Here anyone can nominate Who you think is the most broken-hearted member of the sports world for last week, and then try to cheer them up or give them some advice.
Due to the recent strain on my voting power, I'm scaling back to a 50% upvote to all qualifying entries but I'm increasing the prizes to 50 total SCR.
1st place will receive 25 SCR
2nd place will receive 15 SCR
3rd place will receive 10 SCR
Frustrated?
Are you writing good blogs but still struggling to get noticed on Scorum? Or maybe you have already had some success but you are finding it hard to find something to write about? Then this is the contest for you!
This is the place where you know that you will have one new subject every week, because we are sure to have plenty of losers and mishaps to write about, plus you are assured that your blog will get some extra views.
Many thanks to last week's guest Judge @writingamigo who was tasked with the job of judging the most entries so far. A big thank you also for his donation of 10 SCR so that we could add another winner to this weeks contest!
Last Week's Winners are...
First Place 25 SCR goes to
Winning Entry "HAPPY MOAN DAY '' VALLADOLID, What a bad luck!"
Second Place 15 SCR goes to
Second Place Entry "Happy Moanday, Emotion got the better of Marco Ianni."
And We have two Third Place Winners 10 SCR each
Entry; "Happy moanday:Julen lopetegui's painful real Madrid divorce."
AND
Entry: "Happy Moan-day - Christian Titz finding his place on the very long list of sacked HSV coaches"
Other Entries from last week
@austino "HAPPY MOAN DAY "DEAN SMITH'S REIGN GOING SOUTH"
@stanleyasokingz "HAPPY MOAN DAY "ROMAN REIGNS RELINQUISHES UNIVERSAL CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE"
And
@mr-sarriball "HAPPY MOANDAY-#THIERRY HENRY IN DILEMMA"
A great entry but it failed to meet all of the requirements to qualify.
The Happy Moan-Day Contest
(This contest is all about Sports Losers, Fails, Muffs, Falls, Goofs, or anything else that would make a player, coach, fans or spectators moan and groan. It is meant to be funny and light-hearted so please, no post that would cause us to mourn like fatalities, or serious injuries, diseases or any other true personal tragedies. This is meant to be in fun, there are always funny fails that happen and there are losers that need to be cheered up. This is simply a way to cheer up all of those losers of the week who are trying to pull themselves back together again for the next competition.)
- The power of this competition is in recognition, by entering a blog in this contest you are sure to have some readers checking it out. I will upvote every qualifying blog as soon as I see the link posted below so that it gets bumped up on the trending pages. My hope is that readers will soon begin to recognize the blog title and make it a practice to support the entries. To enter this contest you must write and publish your own blog with the Title "Happy Moan-day ______________!" Fill in the blank with the name of a person, group, place, or team. This must be concerning something that has happened during the previous week prior to the contest blogs posting. So this current contest is for sports-related items that have happened between last Monday a week ago and yesterday, Midnight Sunday.
- Next include a photo, meme, short video clip, a screenshot or something similar that best represents the subject that you used to fill in the title blank. Make sure that you have usage rights and provide any necessary links.
- Now you need to write a blog of at least 450 words to describe what happened and who was involved, as well as the reason that you are nominating them for moaners of the week.
- Provide a link back to this blog somewhere in your Moanful Monday Blog.
- Last you must say something at the end, one final quote or comment that is meant to cheer up or encourage the subject of your blog. This could be something simple like "C'est la vie," or a quote from a famous author or poet, a proverb or religious text, or best of all your very own words of wisdom or consolation. You are welcome to have your own signature encouraging comment and use it on all of your Moan-day blogs, or give a different comment or quote every week that best fits the situation.
- Once your Moanful Monday blog has been posted then leave a link to it in the comment section below so that I will know that you have entered the contest and I can then visit and upvote your blog.
- Your blog can be posted at any time before midnight Sunday night where you live, but the content must be from the previous weeks sporting events.
Everyone is encouraged to read and support as many of the Moanful Monday blogs as possible during the week. I will try to get these blog posts out early every Monday so that you can begin posting your blogs. I encourage you to write about an event that happens during the week and save it as a draft so that you will be ready to post it on Monday as soon as the new contest blog has been added.
Happy Moan-Day to the LSU Tigers Offense!
You were supposed to be the ones, the team that could compete with the mighty Crimson Tide of Alabama. The atmosphere at Death Valley was electric and the stadium was full to overflowing, the crowd roared with a deafening cacophony of raucous cajunry dressed in all their regal gold and purple attire. What a night to play football in what has been said is the toughest venue in the Nation. Could it be true? Could you stand up and defend your valley so strewn with National Championship Pretender's Bones? Or would one missing player from your lineup seal your fate and lead to your demise?
