Idol World Cup 2010: FINALS RESULT + Winners

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So we’ve finally come to the end of the Idol World Cup 2010, it was a very fun and interesting month for me. A lot happened in June/July such as AKB48/ManoEri/Morning Musume travelling around the world and big sporting events such as Wimbledon and the FIFA World Cup (obviously) taking place. Since I took my sweet time writing this post up, I’m assuming the people unaffected by those things just want to find out who won what as soon as possible :lol: In that case read below to find out who came out on top between the 2 teams.

THE FINAL: COMMENTARY

The teams duking it out in the final of the Idol World Cup 2010 were Yo_Jimbo’s Wota’s delight captained by Takahashi ‘Aichan’ Ai and CatchFiveBats’ Ichigo Stars captained by Michishige ‘sayuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU~’ Sayumi. Both teams had high tier Captains and they were out for one thing only and that was to win the coveted slightly phallic shaped Idol World Cup trophy. This would be the last ever time each player would be playing with their teammates, as they would all be returning to their idol lives after the tournament’s conclusion (Tsunku would be returning to his castle under the sea to continue playing God with the lives of little girls lol). Even for the managers, this would be their last appearance on the world stage. Yo_Jimbo was going back to being an ordinary Macfag in Calgary, and CatchFiveBats would be going back to his farm in Kansas to sheer sheep. CatchFiveBats especially didn’t want to lose to Yo_Jimbo after Jimbo’s poaching of Captain Aichan before the tournament almost made CFB quit his post as manager. However the lure of a nice Aichan related prize kept him in it, and he had to make do with an ordinary Aichan in his team (ordinary Aichan’s awesomeness is only half of Captain Aichan’s awesomeness, which is still very awesome tbh lol). And so with the stage set, it was almost time for the teams to make their grand entrance.


It didn’t take long for the drama to unfold as even before the teams stepped out, a mystery man appeared on the pitch and made a run towards the World Cup trophy :shock:

It was none other than Tsunku’s fellow SharanQ band member Makoto, who was probably distraught after not being chosen to be MC for this Hello! Project event. He tried to put a hat on the trophy but failed after being floored by security and then carried off by about 6 men (I bet he enjoyed that). I guess he thought if he wasn’t allowed to show off his manly silky shiny bowl head then not even the trophy should be allowed to.

Not long after that the teams made their way onto the pitch for the last time. They lined up and most stood in silence as their anthems played (Love & Peace! Hero ga yattekita for Wota’s Delight and Do it! Now for Ichigo Stars). Some of them cried, some of them mimed the lyrics, and some of them even danced a bit (or wobbled about in Beckii’s case). When the anthems ended they shook the opposing team’s hands and the match was ready to begin.

As soon as the whistle blew both teams got stuck in and were all fired up. Only a few minutes in and the Ichigo Stars got a good chance on goal as Captain Shige got on the end of a fine Ordinary Aichan free kick. Only keeper Maimi’s lightning fast reactions stopped it from going in. A bit of luck as well since the ball almost fell nicely to Kikkawa but it went over. Almost immediately the Stars got another chance as Sayu’s shot/cross was cleared by Lady Gaga, it was so close to being an own goal for Gaga that her balls had temporarily retreated into her stomach. The Stars weren’t done yet though as a Kikkawa shot hit the side netting. This Ichigo pressure continued for several minutes until Tsunku was yellow carded for a foul on Ordinary Aichan. The challenge was pretty strong but even so, most of the fouls commited on the Ichigo team resulted in them rolling around on the floor screaming in agony, only to get on their feet 2 seconds later once a free kick has been given. I know they’re a bunch of well paid girls (and an old guy that looks like an old woman…and also a girl who people say is actually a guy) but seriously. Tsunku didn’t mind, he loves the sound of screaming girls. It didn’t take long for the Ichigo Stars to return the favour though, as Nakajima was also yellow carded for a challenge on Beckii. The free kick taken by Captain Aichan was on target but bounced kindly for keeper Aika. Another yellow card was soon given to Gaga for a foul on Captain Sayu. Then another was again shown to Beckii for a foul on Kikkawa that definitely looked like it’d make anyone roll around on the floor screaming like a tourettes sufferer having a seizure. It looked like a hurricane kick (from Street Fighter) to the chest. In the slow motion replay you could even see Kikkawa’s fine smooth round chest jiggling from the impact of Beckii’s foot hitting her boobies. It was wonderful :) Despite the Ichigo Stars having most of the ball, Wota’s delight didn’t give up and weathered the storm, even going on the attack a number of times. Gaga with her craziness even managed to completely miss the ball when it came to her following a corner. It would have been a good opportunity to put a goal on the scoresheet, seeing as Captain Aichan had her shot on target saved just before half time.

The 2nd half started just like the 1st did, with the Ichigo Stars looking most likely to score. 54 minutes in, Captain Aichan was yellow carded for a foul on Ichigo striker Kikkawa Yuu. A final where the most exciting thing is the amount of yellow cards shown is pretty disappointing, but with about half an hour remaining, everyone was hopeful for a late goal fest. Wota’s Delight almost scored when Tsunku tried to head the ball in from a cross, but pressure from Saki *cough* prevented him from hitting the target. Captain Aichan had the best chance of the match yet when Beckii picked her out brilliantly and sent Cap Ai behind the defence and into a 1 on 1 with keeper Aika. She delayed the shot as much as possible and almost succeeded but even after Aika went the wrong way, her legs caught a bit of the ball and deflected it wide. Aichan could only look on in shock as it should have clearly been 1 – 0 to the Wota’s Delight. A few Ichigo shots later and Captain Aichan once again found herself through the defence and running towards the goal, however as she got into the box Saki and Captain Sayu did just enough to put her off and allow Aika to grab the ball. Another chance wasted, but Captain Ai was furious as she thought she was fouled. To be honest it could have been a foul, Sayu was doing spinning leg sweeps and shit :lol: Nevertheless the ref was having none of it and just told her to get on with it (the ref -who cannot be named for legal reasons- was later bummed by Tsunku, and then bummed again as punishment for their shitty job as ref). Well the remaining few minutes passed without any sign of a goal from either team, and before long the 2nd half was also over :|

