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Anyone know why Kyle Newman has replaced Lewis Bridger in Gorican ?

Just curious Mateusz, but from the Bydgoszcz vs Leszno meeting surely only Pavlic would have been scheduled to ride tomorrow ? Who makes the decision in Poland to cancel a E-Liga meeting when just 1 rider will be absent ? I'm not being critical, I'm just curious as to how and why the decision has been made.

So I take it you wont be entering a team Bannakaffalatta ? EDIT : PMs sent to all 4 mods in the hope that an explanation maybe forthcoming. My second attempt at having a separate thread for Round 3 captain nominations has just been deleted by someone so this is my last chance in trying to resolve this matter.

Because having individual threads for captain nominations for each round allows the software that calculates all the scores to automatically update after each round. By merging them together it means I have no easy identifable 'first' post for each round, and as such I have to manually search the thread. I would not have spent hours writing the code for the game last season to just jack it all in after 2 rounds this year. All I'm asking for is for the mods to respect my request that we have an individual thread for each round. This was made quite clear in the rules of the game outlined in post #1.

In reply to bazaar3, I am still waiting for an explanation from a moderator (4 days after initially requested) why my threads keep being merged together. Unless a mod can accept my reasons for requiring separate threads for each rounds captain nominations then sorry guys, I don't have the energy to keep arguing nor indeed to keep running the game.

Ok, despite a specific request that the Round 3 thread for captain nominations not be merged into this main thread it has been done so, and the specific request has been deleted !! So with immediate effect DO NOT submit any captains on this thread or any other until I receive a full explanation from the moderator what is going on ! What is the point in me putting my time and effort into running this competition when mods cannot even follow a specific request ?

Scores after Round 2 will be available tomorrow or Friday. Round 3 - Czech Grand Prix - Marketa Stadium, Prague -22nd May 2010 Please nominate your captains for Round 3, or enter a new team if you are not already playing, on this thread only, by no later than 6pm BST on Saturday 22nd May 2010 The wild card for the GP is Matěj Kůs.

Wyniki (czołowa siódemka): 1. Maksim Bogdanow (Łotwa) - 12+3 (3,3,3,3,d) 2. Sławomir Pyszny (Polska) - 12+d (2,3,3,2,2) 3. Patryk Dudek (Polska) - 11+3 (3,3,2,3,0) 4. Max Dilger (Niemcy) - 11+2 (3,2,2,1,3) 5. Aleksandr Loktajew (Ukraina) - 10 (w,1,3,3,3) 6. Szymon Kiełbasa (Polska) - 10 (3,3,2,0,2) ------------------ 7. Simon Nielsen (Dania) - 9 (2,2,1,2,2) 8. Aljosa Remih (Słowenia) - 8 (2,2,0,1,3) 9. Jerran Hart (Wielka Brytania) - 8 (0,1,2,2,3) 10. Thomas Joergensen (Dania) - 8 (2,d,3,2,1) 11. Samo Kukovica (Słowenia) - 7 (1,2,1,1,2) 12. Marcel Helfer (Niemcy) - 6 (1,0,1,3,1) 13. Johannes Fiala (Austria) - 3 (0,1,1,1,d) 14. Ziga Radkovic (Słowenia) - 2 (1,1,0,0,0) 15. Ladislav Vida (Słowenia) - 1 (0,0,0,0,1) 16. Danny Marcel Massen (Niemcy) - 1 (1,t,0,0,0) 17. Jernej Pecnik (Słowenia) - 0 (d) Bieg po biegu: 1. Dudek, Remih, Helfer, Hart 2. Dilger, Pyszny, Radkovic, Loktajew (w) 3. Kiełbasa, Nielsen, Kukovica, Fiala 4. Bogdanow, Jorgensen, Massen, Vida 5. Bogdanow, Kukovica, Loktajew, Helfer 6. Pyszny, Nielsen, Hart, Jorgensen (d) 7. Kiełbasa, Remih, Radkovic, Pecnik (d), Massen (t) 8. Dudek, Dilger, Fiala, Vida 9. Pyszny, Kiełbasa, Helfer, Vida 10. Loktajew, Hart, Fiala, Massen 11. Jorgensen, Dilger, Kukovica, Remih 12. Bogdanow, Dudek, Nielsen, Radkovic 13. Helfer, Jorgensen, Fiala, Radkovic 14. Bogdanow, Hart, Dilger, Kiełbasa 15. Loktajew, Nielsen, Remih, Vida 16. Dudek, Pyszny, Kukovica, Massen 17. Dilger, Nielsen, Helfer, Massen 18. Hart, Kukovica, Vida, Radkovic 19. Remih, Pyszny, Bogdanow (d), Fiala (d) 20. Loktajew, Kiełbasa, Jorgensen, Dudek Bieg dodatkowy o 3. miejsce: 21. Dudek, Dilger Bieg dodatkowy o 1. miejsce: 22. Bogdanow, Pyszny (d)

Tickets have today gone on sale for the Croatian SGP at the end of August, here. A reminder to any interested parties, we are running a coach from Slovenia, passing through Zagreb, so should anyone wish to travel to Gorican by coach and save on hiring a car please feel free to drop me a PM. We still have room on our 3 day trip, flying into and staying in Slovenia, so if people wish to spend time in the company of fellow Speedway fans, again please feel free to PM me.

