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The FIFA World Cup comes to AbsoluteGaming. Between now and the start of the season (it may overlap) we will be hosting our own World Cup tournament. Rules for the tournament are as follows:

• Sign up is open to all members
• Sign up will close Saturday 18th May. Kick off will be Sunday 20th May.
• International teams will be used.
• Teams will be drawn at random using only the highest ratings International Teams in the game.
• Group stage to start where every member in your group plays each other once.
• Pending numbers top 2 from each group will go through to the knockoutstage.
• This tournament will be part of our new Rankings mod.

To take part simply add your name to the thread in the forums. Lets see if you can rule the world!

A huge thank you to everyone who turned up for last nights FIFA 18 tournament. @balonga13 continued where he left off on the other forum with another tournament win. Balonga beat @IDanger IMouse 3-0 in the first round then went onto beat @niwintz 3-1 in the semi final before taking home the cup with comfortable 5-1 final win vs @Big B 1970. Well done to @balonga13 and to everyone who took part.

We also ran a prize draw for everyone who took part in last nights tournament. I wont babble on any longer. Our winners are:

If you haven't already noticed our new ranking system is now set up. You can have access via the Rankings tab at the top of the forum. On clicking that you will see that we already have a set up for FIFA 18. This can also extend to other single player games so we will be looking at those in the near future. Games such as TGC Golf, Rocket League etc etc.

Each link is pretty much self explanatory but ill give a summary each anyway.

• Rankings - This is total rankings for FIFA 18.This page will show (once more tournament are in) a full list of members and what you have achieved during the lifetime of this game on the site.
• Events - The rankings are calculated by the events which are added. So for example last Friday's tournament ha already been added. If you click each event then you can see how entered and what points they gained. There is also a matches tab which shows all games and scores played in that tournament.
• Matches - Again easy enough to understand. Is a full list of matches for FIFA 18. You can also you the various filters to customise your search.
• Teams - This will be used at a later date. We will be looking to add teams to the rankings so for things like 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3 Rocket League or Pro Cubs 2 vs 2.

Like I said its very much a work in progress but initial thoughts from my point of view are its easy enough to use and will be a decent addition to the site. It will not but used for league games in the near future however I am looking at an import from our leagues into it so hopefully that can be done.

If you have any questions then please do ask.

This Friday we will be running our first FIFA tournament on the new forum set up. We have a brand new rankings system in place that I need to test out and would like the majority of the community to help. You can do that by simply entering the tournament on Friday.

Also to celebrate the launch of the new site we will be chucking in a prize or two via a random draw on Friday night. Again simply turn up, complete your games and you'll be entered into the draw to win a game or two.

Sign up will open at 7.30pm and we will kick it all off at 9pm. See you Friday.