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Demonbracket Day 2 matches have closed, and your results are: Mitch Hannan d. Jay Kennedy-Harris 121-12 C. Wagner d. Bradtke 87-46 Jordon d. Chandler 82-51 Bedford d. Nietschke 84-49 Spargo d. Keilty 127-6 Day 3 voting is open until 19:00 AEDT Wednesday evening as we wrap up the Preliminary Round and Round 1: Aaron vandenBerg vs Kade Kolodjashnij James Jordon vs Tim Smith Braydon Preuss vs Tom Sparrow Toby Bedford vs Jake Lever Corey Wagner vs Sam Weideman

Day 1 #demonbracket results: Joel Smith d. Corey Maynard 100-28 Bayley Fritsch d. Oskar Baker 120-8 Josh Wagner d. Harrison Petty 79-49 Tom Sparrow d. Marty Hore and Guy Walker 77-45-6 Day 2 matches - open for voting until 19:00 Tuesday night: Mitch Hannan vs Jay Kennedy-Harris Corey Wagner vs Austin Bradtke James Jordon vs Kade Chandler Toby Bedford vs Aaron Nietschke Charlie Spargo vs Declan Keilty Good luck voters.

Write the name of your preferred candidate and/or copy + paste then bold their name. McSizzle will be entering the tournament later in the week.

Congratulations, your Day 1 #demonbracket matches have arrived. Vote by 19:00 AEDT Monday 28 January on who you prefer out of: Corey Maynard vs Joel Smith Bayley Fritsch vs Oskar Baker Josh Wagner vs Harrison Petty Tom Sparrow vs Marty Hore vs Guy Walker Winners of the first three games advance to Round 2, and the triple threat preliminary round match will feed into a later Round 1 game. Happy voting sports fans.

More than one mention in this thread about how this could lead to big things internationally. What is the actual strategy for this to happen, is it going to be broadcast anywhere where any decent sized international audience will see it? When Port play in China we hear about how the game is being shown locally but are the same people going to broadcast this, or is the idea to create a razzle dazzle highlights package that internationals will accidentally stumble on via social media and YouTube and decide they want to play the game? International expansion is a noble goal, but let's be honest people have been dreaming about the rest of the world taking up the game for decades and because the rest of the world is perfectly happy with the sports they already have the best we get out of it is a handful of interested people and as near to irrelevant international participation figures. If it hits big and suddenly money starts flowing into the game from everywhere you can slap my [censored] and call me Charlie, but given that we can barely get parts of Australia to get interested in Australian Rules Football you're kidding yourself if you think China, India etc.. are going to fall for it just because it's played on a rectangular ground.

No need, I enjoy manual tabulation. Also like counting votes.

The draw has been completed. No votes will be accepted until the post goes up Sunday night offering forum exclusive early voting on the first day of games. The tournament Monday 28 January - Preliminary Round/Round 1, part 1 Tuesday 29 January - Preliminary Round/Round 1, part 2 Wednesday 30 January - Round 1, part 3 Thursday 31 January - Round 2, part 1 Friday 1 February - Round 2, part 2 Monday 4 February - Round 2, part 3 Tuesday 5 February - Round 2, part 4 Wednesday 6 February - Round 3, part 1 Thursday 7 February - Round 3, part 2 Friday 8 February - Quarter Final day Monday 11 February - Semi Final day Tuesday 12 February - Grand Final day Preliminary Round James Jordon vs Kade Chandler Toby Bedford vs Aaron Nietschke Corey Wagner vs Austin Bradtke Tom Sparrow vs Marty Hore vs Guy Walker Round 1 James Jordon/Kade Chandler vs Tim Smith Corey Maynard vs Joel Smith Josh Wagner vs Harrison Petty Bayley Fritsch vs Oskar Baker Mitch Hannan vs Jay Kennedy-Harris Aaron vandenBerg vs Kade Kolodjashnij Braydon Preuss vs Tom Sparrow/Marty Hore/Guy Walker Charlie Spargo vs Declan Keilty Corey Wagner/Austin Bradtke vs Sam Weideman Toby Bedford/Aaron Nietschke vs Jake Lever Round 2 James Jordon/Kade Chandler/Tim Smith vs Jordan Lewis Oscar McDonald vs Alex Neal-Bullen Christian Petracca vs 8. Jake Melksham 6. Tom McDonald vs Hannan/Kennedy-Harris Jeff Garlett vs Billy Stretch Braydon Preuss/Tom Sparrow/Marty Hore/Guy Walker vs Hunt Toby Bradford/Aaron Nietschke vs 4. James Harmes Bayley Fritsch/Oskar Baker vs Aaron vandenberg/Kade Kolodjashnij Sam Frost vs Spargo/Keilty Jack Viney vs 5. Nathan Jones Michael Hibberd vs Josh Wagner/Harrison Petty Corey Maynard/Joel. Smith vs Christian Salem Corey Wagner/Austin Bradtke/Sam Weideman vs 7. Angus Brayshaw Round 3 1. Neville Jetta vs Jordon/Chandler/T. Smith/Lewis O. McDonald/Neal-Bullen vs Petracca/Melksham T. McDonald/Hannan/Kennedy-Harris vs Garlett/Stretch Preuss/Sparrow/Hore/Walker/Hunt vs Bradford/Nietschke/Harmes 3. Clayton Oliver vs Fritsch/Baker/vandenberg/Kolodjashnij Frost/Spargo/Keilty vs Viney/Jones 2. Max Gawn vs Hibberd/J.Wagner/Petty Maynard/J.Smith/Salem vs C. Wagner/Bradtke/Weideman/Brayshaw