The girls barely had any time to rest after the first 90 minutes, and they were clearly feeling the burn but it didn’t stop the Ichigo Stars from charging at the opposing goal a few minutes into extra time. As Captain Sayu, Ordinary Aichan and Kikkawa neared the box, they were each fouled but no free kick was given. Ordinary Aichan fell on top Lady Gaga quite spectacularly moments after feeding the ball to Sayu who looked like she was tripped. Either way nothing was given and a few minutes later the Stars were back again when Ordinary Aichan got into an almost identical situation as Captain Aichan in the 1st half. It was a 1 on 1 with the keeper Maimi but Maimi’s long tasty legs just barely prevented it from going in. This ongoing assault by the Ichigo Stars continued throughout the whole of extra time. Sayu had a shot deflected into the side net by a lucky Delight defender, and Ordinary Aichan went on a fabulous run but lost balance and shot wide. The Ichigo’s persistance and the Delight’s desperation finally brought about the inevitable when Lady Gaga was sent off for a tackle on Captain Sayu with just 10 minutes to go. It was a miracle no one was sent off earlier tbh. Since they were nearing the end Gaga probably thought the risk was worth it if it meant not conceding. By this time the players had the nervewracking thought of taking penalties at the back of their heads. Soon after that Captain Aichan’s team finally got a proper touch of the ball and made it to the outside of the box before being fouled. The resulting free kick would cause plenty of controversy. Struck by Captain Ai, the ball clearly hit the wall and went wide for a corner, but the referee gave a goal kick instead. The team was outraged at the time but as the clock was ticking they got straight back to the game. In another attacking move straight after, Beckii was fouled on the edge of the box and again the referee didn’t give it. Just seconds later a fantastic pass from Sayu allowed Ordinary Aichan to get behind the makeshift defence and strike the ball superbly for what would be the winning goal :shock: With just 4 minutes to go Wota’s Delight knew it was all over. They complained to the referee and the assistants as there was a hint of offside about it, but deep down they knew it was futile. Even the usually quiet and reserved Captain Aichan didn’t hide her anger as the Ichigo Stars celebrated. Such a shame that a feeling of overwhelming joy from one team can be met with a feeling of blood boiling anger and disappointment a few metres away. The seconds went by and at last the final whistle blew:

TOURNAMENT RESULTS

I was hoping for that final to be a classic goal filled match but in that respect it was quite disappointing. On the plus side a total of 14 yellow cards were handed out which is a record lol (don’t ask how it’s then possible only 1 person got sent off in a 5-a-side XD). Overall out of the 2 teams Ichigo Stars deserved the win, and I’m happy for Captain Sayu as she celebrated her 21st birthday just 2 days after her team’s victory :D So Happy 21st Birthday Captain Sayu and congratulations to CatchFiveBats and Ichigo Stars for winning the Idol World Cup 2010 \o/ Here’s a few pictures of Idol World Cup winner Sayu sporting her lovely selfmade birthday t-shirt, possibly the worst designed shirt ever but at the same time it’s one of the cutest :3 (just because it’s so bad :lol: ):

With the winner decided, the Top 3 teams of the tournament were as follows (I forgot to mention Evening Musuko’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat Vanishing-Point’s DMH 3-2 in the fight for 3rd place. But no one cares about that XD). I have to say I’m kinda impressed the Top 3 are all from Morning Musume given that half of the High tier teams were from other groups lol. I was looking forward to an Aichan vs Acchan final :( Also apart from Linlin all the Musume made it to the second round (inb4 the “yeah well Morning Musume will never win anything else nowadays ahahaaaaaaaaaaa~”):

On that note I have to say a MASSIVE THANK YOU to all the people who took part, namely the ones who submitted teams, guest commentaries and those who helped promote the tournament by posting on blogs and forums:
InsaneLampshade, Yo_Jimbo, Thonkz, Evening Musuko, olev, Aqua, Matt_D, oroboras, WaiZack, CatchFiveBats, Morningtime, Vanishing-Point, Hexi, Midori, clocutron, Muse, Pex, abbe.sieyes, Yanki<3Mina, Rebear, MorningBerryz, Henkka, AKB84, CK, ptom, Momowota, Freakyhippy, Kirarin Snow, xyish, tasukidaisuki, AimxAim and Piper G
It wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun for me without all of your input, and I hope you all enjoyed (at least a little bit) taking part :) I really hope to do something similar again in the future, so please look forward to it! Maybe next time I won’t be so lazy and I’ll be able to write things up on time :lol:

Corny speech aside, it’s time to get to the interesting bit: the awards ceremony~. As stated in the beginning, there were 3 prizes to be won in this tournament (to refresh your memory scroll down near the bottom of THIS post) and I’ll now announce the winners. I’ll remind everyone that this was in no way rigged, and the fact that I had dinner with the 3 main prize winners a few weeks ago had nothing to do with the outcome

AWARDS CEREMONY

First off is the award for “Best commentator”, this was a tough decision for me because although only 3 people submitted commentaries (@everyone else: you lazy bastards! >_<) they were all very good. However in the end it came down to originality. To present the commentator trophy is AKB48 producer Akimoto ‘fatman shabazz’ Yasushi (in Simpson form):

Congratulations to Kirarin Snow who wins the single of their choice :) You can read Kirarin Snow’s commentaries HERE and HERE.


Next up is the award for the “Golden Boot”, given to the team who scores the most goals throughout. I originally asked the winner’s favourite Morning Musume member to come and present the trophy, but unfortunately she was too busy thrusting bananas into her…………mouth (the one on her face). Instead I managed to get the next best thing, a porn star lookalike of the winner’s least favourite Morning Musume member :D (I still don’t know this Reina lookalike’s name so if you have it feel free to send it my way – cdevil@cnoevil.co.uk ):

Congratulations to Hexi and her team “Awesome FC” who managed to score a whopping 21 goals. She will get her choice of 1 of the 3 main prizes.


The next award is for the “Golden Gloves”, given to the team who concedes the least amount of goals throughout. We’re lucky enough to welcome the cutest piano playing idol extraordinaire Mano Erina here today to present the prize to the winner :shock: This time however it’s the prize winner who couldn’t be here to collect his prize :( Not one to disappoint a cute idol, I managed to get someone EVEN BETTER than the prize winner, his Japanese twin brother :D

We decided to give him a ‘certificate’ instead since he’d poke his eye out if we gave him a heavy sharp trophy. He was later admitted to hospital after receiving 36 paper cuts. Congratulations to ptom from Hello!Blog and his team “Team Crouquette” (don’t worry I have no idea what a ‘crouquette’ is either :lol: ) who conceded just 4 goals :shock: He also wins 1 of the 3 main prizes.


For those teams who didn’t win a prize, you can still see where your team came and their statistics here (click for bigger):

I sorted it by goal difference, too bad there wasn’t an award for the highest goal difference lol. But since Evening Musuko seemed quite into the World Cup, and his team came 3rd overall, I’ll send him a little something too :3

Last but by no means least I present the Idol World Cup trophy to CatchFiveBats and his team “Ichigo Stars”. Congratulations once again!!!

To sing us out on this great occasion, we have a beautiful Hawaiian songstress, open your hearts and listen~ CLICK

Idol World Cup 2010: Round of 16, Quarter and Semi final results

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Sorry for not updating for a week or two but I’ve been a bit busy. I went to Paris for Morning Musume’s Japan-Expo trip and I’ll hopefully have at least a little something written up about that soon lol. Anyway here are all the results from the Stage 2 matches up to the Final.





