Hi All,

Those of us involved in TS keeper leagues have increasingly dealt with idle teams across early an midseason AFL bye rounds.

In response we have decided to trial a 10 aside modified ORFF* format competition over the 7 multibye rounds in 2026

• ORFF* 10's (or Tens) team format is 2D-4M-2F-2IC (no R line) - with 1 emergency per line if teams can field over 10 players, as usual OOP in D/M/F = 50% points only
• The squad used is the same as the team's ORFFL/ORFFA/ORFFU/ORFFF squad of 28 or 30 players
• The competition format is a pseudo-Double Elimination Comp held in 4 and 8 team bye rounds
• TSleagues won’t support the comp so all scores will be manually calculated by participating team coaches and posted in a dedicated ORFF* 10’s competition thread
• OR team scores (with perfect hindsight post OR) used for Comp Seeding teams ranked 1-8 receive a double chance/easier path and teams ranked 9-16 must win 6 consecutive elimination matches, teams ranked 17 onwards based on OR scores do not qualify for the comp
• Round 2 onwards match schedule as per diagram and teams to be named by Friday night lockout
• H2H matches rds2-3 eliminates 8 teams
• Rd12 is Minor Premiers GF (match 15) and 3 more Elimination Matches (Matches 16-18) in the right hand bracket
• Minor Premiers rests in Rounds 14&15 and plays the Grand Final in Round 16 against winner of the 4 right hand bracket survivors

Please sign up below by posting your ORFFL/ORFFA/ORFFU/ORFFF team name and the competition they play in.

Please note that coaches with multiple team can only enter once for this competition so please make a choice.

Entries close at 9pm Melbourne time on Thursday 5th March, or whenever we reach 24 entries (noting 16 will qualify for the competition proper).

The field of 16 is as follows:-
FL - Wanderers, Magicians, Knightriders, Bullfrogs
FF - 29ers, Noahs, Boozers, Whales
FA - Devils, Cockatoos, Grasshoppers, Packers
FU - Bunyips, Blowflys, Monarchs, Prospectors

Seeding to be updated as posted (1-8 = Double Elimination Bracket, 9-16 = Single Elimination Bracket)
1 - 976
2 - 948
3 - 941 (1001 posted less Lester 97 and Cameron 94 plus Guthrie 81 and Elliot 50, as Lester and Cameron weren't listed until after OR)
4 - 924
5 - 909
6 - 901 (1*oop)
7 - 865
8 - 852

Round 2 Double Elimination Bracket games
Match 1 29ers TTH def Knightriders @Len, Match 2 Devils @dmandrews def by Hoppers @snoz, Match 3 @leematty1 Boozers def by Wanderers @EddieV, Match 4 Cockatoos @anthak def Whales @Darran

Round 3 Double Elimination Bracket games
Match 9 29ers TTH vs Hoppers @snoz, Match 10 Wanderers @EddieV vs Cockatoos @anthak
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9 - 842
10 - 797
11 - 794
12 - 736
13 - 632 (8)
14 - 581 (8)
15 - 575 (9)
16 - 840* (OR score not provided when bracket was set)

Round 2 Single Elimination Bracket games
Match 5 Noahs @That KI Guy def Bunyips @martyg, Match 6 Prospectors @JPK def by Blowflies @Mick, Match 7 Magicians @thokash def Monarchs @Tylo, Match 8 Bullfrogs @stripey def Packers @Tracey

Round 3 Single Elimination Bracket games
Match 11 Knightriders @Len vs Noahs @That KI Guy, Match 12 Devils @dmandrews vs Blowflies @Mick, Match 13 Boozers @leematty1 vs Magicians @thokash, Match 14 Bullfrogs @stripey vs Whales @Darran

Cheers
TTH