Career Augusta Golf Challenge: Broodje vs George vs Rich COMPLETED!

[samhardy]

There were no 35+ players on the entire database?!

[George Traistă]

5 minutes ago, samhardy said:

There were no 35+ players on the entire database?!

No player that want to sign... I had to make offers to almost 300 players (all the available players of 34 yo and older) and only 4 wanted to sign, the rest didn't sign as they plan to retire

Edited January 14 by George Traistă

[broodje kip]

Not the best one. I couldn’t find any outfield player age 35+ wanting to sign for us at the start of the season. I managed to sign a 34 years old so we’ll start the challenge when he turns 35.

Chosen Guy

He turns 35 on 2nd March so here’s prove he doesn’t play any matches since we sign him.

League Table

Very, very disappointing. I can’t say much. Looks like my assistant, Adnan Januzaj aren’t as good as @RichD’s.

Transfers

Manager Profile and History 

We lost almost all competition.

How Did He Do?

Requested to train as Right Back for whatever reason 🙄. He still looks pretty good though.

10 goals and 3 assists in 9 league games I’m pleased with it. Also we got 7 MOTM!

That’s a par and we’re tied with Rich!

Total Points: -8 pts

[RichD]

38 minutes ago, samhardy said:

There were no 35+ players on the entire database?!

I tried signing every single outfield player 35+ and they were all retiring, so couldn’t get anyone, I then managed I thought to get a 34 year old who was turning 35 in august and he retired before coming 🙈I have noticed a big decline this year on older players making people retire earlier.

Well done @broodje kip, good effort mate 😁

 

[George Traistă]

With only one hole to go, the standings are pretty much even, I only have a mere advantage of one point... @broodje kip managed to get a par, enough to close the gap and equalize @RichD.

Up next, the last hole, we must win every game in the league, straight forward I would say!

Every league game you fail to win will cost you.

Birdie - Win every game

Par - 1-3 failed to win

Bogey - 4-6 failed to win

Double Bogey - 7+ failed to win

[broodje kip]

@George Traistă I hope you get a par and both me and Rich got birdie. We’re all the winners 😂

[George Traistă]

The final hole, something straight forward and I will try to keep my post the same.

The tactic

Spoiler

The only game I didn't win was against Tottenham... funny and frustrating the same time as our arch rivals went on in my way of winning Augusta...

All fixtures

Spoiler

 

And now something for the final post

Nianzou, a player who I got in my first season, is still in the team and still looks great at 39 years old... he is the oldest player in the game and maybe the last real player in the game. At the beginning of the 22nd season got a new 5 year contract and still not retiring. He looked like this at the beginning of the season. LEGEND

 

My all time XI, so nice to see some names in there... Skelton and McCaffety as academy graduates. Saka and Willian from the original squad....

Spoiler

 

Manager Profile

Spoiler

 

Thanks all who have read and commented on this long journey. Thanks @broodje kip for the invitation to take part on this H2H and thanks both of you for a engaging competition!

Edited January 14 by George Traistă

[RichD]

Awesome, well done George on a great career mate, enjoyed playing against you! Will update my final results now 😁

[RichD]

 

So with George hitting par, I had to get a birdie just to be level with him at the end of the challenge. I spared nothing for this and spent a massive 800m I had amassed over the years to build a squad that could deal with anything.

Results

Spoiler

So we hit a birdie to draw level with George, we only needed to win the league but my second team was so strong we won every single game this season, which I’ve done before. One thing I will say is, I had China and South Korea as leagues so it meant my league had become pretty weak tbh.

All The Fixtures

Spoiler

Tactic

 

Nearly forgot to put that in, that’s why it’s down here 😂

Manager Profile 

Don’t know how my manger profile looks like this after spending 6b on players, most points I’ve ever had, saying that I’ve never been this far in a before. Quite proud of it to be honest 😂

Other Bits

Spoiler

Very happy with some of that, we did not like to lose many games 😁

Been a fun challenge to play with @George Traistă and @broodje kip, made me think about the game differently in some ways and has definitely made me a better player. I am glad it’s over though as it’s a very long challenge.

So me and George are on a tie, who could have written it, over to Broodje now!

Thank you for reading and commenting over the past few weeks guys 😁

[broodje kip]

Great score guys I’ll post my result later

[broodje kip]

The final hole of the challenge after so much up and downs we’re finally here. Honestly I don’t expect such big losses like in the goalkeeper goals, the 4 goals and even the hole 10. But we’re here nevertheless and I just have to win every single matches to make sure we are tied with George and Rich.

Transfers

Nothing much. We bought only one guy and he’s a 16 years old Argentinian.

