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IKTS Week 16: Only One Invincibles

Hooray! Chelsea lost their first game of the season, which means Arsenal's shiny golden trophy will remain a one-of-a-kind artifact. It's too bad that Arsenal weren't able to play later that day, due to the Britannia being hit by a giant flaming meteor, but I'm sure we would have won comprehensively. Also, congratulations to Arsenal for making it to the CL knockout round for the bazillionth time and good luck with the round of 16 draw. Everyone repeat after me, "MonacoMonacoMonacoMonaco..."

Scores!

Points IKTS
you gots to chill 15 2
zombiejay 11 3
SteakBaller 10 2
Browny59 9 2
Captain Kirk 3 9 1
brownypts 7 1
jasonmfschoming 7 1
Adnan Ilyas 7 0
gxjim 6 1
sluellwitz 6 1
hansdampf 6 0
ramsfanindia 6 0
Astar 5 0
Sam5001 5 0
unclf14 5 0
amart 4 1
PowderedDonutPancakeSurprise 4 0
Le Poulain Francais 3 0
Giba140 2 0
HoodRiverDuck 2 0
Pukas Lodolski 1 0

The Podium: you gots to chill does much better than most of us and takes the top spot, while zombiejay and Steakballer take second and third in a week that was more crowded at the bottom than at the top.

Clever Pick of the Week: The week's clever pick goes to everyone who foresaw the inevitable Chelsea loss, but especially amart, who made a big entrance to IKTS by picking up all three points from the week's first match-up (and then went on to get one point from the remaining nine games).

Crisis Pick of the Week: The crisis pick goes to all the sheeple who blindly bought in on the Chelsea hype train and chose them to beat our beloved neighbors to the north. Where's your god now?!?!

Please Someone Beat Chelsea Pick of the Week: amart, Astar, Browny59, Captain Kirk 3, Steakballer, and zombiejay all picked Chelsea to lose, but this pick truly goes out to everyone. Everyone who believed. Everyone who made a wish, sent up a prayer, pricked a voodoo doll, or sold their soul to make this happen. You all are the real heroes, and we couldn't have psychically influenced the result without you.

Season Standings:

Points IKTS
SteakBaller 134 16
sluellwitz 133 16
Le Poulain Francais 128 16
hansdampf 126 17
you gots to chill 120 11
unclf14 114 12
brownypts 108 13
HoodRiverDuck 106 9
jasonmfschoming 104 12
Adnan Ilyas 102 12
Captain Kirk 3 98 9
AStar 94 8
Giba140 93 8
Sam5001 91 13
Browny59 89 12
ramsfanindia 88 8
Pukas Lodolski 83 13
AndrewMain 81 6
Scrupio 68 6
zombiejay 68 6
gxjim 63 5
specialkevin 55 8
CelticPride 44 3
George Halvatzis Jr. 37 6
PowderedDonutPancakeSurprise 32 1
wychui21 30 4
Phil West 30 3
danny19 20 2
aamir.akram.5 18 0
Brad Masson 6 0
amart 4 1

Alas, IKTS top spot, I hardly knew thee. Just as I had placed the order for matching monogrammed bath towels, Steakballer swooped in and stole my top standing away from me. Will this become a battle of epic proportions, or will you gots to chill continue his upward surge and usurp us both? Tune in next week to find out, same bat time, same bat place!

Cup Standings:

Points IKTS
AStar 10 2
Giba140 9 2
SteakBaller 9 2
zombiejay 9 1
gxjim 8 1
ramsfanindia 8 1
unclf14 8 1
you gots to chill 8 0
hansdampf 7 1
Pukas Lodolski 7 1
Scrupio 7 1
sluellwitz 7 1
HoodRiverDuck 7 0
Browny59 6 0
brownypts 5 1
Le Poulain Francais 5 0
Sam5001 5 0
Adnan Ilyas 4 0
Captain Kirk 3 4 0
jasonmfschoming 4 0
PowderedDonutPancakeSurprise 4 0
AndrewMain 3 0
CelticPride 3 0
aamir.akram.5 2 0
Brad Masson 2 0
Phil West 2 0
amart 1 0
danny19 1 0
George Halvatzis Jr. 1 0
specialkevin 1 0
wychui21 1 0

Everyone picked up at least a point from Arsenal's typical Turkish triumph, while ramsfanindia picked up three for correctly picked a repeat of Arsenal's last match against Galatasaray.

Last week's post can be found here. Let me know if you find any mistakes.

Week 16 Matches (all times BST)

Saturday, December 13th

15:00 Burnley vs Southampton

15:00 Chelsea vs Hull

15:00 Crystal Palace vs Stoke

15:00 Leicester vs Manchester City

15:00 Sunderland vs West Ham

15:00 West Bromwich Albion vs Aston Villa

17:30 Arsenal vs Newcastle United

Sunday, December 14th

13:30 Manchester United vs Liverpool

16:00 Swansea vs Tottenham

Monday, December 15th

20:00 Everton vs QPR

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Burnley Southampton

Chelsea Hull

Crystal Palace Stoke

Leicester Manchester City

Sunderland West Ham

West Bromwich Albion Aston Villa

Arsenal Newcastle United

Manchester United Liverpool

Swansea Tottenham

Everton QPR