FF2011: Official GWJFFL (non-keeper) signup and discussion thread

I'd like to join the league!

rabbit wrote:

Put me in the "old guys who get fat in winter" division please.

Unfortunately in the ff leagues grump does location based divisions. The keeper league features more creative divisions but that's legions bag.

boogle wrote:
rabbit wrote:

Put me in the "old guys who get fat in winter" division please.

Unfortunately in the ff leagues grump does location based divisions. The keeper league features more creative divisions but that's legions bag.

No, Grump does those too. I'm mostly just a sounding board for rule discussion. (And sometimes troll).

boogle wrote:
rabbit wrote:

Put me in the "old guys who get fat in winter" division please.

Unfortunately in the ff leagues grump does location based divisions.

And I only completely realign them when absolutely necessary, and not more often than every other year. Last year was a realignment year so I'll just be dropping folks into empty slots this year.

Assuming I got this right...

Name (33) Date 2010 Grumpicus Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 12:03am GWJFFL1 *Legion* Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 12:47am GWJFFL1 Stele Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 3:24am GWJFFL3 Kush15 Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 5:34am GWJFFL2 Indiana0210 Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 7:25am Rookie oldmanscene24 Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 8:15am GWJFFL1 garion333 Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 8:16am GWJFFL3 Phishposer Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 8:17am GWJFFL1 (+GWJFFL3) Jolly Bill Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 9:21am GWJFFL2 kaostheory Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 9:34am GWJFFL1 ukickmydog Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 10:25am GWJFFL3 Rat Boy Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 10:47am GWJFFL2 Elliottx Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 11:01am GWJFFL1 iaintgotnopants Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 11:12am Rookie Landshrk83 Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 12:27pm GWJFFL2 (+GWJFFL3) Minase Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 1:12pm GWJFFL1 boogle Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 6:58pm GWJFFL2 LeapingGnome Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 8:55pm GWJFFL1 karmajay Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 9:07pm GWJFFL1 Gumbie Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 - 9:38pm GWJFFL2 Nightmare Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 - 9:05am GWJFFL1 gizmo Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 - 10:25am GWJFFL2 nightelfmohawk Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 - 6:49pm GWJFFL3 cybardian Thursday, August 4th, 2011 - 2:41am GWJFFL2 mudbunny Thursday, August 4th, 2011 - 8:40am GWJFFL3 Iridium884 Thursday, August 4th, 2011 - 8:10pm GWJFFL2 gbuchold Thursday, August 4th, 2011 - 9:19pm GWJFFL1 Apollo0507 Friday, August 5th, 2011 - 3:26pm Rookie Bill Bonney Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 - 8:52pm GWJFFL3 rabbit Sunday, August 14th, 2011 - 6:05pm Rookie Cobble Sunday, August 14th, 2011 - 6:54pm GWJFFL3 chumster Monday, August 15th, 2011 - 10:26am Rookie namikaze Monday, August 15th, 2011 - 2:06pm Rookie

...namikaze has claimed the last open spot. If you didn't get in, you're still welcome to get yourself on the waiting list. We've had people drop out at the eleventh hour before and the waiting list carries over to next year so there is still value in signing up if you're interested.

I'll give everyone a day or so to make sure I didn't miss anyone. In the meantime, I'll extend invitations for promotion and start reviewing what relegation steps might be necessary.

Grumpicus wrote:

...namikaze has claimed the last open spot. If you didn't get in, you're still welcome to get yourself on the waiting list. We've had people drop out at the eleventh hour before and the waiting list carries over to next year so there is still value in signing up if you're interested.

Grumps -- I'm happy to give up my GWJFFL3 slot if another interested party comes along.

Phishposer wrote:

Grumps -- I'm happy to give up my GWJFFL3 slot if another interested party comes along.

You (and Landshrk83) already have.

33 people = 3 full leagues (the last 3 spots are mine out of administrative necessity).

