2025 ICC Champions Trophy | The Lottery - The Devil works hard but Say Jhah works harder

And now, The Lottery!

Users take turns and draw a randomized lottery number on RANDOM.org, and then a neutral party (not me) will reveal which team they've won in the lottery! Simple.

How to Draw?

Users will go one after another based on their ticket, and submit a randomized lottery number in the thread. The lottery number must be generated on RANDOM.org, and the user must submit a screenshot of their number in the thread. Users can generate as many random numbers on RANDOM.org as they wish, but their submission in the thread will be considered final and unchangeable. But do remember, it is essential to submit a screenshot so I know it was indeed random.

All available teams will be placed into a list ordered by their tournament seed (ODI ranking), and the list will be randomized on RANDOM.org nine times each round; this being the ninth edition and all. The lottery number submitted by the user will denote the team number on the final list, revealing which team the user has won.

The first round will include all 20 teams and the user being asked to generate a number between 1 and 20, and each round both these things will decrease by 1.

Lastly, players will take turns based on their tickets; i. e. their declaration of interest in the league, whether it be in the thread or elsewhere. So, @Till Valhalla will go first, being the first to declare interest in the league, and @ahmedleo414 will go last. @Umair7 will not get a chance to draw and will be saddled with the leftovers.

Lottery Tickets

01. @Till Valhalla: :pak: Pakistan (Lotto No. 17)
02. @Aislabie: :ind: India (Lotto No. 8)
03. @Perfect Square: :sri: Sri Lanka (Lotto No. 7)
04. @Aravind.: :eng: England (Lotto No. 10)
05. @TSPrathik: :nep: Nepal (Lotto No. 4)
06. @Neptune: :oma: Oman (Lotto No. 6)
07. @mohsin7827: :wi: West Indies (Lotto No. 12)
08. @CerealKiller: :can: Canada (Lotto No. 13)
09. @DuneTiger
10. @Pinch hitter
11. @Viper.
12. @Neo 7
13. @RUDI
14. @VC the slogger
15. @MrDependable
16. @ddrap14
17. @Sherlock Holmes
18. @Paranoid Kendroid
19. @ahmedleo414
20. @Umair7
 
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A portal opens, through the haze out steps a handsome young man. Smokes drifts away and his face becomes clear.

Back from the forbidden zone where he has been imprisoned for 12 months, with news and words of wisdom....

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Say Jhah: People say that the ICC is useless at organising tournaments. But aren't you pleased that you always know India and Pakistan will play each other? That England and Australia will play each other?

The happininess of the cricketing world depends on it.

Some people say we should have seeds. To that, I say: seeds are for growing things.

Some people say we should have a draw. To that, I say: drawers are for keeping your junk together.

Some people say we should let people volunteer to take part, then get them to use a random number generator to select a random number which shall determine, randomly, which team shall represent them ONLY after a random list of teams has been randomised nine times over. To that, I say: what a capital idea!

And so it begins.

Dancing queen, 17: @Till Valhalla

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