# 2019 AFLX tournament

The 2019 AFL X tournament was the second and latter of the Australian Football League (AFL) pre-season series of matches played under the laws of AFLX, a variation of Australian rules football. The tournament took place on 22 February 2019 at Marvel Stadium.

## Background

The league abandoned the AFLX tournament format adopted for the inaugural series which featured all 18 AFL clubs, and instead appointed four high-profile players as captains of their respective teams. Geelong midfielder and Brownlow Medallist Patrick Dangerfield captained the Bolts, Fremantle captain and fellow Brownlow winner Nat Fyfe captained the Flyers, Adelaide forward Eddie Betts captained the Deadlys, and Richmond forward and three-time Coleman Medallist Jack Riewoldt captained the Rampage. Teams were live-drafted from a pool of available players by the captains – although by pre-agreement the Deadlys team was drawn entirely from Indigenous players. The teams had 14 players each, with eight on the field and six on the bench.
In the grand final, Patrick Cripps (Rampage) humorously kicked a goal with a place kick, with Jack Riewoldt serving as holder in the style of a gridiron football field goal attempt. Place kicking (off the ground, rather than with a holder) had been obsolete in Australian rules football since the 1950s.

### Rule changes

A new rule was added to the competition in which teams could nominate one of their players on the field to be the Gatorade Game Changer for the last five minutes of the game. The Game Changer had the ability to score double the points of any other player; a behind scored by him would be worth two points, a goal would be worth 12 points, and a super goal would be worth 20 points.

## Teams

Bolts :
| Name | Club |
| Patrick Dangerfield (c) | Geelong |
| Luke Hodge (vc) | Brisbane Lions |
| Tom Hawkins | Geelong |
| Steele Sidebottom | Collingwood |
| Mark Blicavs | Geelong |
| Tom Rockliff | Port Adelaide |
| Andrew Gaff | West Coast |
| Luke Parker | Sydney |
| Jaidyn Stephenson | Collingwood |
| Andrew McGrath | Essendon |
| Jack Billings | St Kilda |
| Daniel Rich | Brisbane Lions |
| Robbie Tarrant | North Melbourne |
| Jack Steele | St Kilda |
Rampage :
| Name | Club |
| Jack Riewoldt (c) | Richmond |
| Patrick Cripps (vc) | Carlton |
| Lachie Whitfield | Greater Western Sydney |
| Rory Sloane | Adelaide |
| Phil Davis | Greater Western Sydney |
| Dayne Zorko | Brisbane Lions |
| Isaac Smith | Hawthorn |
| Luke Breust | Hawthorn |
| Easton Wood | Western Bulldogs |
| Bayley Fritsch | Melbourne |
| Dylan Shiel | Essendon |
| Shaun Higgins | North Melbourne |
| Tim Membrey | St Kilda |
| Zac Fisher | Carlton |
Flyers :
| Name | Club |
| Nat Fyfe (c) | Fremantle |
| Marcus Bontempelli (vc) | Western Bulldogs |
| Scott Pendlebury | Collingwood |
| Alex Rance | Richmond |
| Callan Ward | Greater Western Sydney |
| Isaac Heeney | Sydney |
| Stephen Coniglio | Greater Western Sydney |
| Rory Laird | Adelaide |
| Travis Boak | Port Adelaide |
| Lachie Hunter | Western Bulldogs |
| Aliir Aliir | Sydney |
| Michael Hurley | Essendon |
| Josh Kennedy | Sydney |
| Jack Higgins | Richmond |
Deadly :
| Name | Club |
| Eddie Betts (c) | Adelaide |
| Shaun Burgoyne (vc) | Hawthorn |
| Bradley Hill | Fremantle |
| Jarrod Harbrow | Gold Coast |
| Tim Kelly | Geelong |
| Jack Martin | Gold Coast |
| Travis Varcoe | Collingwood |
| Lewis Jetta | West Coast |
| Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti | Essendon |
| Nathan Wilson | Fremantle |
| Willie Rioli | West Coast |
| Sam Powell-Pepper | Port Adelaide |
| Cam Ellis-Yolmen | Adelaide |
| Jade Gresham | St Kilda |

## Results
### Ladder

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| Flyers | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 217 | 181 | 36 | 8 |
| Rampage | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 223 | 196 | 27 | 8 |
| Bolts | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 173 | 198 | -25 | 4 |
| Deadly | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 175 | 213 | -38 | 4 |
| | Grand Final | Grand Final | Grand Final | |
| Friday, 22 February (9:57 pm, AEDT) | Rampage 84 | def. | Flyers 67 | Marvel Stadium (crowd: 23,828) |