If anyone else wants in they can take my slot in GWJFFL3. Keeper and non-GWJ league would be enough for me.

Grumpicus wrote:
Phishposer wrote:

Grumps -- I'm happy to give up my GWJFFL3 slot if another interested party comes along.

You (and Landshrk83) already have.

33 people = 3 full leagues (the last 3 spots are mine out of administrative necessity).

Along those lines- if there are dropouts and replacements can't be found, I'm happy to run two teams again this year.

Landshrk83 wrote:
Grumpicus wrote:
Phishposer wrote:

Grumps -- I'm happy to give up my GWJFFL3 slot if another interested party comes along.

You (and Landshrk83) already have.

33 people = 3 full leagues (the last 3 spots are mine out of administrative necessity).

Along those lines- if there are dropouts and replacements can't be found, I'm happy to run two teams again this year.

Cool, thanks.

ETA: Incredibly, of the three teams eligible for promotion, two of them didn't come back. PM sent to cybardian (GWJFFL2 -> GWJFFL1, if he wants to). Since a slot in GWJFFL1 was vacated by Dan Kelly, gbuchold avoids relegation.

Edit2: I need email addresses for Indiana0210, iaintgotnopants, Apollo0507, rabbit, chumster, namikaze so I can get Fleaflicker to send you an invitation. A PM will suffice.

Grumpicus wrote:

gbuchold avoids relegation.

G-Buck lives!

Well sh*t... So I knew I need to fill 33 slots... but that's because I take up the last 3, 1 per league... then I went and counted myself as one of the 33 in the signup list.

So we've still got a spot open in GWJFFL3 for the first one to come along and claim it (recruit your friends!). Otherwise, it'll go to Landshrk83 or Phishposer (in that order, based on last season's performance) again.

Still looking to get an email address from/for Indiana0210.

Also, I really need (or want, anyway) to get that lost slot filled before I slot folks in to GWJFFL3 so recruit a friend.

Thanks.

[ETA: Incredibly, of the three teams eligible for promotion, two of them didn't come back. PM sent to cybardian (GWJFFL2 -> GWJFFL1, if he wants to). Since a slot in GWJFFL1 was vacated by Dan Kelly, gbuchold avoids relegation.

Definitely accepting the promotion to GWJFFL1. And thanks again to Grumps for running the show - it is a lot of work!

If were still short, ill beat on Zacny ...

rabbit wrote:

If were still short, ill beat on Zacny ...

As of this posting, there is still one slot available.

rabbit wrote:

If were still short, ill beat on Zacny ...

If we can get you two involved, then I demand that space be made available for Andrich, Sands, and Banks* in order to ensure that this season of GWJ FF will be epic.

* = And I will happily drive on over to Cory's place and pummel into submission persuade Cory into joining our little band.

Grumpicus wrote:

I need email addresses for Indiana0210, iaintgotnopants, Apollo0507, rabbit, chumster, namikaze so I can get Fleaflicker to send you an invitation. A PM will suffice.

Grumpicus wrote:

Still looking to get an email address from/for Indiana0210.

I pretty much have to say this every year so here's the one for 2011.

If you're going to be in the GWJFFL, you need to keep up with the threads. I recommend you check in daily. If you have to post just to "subscribe" and make it show up in your "My recent posts" tab, I'm ok with that.

Between four leagues, I have about 40 people to keep up with. I won't be sending you personal invitations (i.e. PMs) for every little thing. I will, on the other hand, find someone who is willing and able to take over your team. Don't make me hunt you down, people.

Hey guys, I'd be happy to join in. If spots are short, though, I'd be willing to cede mine. I am involved in another league, and wouldn't want to deny anyone their fun.

Alright Zacny, PM me an email address and I'll have Fleaflicket send you an invite.

Now that we're full (for real this time), I'll post this again.