Manager Profile and History 

Loving all those greens despite we have a red on transfer acumen. 3133 managerial points, spent £2.6B in total and £2.05B gained under my management.

Won everything possible after losing on everything competition last season.

League Table

No your eyes aren’t lying. We won every single matches and that leaves us tied with @RichD and @George Traistă!

Total Points: -9pts

 

Career Review

This is our All-Time Manager’s Best XI. Phil Stubbs were a good goalkeeper though personally I don’t think he deserves it. Kepa Arrizabalaga or Michael Carey would’ve been better.

Cassano were used in our 18 goals in January challenge. Trotta is arguable, he never really be my first, second or third choice but served for an impressive 14 years! Arnold and Mendes were good but none of them got me really attached to.

Murray is a consistent performer for my team despite that our Messi’s regen, Mario Pizarro deserves it more. Oakley were used in the North American AMC while Garner were used in the Bournemouth MC and both performed very well. Mariano Pavon were very great for someone that I built his career after being almost being released by FC Barcelona.

Finally we got our 90 goals hero, Timo Werner and we got the machine, Erling Braut Haaland. Both of them managed to score 50+ goals at least twice in their career.

A smashing 78 trophies won. Surely is one of the most decorated manager ever.

Timo Werner could arguably be considered as our best ever player. Our last season signing, Constantino overtook our legend, Mariano Pavon for being youngest ever player. Samir Handanovic who left our club in the second season is our oldest ever player. Matthijs de Ligt is our most expensive player worth £140M! Milan Skriniar were sold for £108M also in the first season is our most expensive sale.

As you can see, we have quite a few very high scoring games with 7+ goals being a regularity towards the end of the challenge.

We’re very consistent in the league. Both season that we won I’ll say blame our assistant, Adnan Janujaz.

 

Now before we end this, I’d like to treat myself with something special.

We’ll wear this very proudly 

I would like to say thanks to @George Traistă and @RichD for accepting my invite and played very well throughout the challenge. It’s a pleasure for me to do another H2H with both of you again in the future.

Edited January 14 by broodje kip

[RichD]

Well done @broodje kip, I expected a birdie and you provided, been a fun one😁

[Kanegan]

This has been a fantastic career to follow. Well done @RichD @broodje kip @George Traistă, you definitely lit up the course with your play. 

[George Traistă]

Finishing all three on the same level is something beautiful, so big up to @broodje kip and @RichD for this great score and tight competition!

However, there is only one green jacket so we must award a winner and in order to do that I have complied a list of who won each hole. Some holes can be awarded a single winner as there is a way to differentiate between us, like hole 16 when @RichD's CB had more goals than others. On some holes I had to award the win to more players, like the last hole when both, @RichD & @broodje kip, had maximum to achieve so both got the win.

 

01 George
02 broodje kip
03 George/RichD
04 RichD
05 George
06 RichD
07 George/RichD
08 George/RichD
09 broodje kip
10 George
11 George
12 George/RichD/broodje kip
13 George/RichD/broodje kip
14 broodje kip
15 RichD
16 RichD
17 broodje kip
18 RichD/broodje kip

Wins: RichD 10 | George 9| borrdje kip 7

That being said the green jacket goes to @RichD who will demote the Reigning Champion @FuddledFox.

Congrats to all, congrats to @samhardyfor creating this complex challenge who kept us busy for more than a month, be sure we will come up with a review of it.

See you soon as we get back to our normal FMM lives 👋

 

[broodje kip]

Congrats @RichD. You really deserves it. 😄

[RichD]

Been great playing against you both, we are all worthy winners, I shall wear the jacket with pride 😁😂

Also great write up George.

[broodje kip]

10 minutes ago, RichD said:

Been great playing against you both, we are all worthy winners, I shall wear the jacket with pride 😁😂

Also great write up George.

You’ve been wearing it for a few days now

[samhardy]

Well done all three of you on completing the challenge, great stuff and good scores as well.

But you don’t get away from Augusta that easily...

Sorry @RichD but you haven’t won anything yet! The vibe green jacket is only presented to the winning score at the end of the year to the person with the best score and someone could beat yours and also if there are players tied which you three are you will need to play a play-off (18th hole again) until we have a winner. @George Traistă and @broodje kip still have a chance 

[broodje kip]

1 minute ago, samhardy said:

Well done all three of you on completing the challenge, great stuff and good scores as well.

But you don’t get away from Augusta that easily...

Sorry @RichD but you haven’t won anything yet! The vibe green jacket is only presented to the winning score at the end of the year to the person with the best score and someone could beat yours and also if there are players tied which you three are you will need to play a play-off (18th hole again) until we have a winner. @George Traistă and @broodje kip still have a chance 

I don’t mind hole 18. Luckily it’s not 10 😂

[RichD]

7 minutes ago, samhardy said:

Well done all three of you on completing the challenge, great stuff and good scores as well.