Let's get past some of the sludgy prelim round games and into the big stuff then go for it. Friends, a reminder that the draw will be conducted live on Twitter @demonblog from 18:00 tonight. The full schedule will be on demonblog.com at 19:00, and posted on here shortly after. The organising committee will then determine what Monday's opening games will be.

Firstly thanks to @Demonland for accepting our invitation to be a co-presenting partner of the eighth edition of Demonbracket. Those of you who have played before won't need any further instructions, but for everyone else the Bracket can be summed up as your opportunity to make an arbitrary choice about which Melbourne player you prefer based on whatever criteria you like. It's a knockout tournament with some byes due to seeding and seniority (more intricate preview post here), where we work down to the one most preferred player on the list. Previous finals: 2012 - James Frawley d. Nathan Jones 2013 - Tom McDonald d. Mitch Clark 2014 - Nathan Jones d. Jack Watts 2015 - Nathan Jones d. Dom Tyson 2016 - Jack Viney d. Nathan Jones 2017 - Max Gawn d. Jack Viney 2018 - Neville Jetta d. Clayton Oliver The draw will be conducted live on Twitter @demonblog from 19:00 on Friday 25 January, with matches commencing 07:00 Monday 28 January. After that the tournament tree will be updated in this post, and daily matches posted for your voting enjoyment. You can either cast your vote in this thread, via Twitter, Facebook, email (demonblogger@gmail.com) or in the interests of bringing all the people together the BigFooty Demonbracket thread. Only one vote per person per matchup please. Other important rules for first time players: The voting criteria for each match-up is your personal business. It need not have anything to do with football if you don't want it to, but if does then the best of British luck to you. We won't ask questions, and nor should anyone else. Vote shamers will be denounced. Voting will be conducted between 0700 and 1900 AEDST unless otherwise noted You must cast a valid vote for every match that day or none of your votes on that day's matches will count (I'll try and remind you where possible by there are no guarantees). You must pick a winner in every match up. No half votes, no "I can't split them". Yes you can, and you must. In the event of a tie both players will advance to the next round, except in the case of the Grand Final where a replay will be held the following day. If a match features three or more players and two or more tie for the most votes they will advance with all other players eliminated. We reserve the right to refuse an excessive number of multiple votes from the same person using multiple accounts This thread will be updated with the list of preliminary and first Round matches on Friday night, and the first match-ups to vote on will be posted Sunday night. Until then, have at your speculation about potential winners. With five former champions on the list and at least five other realistic championship contenders this promises to be the biggest Bracket yet, and we're thrilled to have the Demonland community join in.

Great restraint to pick a nickname other than the obvious.

He looked more fearsome without hair. Get it off.

Correct. No other changes announced so far. Which is unusual. Hoping one day somebody gets a silly number and sticks with it Shaun Rehn style.

Good thing I saw this coming in advance and rebranded the site in mid-2018. No good for my actual life, 1.10 games are my favourite.

I've been lucky enough to get a leak of the AFL's future plans: 1 game under normal rules 1 game under BS pre-season rules with 9 point goals 1 AFLX extravaganza as a tiebreaker where teams will be able to import a star player from another team.

Swimming Carnival of Hate

He's in the negative for laying zero tackles but giving away one goal from throwing an opponent into the fence.

No coincidence that this thread appears after Cameron Pedersen leaves.

Is that Spargo on the left or a kid about to graffiti a train?

All the rookies + a couple of homeless blokes found wandering outside.

Good question, but I still have a soft spot for Kowal now. Craig can do one. Same video shop (NB: I was young) where an Essendon player came in with his missus to borrow softcore porn. What an era.

In 1999 Craig Cameron came into the shop I was working in, and when I complained about Darren Kowal being delisted he said "get a new favourite player". Never liked him after that.

A player changing name for a number gag would be the best thing since we almost drafted Freddie Clutterbuck

It's KK47 or I riot.

The idea that we just have to find somebody to kick 50 is simplistic - we've just traded a key forward for a key defender, the idea is that we concede less goals because of that so the burden on one player to kick 50 and replace Hogan is a myth.

Remember the first finale of The Recruit when every team was wheeled in to sit there and not press a button to say they were interested in a player. Only Kochie being generous and making sure Port picked the bloke saved it from being the most farcical spectacle in TV history.