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7.12 - Discordant Harmony
Mid Season Hiatus Day 28

2017 Gold Cup: The match between Costa Rica and French Guiana was rather uneventful, but I guess the heat during the match played a major factor in that, with a temperature of 93°F in Frisco Texas during the whole match. But despite that, Costa Rica controlled this game very early on with a goal only 4 minutes in, and then weren't tested all of that much, and the score stayed 1-0 for a long time until about 10 minutes left when Costa Rica sealed it with 2 more goals to end the game at 3-0. French Guiana was also eliminated from the tournament after the loss.

The second game of the night was more of a game, but despite ending at at 0-0 draw, it still had some tense moments throughout. Both Canada and Honduras had some great chances, and on two of those occasions, Honduras should of really scored, if it wasn't for a Canandian defender standing directly in front of the net to kick the ball out just before it could cross the line both times.

Because of these results, both Costa Rica and Canada advance to the knockout round, and Honduras is the first team in the 3rd Place Qualification spot.

Today's matches are the final one's for Group B, with Panama taking on Martinique, and the US against Nicaragua.

Group A:

7 P +4 GD - Costa Rica [2-1-0]
5 P +2 GD - Canada [1-2-0]
4 P +2 GD - Honduras [1-1-1]
0 P -8 GD - French Guiana [0-0-3]

Updated Knockout Round Bracket:

Costa Rica [2-1-0]
B 2nd Place

B 1st Place
A or C 3rd Place

C 1st Place
A or B 3rd Place

C 2nd Place
Canada [1-2-0]

Third Place Teams:

1. A: 4 P +2 GD - Honduras [1-1-1]
2. B: Not Finalized
3. C: Not Finalized
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The governing committee of the tournament issued a ruling on the ineligible player on French Guiana, changing the result from a 0-0 draw to a 3-0 win for Honduras, while French Guiana receives a loss result for the game instead.

Group A [adjusted standings]:

4 P +2 GD - Canada [1-1-0]
4 P +1 GD - Costa Rica [1-1-0]
3 P +2 GD - Honduras [1-0-1]
0 P -5 GD - French Guiana [0-0-2]
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Also, get some real nice concept art for some of the environments along with some fantastic sketches of the Mane 6 from the upcoming October 6 MLP Movie:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/07/awesome-concept-art-from-my-little-pony.html
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7.12 - Discordant Harmony
Mid Season Hiatus Day 27

2017 Gold Cup: The match between El Salvador and Curacao stayed interesting for a while, but as the game wore on, Curacao found nothing but frustration while El Salvador found a game plan that worked, and won 2-0. El Salvador had plenty of chances to make this an even larger margin, but, they just couldn't do better than 2 goals, but, a win is still a win though, so I'm sure they're not complaining about that.

The last match of the night, Mexico versus Jamaica, was somewhat eventful, but nothing like anyone expected, simply because despite some isolated chances, none of the players could find the back of the net with the ball. This one stayed level at 0-0.

Group C:

4 P +2 GD - Mexico [1-1-0]
4 P +2 GD - Jamaica [1-1-0]
3 P +0 GD - El Salvador [1-0-1]
0 P -4 GD - Curacao [0-0-2]

Today is the final matches between Costa Rica vs. French Guiana, along with Canada taking on Honduras.

And as for the Knockout Phase, here's how the bracket works, and the top 2 of the 3 third place teams in each group also advance as well:

A 1st Place
B 2nd Place

B 1st Place
A or C 3rd Place

C 1st Place
A or B 3rd Place

C 2nd Place
A 2nd Place
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7.12 - Discordant Harmony
Mid Season Hiatus Day 26

2017 Gold Cup: Panama found themselves in a small hole in the second half once Nicaragua went up 1-0, and then Panama all of a sudden took over to flip the game result to a final score of 2-1.

The US game was interesting, plenty of chances to score, and yet none came for the first half. Everything happened in the second half, and things got pretty crazy. The US at first went up to a convincing 2-0 lead over Martinique, and, with most soccer matches, that type of score would mean the game is over. But no, Martinique responded over a 10 minute period of the game to tie it up to 2-2. Eventually, the US found a way to put a third point on the game, and battled their way through the rest of the game, and hold on and win with a 3-2 score in a fairly crazy second half.