The final will take place on Sunday the 11th, and it will be between Aichan’s Wota’s Delight managed by Yo_Jimbo and Sayu’s Ichigo Stars managed by CatchFiveBats. Aichan vs Sayu, can Aichan have a clean sweep and win the Idol World Cup, Hello! Blog poll, and all the various other Hello! Project rankings in a row? Or can the poison tongued ichiban kawaii Sayu ride her wave of notoriety to World Cup glory? We’ll just have to find out on Sunday. The match for 3rd place between Risako and Eri will take place on the 10th, but no one cares about 3rd place lol. Here’s how the two teams will line up for the last time at the Idol World Cup 2010:

TEAM NAME: Wota’s Delight
MANAGER: Yo_Jimbo
ANTHEM: Love & Peace! Hero ga yattekita

TEAM NAME: Ichigo Stars
MANAGER: CatchFiveBats
ANTHEM: Do it! Now



This should be a very interesting match, the 2 managers know each other and only last week did they spend quite a bit of time together at the Japan-Expo XD Both Yo_Jimbo and CatchFiveBats are Aichan fans, but both have differing views of what it means to be a wota with Jimbo being a bit of a ‘daredemo daisuki’ (a fan who likes anyone) and CFB being a fan fully devoted to just Aichan (…and Mikitty and Gocchin ). Perhaps CFB is out for revenge after Jimbo chose Aichan as captain first? Perhaps Jimbo is out to prove you can be a wota without being devoted to just 1 idol? Or maybe they don’t really give a damn and are just after one of the prizes, who knows, but whatever the result I just hope for a fantastic match. Good luck to both teams, and may the best Aichan fan (out of you two) win :)

Idol World Cup 2010: DAY 15 results

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DAY 15 was the last day of the group stages, so the top 2 teams in each group proceed to the dreaded STAGE 2! Here are the results:

DAY 15 RESULTS

MATCH 45


MATCH 46


MATCH 47


MATCH 48


NEXT MATCHES

The first match in the Round of 16 will be between DMH – Defend Maeda’s Honor vs Cat Bus, team sheets are below:

MATCH 49

TEAM NAME: DMH – Defend Maeda’s Honor
MANAGER: Vanishing-Point
ANTHEM: Keibetsu Shiteita Aijou

TEAM NAME: Cat Bus
MANAGER: Tasuki Daisuki
ANTHEM: Love & Peace = Paradise

The 2nd match of the day will be 3 Unit Revolution vs Pex’s Pirates:

MATCH 50

TEAM NAME: 3 Unit Revolution
MANAGER: Yanki<3Mina
ANTHEM: 3 Seconds

TEAM NAME: Pex’s Pirates
MANAGER: Pex
ANTHEM: Hyokkori Hyoutanjima

If you’d like to commentate for any of these matches send an email to cdevil@cnoevil.co.uk. Good luck to the teams!!


The final group table looks like this. Thanks to all the teams that have taken part!:

Idol World Cup 2010: DAY 13 + DAY 14 results

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Yeah about those missing commentaries, I lied :lol: From now on I’ll just add commentaries when I have time, so if you want to submit one for any of the matches I’ve missed, feel free to send an email and I’ll put all the missing ones in a single post at a later date (I’ll add that there’s still a prize to be won for the best commentator). But those aren’t important anyway right? It’s all about results, and here are the results from DAY 13 + DAY 14. :

DAY 13 RESULTS

MATCH 37


MATCH 38


MATCH 39


MATCH 40


NEXT MATCHES

Group Folder5′s Awesome FC vs Morning Sickness, team sheets are below:

MATCH 41

TEAM NAME: Awesome FC (The team formerly known as Idol PWN)
MANAGER: Hexi
ANTHEM: Dakishimete Dakishimete

TEAM NAME: Morning Sickness
MANAGER: MorningBerryz
ANTHEM: Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~ FC tour version

The 2nd match of the day will be Hentai Gatas vs LULZ:

MATCH 42

TEAM NAME: Hentai Gatas
MANAGER: Morningtime
ANTHEM: Iroppoi Onna ~SEXY BABY~

TEAM NAME: LULZ
MANAGER: xyish
ANTHEM: Pinocchio gun

The 3rd match of the day will be Group Elegies’s H!P Hippy Ninjas FC vs LOVE! Egao Iro:

MATCH 43

TEAM NAME: H!P Hippy Ninjas FC
MANAGER: FreakyHippy
ANTHEM: Ai no sono ~Touch my heart!~

TEAM NAME: Love! Egao Iro
MANAGER: Rebear
ANTHEM: LOVE Namida Iro

The 4th match of the day will be Bellow! vs Wota’s Delight:

MATCH 44

TEAM NAME: Bellow!
MANAGER: abbe.sieyes
ANTHEM: Maji Bomber

TEAM NAME: Wota’s Delight
MANAGER: Yo_Jimbo
ANTHEM: Love & Peace! Hero ga yattekita

DAY 14 RESULTS

MATCH 41


MATCH 42


MATCH 43


MATCH 44


NEXT MATCHES

Group GAM’s Scrambled Eggs FC vs Hey Hey LET’S GO IDOLS FC, team sheets are below:

MATCH 45

TEAM NAME: Scrambled Eggs FC
MANAGER: Piper G
ANTHEM: Young DAYS

TEAM NAME: Hey Hey Let’s GO IDOLS FC
MANAGER: WaiZack
ANTHEM: Ame no Furanai Hoshi de wa Aisenai Darou?

The 2nd match of the day will be Das Kirarin*Allstars vs 5Nin Idol Revolution:

MATCH 46

TEAM NAME: Das Kirarin*Allstars
MANAGER: InsaneLampshade
ANTHEM: Makenki! Tsuyoki! Genki! Maemuki!

TEAM NAME: 5Nin Idol Revolution
MANAGER: AimxAim
ANTHEM: Aozora ga Itsumade mo Tsuzuku You na Mirai de Are!

The 3rd match of the day will be Group HANGRY&ANGRY’s Banana Boobs vs Ichigo Stars:

MATCH 47

TEAM NAME: Banana Boobs
MANAGER: Thonkz
ANTHEM: Onna ni Sachi are

TEAM NAME: Ichigo Stars
MANAGER: CatchFiveBats
ANTHEM: Do it! Now

The 4th match of the day will be The Angels vs Myao Mix:

MATCH 48

TEAM NAME: The Angels
MANAGER: oroboras
ANTHEM: Ookina Ai de motenashite

TEAM NAME: Myao Mix
MANAGER: Muse
ANTHEM: Koi no Dance site

If you’d like to commentate for any of these matches send an email to cdevil@cnoevil.co.uk. Good luck to the teams!!


The group tables now look like this:

Idol World Cup 2010: DAY 12 results

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The group stages are nearing their end and things are starting to heat up. Here are the results from DAY 12. I don’t have time right now to write some short commentaries (England game on in 15 minutes XD), but check back tomorrow and they should be up. Really sorry about that.

RESULTS

MATCH 33


MATCH 34


MATCH 35


MATCH 36


NEXT MATCHES

Group C-ute’s Gatas Aqua Athletics vs AKS Kemeko, team sheets are below:

MATCH 37

TEAM NAME: Gatas Aqua Athletics
MANAGER: Aqua
ANTHEM: Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~

TEAM NAME: AKS Kemeko
MANAGER: AKB84
ANTHEM: RIVER

The 2nd match of the day will be 3 Unit Revolution vs Team Crouquette:

MATCH 38

TEAM NAME: 3 Unit Revolution
MANAGER: Yanki<3Mina
ANTHEM: 3 Seconds

TEAM NAME: Team Crouquette
MANAGER: paul.thomas
ANTHEM: Danjo

The 3rd match of the day will be Group DEF.DIVA’s Pex’s Pirates vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

MATCH 39

TEAM NAME: Pex’s Pirates
MANAGER: Pex
ANTHEM: Hyokkori Hyoutanjima

TEAM NAME: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
MANAGER: Evening Musuko
ANTHEM: Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~ LIVE

The 4th match of the day will be Pyon Pyon Revolution vs Rock Solid:

MATCH 40

TEAM NAME: Pyon Pyon Revolution
MANAGER: Kirarin Snow
ANTHEM: Minna no Tamago

TEAM NAME: Rock Solid
MANAGER: olev
ANTHEM: Special Generation

If you’d like to commentate for any of these matches send an email to cdevil@cnoevil.co.uk. Good luck to the teams!!


