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Here is the final table for 2022-23 Second place in the Eredivisie round sees @nudge complete a clean sweep of top three finishes and round off a dominant season at the top of the standings - congratulations! @Dan's 2 points in the final round are just enough to keep 2nd place ahead of @Stan, who rockets up the standings to finish on the podium having given us just the second double-figured score of the season in the final round. At the other end, @Rucksackfranzose scored 90% of his season tally in the final round to drag himself off the bottom of the table and leave @CaaC (John) as the lowest scorer of those who entered every round. It was also a quiet season for two-time champion @Viva la FCB. Thanks to everyone who took part this season - see you in August!

Yet another first-timer enters the Hall of Fame as @Stan takes his first Last Man Standing victory at this season's final round in the Netherlands. @nudge is also officially crowned the champion of this season's Last Man Standing League, with an all-time record points tally of 39. Congratulations to both!

World Cup 2018 Winner - @Viva la FCB (7 correct picks - won on tie breaker) Last Man Standing League 2018-2019 Round 1 (Premier League) - @Panna King (5 correct picks - won on tie breaker) Round 2 (Bundesliga) - @The Palace Fan (5 correct picks - won on tie breaker) Round 3 (Serie A) - @Lucas (10 correct picks) Round 4 (La Liga) - @Viva la FCB (6 correct picks) Round 5 (Ligue 1) - @...Dan (3 correct picks - won on tie breaker) League Champion - @Viva la FCB (33 points) Last Man Standing League 2019-2020 Round 1 (Premier League) - @nudge (3 correct picks) Round 2 (Bundesliga) - @Eco (6 correct picks - won on tie breaker) Round 3 (Serie A) - @nudge (4 correct picks) Round 4 (La Liga) - @Michael (4 correct picks) Round 5 (Ligue 1) - @Bluewolf (3 correct picks) Round 6 (Eredivisie) - @Pyfish (3 correct picks) Round 7 (Primeira Liga) - @Viva la FCB (1 correct pick - won on tie breaker) League Champion - @Lucas (28 points) Last Man Standing League 2020-2021 Round 1 (Premier League) - @RandoEFC (2 correct picks - won on tie breaker) Round 2 (Bundesliga) - @Viva la FCB (3 correct picks) Round 3 (Serie A) - @McAzeem (2 correct picks - won on tie breaker) Round 4 (La Liga) - @CaaC (John) (4 correct picks) Round 5 (Ligue 1) - @CaaC (John) (4 correct picks) Round 6 (Eredivisie) - @Rucksackfranzose (6 correct picks) Round 7 (Primeira Liga) - @Mel81x (4 correct picks - won on tie breaker) League Champion - @Viva la FCB (26 points) Euro 2021 Winner - @Viva la FCB (7 correct picks) Last Man Standing League 2021-22 Round 1 (Premier League) - @Michael (7 correct picks) Round 2 (Bundesliga) - @Lucas (7 correct picks - won on tie breaker) Round 3 (Serie A) - @Bluewolf (5 correct picks - won on tie breaker) Round 4 (La Liga) - @Rucksackfranzose (9 correct picks) Round 5 (Ligue 1) - @Mel81x (5 correct picks) League Champion - @Bluewolf (32 points) Last Man Standing League 2022-23 Round 1 (Premier League) - @nudge (7 correct picks) Round 2 (Bundesliga) - @Dan (6 correct picks - won on tie breaker) Round 3 (Serie A) - @Lucas (4 correct picks) Round 4 (La Liga) - @Tommy (5 correct picks) Round 5 (Ligue 1) - @DeadLinesman (4 correct picks) Round 6 (Eredivisie) - @Stan (7 correct picks - won on tie breaker) League Champion - @nudge (39 points) World Cup 2022 Winner - @Viva la FCB (4 correct picks - won on tie breaker) Last Man Standing League 2023-24 Round 1 (Premier League) - @Viva la FCB (9 correct picks) Round 2 (Bundesliga) - @Michael (4 correct picks - won on tie breaker) Round 3 (Serie A) - @Pyfish (3 correct picks) Round 4 (La Liga) - @Storts (6 correct picks) Round 5 (Ligue 1) - @CaaC (John) - (3 correct picks - won on tie breaker) League Champion - @nudge (18 points) Euro 2024 Winner - @Pyfish (2 correct picks - won on tie breaker)

Lol Biden's biggest promise in Student Loan Relief seems to be all but gone. Crazy how even Democrats in the Senate voted against it. Definitely a good idea to reinstate the student loan payments when cost of living is at its absolute highest. 4 year universities becoming a scam in this day in age with the tuition rates as opposed to a apprenticeship/certificate/community school.

Congrats @nudge, you run away with it at the end, and as Princess Leia would say... "A piece of pissh"

Congrats @nudge that was a slaughter, well done. Thanks for running as always @RandoEFC

Congrats to our deserved winner @nudge! Thanks for running this @RandoEFC

Congrats @nudge. Last Woman Standing! Thanks @RandoEFC for running this, looking forward to next season

All good. And glad to be back (I'm aware no one even remembers who I am, but still).

DeSantis is just a moron with a Harvard degree, he could have backed off on Disney but claimed victory and the low info base of GOP voters would have been none the wiser, while he'd still retain Disney support for his candidacy most likely. Truth or accuracy doesn't matter so much to voters, as long as you say something enough times confidently enough, Trump's demonstrated that these lies just get accepted as truth by enough people. Instead he's ended up tying up millions of dollars of taxpayer money into a legal battle with Disney... a company that is notoriously good at winning it's legal battles... while costing the state billions of Disney investment and just saw Disney's plans to relocate thousands of it's white collar tech workers to Florida scrapped in an instant. Even if you've got some high-info GOP voters out there who may have considered him... if you're a fiscal conservative, you'd likely be seeing him as a clown who's blowing his state's treasury on these idiotic battles he's picking to get national media attention. And if you're a pro-business conservative, you've just seen him go against an American business institution and one of the largest employers in the state. This is a media created mess - treating Trump as a serious candidacy has permanently changed political discourse in the US. He has a real cult of personality (don't ask me how lol), I'd say 20-30% of voters are pretty firmly in his grasp. It's got the GOP in a race to see if any candidate can "out-Trump" Trump in primaries. And then the question has to be asked... does the Trumpiest candidate that makes it through primaries have a chance at winning moderates over with a moderate democrat running against them. Left-wing voters will hold their nose and vote against anyone Trumpy, even if they're voting for a democrat that's about as left wing as George W Bush. I don't think America can clean up this mess without things getting a hell of a lot worse than they already are. But even then... I'm not so sure - we saw people storm the US capitol and most of the punishments we've seen so far have been a comparative slap on the wrist. Are Americans too complacent to demand a government that actually works for them? Tbh, I think so. This was a country founded on a protest of lack of representation despite high taxes - look at California, it's got the most democrats AND republicans in the country. It's the economic backbone of the US. And for months it had just 1 senator representing it's interests in the senate. It has the most members of the house of representatives and at the same time is the most underrepresented state in national politics per capita. 12% of the US population controls 60% of the US senate. It's a broken, outdated, and anti-democratic system of government that goes around acting like it is the bastion of freedom and democracy.