Badminton players disqualified from London 2012

Match fixing at the Olympics

The Badminton World Federation announced  that eight Badminton players are disqualified from London 2012 for throwing their matches.

The top seeds from China, a pair from Indonesia and two pairs from South Korea deliberately conceded points in an attempt to lose their matches. It was claimed that the bad performances were a strategic attempt to leverage new rules following the introduction of a group stage format for the Olympics.


Spectators were not happy and booed the players off the courts at Wembley Arena. Lord Coe, London 2012 organiser, acknowledged the disgust and dismay of the crowd, describing the lack of effort by the players as “depressing” and “unacceptable”.

The Badminton World Federation announced the next day that the players would be disqualified from the Olympics for infringing two rules: “Not using one’s best efforts to win a match and conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport.”

 
However, it emerged that the Badminton World Federation had previously been warned its introduction of the round robin format, introduced at the London 2012 Olympics, could lead to attampts at match fixing.

TheFinal Disgrace

The Badminton case at the London 2012 Olympics is a serious case of match fixing.

But fact is stranger than fiction, so they say.

If you want to investigate your own case of suspected match fixing, try this mystery game from ITM Games.

The Final Disgrace is a role playing mystery game for 8 players.

It concerns the final match for the Eclipse Cup, Football’s Mixed Six-a-side competition. The team of Lower Morrals Athletic have just lost the match. This is a shock result considering they have been enjoying their best season ever. With a string of record breaking scores under their belt, could someone have cheated and lost them the game on purpose?

If you want to learn the answer to this, the game is available for ITM Games.

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Teddy Bears come out to play

If you go down to the woods today........be careful what you wish for.

You may love your teddybear to bits but do you really want him to come to life? John Bennett wished his teddy bear would come to life and his childhood wish came true. Great for a child but not so good when you are an adult.
John's teddy bear, appropriately named Ted, has been by his side since boyhood and its testing his other friendships, noatably that with Lori, John's girlfriend of four years.
Want to see the outcome? Then go see "Ted" starring Mark Wahlberg as John Bennett. Ted is voiced by Seth MacFarlane of family guy fame. Seth MacFarlane also wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay, so, as you can guess, this is NOT a children's movie. There is nudity, profanity, alchol and drug use in this film.

Lacking in nudity and profanity, but including reference to drug use, is another Teddy related product. Teddy Bear’s Picnic is a murder mystery game by ITM Games. Priced at £18 this is a dinner party murder mystery game for 6 Players.

Teddy Bears Picnic

Enter the 1980′s world of big business and fluffy toys. You are invited to the launch of the new range of products called “Teddy Bears Picnic”. But things in the toy company are not as innocent as they seem.


A year ago Theo Edwards, co-founder of the Edwards toys company died of a drugs overdose.

The company was taken over by Chester Toyes, another co-founder.

Penny Whistle was the other co-founder of Edwards toys, who remains at the company as a toy designer.

Ryan Storey is a journalist sent to cover the launch of the new product range. But what ealse will he discover about the company founders and the others on the estate such as

• Babette Toyes - Chesters wife.
• Kash D Spencer - the Edwards Toys accountant Carrie Honor Fair - Chester's personal assistant
• Ernest Statements - head of marketing and public relations

To find out you need to play Teddy Bear’s Picnic

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Sudoku for a rainy weekend

Sudoku first appeared in British newspapers in 2005, having been invented in New York in the 1970s.

Here is a letter Sudoku to try......

I				E			G
N			I			S	H
	G		H		C
		R			N
S	E						N	G
			G			A
			C		E		R
	N	C			R			S
	R			H				E

 

Can you find the hidden word?

 

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Sudoku consists nine blocks of nine squares, arranged in a grid. The objective is to fill the grid of 81 squares so the numbers 1 to 9 only appear once in every row, column and individual block. A few numbers are revealed at the start of the puzzle in a symmetrical pattern.

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