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Alltid Valhalla Cup Finale

sitiawan | 22.05.09

It was a Tuesday night. It was raining. Under the shine of the fog lights, the finals of the Alltid Valhalla Cup had begun. Fortunate Bastards, two times losing finalist in the previous Alltid Plus Cups, look to set this one right after defeating Halifax Town in the semi-finals, the same side that beat them to the Plus Cup last time. Naoned Uber Alles, the single non-Dutch team in the semis, defied the odds and another all-Dutch final by defeating FC De Rompestompers confidently despite being tagged as underdogs. The French team had struggled to win their first round match but later picked themselves up and ran a good show all the way to the finals.

Zacharias van Rijt opened the scoring for Bastards with a goal from the left to the delight of the fans, who held their breath long enough to watch him break past the defenders running awkwardly in the mud. 1-0 for Fortunate Bastards. Anti Pulver added a second goal for Bastards in the 40th minute before Jerome Bodaan put his side away with another one four minute after with a brilliant header. The goals just can’t stop coming in after the second half whistle as Zacharias van Rijt got himself a hattrick with two more goals in the 48 and 57 minutes, clearly impressive from a player who looked to have been suffering from the rain early into the match. At this moment, the crowd’s cheers were followed by singing and dancing and a few worked-up Naoned supporters were seen leaving the stadium. Gosse Kok completed the route for Bastards with a sixth goal in the 61st minute. An incredible performance, a 6-0 victory, and Fortunate Bastards emerge the winners of the Alltid Valhalla Cup, final edition of the Alltid Cup saga.

The Alltid Cups started as a humble 64-team Alltid Cup meant for non-supporters to win a Supportership, later evolving into a mammoth 2048-team Alltid World Cup in its fifth edition, along the way changing a total of four names. The Supporters Cup was first introduced in the second season as an elite version for Supporters of the Alltid community (later called Plus members), with Niflheims Vikinger the only team to have won both the non-supporter’s and supporter’s variant of the cup. Over the years, people flock in to play the cups, interacting with the warm community and enjoying Alltid’s trademark statistics. For some, playing in the non-supporter’s cup and trying to win a Supporter package was one thing they look up to every season. Gloom befalled the legacy of the Alltid Cups in September 2008 when news of Alltid’s integration into Hattrick was announced. It was joy and achievement nonetheless. After the hiatus of a season, the Valhalla Cup was created, a Viking burial in the name of Alltid. The spirit of Alltid may have weakened but it will never be gone.

While the coach of Naoned Uber Alles may have curse himself for trying a pressing tactic, or pretty much all the aspects he could have bettered, numerous others along the sidelines look up as the graffiti falls and picture themselves holding aloft the Valhalla Cup trophy. No more. No more. The name of the victors of the Alltid Cups will be engraved in wood and the final one is now in place – Fortunate Bastards.

The Alltid Cups, the one, the only. May Alltid Hattrick live forever!

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The Last Cup

RebelClown | 5.03.09

A long, long time ago in a country far, far away (well, Sweden actually) the HT-Gods created Hattrick, and all was good. So good in fact, that a young Viking by the name of weird_ed dedicated a temple to it. He named it Alltid Hattrick (which means Forever Hattrick) to indicate that there will always be Hattrick. To adourn his shrine he climbed Mount Divine and stole the stats from the gods, or should I say borrowed. His cult was very popular and in true Viking style it soon spread around the world. Each season many of his followers gathered at the site of his sanctuary to hold a sacred tournament: the Alltid Cup. Every follower competed in a free-for-all tournament to earn the much sought after honour of holding the Cup of Cups above their head.

The HT-Gods saw the passion of the Alltid devotees and thought they should make the world a better place by spreading the Alltid love to each and every person. For this end they called weird_ed up to Hattrick Heaven and made him one of their own. That means he will no longer have time to keep his old temple in order, but like a phoenix it will rise from the flames and a new one will reincarnate inside Hattrick. Alltid is dead, long live Alltid!

That means that this season will see the historic occasion of The Last Alltid Cup: The Alltid Valhalla Cup. This tournament will be a great feast in the style of a Viking funeral. All Alltid fans, and especially Alltid Cup veterans, are invited to participate in this great send-off. Let’s make it a memorable one!

For more down to earth information read the thread.

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New season, misc updates

HT-Weird_ed | 5.02.09

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I’ve been unable to update the site and keep track of everything due to personal reasons. Here’s a quick update with the latest issues:

• There were some problems during the season switch, due to me being unable to complete the entire process in one run. But I think it all clicked into place as soon as the updates ran.
• The first cup round hasn’t been imported yet. It is downloaded though, so I hope to be able to import it during this week.
• There are a lot of reports of failed updates / wrong data. I’m pretty sure this is just a frontend configuration issue, and I’ll try to get through all the reports this week.
• Regarding the Alltid Cup: We are working on this, even if we might not run it directly with our own cup manager. We’ll update you as soon as we have more information.
• For reasons mentioned above, the HT integration has been somewhat delayed. The frontend is pretty much done though, but there is a lot of work with data integration to be done.

I promise more frequent updates in the future, so stay tuned!

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End of season, updates

HT-Weird_ed | 8.01.09

We are once again close to the final matches of the season. As always, Alltid will bring you prediction on how your leagues will look next season. Please keep in mind that this is still just a (fairly accurate) prediction, and not official data.

Finding the information is as easy as it always was. Please read these articles if you have problems finding the data: Next seasons league predictions for info on finding the tables, and Promotions revisited for information on how they work. Please note that the “firefox extension” option is no longer available, but old alltid supporters will have the functionality within Hattrick already.

There’s also been a couple of other changes this week:

• Our second database server is once again back online. For the last weeks it’s been down with a dead disk, which has caused some problems with slow updates.
• The player history page used to have huge problems with cache corruption, leading to some very strange entries in the data. This has finally been solved now.
• Team graphs now defaults to showing league matches only, since including friendlies and cup matches caused too much fluctuations in the graphs. If you want to include all matches, go to the graphs page and change the filter in the left side menu.
• A lot of minor bug fixes.

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