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robboj, you need to join the site first - I've just looked for you under that name and it is not recognised. Once you have joined I can invite you to join the snowheads league.
We are now up to 9 members: Snowhead Wanders (moi), Plough Racers (Fattes13), Spudski (Spud), Master Blaster (aka Princess Leila or briand6868 - you are never going to live it down so leave it and we can all enjoy the joke!), K2 Strophe (andy), Goingbackwards (davkt), Elanski (kooky) and Buchiski (LB - not a snowHead as far as I know but his Mum keeps him in hand!  )
Someone prefers to remain nameless, so c'mon own up and edit your profile so you have a name as well as an avatar, don't be shy, we won't laugh (much) 
Let battle commence - we play against each other and our cumulative scores go up against all the other "leagues" (teams in other words).
The site has a few bugs but if you have a problem, let the owners know - Steve Nyman the racer is very good at answering and looking for solutions. The quickest way to share a problem is to "like" Fatasy Ski Racer on Farcebook, but if you don't have an FB account you can contact Steve direct via the contact page on the web site.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Am i having a massive blonde moment?  |
If you are so am I as it seems the same to me!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Samerberg Sue, Yeah.. I've selected my 10 picks for both the womens and mens in the 'Top 10 picks' section.
But in the fantasy League section my team shows nothing. There is no way on the page to drag six skiers into place.
So i'm really lost...i've navigated all over the site to see how it's done. To no avail.
Are you saying you've got six skiers picked for your League selection? Because the 'Top Ten picks' are not for the league...or that's what the site implys.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Bez's Bombers is up and running, though seemed to have adopted British Citizenship dont tell HMRC
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Samerburg Sue - Amex Skidoos
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spud, Having the exact same problem, if you find a way round it let me know!
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The players listed below are in play today. Racing has not begun today so you may still make changes to the lineup for today.
To make changes to your lineup starting tomorrow, click the "Change Lineup" tab above. |
it does say tomorrow. but whether that is CET or some funky US time, i have no clue.
but then "tomorrow never comes"
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spud, drag them from the huge list covering most of the page across to the empty squares on the right-hand side. You should be able to select 10 racers for each race.
To change any of your picks, you have to delete them first and then reselect or whatever to put in the new empty place. It is a wee bit more cumbersome than last year but it probably means you cannot fiddle around too much - I was forever switching my racers around last year as I listened to the reports and saw the bib draw the night before. The database just spewed me out in the end which is why I left the snowHeads team despite being at the top of the leader board.
Amex skidoos has been invited by the way! Any more takers?
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Samerberg Sue, Yes... I've done that, as i explained above.
But that is for the 'top 10 picks'
Quote... Top 10 Picks
'This is the game that started it all. Top 10 Picks allows you to pick your top 10 finishers for races. Your picks are then compared to actual race results and scored accordingly. You can play on your own or start a league with your friends.'
Then there is the fantasy League... Quote...
Fantasy League
'The all new Fantasy League allows you to create a "dream team" of skiers and go head-to-head with other teams in your league. So go ahead and create a league and invite your friends.'
This where i'm having problems... When you 'Go there'... a page comes up with our League and it's participants. 'My League'.
If you then click on your own box where it says in green 'my team'
A page appears with this...
'Lineup
The players listed below are in play today. Racing has not begun today so you may still make changes to the lineup for today.
To make changes to your lineup starting tomorrow, click the "Change Lineup" tab above.
Current Lineup
Drag skier here' x's 6 in a box. With another box on the right for League chat.
This is where i am having the problem.
The box showing 'Drag skier here'.... Where from?
Or is it the 'top ten picks' that will be our choise for the 'fantasy league'? If so... the pages on the website don't make sense.
Sorry for the long post....just don't want to feck it up for everyone...and it seems others are having issues too.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Samerberg Sue
Amex skidoos has been invited by the way!
Thanks - but I have tried to sign in and have a message 'that league has reached its maximum team limit'
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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codyaitch, sorry I didn't realise that there was a maximum number - we'll have to start another team then won't we. I'll start it when I get back from Austria this evening.
Go ahead and make your picks. There is also someone with no name in there still - if I can't identify them after tomorrow I'll delete them and add you if that's OK. But having a second league could also be fun.
spud, I will try and sort out your problem tonight - I have to leave for Austria now and don't have time. Sorting this out will help me get over the funeral of a close friend, so no worries about needing help. I think we all had problems last year to begin with and I have to say it did seem way simpler back then by comparison to this year.
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Samerberg Sue, No worries...sorry to hear about your close friend. Whatever is easiest. Thanks for taking the time...it's appreciated.
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You know it makes sense.
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OK Folks, we gave my friend a really good send off. One final "Schi Heil" from us all.
Do we still need a second League of snowHeads? I can easily make up another one - think of the "team" being the league and then all of us against other leagues (teams), that's why we need at least 6 players per team to be paired up against each other each week.
I think the Ladies race may well go ahead at the moment, the weather has not got as cold as predicted, but there is a fairly vicious depression brewing up right now in the Ligurian Sea north of Corsica which could throw a mighty big spanner in the works when it meets the blast of cold air trekking south towards the Alps.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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OK folks the second team has been created - called snowHead Dreamers
Me - Pongau Pouncers - so I now have 2 teams which could be confusing!