The group tables now look like this:

Idol World Cup 2010: DAY 11 results + Kirarin Snow commentary

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Hmmm I seem to be getting later and later lol, I’ll hopefully be up to date by the end of tomorrow. Anyway here are the results from DAY 11, and Kirarin Snow is once again our guest commentator for today :) I have a feeling she likes maths and science a lot lol. I personally hated maths but had to do it at A-level and in my first year of university -_- Wasn’t the most enjoyable subject but when it involves idols how can you not love it XD

RESULTS

MATCH 30


The details for this match are missing, not because I’m lazy () but because the guy I sent to get them seems to have vanished after he told me the result. I got a phone call from a North Korean sounding Maimai a few moments later saying the score was 37-0 to Das Kirarin*Allstars but I’ll be sticking with my missing (assumed dead) contact’s information. According to General Maoi Koharu scored 35 goals using only her screeching voice to deflect opponents shots. The other 2 goals were Noto own goals. She approached the Allstar’s goal for a shot but the terrifying cleavage of Merkel (has no one asked why the German chancellor is playing in goal for a North Korean team represented by Japanese idols?) forced her to turn around and run into her own net while having a screaming fit. Old lady saggy boobies are indeed the stuff of nightmares *shivers*. The REAL score means the Allstars cannot proceed to the next round, whether or not they’ll listen remains to be seen.

MATCH 31


The most notable occurance in the first half happened around the 30th minute when Captain Okai was sent off for first pimp slapping Junjun in the face and then giving Aika a spinning elbow to the head immediately after. Chisato’s killer instinct was just too much to keep in for 90 minutes. A few minutes into the 2nd half Reina thought she scored when a deflected shot went in. It was ruled offside but by that time Reina had already stripped all her clothes off and jumped into the crowd for her celebration (filthy~). The goal didn’t come until the 75th minute when Arihara headed in a Junjun cross. In the last 15 minutes both the Banana Boobs and The Angels had chances to score but couldn’t take them.

MATCH 32


Guest commentary by Kirarin Snow
Once again, it’s time for another match of the always awesome Idol World Cup 2010, this one pitting the intrepid Ichigo Stars against the mighty Myao Mix. Unfortunately, it seems a giant sinkhole has suddenly appeared in the middle of the playing field, sucking three-fourths of the field into the abysmal depths of who-knows-where. This unexpected development is accompanied by a gigantic fountain of molten lava spewing out of the hole and rendering the remaining quarter of the field completely unusable. What a pity.

But the game must go on, and if the field is unusable, we can retreat to the auditorium and watch the two teams duel it out in a competition of the mind. The topic? Solving systems of linear equations. By hand.

SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS!! YESSSSS!!! BRING IT ON!!!!” Ichigo Stars captain Sayumi Michishige exclaims as she leaps out of her seat, cartwheeling across the stage in glee. It is her favourite pastime, of course, solving those simultaneous equations.

“Come on, this’ll be trivial,” Michishige says. The rest of the Stars seem uncertain, but Ai Takahashi steps forward, volunteering her formidable brainpower to the cause. Having starred in Q.E.D. ~Shoumei Shuuryou~, a drama of extreme mathematical awesomeness, Takahashi definitely has a trick or two up her sleeve.

Their opponents, however, look as though they have woken up to find the whole world sucked into a giant sinkhole, leaving only them standing on a pillar gazing down into the endless abyss. This certainly is not what they expected.

Too bad. They should have studied their linear algebra more.

And the competition begins. The first problem, the coefficients of which have been randomly generated, appears on the screen facing both teams and the audience. The first team to discover the unique assignment to all four variables that satisfies all four equations will win a point.

Michishige jumps on the problem, immediately putting the coefficients into an augmented matrix representing the equation Ax = b, where A is the matrix of coefficients on the left-hand side, x is the vector of unknowns (not represented in the matrix), and b is the right-hand-side vector:

“Gauss-Jordan elimination, yo,” Michishige announces. “We’ll apply elementary row operations to reduce the matrix to reduced row-echelon form. Let’s get rid of these nonzero entries in the first column below the 1. We can add three times the first row to the second row, two times the first row to the third row, and four times the first row to the bottom row.”

Her pencil flies across the page, yielding the resulting matrix:

Michishige: “OK, let’s switch the second and fourth rows, then subtract the new fourth row from the new second row.”

Takahashi: “We can also divide the third row by two.”

Michishige: “Good call.”

Michishige: “All right. That second column looks like it can be cleared up. Let’s get rid of the 1′s in the first and third rows.”

Takahashi: “Subtract the second row from the first and third rows?”

Takahashi: “And divide the third row by three.”

Michishige: “Looks much better now. Let’s clear up the third column too. The third row looks very nice indeed.”

She subtracts the third row from the first row, three times the third row from the second row, and eleven times the third row from the fourth row.

Michishige: “All right … divide the last row by eight and subtract it three times from the second row and we’re done! We’ve row-reduced the augmented matrix into reduced row-echelon form, and since the nullity is zero, we have a unique solution!”

Ichigo Stars submit their answer…

Meanwhile, Myao Mix has barely gotten anywhere. Their strategy is to use the simple substitution method, plugging and chugging and combining like terms.

Miyazaki: “Let’s solve for x in terms of z?”

Kojima: “Plug it into the original system?”

Yaguchi: “Expand and combine like terms…”

Kumai: “My head hurts!”

Shinoda: “Are you sure you did it right?”

They go back and double-check their work.

Miyazaki: “Hmmm… what next?”

Kojima: “Solve for y in terms of z and w?”

Shinoda: “OK…”

At this point the buzzer sounds, for Ichigo Stars have submitted the correct answer. The score is now Ichigo Stars — 1, Myao Mix — 0.

Miyazaki: “Aw, fiddlesticks!”

The second problem appears on the screen. This one has twice the number of unknowns, and it makes Myao Mix weep in despair.

Miyazaki: “Uh … Cramer’s rule?”

Kojima: “We find some determinants, right?”

Shinoda: “It’s not ad – bc, is it?”

FAIL!

Meanwhile, Ichigo Stars are heading for the finish, Michishige crunching numbers and blazing across the page. At one point, her pencil catches on fire, turning her sheets of paper into a flaming stack of row-reduced matrix awesomeness. But that does not stop her.

And behold! Ichigo Stars have solved this system of equations too. Their answer:

Michishige: “Gauss-Jordan elimination rules, yo.”

And time is up. The final score: Ichigo Stars — 2, Myao Mix — 0.