What a bunch of hyped up malarky. I listened all week to the talk and I reviewed some of the films from both teams, these people are mad I thought. LSU has a quarterback that has a 53% pass efficiency and that against much more inferior teams than Alabama. Catching just half of the passes thrown to you is not going to beat Alabama I thought. Then I looked at the run game, but wait, Alabama only runs the ball 40% of the time to LSU's more than 60%, yet Alabama has a lot more rushing yards than LSU. So how does that give LSU any kind of an advantage I thought. Alabama has four running backs that could start at just about any D1 College in the Nation and LSU has one Running Back of that caliber. Can they really beat Alabama's top-ranked run defense by keeping the ball on the ground?
Then I saw all of the wild predictions for what the final score would be and what the margin of victory would be. Las Vegas had the Tide as a 14 point favorite, and most predictions that I saw had Alabama Scoring in the 30's and LSU in the low teens. Then finally someone asked for my prediction, now was my chance to rock some sense into someone. Alabama 52 - LSU 3 I said, silence, everyone had that shocked incredulous look on their faces. I knew what they were thinking, how could I possibly diss that fantastic LSU secondary by claiming that Alabama could score that many points in this game. But I quickly headed them off, I know that they have one of the best pass defenses in the Nation I said, but where is their pass rush? Are you telling me that they are going to give Tua all day to pass the ball and he does not eventually find an open receiver?
I did finally hear a good argument against Alabama scoring 52 points against LSU, and that was from Big John Hannah a famous Alabama alumnus. He wisely pointed out the fact that when you play LSU at night in Baton Rouge then you must automatically give them 21 points, the crowd and the atmosphere traditionally has that kind of effect on the opposing team such that they basically come into the game with -21 points. Okay, you're right, I didn't take that into consideration so knock the 21 points off of the score and I will stand by my prediction adjusting it to Alabama 31 LSU 3.
Now, after the fact, compared to the other predictions I feel vindicated. Considering that final adjustment my spread was 28 points, and the game ended Alabama 29 - LSU 0, within one point is not bad.
LSU was just too one dimensional on offense to be able to score many points, their best hope I thought was to run the football and try to control the clock and then just hope for some turnovers or big plays. I knew that LSU had a great defense, but honestly, the game would have been a lot more lopsided if Jaylen Hurts had not been injured and if Tua had not been hobbled by a sprained knee. Why would this have made a difference? Because Alabama took all but one RPO play out of their game plan that's why. The only time during the game that they gave Tua a run-pass option was when they needed one more score to ice the game and they were in a third down and long situation. That was the play that Tua gained the 8 yards needed for the first and started to slide until he saw that he had a wide open path to the end zone. That play made me realize that LSU had nobody spying the QB, for the first time this season Alabama's opponent did not have to worry about two QB's being in the game at the same time, in fact, they didn't even have to worry about the QB running the ball at all. This is the real reason that their DB's could turn and run with Alabama's wide receivers and not even have to look back to make sure the QB had not taken off on a run. (Clarification: In this blog, the RPO that I'm talking about is strictly the QB run option)
So IMHO LSU caught a real break and they were able to play an Alabama team when a large chunk of their playbook had been ripped out, what a deal! But how can we account for LSU, the #3 team in the Nation scoring zero points on their own home field? Again, in my opinion, they came in with the worse possible game plan, I believe they actually did Alabama a favor. They came out gunning and in a hurry-up offense which just played right into Alabama's favor. Those fast three and outs allowed the Tide's defense to stay rested while Alabama's offense, in turn, wore down the vaunted Tiger defense with extended plays and long drives.
You had your chance LSU and you were riding high and full of optimism. But alas you were laid low by the mightiest foe of them all and were disgraced on your own home field. On this fateful Fall day in November, the only death in death valley was a tiger's dreams of grandeur.
Oh tiger hiding safely in your lair
I know that loss seems so unfair
because you fared no better than when we had Bear
So lick your wounds and pass the blame
Another week brings another big game
There are only three teams remaining that I think might have a better than average chance of beating Alabama. The first is Mississippi State, that's right, MSU is catching Alabama at a perfect time for a trap game. I suspect that there will still be no RPO in Alabama's game plan for next week and MSU will be well aware of this possibility. Even though Mississippi State has struggled at times this season, they have also flirted with greatness a couple of times. They are not known for playing perfect games, but they would need to catch Alabama flat footed Saturday and get that one magic perfect game where everyone is playing "In the Zone" if they have any chance of winning.
Next would be Georgia, The Bulldogs have a set of defensive backs that are second to none and they have a much stronger run game than LSU. They also have a smart QB that can get the job done when he puts his heart into it. With the right game plan and some breaks, Georgia can compete with Alabama. But they will have to score a lot of points somehow and the offense will probably not be able to get enough on their own. So that leaves special teams or some pick-sixes from the defense to take up the slack. But it can be done.
Last is the Michigan Wolverines, here is a team that is just now hitting their stride and at the rate that they are improving they could be ready by playoff time to give Alabama a run for their money.
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