Codyaitch: you've been invited as Amex skidoos
Robboj - you've been invited as RTM77
anyone else who wants to join in just let me know your moniker!
Mind you I am currently puzzling over how to make a selection of racers for tomorrow with my second team! Much scratching of head going on here.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Picked my team - with a choice of 6 from 7 it's not exactly hard. Looks like only 2 of us in the 1st league have done so (not sure when the cut off deadline is?).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hmmm - well that's bug #1 found. Went to make change for tomorrow's race and it moves 1 skier from today to the bench too, and now it's too late to put them back. Oh well.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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andy, Did you pick your 10 racers as well? If not, click on tomorrow's race date in the listing and then drag and drop your selections into the empty boxes on the right-hand side of the window. It is not so obvious how to play, they really do need some help pages for new people, as well those of us who do not understand the current set-up despite playing last year.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Samerberg Sue, yep picked 10 + 10 for sat+sun and set it to repeat for all future (GS) races.
in the league I now have 5+6 but I doubt it's going to make an awful lot of difference. Seems it's us that will end up 1st+2nd this evening with everyone else joint last. Be handy to know how they calculate team points after a race.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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andy, The information about the way it is scored is listed at the bottom of the pages. I don't understand it and just take it as read.
I think the system is unnecessarily complicated. But I think it is very much marketed for the Americans.
Better not to set your racers for all the races now, because injuries and absences as well as specialities change from race to race and from discipline to discipline.
As far as I know Bode is not racing yet (coming back from surgery), Felix Neureuther has a slipped disk and Kostelic is coming back from injury as well. Not sure what is happening with the girls
Results from the Ladies first-run are interesting. Quite a wide margin between the top 30! Lots of talk about the new equipment rules, but I'm not sure that the girls are using the new skis yet. Does anyone know for sure? The German commentators were prattling on about it but I'm not sure in what context.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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I just set them for all races so that there's a top 10 pick in case I was not about. Can still change at any time I think. So far I've only picked for GS, although haven't really researched who is and isn't competing this weekend (I guess some skip the season opener and don't race till the "proper" season starts?)
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I've heard back from organisers and found out that we have our teams in some crazy American Football-style fantasy league. I'm looking at getting us switched to the Top 10 which is where we were last year.
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That might make sense. Not sure any of us would have scored anything much in this round in the league thing. My only racer skied backwards in todays GS.
348th out of 700+ in the normal top 10 thing
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[quote="Samerberg Sue"]OK folks the second team has been created - called snowHead Dreamers
Codyaitch: you've been invited as Amex skidoos
Thanks - but my invite for the first over-subscribed league arrived, but no invite yet for the second team.
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Missed todays but think I have my 6 for tomorrow and my top 10 managed to score me 18.5 points
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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andy, Andy you need to register for the Top 10 picks - are you still K2 Strophe?
So does Fattes13 and goergedelaney.
I've started the team building again in the Top 10 picks - if you are not already in that section you need to get there so I can pick you for the snowHeads team. I don't think there is a limit to the number of players in this section.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Samerberg Sue, Invite in the top 10 accepted thanks!
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Samerberg Sue, Rictor Rocket is my existing one. unless I need to create a new one?
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You know it makes sense.
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Samerberg Sue, In for the top ten still can't pick a team in the original league may be because of the ipad
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Fattes13, I'm having problems on my iPad too, can't get into the site!
I'll have another troll through the lists to see who I recognise any of the names.
Congratulations to Briand6868' you seem to be the highest place of any of us. Most of my picks skied out on the second run, Vonn, Rebensberger and Warley were all in my top 5 
Most of the top placed players are all racers by the way so they have inside info. But even they scored lowish points, so it shows how difficult it is to predict things even when you are in the know.
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Poster: A snowHead
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odd. joined the new? league and it comes up looking similar to the old one, with player-vs-player. was expecting to see a league table based on the top 10 picks, with some of us having scored something.
am I missing something?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Samerberg Sue, The luck of the Irish
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Any insider info from Solden for the mens race tomorrow Bode and Pinterault still the only big guns out
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Any insider info from Solden for the mens race tomorrow Bode and Pinterault still the only big guns out
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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According to the Start list Kostelic is racing, but I had read somewhere that he was still recovering from an injury or something.
All my picks, except for Benni and Mathis are in the first 10. I've just swopped Pinterault out and put Cyprian Richard in and am wondering about swopping someone for Schörghofer as well, maybe Mathis or Benni. But I always pick him because I like him and he has always smiled at my camera when he saw me photographing him, last year he was being really nice about it and I got some lovely shots of him.
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andy, Not sure to be honest Andy, last year we were in under our normal user names - so I was Suzy_Proell, briand6868 was just that, kooky was elanski and LB was Buchiski. I have no idea why they have complicated things so much. There were way more important things to fix such as the stability of the database. Towards the end of last season it decided that it had had enough and was throwing people's selections out of the database. Start with a large number of lost races, about 80 people, then the patch cured about 50% then it just remained a problem for a few of us!
Be interesting to see how much new snow the glacier has had - we've got about 20cms here in my village and it is still snowing outside!
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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kooky, too late - the lists were locked at 07.00 this morning I believe.
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Oooh, because it decided I am in Argentina I've picked up a cup for being third in the country league yesterday!
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FAQ
but I hear she is crook herself today so that's out!
