Fantrax NMA Cup Round 3 Draw

GW-28 will see round 3 of the NMA Cup, and in line with the FA cup, this is the point where the ‘big’ teams join the competition. So everyone who qualified in the top 44 places (the ‘Premier League’ and ‘Championship’ teams) joins the 20 teams who survived the two qualifying rounds and the first two rounds proper. No team from the first qualifying round remains, but there are still six ‘non-league’ teams, all no doubt itching to pull off upsets.

The random draw has thrown up some interesting-looking fixtures:

Perhaps the most noteworthy fixture, and I am sure the one that will generate the most noise, pits Blog editor Jeff’s Alehouse WAGs against the blog’s most prolific poster Ken M’s Team KenM. Can the mercurial Ken pick a team that will shine?

The lowest-ranked team (based on qualifying position) is Team 3timelucky, who now gets to play Team DevilinRed. Perhaps the fact that they’ve already won through three rounds will go against them with a name like that!

The current league leader, and the team who qualified in first place and ALSO the winner of the early season Blog Cup is 183168. Their opponent is Team redstoglory who will really have to excel themselves based on previous performance. 183168 currently leads the second placed team in the league by 136.6 points and the third placed team by 206.5 points. Remarkably, they have finished in the weekly top ten on eight occasions, three times having the largest score of the week. They are formidable opponents, but in a head to head competition, you can never be sure!

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Are you in the draw, and how does it look for your team? Please let us know in the comments how you’re doing and let’s see if we can generate some rivalry here!

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