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2005 Fantasy Six Nations Rugby Games

Game: Fantasy Six Nations

Provider: Scrum.com, Land Rover & easyJet

Administered by: Fantasy League

Fee: Free to play; one entry per person

Prizes:
- Top award of three weekend breaks to Rome, Paris and Edinburgh
- Hospitality package to England's Six Nations clash with France at Twickenham to winner of round one
- additional prizes for each winner of rounds two, three, four and five

How to play summary:
- Select 15-man team, with no more than four players from any country
- Lucky Dip option available for busy or non-rugby people
- Can transfer players between rounds

Mini-league:
- Yes; use 'Challenge A Friend' email facility to spur mates to join up

Entry deadline: 1200 GMT, Saturday 5 February

FISO topic: www.fiso.co.uk/forum/philboard_read.asp?id=16828

Website: scrum.fantasyleague.com/

Game: Six Nations Fantasy Manager

Provider: TEAMtalk

Administrator: Silent Manager

Fee: One team for £3; three for £6

Prizes:
- Overall winner earns a trip for two to the Dubai 7s Tournament in Dec
- Runner up and guest/partner can spend a day at the Sloggi rugby training session with three international players in July
- 3rd to 7th placed managers will win £100 worth of Sloggi kit
- Team of the Week will win British Lions jersey

How to Play Summary:
- Use budget of 80 'stars' to purchase 15 players
- Five transfers per week
- Unlimited changes before 21.00 GMT on Friday 4 February

Mini-league option: Yes

Entry deadline: 23.59 GMT, Fri 4 Feb

FISO thread: www.fiso.co.uk/forum/philboard_read.asp?id=16716

Website: sixnations.fantasy-manager.co.uk

Game: Telegraph Fantasy Six Nations

Provider: Telegraph

Administrator: GFM

Fee:
- £5 to manage a XV; three teams for £10
- Registered students pay 70 per cent of above

Prizes:
- Winner receives 10-day holiday for two in New Zealand
- 10 runners-up receive a replica or retro rugby shirt

How to Play Summary:
- Set up a fantasy team of 15 players from the squads of the six countries
- Each player is rated 9 - 1 (9 is best)
- Must not exceed a total rating of 90
- Maximum of six players may be selected from any one nation
- Earn points for player appearances, tries, conversions and penalties
- Lose points for foul play, ie, yellow and red cards
- Ten transfers over the course of the tournament
- View statistics section for details of every player in game

Mini-league: available; no extra fee

Entry deadline: 14:00 GMT on Sat 5 February 2005

FISO thread: www.fiso.co.uk/forum/philboard_read.asp?id=16682

Website: tfsn.gfm.co.uk

Game: Six Nations Challenge (for DEC charity)

Provider: Fantasy Factory

Fee: £5 per team - whole fee will be donated to Disaster Emergency Committee

Prizes:
- Winner receives DVD player and HP iPAQ RX1710 pocket PC (kindly donated to this fund raising event by www.ypalive.com), plus short breaks (*) directories and 25 FF prize credits
- Contestants finishing 2nd and 3rd also win a short breaks (*) directory and FF Prize credits
(*) three vouchers for two people to stay for free at one of 170 hotels in British Isles

How to Play Summary:
- predict the final positions of the six nations on 19 March 2005
- collect points for match wins, tries, conversions, drop kicks & penalties
- gain bonus points by predicting the answers to topical rugby questions

Mini-league: Yes; free

Entry deadline: 11:00 GMT, 5 Feb

Website: www.fantasyfactory.co.uk/pages/default.asp?GAME_ID=819&PAGE_TYPE=1

Six Nations Links

• sixnationsrugby
• SkySports
• scrum.com
• planetrugby
• sportinglife
• itv rugby

Other Rugby Links:

1. Sky Sports Rugby Union
2. Sky Sports Rugby League
3. Rugby Links - possibly the world's largest collection of rugby links!
4. RLWC - Rugby League World Cup
5. PlayTheBall - good place to visit for Rugby League info
6. RLeague - World of Rugby League
7. One Rugby Place - latest rugby score news and plenty of links;
8. Scrum.com - great rugby coverage and some interesting features;
9. Rugby News - latest rugby news and a helpful rugby search engine;
10. Rugby Today - daily rugby news and information - good world coverage and available in different languages;
11. RugbyClub - UK rugby news and fixtures
12. RugbyNews - New Zealand version
13. Saracens - latest news and views, including team and injury news, competitions, fixture list, online shop and much more for the Watford based team.
14. PlanetRugby - great rugby coverage (and some excellent rugby screensavers)
15. Rugby365 - brilliant coverage again from 365
16. SRU - Scottish Rugby Union
17. American Rugby Union 
18. Rugby Fever
19. Barbarians - the Barbarians official site
20. WebRugby - loads of rugby links
21. List of old fantasy rugby games

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