2018 World Cup Calcutta Auction, Day 1

[cartman]

The auction will run from 11am Central to 7pm Central. After that winners of teams will be declared.

Minimum bid amounts: $1.
Minimum increase: $1.

To bid, post in this thread. No bids are valid until after 11am Central. The time stamp will be final as to who is the first bid at a dollar amount and who is the last bid for the day. 7:00pm is a good bid. 7:01pm is not a good bid.

Bids should take the following format:

BID SOLECISMICSTAN $7

You may bid on more than one team in the same post, but please label each bid individually.

Feel free to post commentary or trash talk, but bids should be labeled clearly in the above format.

Participants (Still time to say you want to join up!):
cartman
kingfc22
Karlfornia
Critch
digamma
bhlloy
QuikSand
HomerSimpson98
hahnkim
Arles

The rules and payout information is in this thread (https://forums.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=93864).

The eight teams up for bid today are (selected at random using Random.org):
Panama
Saudi Arabia
Germany
Morocco
Sweden
England
Argentina
Denmark

[cartman]

LET THE BIDDING BEGIN!

[cartman]

BID SAUDI ARABIA $1

[digamma]

BID $5 England
BID $3 SWEDEN
BID $2 DENMARK

[Critch]

Bid Denmark $5
Bid Sweden $5
Bid Germany $10
Bid Argentina $10

[hahnkim]

BID GERMANY $20
BID ENGLAND $8

[Arles]

BID PANAMA $2
BID MOROCCO $2

[HomerSimpson98]

BID DENMARK $8
BID ENGLAND $12
BID PANAMA $4

[Critch]

BID GERMANY $30

[hahnkim]

BID GERMANY $32
BID ENGLAND $15
BID MOROCCO $3
BID ARGENTINA $12

[bhlloy]

BID SWEDEN $7
BID SAUDI ARABIA $3
BID ARGENTINA $15
BID ENGLAND $18

[Critch]

BID GERMANY $40

[digamma]

BID ENGLAND $22
BID ARGENTINA $22
BID SWEDEN $12

[Critch]

BID SWEDEN $15

[bhlloy]

BID ENGLAND $25

[Karlifornia]

BID ENGLAND $30

[cartman]

Here are what I have for bids at this point:

Panama -$4
Saudi Arabia - $3
Germany -$40
Morocco - $3
Sweden - $15
England - $30
Argentina - $22
Denmark -$8

[bhlloy]

BID DENMARK $10

[HomerSimpson98]

BID ARGENTINA $28
BID ENGLAND $33

[hahnkim]

BID ENGLAND $35
BID GERMANY $45

[QuikSand]

BID ARGENTINA $29

[Critch]

BID DENMARK $12

[kingfc22]

BID ARGENTINA 30
BID GERMANY 47

[Critch]

BID GERMANY 50

[Karlifornia]

BID ARGENTINA $32

[kingfc22]

BID ARGENTINA 35
BID GERMANY 60

[HomerSimpson98]

BID DENMARK $17
BID ENGLAND $38

[HomerSimpson98]

BID ARGENTINA $39

[hahnkim]

BID GERMANY $63
BID ENGLAND $39

Forgot to bold my bids

[cartman]

Little less than two hours to go. Here's where the bids stand:

Panama -$4
Saudi Arabia - $3
Germany -$63
Morocco - $3
Sweden - $15
England - $39
Argentina - $39
Denmark -$17

[bhlloy]

BID ENGLAND $40
BID SWEDEN $18
BID DENMARK $18

[hahnkim]

BID ENGLAND $42

[kingfc22]

BID ARGENTINA $40
BID DENMARK $19
BID GERMANY $66

[bhlloy]

BID ARGENTINA $43

[HomerSimpson98]

BID GERMANY $69
BID ARGENTINA $45
BID ENGLAND $45

[cartman]

BID DENMARK $20
BID GERMANY $70
BID ENGLAND $47

[QuikSand]

BID MOROCCO $4

[HomerSimpson98]

BID DENMARK $21
BID ENGLAND $49

[bhlloy]

BID GERMANY $73
BID ARGENTINA $47

[Critch]

BID ARGENTINA $50

[HomerSimpson98]

BID ARGENTINA $54

[cartman]

BID ENGLAND $50
BID DENMARK $25
BID GERMANY $75

[HomerSimpson98]

BID GERMANY $84
BID ARGENTINA $69
BID DENMARK $34

[Arles]

BID ARGENTINA $71
BID MOROCCO $5

[bhlloy]

BID ENGLAND $52

[hahnkim]

BID ENGLAND $52
BID MOROCCO $6

[kingfc22]

BID GERMANY $87

[Arles]

BID MOROCCO $7

[cartman]

BID ENGLAND $55

[hahnkim]

BID ENGLAND $54

[bhlloy]

BID ENGLAND $56

[cartman]

BID GERMANY $90

[hahnkim]

BID ENGLAND $57

[kingfc22]

BID GERMANY $92

[HomerSimpson98]

BID ARGENTINA $75

[cartman]

BID ENGLAND $60

[HomerSimpson98]

DAMN!

[cartman]

kingfc's bid is the last one of the day

[Arles]

Snuck it out by seconds

[kingfc22]

Well this should be a fun next 3 days :D

[Critch]

Well that escalated quickly.

[cartman]

Here are today's bids (please check for accuracy):

Today's final bids:

Panama -$4 (HomerSimpson98)
Saudi Arabia - $3 (bhlloy)
Germany - $92 (kingfc22)
Morocco - $7 (Arles)
Sweden - $18 (bhlloy)
England - $57 (hahnkim)
Argentina - $71 (Arles)
Denmark -$34 (HomerSimpson98)

[kingfc22]

I believe Sweden went to bhlloy for $18

[cartman]

I believe Sweden went to bhlloy for $18

Yep, it did. Good catch!