Gauss-Jordan elimination rules indeed.

[Note: The details of the second solution have been left as an exercise for the reader. It's fun; you should try it. And don't use Cramer's rule.]


[Addendum:

Lest anyone think I'm just making stuff up ... this really is what Sayumi does in her free time. No kidding.

She's mentioned solving simultaneous equations at least four times already, including last week's Pocket Morning:

http://www.hello-online.org/index.php?act=helloonline&CODE=article&topic=1110

An earlier Pocket Morning:

http://www.hello-online.org/index.php?act=helloonline&CODE=article&topic=478

A guest appearance on Aichan's Ichigo Ichie program:

http://www.hello-online.org/blog/zabel/index.php?showentry=5091

And her own blog:

http://gree.jp/michishige_sayumi/blog/entry/414669080

http://hyakupa.net/wordpress/?p=2635

Now, she doesn't mention any details about how she goes about solving the systems of equations, but I can only imagine two methods anyone would use to solve systems of linear equations by hand (and they are probably linear; nonlinear systems get really hairy): substitution and Gaussian or Gauss-Jordan elimination (which are variations on the same thing).

As for substitution, I cannot fathom how anyone could find that remotely interesting, or spend time doing it to cheer themselves up. This is such a tedious chore, and it gives me a headache just thinking about it.

Gaussian or Gauss-Jordan elimination, on the other hand, can be a lot of fun. The operations you apply to transform the system into an equivalent one are simple and easy to keep in your head while you're doing them. On top of that, it's not a rigid algorithm, and you can take shortcuts to reach the solution faster if you're observant. So part of the fun is playing around with different operations you can apply to simplify your system of equations. It's a lot like a logic puzzle, actually, and it's even set up in a rectangular grid like a lot of logic puzzles. Sayu probably finds it fun in the same way many people find sudoku fun.

So I think the only reasonable conclusion is that Sayu really does do some form of Gaussian elimination to solve her simultaneous equations, and even though they may look a bit daunting to people who've never seen any linear algebra before, it's an extremely simple method that's quite useful in real life (much more so than calculus, which seems to be taught as intro college math much more often than linear algebra).]

NEXT MATCHES

Group AKB’s Gay for Yurina vs DMH – Defend Maeda’s Honor, team sheets are below:

MATCH 33

TEAM NAME: Gay for Yurina
MANAGER: Henkka
ANTHEM: Fighting pose wa date janai!

TEAM NAME: DMH – Defend Maeda’s Honor
MANAGER: Vanishing-Point
ANTHEM: Keibetsu Shiteita Aijou

The 2nd match of the day will be Sukeban Deka vs JAV48:

MATCH 34

TEAM NAME: Sukeban Deka
MANAGER: clocutron
ANTHEM: Natsu DOKI Lipstick

TEAM NAME: JAV48
MANAGER: MeetanBot
ANTHEM: Oshibe to meshibe to yoru no chouchou

The 3rd match of the day will be Group Berryz’s R.I.G vs Cat Bus:

MATCH 35

TEAM NAME: R.I.G.
MANAGER: Matt_D
ANTHEM: Aitakatta

TEAM NAME: Cat Bus
MANAGER: Tasuki Daisuki
ANTHEM: Love & Peace = Paradise

The 4th match of the day will be Midori’s Green Girls vs Almighty Pinky:

MATCH 36

TEAM NAME: Midori’s Green Girls
MANAGER: Midori
ANTHEM: Namidacchi

TEAM NAME: Almighty Pinky
MANAGER: Momowota
ANTHEM: Piriri to yukou

If you’d like to commentate for any of these matches send an email to cdevil@cnoevil.co.uk. Good luck to the teams!!


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Idol World Cup 2010: DAY 10 results + Morningtime commentary

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Here we are on DAY 10, and Morningtime has once again provided an enjoyable guest commentary for one of the day’s results. Enjoy! :D

RESULTS

MATCH 27


Guest commentary by Morningtime
And so it came to pass. Two managers, great friends off the field but great rivals on it, meeting on the World Idol stage. Hexi’s Awesome FC (nee Idol PWN) against Morningtime’s Hentai Gatas. Yes it was set to be the game of the competition. Sometimes it seemed more like a wrestling match than a football match. But enough of Junjun and Sayumi. Enter the teams.

Awesome FC continued with their controversial decision to play leading scorer Yoshizawa Hitomi in goal. The press back home had been very critical of that decision in the previous game when they had struggled to a poor 1-1 draw against Lulz (a team so amateur their kit is made of sheepskin). Hexi’s mum in The Guardian had called for her resignation while her grandparents had written scathing pieces in the News of the Hexi and The Daily Hexi Mail respectively. Meanwhile Hentai took the far more logical decision to keep the big two up front partnering Konno Asami. And so the team anthems began. For once Hentai Gatas were not the main attraction. Their strip show sexy moves to Iroppoi Onna Sexy Baby were as popular as ever but Awesome FC’s Dakishimete Dakishimete surprised everyone. Mainly for Junjun’s rather…LITERAL interpretation of the anthem. It looked like Sayumi would have a groin strain before the match had even started. Following the anthems came the ritual of the two captain’s Tokunaga Chinami and Nakajima Saki swapping flags. This being an idol competition though they also swapped photos (various sizes), posters, cd singles, shirts, hoodies, mugs, caps, mirrors, photo albums, jewellery sets, badges and notepads. The referee calling a halt to proceedings at this moment just before the players were about to swap sets of trading cards and mufflers. Well it had taken 45 minutes up to this point and the crowd were getting restless.

And so the game (finally) began. Truth be told Hentai Gatas were on the attack constantly throughout the first half. Ishikawa Rika, the Hentai playmaker in midfield, linking up well with Konno Asami on several occasions. The players seemingly able to take advantage of the weakness down the Awesome right hand side at will. Indeed in the 18th minute Rika fed the ball through to Konno on the left wing. Sayumi looked all set to put in a tackle when she herself was tackled from behind by Junjun…who’s on her own team…and it was a rugby tackle. O-o However Yui shot wide when the cross came in. Nevertheless a goal was on the cards and in the 27th minute Konno Asami with a delightful finish made it 1-0 to the Hentai. Rika setting the goal up with a lovely reverse pass through the legs of Chinami Tokunaga for Konno to curl the ball with the outside of her boot past Yoshizawa despite the attentions of the sliding Junjun (who slid into Sayumi again and ended up on top of her. In fact the Awesome Physio ran onto the pitch thinking one of them must be badly injured due to all the moaning and groaning. Indeed Junjun’s agonised thrusting made it look like she was in a lot of pain. However the physio upon arriving at the scene found out that it was just a minor finger injury as Junjun had somehow got her right hand stuck in Sayumi’s shorts. Also the ‘blood’ around Sayumi’s mouth turned out to just be Junjun’s lipstick. Sayumi was crying for some reason though). 27 minutes gone, 1-0 to the Gatas.

The next incident of note came in the 42nd minute as Junjun went to ground and accidentally brought down Okada Yui (she was aiming for Sayumi again). This was quickly followed by a booking for Hentai just on half time. Ishikawa Rika booked for a late challenge on Angry, the Awesome FC forward. There was a strange flash of light when they touched and both were knocked unconscious for 15 minutes. Which luckily meant they came round just in time for the second half.

