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Unofficial Battrick World Champion of the World

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EdWeatherall:

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I was bored, so I thought I'd see who the Unofficial One-Day Battrick World Champion of the World was.

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For argument's sake, I took the first game to be played as being Allan's first competitive match, as he has the lowest team id [teamid=1] and it's his game,

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 so it's only fair that he starts with it. There are probably earlier matches than this, but this will do.

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Rules are simple: the team remains the Unofficial One-Day Battrick World Champion of the World until their team loses a game.

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 This started off as a BT England-only thing (without friendlies), but people held it for too long.

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Below are all the matches, I have only listed the matchid for the game when the title passed over to a new person.

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ozNoz:

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As you'll see, I've filled in all the matchids, and added some detail as to where the Cup resided (league (and format where applicable) of the holder)

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I also filled in a couple of gaps from Ed's file (teams that had played more matches at the end of a season than the previous holder - it's tricky to explain)

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 and brought the cup up to date from where Ed had left off (somewhere in Season 8, if I remember).

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The other big change is that - since I'm doing it and I get to change the rules however I like - I've split the Cup into four (and plan on five).

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The original competition included BT20, since that was a great way for the Cup to make some great leaps across countries and divisions (when the BT20 comp was international),

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 but I don't like BT20, so I've gone back and revised the history of the One True Cup (the Purest Cup) to follow only One Day matches - League, Cup and Friendly.

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 Don't worry, I've kept the other bloodlines as well, split into: the Leagues Cup (for all OD League, Cup, and Friendly matches, as well as First Class league matches);

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 the Short-Format Cup (for all matches played inside a day, including OD and BT20 League, Cup, and Friendly matches); and the All-Comers' Cup (for all matches, in all formats).

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I also plan to trace the Sunday Cup, starting again with Allan's High Roding and featuring only OD Cup and Friendly matches, but that'll have to wait.

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Thanks to EdWeatherall for getting this one started, and to kardo who traced a similar line starting from his own first match (available at http://kardo.nl.eu.org/bt/txt/boxcup.txt)