Grumpicus wrote:

If you didn't get in, you're still welcome to get yourself on the waiting list. We've had people drop out at the eleventh hour before and the waiting list carries over to next year so there is still value in signing up if you're interested.

And if you're coming _this_ late to the game well... apparently, you can sweet-talk Rob (or Garion) into give you his spot.

Grumpicus wrote:

Alright Zacny, PM me an email address and I'll have Fleaflicket send you an invite.

Now that we're full (for real this time), I'll post this again.

Grumpicus wrote:

If you didn't get in, you're still welcome to get yourself on the waiting list. We've had people drop out at the eleventh hour before and the waiting list carries over to next year so there is still value in signing up if you're interested.

And if you're coming _this_ late to the game well... apparently, you can sweet-talk Rob (or Garion) into give you his spot. ;-)

I for one look forward to having Murdoch and Zacny going over the ins and out of GWJFFL on a certain podcast of our acquaintance.

Grumpicus wrote:

If you haven't seen an email from Fleaflicker by now, check your spam folder. If you still can't find it, PM me.

Nothing in Inbox or Spam. But I logged into fleaclicker site and seem to be in FFL3 as I should be. Anything else I would be missing by not getting the e-mail?

I know I said it wasn't a realignment year but with all of the new teams in GWJFFL3 (7), I just couldn't help myself. Besides, I figure Rabbit and Zacny want to be in the same division as so I present this year's first GWJFFL map: GWJFFL3 2011. GWJFFL1 and GWJFFL2, won't be realigned but I'll get new maps out tomorrow or this weekend. Until then, you can just check the spreadsheet if you're curious.

Don't worry about it too much when you're signing up, though, I'll fix the divisions once everybody is in... just get signed up. If you're a new owner, or a newly promoted one, and haven't seen an email from Fleaflicker by now, check your spam folder. If you still can't find it, PM me.

Finally, if you haven't read the rules document, please do it. Do it now!

Edited second paragraph for clarity. Thanks, Stele.

Stele wrote:
Grumpicus wrote:

If you haven't seen an email from Fleaflicker by now, check your spam folder. If you still can't find it, PM me.

Nothing in Inbox or Spam. But I logged into fleaclicker site and seem to be in FFL3 as I should be. Anything else I would be missing by not getting the e-mail?

Sorry, that was just for the new owners as well as the ones that were promoted. Thanks for checking. (Quoted post edited.)

So, weird, I have to have an AOL account this year to log in to FleaFlicker? Not sure why it worked last couple of years!

Plus, Surprise, I don't have an AOL account, is that weird?

If you're talking about the popup on login, you may want to re-read it. I'm not looking at it now but it says something about you _not_ needing AOL anymore or something.

Grumpicus wrote:

If you're talking about the popup on login, you may want to re-read it. I'm not looking at it now but it says something about you _not_ needing AOL anymore or something.

Whenever I try to log into fleaflicker, even from the league invite email, it immediately goes to an aol sign up page. That sucks, but I guess I have to do it

EDIT: Oh got the pop-up once, it says it makes you log onto AOL so you can get a new ff password or something BUT I have no idea what my AOL account info that was supposedly attached to fleaflicker was. This is going to take some work.

Awesome, I am in the same division as Rob Zacny and Rabbit.

Can we force rabbit to name his team "The Patchoulians?"

karmajay wrote:

Whenever I try to log into fleaflicker, even from the league invite email, it immediately goes to an aol sign up page. That sucks, but I guess I have to do it

EDIT: Oh got the pop-up once, it says it makes you log onto AOL so you can get a new ff password or something BUT I have no idea what my AOL account info that was supposedly attached to fleaflicker was. This is going to take some work.

Given that Fleaflicker just left AOL, that's very weird.

I was not a Fleaflicker or AOL user. I registered for a Fleaflicker account, and it signed me up almost immediately. The login explicitly stated not to use my (non-existent) AOL account. Go figure.

Nobody Fs with the fighting marmots.