Half time Awesome FC 0 Hentai Gatas 1 baby.

The second half started with a second booking for Awesome FC in the 48th minute as Michishige Sayumi made a petulant hack at the Hentai captain Nakajima Saki. Most pundits believing this was out of jelousy due to Nacky’s superior cuteness factor. The rest of the second half showed Hentai happy to contain Awesome and hit them on the counter attack. This plan worked well as Awesome had to resort to long-shots and never really threatened Momoko Tsugunaga in the Hentai goal. Momoko instead busying herself for the majority of the game by turning to the crowd behind the goal, touching her cheek with her index finger while sticking out her pinky and claiming to be the real captain.Then in the 84th minute one moment of surrealness. Michishige Sayumi seemed to go in late on Nacky again only for Junjun to immediately shove Sayumi out the way and take her place on the floor. THe referee then booked Junjun, presumably for committing the foul that Sayumi had actually committed. Well either that or for dissent. Anyway into the 85th minute and from the free kick Ishikawa crossed to Captain Nacky who squared the ball to Okada Yui to stroke home from 18 yards. There was the usual hugging and kissing to celebrate the goal although the majority of this was from Junjun who had immediately turned to Sayumi following the goal and seemed to be getting confused as to the ritual of shirt-swapping. You’re supposed to wait until AFTER the game. Awesome FC 0 Hentai Gatas 2. And so, despite an injury time shot from Tokunaga Chinami that forced Momoko into her only save of the game, the match was effectively over. Hentai saw the game out for a comfortable 2-0 victory. The two managers shook hands warmly upon hearing the final whistle although Morningtime pointedly refused to shake hands with Awesome’s assistant manager Beckii Cruel.

Final score Awesome FC 0 Hentai Gatas 2

MATCH 28


The reigning Idol World champions, Morning Sickness, versus a team who are just in it for teh lulz, LULZ. Their striker Akimoto milks goats for a living and DAWA spends her time rocking back and forth in her chair while stroking a shotgun and mumbling to herself how much she hates foreigners (which is a lot). However they got off to a brilliant start by scoring against the champions in the 7th minute when DAWA poked in an incredible Oshima cross. Minutes later Captain Oshima (the Morning Sickness one) took a long range strike but just hit the post. In the 29th minute the Sickness were awarded a penalty when Kuwabara brought down Okada in the box as she tugged her tight tight shirt. It was questionable as it didn’t look like much, but there was shirt pulling, and Okada does have some heavy looking jugs which probably contributed to her going to ground easily. Suenaga, who was getting bored with all her cheerleading, scored from the spot. There were several shots in the 2nd half but the final score remained 1-1.

MATCH 29


This looked to be an interesting match, and there was certainly some lovely football played. LET’S GO IDOLS FC scored the first in the 25th minute when tiny Miyamoto blasted it past the keeper at a blistering speed at an odd angle. Her tiny legs proving to pack quite the punch…mmmmmmmm. She scored again in the 50th minute when she showed some wonderful skill to get past both Momo and Linlin and then whacked it into the back of the net. Sure she may have handled it twice but she needs SOME sort of handicap given that she’s like 1ft tall or something. She almost got blown away by a slight breeze before the game. They scored their 3rd in the 62nd minute when Aichan tapped in a Reina cross. Idol Revolution managed to get 1 goal when Kojima and her massive ears scored with just 11 minutes to go. That’s when things started to heat up, Reina got a yellow card for elbowing Linlin in the left cheek when she was taking her time with the ball or something. A few minutes later Reina was sent off when she got a 2nd yellow despite not doing much wrong this time. Looked like Momo wasn’t looking where she was going, walked into Reina, and then went down holding her face even though the only contact was with her delicious chest. Pretty shameful stuff from Momo but she is a cunning idol indeed.

NEXT MATCHES

Group GAM’s Scrambled Eggs FC vs Das Kirarin*Allstars, team sheets are below:

MATCH 30

TEAM NAME: Scrambled Eggs FC
MANAGER: Piper G
ANTHEM: Young DAYS

TEAM NAME: Das Kirarin*Allstars
MANAGER: InsaneLampshade
ANTHEM: Makenki! Tsuyoki! Genki! Maemuki!

The 2nd match of the day will be Group HANGRY&ANGRY’s Banana Boobs vs The Angels:

MATCH 31

TEAM NAME: Banana Boobs
MANAGER: Thonkz
ANTHEM: Onna ni Sachi are

TEAM NAME: The Angels
MANAGER: oroboras
ANTHEM: Ookina Ai de motenashite

The 3rd match of the day will be Ichigo Stars vs Myao Mix:

MATCH 32

TEAM NAME: Ichigo Stars
MANAGER: CatchFiveBats
ANTHEM: Do it! Now

TEAM NAME: Myao Mix
MANAGER: Muse
ANTHEM: Koi no Dance site

If you’d like to commentate for any of these matches send an email to cdevil@cnoevil.co.uk. Good luck to the teams!!


The group tables now look like this:

Idol World Cup 2010: DAY 9 results + Kirarin Snow commentary

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Sorry this is a lot later than usual, but here are the results from DAY 9. Today we have a very unique (and pretty mind boggling XD) guest commentary from Kirarin Snow:

RESULTS

MATCH 24


Guest commentary by Kirarin Snow
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a sports team in possession of a playing field, must be in want of a field theorist.

So it was that the ragtag group of order four calling themselves Pyon Pyon Revolution, having a group identity and an inverse for each member under addition and satisfying the distributivity and associativity axioms, but lacking a multiplication operation and all the rest, ventured forth to find themselves a field theorist. It was only by pure chance that Kanon Fukuda, the team captain, seeker, and group identity, discovered the magic spell that would resurrect the corpse of the great mathematician and physicist Emmy Noether, dead for seventy-five years, and restore her to life as the fifth player on the team, an action that also introduced a multiplication operation allowing the group to be a field as well. For, as everyone knows, a team must constitute a subring of the playing field, containing the multiplicative identity and being closed under inversion, in order to have any chance at winning a match. Of course, this requires that there exist an element in both opposing teams, so by convention, we define additional elements not mapping to actual players in order to get the mathematics to work out right.

Unfortunately the opposing team, Pex’s Pirates, have no patience for this kind of quasimathematical hogwash. In their view, field theory, quantum or otherwise, bears absolutely no relation to sports played on or above a field, and indeed, if Pyon Pyon Revolution were going to play above the field on their fancy schmancy broomsticks, there’d be no chance they’d ever score a point. Just look at the last match they were in; Pyon Pyon got pwn pwned 4 to 0. That’s what you get for having a sideways Koharu Kusumi on your team.

Noether explains that the team’s configuration is a necessary consequence of the conservation laws corresponding to the differentiable symmetries of the playing field, as proved by Noether’s theorem (1915), a cornerstone of modern theoretical physics. “It applies to your team too, you know,” she says. “If you’re not careful with the differentiable symmetries generated by your local actions, the corresponding conserved currents will sneak up on you. The results could prove disastrous.”