Group B:

4 P +1 GD - United States [1-1-0]
4 P +1 GD - Panama [1-1-0]
3 P +1 GD - Martinique [1-0-1]
0 P -3 GD - Nicaragua [0-0-2]

Mirror Magic: Both Starlight and Sunset worked naturally in the episode, and the banter between them was neat to hear. Also, seeing Sunset as a pony, the last time that was seen, dates all the way back to the first movie.
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2017 Gold Cup: Canada stayed in this one against Costa Rica, holding the game to a 1-1 Draw, and while the Honduras and French Guiana match turned out to be a scoreless 0-0 draw, the game is under review, since one of the players on French Guiana is ineligible. Depending on the ruling, the result could be changed, but as it stands right now, this is the group standings.

Group A:

4 P +2 GD - Canada [1-1-0]
4 P +1 GD - Costa Rica [1-1-0]
1 P -1 GD - Honduras [0-1-1]
1 P -2 GD - French Guiana [0-1-1]

Today, we've got Panama taking on Nicaragua followed by United States against Martinique.
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7.12 - Discordant Harmony
Mid Season Hiatus Day 25

Looks like the weekly doses of Pony return August 5 if this remains true:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/07/season-7-of-mlp-friendship-is-magic.html
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7.12 - Discordant Harmony
Mid Season Hiatus Day 24

2017 Gold Cup: Just those two matches later today: Costa Rica vs. Canada and Honduras vs. French Guiana
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Bump again!
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7.12 - Discordant Harmony
Mid Season Hiatus Day 23

2017 Gold Cup: Jamaica and Curacao left little to say during the first 45 minutes, as nothing really happened. It took the first goal in the second before either team effectively had any life in them. Jamaica stayed ahead the whole game after scoring, leading 2-0 at the end.

Mexico and El Salvador was definitely the better match, and things got interesting in the first 10 minutes when Mexico and El Salvador exchanged a set of goals each to make it 1-1. Mexico would get the better half of the game, by scoring one more in the first half, and closing it out with another goal in the second half. El Salvador had plenty of good chances, but Mexico held them off for a 3-1 win.

Group C:

3 P +2 GD - Mexico [1-0-0]
3 P +2 GD - Jamaica [1-0-0]
0 P -2 GD - El Salvador [0-0-1]
0 P -2 GD - Curacao [0-0-1]

No games are scheduled for today, and then resume tomorrow with Group A matches between Costa Rica vs. Canada and Honduras vs. French Guiana.
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7.12 - Discordant Harmony
Mid Season Hiatus Day 22 [Based on when 7.11 - Not Asking for Trouble aired.]

2017 Gold Cup: In all honesty, the US came away pretty fortunate to end the game at a 1-1 draw against Panama, that game could of easily been 2-1 in Panama's favor if it wasn't for a lucky stop at around 55 minutes. But either way, a draw is a much better result than a straight loss.

In the second game, Martinique against Nicaragua, it was all Martinique is this game, Nicaragua did little to threaten the Martinique defense, and with Martinique winning this one 2-0 wasn't much of a surprise given the flow of the game.

Group B:

3 P +2 GD - Martinique [1-0-0]
1 P 0 GD - Panama [0-1-0]
1 P 0 GD - United States [0-1-0]
0 P -2 GD - Nicaragua [0-0-1]

Tonight, we've got Jamaica and Curacao, followed by Mexico and El Salvador for the Group C Matches.
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EG4.3 - Mirror Magic
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/07/us-equestria-girls-special-mirror-magic.html

2017 Gold Cup: The first two games were good stuff. Canada winning their first game 4-2 against French Guiana, and Costa Rica hanging on to a 1-0 lead as well.

Canada and Costa Rica currently top Group A:

3 P +2 GD - Canada [1-0-0]
3 P +1 GD - Costa Rica [1-0-0]
0 P -1 GD - Honduras [0-0-1]
0 P -2 GD - French Guiana [0-0-1]

Today is Group B, and now let's see what the United States as hosts can do in their first game against Panama at 4:30 PM EST. Later is Martinique taking on Nicaragua at 7:00 PM EST in Group B as well.

P = Points
GD = Goal Differential
[1-0-0] = [Win-Draw-Loss]
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EG4.3 - Mirror Magic
1 Day.
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The costumes in Movie Magic are a reference to MLP:FiM Season 4 Episode 6: Power Ponies.

The Human 6 and Spike all have the respective Mane 6 costumes, and Sunset had the villain look of the enemy from that episode: Mane-iac.
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EG4.3 - Mirror Magic
2 Days.