Could the mod that has merged the two threads for the 2010 Grand Prix Competition please PM me to explain WHY ??? This now causes me real headache in compliling the Round 2 captain nominations ! I deliberately created a separate thread for Round 2 captain nominations and was going to create a seperate thread for each SGP as this assists me greatly when populating my spreadsheet. This was made perfectly clear in the rules set out in post #1.

Yes

Scores for Round 1 are here Round 2 - Swedish Grand Prix - Ullevi, Gothenburg - 8th May 2010 Please nominate your captains for Round 2, or enter a new team if you are not already playing, on this thread only, by no later than 6pm BST on Saturday 8th May 2010 The wild card for the GP is Antonio Lindbäck

An excellent GP last night, spoiled however yet again by Sky Sports taking the 16:9 feed to squashing it to 4:3.

QUOTE (Robbie B @ Apr 19 2010, 09:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My team is 1. Jason Crump £50,000 2. Nicki Pedersen £45,000 (Captain) (for round 1) 3. Fredrik Lindgren £35,000 4. Chris Holder £35,000 5. Jaroslaw Hampel £25,000 Total £190,000 Robbie, would you like to re-submit your team with SGP numbers ? Cheers

Apologies, yes, just updated to reflect this.

Torun vs ZG definately postponed this Sunday, rescheduled for Sunday Apr 25.

******************************************************************************** FINAL SCORES ******************************************************************************** 1st place - Wendy 876 2nd place - Brummie Kev 875 3rd place - bandits4eva 872 lucifer sam 862 seedef27 831 Sky Blue Bee 827 Dietbowers 819 Squall 817 pearcey 814 German Speedway Fan 812 jeffster 810 Shalewhale 808 M08 805 Jimmy716 798 Baille 796 Concrete Cowboy 795 smiles 791 spook 790 Seb the Snail 790 Scott0311 789 ozziemonster 782 Derwent 774 orion 773 Snyper1010 768 Mateusz 756 Silver Bee 755 drakey 754 21st century heathen 752 creetingblue 751 T.N.T. 750 Nikkif 748 KevtheRev 748 BUDGIE 748 Sandie 747 Rico 747 shadow 742 beercellar 739 Wolfsbane 737 Sir Jasper 734 BritPete 734 Babe619 734 wessexboy 733 beesboybert 731 Paddy the Rebel 730 Full throttle 730 grumpy 719 kiwi 718 refereerick 717 davidadam 715 Diddy 713 Papa Bazarou 704 KevH 698 Grim Reeper 695 MattyHart 693 Silver Cheetah Snr 689 Witches vs Hammers 688 samthepalaceman2 688 Nazza 685 Aussie 683 INCOGNITO 679 Bee Happy 672 Blazeaway 671 speedydenboy 669 UnitedUnitedUnited 667 Robbie B 667 MrWulfAndrew 667 bringmesunshine 659 Pantherman 649 SCB 648 Ozyace 647 PirateScream 640 Lis 635 Pirate baz 631 J D 620 DutchGrasstrack 620 Joanne 611 rudger 605 CrazyMadTom 605 buzzybee 603 Cov bees 2005 602 highside 601 Brummie Boy 600 SuperSwindon 584 garf 572 Cornishman 568 bazaar3 568 CMV06 552 sportsnut 546 Daddyfairy 536 Jacques 511 ************************************************ With beesboybert not able to run his popular GP game this year I'm happy to pick up the reigns. Unless anyone has any objections, I propose we run to pretty much the same rules as last year, with every entrant getting £190,000 (reduced due to credit crunch and in £ to please Ron Butler ) to spend on 5 riders for their team. Each rider will then score their G.P points - Plus a bonus 5 points if they win the G.P - However you can select a captain, who will get you double points for every meeting that they are captain in. You will only be able to change your teams in the official transfer windows, which will be between the Copenhagen and Cardiff G.P's, and then between then between the Vojens and Krsko G.P's. However you can change your captain every round if you so desire. Wild card for the Prague GP is Matej Kus Entries for each round to be posted on this thread by noon BST on the day of the GP, entrants shall keep the same 5 riders (and captain) should no posting be made. Finally, I am happy to sponsor this competition with some prizes as follows 1st : 2009 Super 7even Series DVD box set, plus 2009 GP Challenge DVD 2nd : 2009 Grand Prix Challenge DVD 3rd : DVD of any 1 of the 7x Super 7even Series If you want anything else explaining please feel free to contact me on here by PM. The Riders and prices are as follows : 1 Nicki PEDERSEN DENMARK £60,000 2 Jason CRUMP AUSTRALIA £50,000 3 Tomasz GOLLOB POLAND £45,000 4 Greg HANCOCK USA £45,000 5 Hans ANDERSEN DENMARK £45,000 6 Leigh ADAMS AUSTRALIA £45,000 7 Andreas JONSSON SWEDEN £35,000 8 Rune HOLTA POLAND £35,000 9 Scott NICHOLLS GREAT BRITAIN £35,000 10 Fredrik LINDGREN SWEDEN £30,000 11 Chris HARRIS GREAT BRITAIN £30,000 12 Kenneth BJERRE DENMARK £30,000 13 Grzegorz WALASEK POLAND £20,000 14 Sebastian ULAMEK POLAND £20,000 15 Emil SAYFUTDINOV RUSSIA £25,000 16 WILD CARD £20,000 PLEASE when posting your selection please enter the GP riders number eg 14 Sebastian ULAMEK That way I should populate the spreadsheet properly