Risa Niigaki, Pex’s Pirates’ captain, dismisses this warning, confident in her team’s victory after the results of their previous game. She and her teammates laugh at Noether and the rest of Pyon Pyon Revolution, clearly no match for the Pirates.

As it turns out, Noether’s words should not be taken lightly. Shortly after the start of the match, as the Pirates charge (in the Noetherian sense, pun intended) across the field, striker Maki Goto launches the ball straight toward the goal, but Pyon Pyon Revolution goalkeeper Ai Haruna manages to deflect the ball just in time, sending it toward sideward Kusumi, who propels it over to captain and seeker Fukuda, who, prepared with an ancient charm she learned from a spellbook recently, pyonpyonflufflepuffs it, whereupon the ball lands directly in front of Pirates midfielder Erika Umeda. Umeda seizes the opportunity and kicks the ball toward the goal, but of course, Fukuda’s spell has entangled the ball’s quantum wavefunction, and it flies off in the opposite direction, soaring past awestruck Pirates goalkeeper Emyli and scoring one point for Pyon Pyon Revolution.

Perceptive readers will note that the ball’s action is an apparent violation of the law of conservation of momentum, which is impossible under Noether’s theorem. Indeed, we can define the action S as the integral of the Lagrangian L,

and then chug some formulae to produce the desired conclusion that momentum is conserved, for all coordinates i:

(Details are left as an exercise for the reader, but only because the author of this commentary has not studied physics in a few years and is a bit rusty.)

One shouldn’t mess with those Lagrangians, or they’ll mess back.

In an effort to prevent itself from imploding, the universe redefines the playing field so that the ball’s action does not in fact violate the law of conservation of momentum. This results in an inversion of the playing field, transporting the members of both teams off the field itself and into a room in which the team members face each other across an empty table.

As the teams stare at each other, themselves, and their surroundings, bewildered, a figure emerges from the distance. It is Richard M. Stallman, the famous software freedom activist and programmer.

“Seeing as how we’re stuck here without a field and without a ball,” Stallman says, “the only way we can settle this match is by playing a game of Scrabble. Multilingual Scrabble! You can play in any language! But the catch is, you can only play words related to snow.”

He flips a coin, which comes up Pirates, and places a Scrabble board and tilebag on the table. The teams stare at the board in shock. Finally, after much awkwardness, Pirates defender Kumi Koda draws seven tiles from the bag. The team members confer amongst themselves and finally decide on PERSOQ, the Kalaallisut word for ‘blizzard’.

This play (using the Danish tileset since the Kalaallisut one doesn’t exist, with an extra Q worth 10 points) adds up to 40 points, including the double word score. Score: Pirates – 40, Revolution – 0.

“Why didn’t you play it one space further to the right?” Pyon Pyon Revolution striker Sayaka Kitahara asks. “You could have gotten a double letter score on that Q.”

“Because we’re Pirates,” Niigaki says. “We like having the R on the center square.”

“Plus, this’ll keep you from getting a triple word score later on in the game,” Emyli adds.

Pyon Pyon Revolution contemplate the board and their own freshly drawn tiles. After some consideration, they decide to play ELURTZA, the Basque word for ‘snowfall’.

Using the Spanish tileset (since the Basque one doesn’t exist), this adds up to 26 points. Score: Pirates – 40, Revolution – 26.

“Our Basque pwns your Kalaallisut,” Kusumi says. “Even if it scores less.”

“Not bad,” Goto responds. “But check this out!”

The Pirates play KARTOPU, the Turkish word for ‘snowball’.

Using the Turkish tileset, this scores 28 points. Score: Pirates – 68, Revolution – 26.

Dismayed, the Pyon Pyon Revolution teammates confer to discuss potential comeback strategies. Surreptitiously, Fukuda casts a spell over the tilebag, causing some of its tiles to transform into characters from non-Latin writing systems. They draw some new tiles and play N,AK,RUX, the Nivkh word for ‘in the snow’ (‘snow’ with a locative/ablative case ending) with Cyrillic tiles, and replacing the Q tile with a Nivkh Cyrillic tile representing the same phoneme (a voiceless uvular plosive).

Using the Russian tileset (since Nivkh is only spoken by around a thousand people, and no one’s ever thought of introducing Scrabble to them), this play scores 20 points. Score: Pirates – 68, Revolution -
46.

Pex’s Pirates counter with LUMIKUURO, the Finnish word for ‘snow shower’, returning to the Latin alphabet and absorbing one of the Cyrillic tiles.

This play (using the Finnish tileset, naturally) scores 29 points, and since it uses all seven tiles on the Pirates’ rack, it also earns them an extra 50 point bonus. Score: Pirates – 147, Revolution – 46.

Things are not going well for Pyon Pyon Revolution. Nevertheless, they manage to play NUNBORA, the Korean word for ‘snowstorm’, in response, spelled out in separate Hangul jamo.

Using the unofficial Quackle Korean tileset, this earns a total of 9 points. Score: Pirates – 147, Revolution – 55.

The Pirates decide to take it easy and play a low-scoring word: UPAS, the generic Ainu word for ‘snow’, spelled in Katakana.

Using the English tileset (because Japanese Scrabble doesn’t really exist, and Ainu only has a handful of living speakers), this scores 7 points. Score: Pirates – 154, Revolution – 55.

The tilebag is almost empty. Pyon Pyon Revolution make their final play, PIPKI, the Georgian word for ‘snowflake’, in the Mkhedruli alphabet.

Using the English tileset again, this play scores 8 points, ending the game with a score of Pirates – 154, Revolution – 63.

Having completed the game, the universe decides to correct itself, inverting again and restoring the football/quidditch field as it existed before the law of conservation of momentum was so gloriously violated. The Scrabble match contributes one point to the Pirates’ score, resulting in a final score (a draw!) of Pirates – 1, Revolution – 1.

Oh, the suspense. What madness will strike next?

[Note: The author thanks Quackle (http://www.quackle.org) for the Scrabble board templates, and apologizes for mangling your language, if that is the case.]

MATCH 25


Aika’s team fought very bravely, and even came close to equalising towards the end of the match. However they weren’t able to put a goal on the scoresheet and lost out to Beckii Cruel’s well struck 53rd minute shot. Aika’s team can still qualify for the second round, but it all depends on how they do in their final match of the group stages against Maimi’s Hippy Ninjas.

MATCH 26


Bellow! should have finished the Hippy Ninjas off when their star striker Umeda put them 1-0 up after only 10 minutes, but not to be outdone, Tsuji equalised on the 33rd minute despite carrying a groin injury (damn you Taiyou!). It was anyones game to win in the 2nd half as each team made silly mistakes that could have easily cost them, but the decider was scored in the 61st minute by luscious Ishikawa who galloped past the defenders and slid one into the back of the net. This result means Sakichi’s Bellow! are the first team DEFINITELY out of the World Cup when the group stages finish. Her and her team have been eliminated, terminated, violated, destroyed, annihilated, dismissed, expelled, ejected, and basically knocked out of the Idol World Cup. I made myself cry there, Sakichi NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~ DON’T GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~ :cry: I’ll never forget you.

