE!-league players, just not as cool)

We will also be running a Fantasy Polo League!
You will be assigned a budget with which to purchase players to form a team from the people who sign up to the RAGE! League. The value of each player will be determined by the rankings you give each other for the RAGE! League. Players earn points for goals, saves, assists etc. during their RAGE! League games.  The cost of entering a team for the fantasy league is £2 and the managers of the teams coming 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd will receive 60%, 30%, 10% respectivly of the intake for the Fantasy Polo League. (dont worry about the Fantasy Polo League yet, more information will be emailed out on the Wednesday 22^rd April)

So please sign up for the RAGE! League by 21^st of April so that we have time to arrange teams and send out details for setting up fantasy league teams. We will start with the RAGE! league competition in Week 2 of next term (28^th April). 

Jamjam <3

Posted by: Anja
Here the link for the doodle. Please keep it updated if you can. Expect all sessions to be on, unless you get an email telling you otherwise. http://doodle.com/hm9a6u6eh5tymg34 Important: Don't forgot to pack everything away by 7pm (sharp).

Posted by: Anja
Ball order: We will soon order new club balls. If you would like to order one too, please post here. Balls are roughly 25 pounds each. You can either order size 5 (men) or size 4 (women).

Posted by: Lauren
Hi guys, Next Thursday 12th March we will be having our last social of term. This is traditionally a pre-tour social but obviously everyone is welcome. The plan will be to have a Spoons meal in Leam and then ultimately end up in Kelseys (as per)! Meet at 7:30pm in Benjamin Satchwell's (halway down the parade). I'm sure there will be a contingent of people coming from campus if you think you're likely to get lost!! See you then x

Posted by: Nicky
Hiya yea brave Scotland trekkers,

Posted by: Gabs

Hi everyone,

Just to let you know about pool sessions over the remaining weeks of term.

• Week 7 (week beginning 16/2/15): All pool sessions happening.
• Week 8 (week beginning 23/2/15): Wednesday pool session given to canoe polo club.
• Week 9 (week beginning 2/3/15): Wednesday pool session cancelled for Pop! social.
• Week 10 (week beginning 9/3/15): All pool sessions happening.

In summary, the canoe club doesnÔÇÖt have our Wednesday sessions in week 8 and 9 (weeks beginning 23^rd┬áFeb and 2^nd┬áMarch), other than that it is as normal.

Cheers,
Gabs