WEATHER UPDATE : Bright, breezy, but no rain since 1255 hrs

From BEES website : ADAMS IN FOR HOLDER CHRIS Holder has been replaced by fellow Aussie Leigh Adams in tonight's Brandonapolis line-up. Holder has been experiencing mechanical problems in practice and was not confident of putting up a fully competitive display in the meeting. Thanks to his early notice, we have been able to secure Adams who was not included initially due to his heavy schedule, which has been significantly reduced by call-offs at Poole and Swindon this week. Adams was the last man to win an individual meeting at Brandon, having taken the honours in the Elite League Riders' Championship last October.

Does that include the ELRC ? Anyway, the Bees website now has pictures of the track taken in the last hour, here

Just looking out on the track, the odd shower every now and then but nothing to worry about. Track has a little surface water on turn 2, but again nothing to be a concern. Fingers crossed. 1252 UPDATE : Heavy shower blowing through !!

If you wouldn't open the curtains to watch Crump, Holder, Batchelor, Andersen, NKI, Watt, Nicholls, Zagar etc then maybe its time to follow a different sport ?

The International Motorcycle Federation (FIM) announced a provisional calendar of competitions Speedway for 2011. Qualification for the Grand Prix 2012: 07.05 - 1 RK in Krsko (Slovenia) 13.06 - 2 RK in Abensbergu (Germany) 11.06 - 3 RK in Korskro (Denmark) 11.06 - 4 RK in Divisovie (Czech Republic) 11.06 - 5 RK in Terenzano or Lonigo (Italy) 02.07 - 1 Semifinal in Daugavpils (Latvia) 02.07 - 2 Semifinal in Terenzano or Lonigo (Italy) 02.07 - 3 Semifinal in Gorican (Croatia) 21.08 - Final in Vetlanda (Sweden) There is currently no timetable for the Grand Prix, but a total of 11 scheduled rounds. World Cup: 30.04 - 1 RK in Terenzano or Lonigo (Italy) 25.06 - 2 RK in Landshut (Germany) Dates and organizers, and semifinals and finals are not established. Individual Speedway Junior World Championship: 08.05 - 1 RK in Neustadt / Donau (Germany) 14.05 - 2 RK in Herxheim (Germany) 15.05 - 3 RK in Lviv (Ukraine) 21.05 - 4 RK in Gorican (Croatia) 14.05 - 5 RK Sweden (city to determine elimination Scandinavian) 25.06 - 1 Semifinal in Żarnowicy (Slovakia) 25.06 - 2 Semifinal in Poland (city to be determined) 16.07 - 1 Final in the United Kingdom (city to be determined) 13.08 - 2 Final in Poland (city to be determined) 27.08 - 3 Final in Holsted (Denmark) 01.10 - 4 Final in Pardubice (Czech Republic) Team Speedway Junior World Championship: 28.05 - 1 Semifinal in Poland (city to be determined) 28.05 - 2 Semifinal in Diedenbergen (Germany) 03.09 - Finał w Bałakowie (Rosja)

Line up as drawn tonight at the OTA. 1 Charlie Gjedde 2 TBC 3 Greg Walasek 4 Lewis Bridger 5 TBC 6 Lee Richardson 7 Niels Kristian Iversen 8 Sam Simota 9 Hans Andersen 10 Lubos Tomicek 11 Cory Gathercole 12 Steve Boxall 13 Mark Lemon 14 Jason Crump 15 Sebastian Ulamek 16 Shane Parker Also stated that Jason Doyle won't be one of the two to be confirmed.

Apologies if this has been previously posted, but having found it this evening it's too good not to share. 1948