NEXT MATCHES

Group Folder5′s Awesome FC vs Hentai Gatas, team sheets are below:

MATCH 27

TEAM NAME: Awesome FC (The team formerly known as Idol PWN)
MANAGER: Hexi
ANTHEM: Dakishimete Dakishimete

TEAM NAME: Hentai Gatas
MANAGER: Morningtime
ANTHEM: Iroppoi Onna ~SEXY BABY~

The 2nd match of the day will be Morning Sickness vs LULZ:

MATCH 28

TEAM NAME: Morning Sickness
MANAGER: MorningBerryz
ANTHEM: Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~ FC tour version

TEAM NAME: LULZ
MANAGER: xyish
ANTHEM: Pinocchio gun

The 3rd match of the day will be Group GAM’s Hey Hey Let’s GO IDOLS FC vs 5nin Idol Revolution:

MATCH 29

TEAM NAME: Hey Hey Let’s GO IDOLS FC
MANAGER: WaiZack
ANTHEM: Ame no Furanai Hoshi de wa Aisenai Darou?

TEAM NAME: 5Nin Idol Revolution
MANAGER: AimxAim
ANTHEM: Aozora ga Itsumade mo Tsuzuku You na Mirai de Are!

If you’d like to commentate for any of these matches send an email to cdevil@cnoevil.co.uk. Good luck to the teams!!


The group tables now look like this:

Idol World Cup 2010: DAY 8 results

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Here are the results from DAY 8:

RESULTS

MATCH 21


Eri’s mutant ninja Germans gave Kanon’s team a 4-0 spanking in their last match, so how they managed to lose this one is beyond me…well not really since I saw the match. Ariyasu scored the only goal of the game in the 38th minute and gave Eri a shock defeat. What made it worse was that Nakazawa was sent off before half time, probably for punching 2 opposing players in the neck.

MATCH 22


Aqua’s army of rugged idols looked like they were gonna win the match in just 45 minutes when strikes from Yoshizawa and Captain Maasa put them 2-0 up. However a spirited Miyabi side fought back to 2-2 and almost made it 3-2 if it weren’t for a stupid decision from the ref. The 3 Unit Revolution goals came from Minegishi and Nakanishi. For the 1st, keeper Tsuji flinched when a venomous shot was fired from Miichan’s succulent right foot. Can’t have Tsuji’s face mangled by some shiny smooth white balls now can we Taiyou?

MATCH 23


Awful, dreadful, horrendously frustrating. Those are just a few of the words I used to describe the ridiculous haircuts some of those Algerians had. Did I say Algerians? I meant Japanese, Koreans and whatever race a Beckii Cruel is. The game itself was a steaming pile of chinchilla poo. Hugely disappointing :( Could have been worse I guess. Oh and Rooney Yasuda, STFU you mong!

NEXT MATCHES

Group DEF.DIVA’s Pex’s Pirates vs Pyon Pyon Revolution, team sheets are below:

MATCH 24

TEAM NAME: Pex’s Pirates
MANAGER: Pex
ANTHEM: Hyokkori Hyoutanjima

TEAM NAME: Pyon Pyon Revolution
MANAGER: Kirarin Snow
ANTHEM: Minna no Tamago

The 2nd match of the day will be Group Elegies’ Wota’s Delight vs Love! Egao Iro:

MATCH 25

TEAM NAME: Wota’s Delight
MANAGER: Yo_Jimbo
ANTHEM: Love & Peace! Hero ga yattekita

TEAM NAME: Love! Egao Iro
MANAGER: Rebear
ANTHEM: LOVE Namida Iro

The 3rd match of the day will be Bellow! vs H!P Hippy Ninjas FC:

MATCH 26

TEAM NAME: Bellow!
MANAGER: abbe.sieyes
ANTHEM: Maji Bomber

TEAM NAME: H!P Hippy Ninjas FC
MANAGER: FreakyHippy
ANTHEM: Ai no sono ~Touch my heart!~

If you’d like to commentate for any of these matches send an email to cdevil@cnoevil.co.uk. Good luck to the teams!!


The group tables now look like this:

Idol World Cup 2010: DAY 7 results

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Here are the results from DAY 7:

RESULTS

MATCH 18


Airi’s Sukeban Deka were finalists in 2006, winner’s in 1998, and although weakened, were still favourites to make it through to the next round, but this years team can’t even find the back of the net. The first goal didn’t come until the 64th minute when little Yagooch managed to stay onside, skip past the keeper and slot the ball in. The 2nd came from a penalty in the 79th minute when little Reina brought down little Yagooch in the box. The mighty foot of little Yoshizawa took that one. Sukeban ‘down and out’ Deka nil point, Gay for Yurina 2.

MATCH 19


Could have been such a good day for R.I.G after sexy Tomochin put them 1-0 up at the 16th minute from a sexy free kick. It all went downhill after that when sexy Ono was sent off for kicking sexy Kikkawa in the left arse cheek. Such a silly thing to do, but very sexy. A few minutes later the Green girls equalised when a sexy Linlin shot deflected off of sexy Iwasa’s leg and went in. At 71 minutes sexy Noto and sexy Tomochin bashed heads in the box, the ball came back out, sexy Kikkawa took a shot, sexy Myao saved it but couldn’t catch, and sexy Ogawa pounced on it for the 2nd goal.

MATCH 20


Susan Boyle must have used up all her ugbo powers in the first match as she let in 4 goals, albeit against one of the tournament favourites but the point is…she ugly. The first goal was a Tanaka own goal when she kicked a smooth Momo cross into her own net as she tried to clear. After 33 minutes a smooth Momo got herself onto the scoresheet with a smooth header. Cat Bus had a glimmer of hope before the 1st half ended when a defensive error from a smooth Risako let Iida in to claim a goal for her team. Didn’t affect Almighty Pinky though as in the 76th minute a smooth Satoda shot rebounded off the post and a smooth Momo was there again to tap it in. Just 4 minutes later the Pinkys went on the attack and guess who, yes, a smooth Momo scored the 4th for a very smooth hat-trick. I guess the only surprise was that Satoda, arguably the smoothest idol in the universe didn’t score any of the Almighty Pinky’s 4 goals. Ah well.

NEXT MATCHES

Group DEF.DIVA’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs Rock Solid, team sheets are below:

MATCH 21

TEAM NAME: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
MANAGER: Evening Musuko
ANTHEM: Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~ LIVE

TEAM NAME: Rock Solid
MANAGER: olev
ANTHEM: Special Generation

The 2nd match of the day will be Group C-ute’s Gatas Aqua Athletics vs 3 Unit Revolution:

MATCH 22

TEAM NAME: Gatas Aqua Athletics
MANAGER: Aqua
ANTHEM: Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~

TEAM NAME: 3 Unit Revolution
MANAGER: Yanki<3Mina
ANTHEM: 3 Seconds

The 3rd match of the day will be AKS Kemeko vs Cat Bus:

MATCH 23

TEAM NAME: AKS Kemeko
MANAGER: AKB84
ANTHEM: RIVER

TEAM NAME: Team Crouquette
MANAGER: paul.thomas
ANTHEM: Danjo

If you’d like to commentate for any of these matches send an email to cdevil@cnoevil.co.uk. Good luck to the teams!!


The group tables now look like this: