Fantasy Football is a big part of my life and I remember seeing those Campbell’s Chunky Everyman All-Star Draft commercials and they were pretty glorious. I couldn’t find the entire set of them but I linked one of them for those who haven’t heard of it. A while ago the discord community had discussed making a site where we could draft / make our team of Star Wars Destiny Players and root for people and it has come to fruition. This wasn’t brought into the world by us, but I did play a minor part in some of the point system (we pilfered it from the Thrones Fantasy values and adjusted from there). The creator will be anonymous (unless he wants to get the shout out by name) and I think it’s a great thing.

I Introduce to you the 2018 Destiny Worlds Pick Em.

Player Value Breakdown

You’ll pick exactly 6 Players to make up your Team, but the caveat is that you only have $30 maximum to do so and players have been assigned values. The following is the breakdown and a snapshot of some of the player costs so you can get an idea of it, but the full chart is on the website. Yes, a shot was fired in the making of this and if you want to read about the drama, it’ll be explained at the end, but feel free to ignore it.

Scoring Summary

The “Day 1 Swiss Win” and “Day 2 Swiss Win” are on a per win basis, but the records are one time bonuses and then Top Cut / World Champion are just based on final placement. e.g. If I want 5-1 on Day 1, 3-0 on Day 2, and then lost during Top 8, my points would be 5 (for swiss day 1 wins), 6 ( for swiss day 2 wins), 1 (bonus for 3-0 day 2), and 5 (Top 8 placement) making a total of 16 points. If someone “ran the table” and won every round and was the World Champion then they would max out at 30 points.

Prizing

I didn’t think about this until now, but I’ll see what I can scrounge up. My current thought is that the Top 3 records for their team can pick between a TheHyperloops Playmat, TheHyperloops Overwrite and Power Action tokens, or a TheHyperloops T-Shirt in order of standing. If any team has all 6 of their chosen players in the Top 8 then there will be a Spot Gloss card prize added to the pool (from me), but it only goes to the highest scoring team that met the requirement of all 6 of the players on their team making Top 8 (assuming we somehow get multiples of those). Entries are limited to one per person.

Closing Notes

It’s totally “FREE”, so have a field day trying to make your team and wondering if you made the right decision. We’ll try to keep people in the loop with the ongoings at Worlds.

~HonestlySarcastc

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So you’ve scrolled down this far and your curiosity has gotten the better of you. It’s okay, we all like to hear (or read in this case) about drama at times, but just know that you are now as evil as we are for bickering like this. I heavily considered recording a V-Log and doing this like a wrestling promo. I’m unaware if we are the Heel or the Face (evil and good are always subjective), but I’ve tried being very cordial to Sugi from the Knights of Ren and time after time I find myself feeling like he’s gone and spat in my face. For context, Artificery and KoR are holding a big gathering at a bar at Worlds on Friday May 4th and i think it is a great thing for the community. We at TheHyperloops had very quietly also planned an event at Worlds, but the food is fully catered on our dime (no, we aren’t covering drinks, because we don’t got that internet beaucoup money, but dropping over a grand on this isn’t chump change either) and the date that was picked by the poll of the patrons also happened to be on Friday May 4th. You could probably see where this doesn’t look very great, but we didn’t go announcing this to the community at large because I’m all about curbing abuse and what would’ve stopped a bunch of people from joining at $3 and then trying to claim some sense of entitlement (or unfairness if they weren’t “invited”). We kept it relatively hush and I reached out to let Artificery know that it wasn’t an attempt to “toe crush” when I found out that they were doing it on the 4th as well, it just happened to be the best day for it and probably the same reason theirs is that day as well.

Fast forward to recently and on KoR discord someone realized that both events were at the same time and they felt they’d have a hard time picking. I don’t believe I was being anything but cordial with my responses about the person being able to go to both and that I knew we were going long, but Sugi’s replies seemed to be blatant in pettiness and trying to be the “better” gathering and at the time I really didn’t want to lower myself in an attempt to crush him. In general, our groups haven’t had a good relationship, but I thought that if I least try to be reasonable, things would be serviceable. The next day he made this post:

For those that aren’t in the “know”, our early disputes involved him attempting to shame us for having a paid membership (patreon) for our discord with the videos / coaching / chat, etc and that dig was the last straw for me. He apparently wants a war, and that is what he is going to get. I think they are good for the community overall / great for the more casual player where as we tend to be more niche and for the competitive player and I don’t really see that changing for either side. There is a lot more stuff that’s been behind closed doors, but that doesn’t really matter, just know that when it is wondered why we seem hostile, it’s because of his passive aggressive bullshit. I’d comment to his status and say he’s a great man for comping the entire Happy Hour 2.0 when he announced it as a “FREE Party”, but I didn’t want my sarcasm to confuse anyone who read it and went there not realizing that they themselves would be paying for their items. Todd from KoR seemed cool for the little that i met him and Tacster isn’t even KoR as far as I’m concerned so the future hate isn’t directed at you guys and I’ll apologize in advance. Yes, I’m aware that it’s not going to be worth it in the long run, but FUCK THAT GUY! Side note, by handicapping your team with Sugi, you can actually get both HonestlySarcastc and BobbySapphire on your fantasy team, so be sure to thank him for that!

~HS