Champmaniacs -> Top 10 Anzeichen dafür, CM-abhängig zu sein

Die meisten von Euch kennen sicher solche Top 10 Listen aus verschiedenen Comedy-Shows - hier gibt's jetzt eine Liste der Top 10 Anzeichen, an denen man erkennt, abhängig vom Championship Manager zu sein. Zwischen Mai und August 2001 haben 40 wahrscheinlich wirklich CM-Abhängige genau 111 Vorschläge eingereicht, und fast 800 champmaniacs-Besucher dann über die endgültige Reihenfolge der besten 16 Vorschläge entschieden. Danke an alle die mitgemacht haben!

Kleine Statistik am Rande: Über 90% der Stimmen wurden auf dem englischen Teil von champmaniacs abgegeben - in den deutschsprachigen Ländern ist der MeisterTrainer also leider immer noch nicht all zu populär. Die Reihenfolge im englischen & deutschen Teil war allerdings verblüffend ähnlich.

Aber genug der Schwafelei - hier endlich die deutlichsten Anzeichen dafür, ein CM-Abhängiger zu sein:

Bei der Masse an Vorschlägen war es natürlich schwer die besten Sachen auszusortieren - für einige wirklich gute Ideen hat's nicht ganz bis in die Abstimmung gereicht. Daher gibt es hier nochmal 24 weitere Anzeichen dafür, ein CM-Abhängiger zu sein - verzeiht's mir, daß ich diese nicht auf deutsch übersetzt habe:

# Your teacher was hardly trying to convince you that CM stands for Contribution Margin, not Championship Manager (by Lazindo01 / Xtratime Forums)

# You are always begging for test prospones, but your teacher always say "they are sorry, but they are not able to comply your request due to the packed schedule..." (by The FIFA President..no, not the real - this one is from the Xtratime Forums)

# When you call yourself Manager of the month, while introducing to a women. (by sslazio11 / Xtratime Forums)

# When someone knocks on your door while playing CM and you open it expecting it to be Tommy Mooney asking for a transfer when in fact its your sister asking you for some change. (by Dan / Xtratime Forums)

# When you try to trade your girlfried plus £10 for a younger one. (by adam2k1 / Xtratime Forums)

# I think the biggest sign that I'm addicted to CM is the fact that I relate real life transfers to those that I see in my game. I thought Montella was on the verge of signing for Fenerbahçe, cos I saw that in the game. It slipped my mind that it was in the GAME, not in the news. I had my uncle, dad, and grand father all really, really excited about this news... Now when they ask I tell them that Roma was asking for too much money....Just to save my own @ss (by Prince-T / Xtratime Forums, similar one by John Weatherill and Konstantinos Konstantas)

# The team you support buys a player in real-life that your mate hasn't heard of, but you insist that he is an excellent playe, just because he's good in CM. (by Tom Keyte, similar one by ST / Xtratime Forums and Stuart Thompson)

# When you're rating your girlfriend out of 20 - e.g. lips 5, hair 13, eyes 16. (by David McCall, similar one by Kieran Brunwin)

# When you look out of the window and think "blimey it's gone dark early tonight". (by Stephen Barratt, similar one by Rich)

# About three years ago, I was playing with Barcelona. Within a couple of months I had played 18 seasons and became the coach of The Netherlands as well. The nights were long and the sleep was short. I was a student at that time, so I had little money to spend (in real life). Sometimes my parents leant me some dough. One night I dreamt that my mother gave me 100 Dutch guilders to make it 'til the end of the month and she said to me: "But don't spend it on transfers!" That was the moment that I realised I was addicted to CM... (by Floris Brandriet)

# You produced that much sweat the last..erm..at least 20 hours playing CM, that you can't get up of your chair because...the sweat just works like a super-glue! (by Niclas Ryzavy)

# You spend a whole weekend to find some strange things in all of your 14 saved games, to be able to send screenshots of them to champmaniacs to put them into the strange happenings. But as you know every single of the 300 screenshots by memory, it's hard for you to really find something new. (by Niclas Ryzavy, similar one by Gerald Teo)

# You try to find players or staff who are female and sign them to your club! (by Gerald Teo)

# You create ( or die trying to ^-^ ) killer tactics and mail them to ChampManiacs and your favourite club hoping you will become famous! (by Gerald Teo)

# You put yourself into the game with all attributes at 20... (by Gerald Teo)

# When you're stuck with your girlfriend, you go on holiday to get over that certain date - hoping the computer, oh, I mean friendship, will not hang up anymore (by David Crha, similar one by Niv Tanne aka "cleaver")

# You wake up in the middle of the night screaming:"I should put Beckham on the transfer list!" (by Niv Tanne aka "cleaver")

# You're now sitting on the toilet at your school for about 30 minutes trying to scribble down new tactical formations on the toilet-paper (by Marcel Tinant, similar one by Ian Haponiev and Gazz Priest)

# Because you're hating AS Roma, you start a new game managing them so bad, to relegate them into the non-league status. Everytime you get sacked, you click on "add new manager" and take them over again...And this takes you a whole week of your free time... (by Cristian Saverino, similar one by Gavin Williams)

# You make a webpage about it (by Stuart Thompson) - Damned, no, I'm not addicted. I could stop playing at any time I want!

# You never switch your PC off, so that you don't have to wait that long when you start CM when you come home (by David Berger, similar one by Konstantinos Konstantas)

# When you submit suggestions to the 10 signs that your addicted to CM. (by Paul Linley)

# You're more worried about your 'virtual' job as manager of Norwich City than you are about your real job as an IT security consultant at a major international bank. (by Ed Bailey)

# You get sacked in real life - and think: "Hmm, no problem, I'll get a new job then". The same day, you get sacked as Bolton-manager in CM and think about suicide... (by Olafur Bjarnarsson)