But you don’t get away from Augusta that easily...

Sorry @RichD but you haven’t won anything yet! The vibe green jacket is only presented to the winning score at the end of the year to the person with the best score and someone could beat yours and also if there are players tied which you three are you will need to play a play-off (18th hole again) until we have a winner. @George Traistă and @broodje kip still have a chance 

This is never ending 😂😂

[George Traistă]

8 minutes ago, samhardy said:

Well done all three of you on completing the challenge, great stuff and good scores as well.

But you don’t get away from Augusta that easily...

Sorry @RichD but you haven’t won anything yet! The vibe green jacket is only presented to the winning score at the end of the year to the person with the best score and someone could beat yours and also if there are players tied which you three are you will need to play a play-off (18th hole again) until we have a winner. @George Traistă and @broodje kip still have a chance 

In this case, we will play all 3 rounds until one is eliminated and then play rounds (the only two players) until one is eliminated? 

What happens if we hit the 30 season mark? 

Edited January 15 by George Traistă

[samhardy]

10 minutes ago, George Traistă said:

In this case, we will play all 3 rounds until one is eliminated and then play rounds (the only two players) until one is eliminated? 

What happens if we hit the 30 season mark? 

Correct, so for example if two of you achieve birdie on the first playoff season and one only gets par they will be eliminated. The two with birdie would play again until someone wins.

If someone gets birdie and the other two par they would win.

If you reach the 30 season limit which is probably unlikely it would be done on countback (best score over the last 9 holes) but I would only worry about that bridge if you come to it.

Good luck

[StuartM]

Good news for us! Still amazed that there were only 2 points dropped between all 3 of you... just an idea - how about a little twist, no transfers allowed or something?

[smoggy90]

Congrats guys on a fantastic challenge, sorry i haven't followed as closely but this one is an epic so well done for completing.

[George Traistă]

11 hours ago, Kanegan said:

This has been a fantastic career to follow. Well done @RichD @broodje kip @George Traistă, you definitely lit up the course with your play. 

 

9 minutes ago, smoggy90 said:

Congrats guys on a fantastic challenge, sorry i haven't followed as closely but this one is an epic so well done for completing.

Thanks boys!! 

[George Traistă]

@samhardy I simply can't go ahead with it. The playoff is not on the rules and Augusta broke me, I barely can play normal FMM right now. I will not compete in this one.

For me @RichD is the champion no matter what will happen from now.

If @RichDor @broodje kipwants to go ahead with this payoff, is their call. I'm out. 

[broodje kip]

I respect your decision George, I’m ok if Rich wants to continue or if Sam wants to change the way we’re going to play. No matter what the decision is I’ll follow it

[RichD]

3 hours ago, samhardy said:

Correct, so for example if two of you achieve birdie on the first playoff season and one only gets par they will be eliminated. The two with birdie would play again until someone wins.

If someone gets birdie and the other two par they would win.

If you reach the 30 season limit which is probably unlikely it would be done on countback (best score over the last 9 holes) but I would only worry about that bridge if you come to it.

Good luck

Not to make things even harder for yourself, I saved over that save last night with my Real Madrid challenge 🙈

[samhardy]

15 minutes ago, George Traistă said:

The playoff is not on the rules

Neither is most holes won throughout the challenge.

Obviously I have no right to decide how your own H2H is decided so if @RichD is the winner of the H2H then that’s great and I can’t argue with that.

But for the purposes of the vibe challenge, all three scores of -9 are equal and therefore none of you are ahead or behind each other.

Also nobody wins the challenge in January. Somebody could attempt the challenge before the end of the year and beat your score and then any playoff would be unneeded.

Maybe the best way would be to crown Rich the winner of this H2H, and then if nobody else attempts Augusta by the end of the year then you can play the playoff then to decide the winner of the green jacket (it doesn’t necessarily have to be on the same save).

[RichD]

4 minutes ago, samhardy said:

Neither is most holes won throughout the challenge.

Obviously I have no right to decide how your own H2H is decided so if @RichD is the winner of the H2H then that’s great and I can’t argue with that.

But for the purposes of the vibe challenge, all three scores of -9 are equal and therefore none of you are ahead or behind each other.

Also nobody wins the challenge in January. Somebody could attempt the challenge before the end of the year and beat your score and then any playoff would be unneeded.

Maybe the best way would be to crown Rich the winner of this H2H, and then if nobody else attempts Augusta by the end of the year then you can play the playoff then to decide the winner of the green jacket (it doesn’t necessarily have to be on the same save).

Happy with all of that.

Im just excited to get back to normal FMM 😂