I'm looking forward to the Gold Cup tournament [Soccer] starting tomorrow. Even though it does begin then, the US doesn't play till Saturday, despite hosting the tournament itself this year.

Friday's Games are:

French Guiana vs. Canada

and

Honduras vs. Costa Rica

The first game is on 7 PM US EST, and the second game is just a short while after the first one ends.

It looks like for TV Broadcasting, the game is on Fox Sports FS2 network.
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EG4.3 - Mirror Magic
3 Days.
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EG4.3 - Mirror Magic
4 Days.
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EG4.3 - Mirror Magic
5 Days.
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EG4.3 - Mirror Magic
6 Days.
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EG4.2 - Movie Magic
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/07/us-equestria-girls-special-movie-magic.html
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EG4.2 - Movie Magic
1 Day.
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Bump.
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My Little Pony: The Movie Trailer is actually here!
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/06/my-little-pony-movie-2017-official.html

EG4.2 - Movie Magic
2 Days.

In Dance Magic, it was interesting that it focused on Rarity, I guess even the human version needs her fainting couch as well!
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EG4.2 - Movie Magic
3 Days.
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EG4.2 - Movie Magic
4 Days.

I tasted some of the jam yesterday, and it's really good!
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Awaits part 4!
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EG4.2 - Movie Magic
5 Days.

Cool!

Making some Strawberry Vanilla Jam today, I'll let you know how it turns out. It uses an actual Vanilla Bean rather than Vanilla Extract. The strawberries are picked fresh from the local orchard as opposed to being bought at a normal supermarket.
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Bump to avoid the purge!
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EG4.2 - Movie Magic
6 Days.

Keeping the topic running Tom!
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EG4.1 - Dance Magic
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/06/us-equestria-girls-special-dance-magic.html

Sorry I didn't post anything yesterday, but yeah, I'm here now Tom!
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EG4.1 - Dance Magic
2 Days.

So, it seems the MLP Movie Trailer will be dropping in 8 or so days.
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EG4.1 - Dance Magic
3 Days.
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EG4.1 - Dance Magic
4 Days.
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I watched the first 3 videos Tom, good stuff so far!
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EG4.1 - Dance Magic
5 Days.
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EG4.1 - Dance Magic
6 Days.

Nothing like some "Pink Horse" as the Yaks kept calling Pinkie Pie!
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As I mentioned before, these is no FiM episode next Saturday, and instead is the first Equestria Girls Special: Dance Magic, which kind of follows with the fourth movie, so for convenience, I guess the best way to number it is 4.1? Yeah, let's go with that.

EG4.1 - Dance Magic
7 Days.
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7.11 - Not Asking for Trouble
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/06/usa-mlp-season-7-episode-11-not-asking.html
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7.11 - Not Asking for Trouble
1 Day.

So, we got the first Map episode of the season, and it's not the Mane 6 for once, hm, interesting. As for Starlight using her magic for a Cutie Mark swap, an extreme measure, but it worked out in the end. Twilight as a talking music box and the crazy side of Twilight is being shown once again, she just can't let Starlight to do her thing, now can she?
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7.11 - Not Asking for Trouble
3 Days.

Good to hear that Tom!
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7.11 - Not Asking for Trouble
4 Days.

Sorry to hear that Tom, I hope you feel better soon.
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7.11 - Not Asking for Trouble
6 Days.

That was a pretty fun episode, I enjoyed it. When Rarity and Applejack are together, the dynamic just seems to work so well. Applejack really threw Rarity for a loop though! Got to love that shredding with Rarity, that really gave Pinkie Pie a serious "what just happened?" moment though!
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7.10 - Royal Problems
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/06/usa-season-7-episode-10-royal-problem.html
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7.10 - Royal Problems
1 Day.

I forgot to comment here yesterday? Oh no!

Demon's Souls: Created a Blessed Greatsword+5. Nothing like a weapon that deals massive damage to your enemies!
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7.10 - Royal Problems
3 Days.

Played some Demon's Souls the other day. I'm just jumping around from game to game lately.
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7.10 - Royal Problems
4 Days.

500 have cometh Tom, here we go into your Topic #5 officially!
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7.10 - Royal Problems
6 Days

Yeah, only 7 more posts left in the previous topic now!
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7.09 - Honest Apple
2 Days
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7.09 - Honest Apple
3 Days
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7.09 - Honest Apple
4 Days
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