Welcome back you fuckin maggots, new and old.

It's a new year and a new season, and it's kicked off with a lot of talkin points already. Early stoppages, fake injuries, shit refereeing and Dana tweetin his displeasure. And Vitor winning knockout of the nightt? Bitch please. He was rocked, nothin more. So basically, nothin changed.

But what has changed, is the Freepool. We have 7 new member this season, whose results between them are very varied.

Roll call for New members are as follows:

• TheNextDamnChamp
• T_BUCK7
• PorkchopSandwich
• burlzilla129
• the_rocketeer
• Scaly_Manphi
• UKBlitzkrieg

Welcome aboard bitches. Thank you for joining us.

Gonna wish last season's champion Ninja_Oreo_Dollop all the best over in the Moneypool. I sent him over there as winner off the last season.As champion, his entry fee was paid for by me. Now I'm lookin for the next person to try their luck over there. Entry fee on me of course.

Now lets get past all that bullshit and straight to the results.

Top 3

3rd

We have two player tied for 3rd place.

TheNextDamnChamp

Making his debut and only starting on playground for the first time is TheNextDamnChamp. Okay, so he has a name which suggests pure confidence, which is a load of bollox tbh. But he's off to a decent start, so fair enough. Missed the Hot-bout but still made top 3, thats some good goin in fairness.

He takes joint 3rd by:

• Scoring 49 points
• Picked 7/10 correctly
• Had 2 perfect picks ( Vitor, Lentz)
• Missed the Hot bout

Also in 3rd

scott1

Having finished 6th last season, scott1 clearly is setting himself up for a higher finish than that this season, and has started by clinging to 3rd. With a solitary perfect pick, thats nothin to be ashamed of.

He does so by:

• Scoring 49 points
• Picked 6/10 correctly
• Had 1 perfect pick ( Lentz )
• 14 Hot Points

2nd

Runner up

T_BUCK7

Also making his debut here and only starting out on playground is T_Buck7. He was actually the last to join our camp, but already makes his presence felt instantly securing a very nice 2nd place spot. Considering he also only had 1 perfect pick, makes this feat just that bit sweeter.

He makes the top 3 by:

• Scoring 54 points
• Picked 7/10 correctly
• Had 1 perfect pick ( Gonzaga )
• 14 Hot Points

1st

Numero Uno

fulch

Straight off the bat, Fulch is not fuckin around. Last season he finished runner-up, losing out to the afore mentioned Ninja_Oreo.Clearly he has sights on top spot this season. And he has thrown the gauntlet down in fuckin style. Not only has he just missed out on gettin his name mentioned on the front page of Playground, he has actually outscored the Moneypool's highest score. He already has daylight of 19 points between himself and 2nd.

Oh yeah. He also scored perfect on the Hot-bout. Oh wow, so what you say. Like that was never done before, big deal right?

Well, the Hot-bout was a fuckin split decision. That's fuckin class!!!

Kudos amigo. Fuckin KUDOS!!

• Scored 73 points. (Highest on Mania)
  
• Picked 8/10 correctly
• Had 3 perfect pick ( Lentz, Dolloway,Ronny Da Silva )
• 22 Hot points. Impressive!!
• Was #16 out of 2033 overall

Congrats lads!!

Shit-Picker!!

For the new guys who don't know, I highlight who scored the worst per event, and call them the shit picker.

And makin his debut in dramatically shit fashion is none other than:

UKBlitzkrieg

Just a quick quote from the no.1 Bisping defender himself.

new fucker new champ here

Just giving you a heads up

You sure about that?

• Scored 22 points. ( Lowest on Mania) Enough said.

Hot-Bout

So where did the Hot points go?

Usually the hot bout is more evenly picked than this one, it was 6 for 12 ffs, not even remotely close in this camp. But it goes by over PG picks, which is a shame because it was the Gonzaga fight, the only one I got perfect. But it wasn't, and most people had Safari, and scored fuckin 0 points. And as mentioned, only one person had it perfect.

Current League Standings

64 Man Bracket Tourny.

Here is the list of the 64 players who have qualified for the Tournament. The cut off point was 34 points. Dmerit and Irish_Kev both tied for the final spot. I don't know who Dmerit is and Irish_Kev is a personal friend, so the paddy takes the last spot.

As for the rest. Unlucky, your out.

If your name's not on the list, tough shit!

Randomised and set.

Remember, for the first 3 rounds it the best of 2 events.

Sorry it looks fuckin shit. I will make it clearer tomorrow.

And just so ye cuntbags know that it was all random and seeding and rank don't mean shit, here's a clip of the draw.

Just because...