⚽️ Patreon Champions League Draw (Patreon)

The Draw for the first stage of the Patreon Champions League Draw had been made and you can view the draw and track the progress of the competition via the spreadsheet below

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vf2iXzpqdNt2KDzfwOpCrF9Jdcr__m3Ajpx96g-GhPU/edit?usp=drivesdk

Big thank you to Rob Chetty for all his work behind the scenes that keeps the competition going.

All Patrons who entered their FPL teams into the Advanced, Intermediate + or Basic + mini league before the GW2 deadline were automatically entered into the competition and joined by the Planet FPL tteams and staff and all of the Correspondents.

The winner of the competition that runs every week until the final in GW38 will win £100.

Below is the format of the competition:

370 entrants
1st Stage - 74 groups of 5 (GWs 4-13)
Top 2 go through

148 remain
2nd Stage - 37 groups of 4 (GWs 15-20)
Top 2 go through along with the top 2 3rd place.

76 teams remain
3rd Stage - 19 groups of 4. (GWs 22-27)
1st advance along with 7 best 2nd place to last 32. The remaining 12 2nd place teams playoff.

Preliminary Knockout of 12 teams. (GWs 28&29)

Last 32 (GWs 30&31)
Last 16 (GWs 32&33)
QFs (GWs 34&35)
SFs (GWs 36&37)
Final (GW38)

Rules:

There are no restrictions in play, each week you will score whatever your net score is in FPL. So if your team gets 60 points but you've taken a -8 your score for the week will be 52 points.

Should a Patreon decide to leave during the tournament (this is inevitable unfortunately) they will be removed from the competition immediately. If this happens during a Group Stage their results will be null & void and the Group will continue without them. Should they leave before the conclusion of a knockout tie their opponent will receive a bye to the next round.

In the Group Stage it's 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.

Criteria for progression in the event of two or more teams finishing level on points in the Group Stage:

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams
FPL points difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams
Goals scored by FPL players in head-to-head matches among tied teams
Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams
FPL points difference in all group matches
Least FPL points hits during the Group Stage
Goals scored by FPL players owned in all Group matches
Clean sheets by FPL players in all Group matches

In the knockout stage ties will be played over 2 legs (Home & away), except for the final which will be played in GW38. In the event that scores are level the criteria to seperate teams will be:

Away FPL points scored (not applicable in the final)
Least FPL points hits taken for duration of the tie
Goals scored by FPL players
Clean sheets by FPL players
Assists by FPL players
Red cards by FPL players
Yellow cards by FPL players
FPL Captain points
FPL points during the whole season
Very special shout out to Rob Chetty (@Rob on Slack) for his assistance in both setting up the spreadsheet and no doubt maintaining it over the coming weeks.

To join in the chat and for regular updates on the competition make sure you join the #patreon-championsleague channel on Slack.

The very best of luck to everyone!