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This application is a continuation-in-part to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/164,005 filed Nov. 7, 2005 now abandoned.
1. Field
The present invention relates generally to a catalytic device for reducing the pollution content of an exhaust gas.
2. Description of Related Art
Exhaust systems perform several functions for a modern engine. For example, the exhaust system is expected to manage heat, reduce pollutants, control noise, and sometimes filter particulate matter. Generally, these individual functions are performed by separate and distinct components. Take, for example, the exhaust system of a typical gasoline engine. The engine exhaust system may use a set of heat exchangers or external baffles to capture and dissipate heat. A separate muffler may be coupled to the exhaust outlet to control noise, while a catalytic converter assembly may be placed in the exhaust path to reduce non-particulate pollutants. Although today particulates are not generally the pollutants focused upon in the gasoline engine, it is likely that more restrictive regulations may soon apply.
An exhaust system for a modern gasoline engine is nearly universally required to remove or eliminate some of the non-particulate pollutants from the exhaust gas stream, and therefore might employ a known emissions control device, such as three-way catalytic converter. Such a three-way converter uses chemical oxidation and reduction processes to remove non-particulate pollutants from the exhaust gas stream. The known catalytic (or metal) converter holds a catalytic material that, when sufficiently heated, reacts with exhaust gases to lower the chemical potential to react non-particulate pollutants into non-pollutants. More particularly, the known converter uses a flow-through design where exhaust gases enter one end of the converter, flow through open parallel channels, come into contact with a catalyst for converting some of the pollutants in the exhaust gas stream into non-pollutants before ultimately flowing out into the atmosphere. As the exhaust gas flows through the channels, laminar flows are created which cause the exhaust gases to flow down the channel and, due to concentration gradient and mass-transfer effects, come into contact with the catalyst residing on the channel walls. The channel walls have the catalytic material disposed on their surfaces, and as the hot exhaust gas contacts the channel walls, the walls are heated to elevate the catalytic material to the a threshold temperature above which the catalyzed reactions readily occur. This is colloquially known as the 'light-off' temperature. Likewise, the time it takes for the light-off temperature to be reached is known as the 'light-off' period. Then, as the exhaust gas continues to flow, the catalytic material interacts with the pollutants in the exhaust gas to facilitate the conversion thereof into non-polluting emissions. About 50% of the pollution generated from and emitted by modern engines equipped with catalytic converters occurs during this light-off period when the converter is essentially non-operational. In certain vehicle applications, such as stop and go traffic and short trips in cities, the overall usefulness of the catalytic converter to reduce pollution is mitigated since the converter spends a significant amount of time at temperature below catalyst light-off or relating to low conversion efficiencies.
The action of moving the exhaust gas through open channels and transporting the pollutants to the channel walls occurs via a gaseous diffusion mechanism. Once the catalyst has reached its activation temperature, the reaction rate is dependant on the rate of mass transfer from the bulk of the gas stream (center of the laminar gas flow) to the walls. As the catalyzed pollutant-eliminating reactions occur at the wall-gas interface (where the catalyst is typically located), a concentration gradient of pollutants is generated in the exhaust gas stream. A boundary layer develops and, being the slowest process under such conditions, mass-transfer principles dictate the overall rate of the reaction. Since bulk diffusion is a relatively slow process, the number of open channels is typically increased to compensate, and increase the overall reaction rate. The effect is essentially to reduce the distance that the gas molecules have to travel to diffuse from the bulk into the boundary layer. Additionally, the relatively limiting bulk diffusion step may be compensated for by making the converter in a honeycomb design or by otherwise increasing the effective catalytic surface area. By simultaneously reducing the size of the open channels and increasing the number of channels, the bulk diffusion rate may effectively be increased and the efficiency of the converter improved. However, making such a "closed-cell" honeycomb design results in a decrease in the thickness, and thus the strength, of the cell walls and an increase in the backpressure to the engine. Thus, the converter is made more fragile while the fuel economy of the vehicle is simultaneously decreased. Accordingly, there are practical limits on the minimum size of the open channels that restrict the ability to significantly improve the bulk transfer rate of traditional monolithic honeycomb converters past a certain point.
Thus, due to the inefficiency of the bulk transfer process the converter is typically made quite large and is therefore heavy, bulky and relatively slow to heat to the threshold catalytic operating temperature. Typically, several catalytic converters may be arranged in a sequential order to improve overall emission control.
Known three-way gasoline catalytic converters do not filter particulate matter. Recent studies have shown that particulates from a gasoline ICE (internal combustion engine) may be both dangerous to health and generated at quantities roughly equal to post-DPF (diesel particulate filter) PM (particulate matter) emission levels. As PM emissions standards are tightened, both diesel and gasoline engines will have to be further modified to reduce PM emissions. Some European agencies are already considering the regulation of gasoline PM emissions.
Most, if not all, catalytic systems do not efficiently or effectively operate until a threshold operational temperature is reached. During this "light-off" period, substantial amounts of particulate and non-particulate pollution are emitted into the atmosphere. Accordingly, it is often desirable to place a catalytic device as close as possible to the engine manifold, where exhaust gasses are hottest and thus light-off time is shortest. In this way, the catalyst may more quickly extract sufficient heat from the engine exhaust gasses to reach its operational temperature. However, materials, design and/or safety constraints may limit placement of the catalytic converter to a position spaced away from the manifold. When the catalytic converters are spaced away from the manifold, light off time is increased, and additional pollutants are thus exhausted into the atmosphere.
The most popular design for catalytic converters is currently the monolithic honeycomb wherein the monolithic material is cordierite and silicon carbide. In order to be increasingly effective, the cell density of the cordierite monolithic honeycomb design has been increased by making the individual channel walls thinner and increasing the number of channels per unit area. However, the strength of the walls (and, thus, the monolithic converter) decreases with decreasing wall thickness while the backpressure increases (and engine efficiency and mileage correspondingly decreases) with increasing cell density; thus, a practical limit for increasing converter efficiency exists and is defined by a minimal monolith strength and a maximum allowable backpressure provided by the unit. Another approach to addressing increasingly stringent emission standards is to utilize known three-way gasoline catalytic converters arranged in multiple stages to obtain reasonable emission control of multiple pollutants. However, this approach also adds to cost, weight, fuel penalty and engineering complexity. Thus, in an increasingly stringent emissions regulatory environment, there is a need to find an effective way to reduce harmful emissions from a typical ICE.
Thus, air pollution standards, particularly in regard to vehicle exhaust gasses, are coming under increased pressure from governments and environmental organizations. The consequence of continued emissions is well recognized, and additional regulations are being added while existing regulations are being more aggressively enforced. However, reduced emissions and more stringent emission regulations may have a short-term negative impact on the overall economy, as additional monies must be spent to meet higher standards. Indeed, governments have been relatively slow to adapt tighter regulations, citing competitive and economic consequences. Accordingly, a more cost effective and effective catalytic device may ease the transition to a cleaner world, without substantial detrimental economic effects. In particular, it would be desirable to provide a cost effective catalytic device for removing both particulate pollutant matter and non-particulate pollutants from an exhaust stream that is capable of easy installation on vehicles, small engines, and in industrial exhaust stacks. It would also be desirable for such a device to be able to catalyze chemically important reactions that may not be considered as pollution control, such as chemical synthesis, bioreactor reactions, gas synthesis etc. The present invention addresses this need.
Briefly, the present invention provides an internal combustion engine exhaust system for catalytically converting carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and hydrocarbon pollutant species into non-pollutant species (such as carbon dioxide, molecular nitrogen, and water) and for trapping particulate matter. In general the device is capable of separating condensed material from a fluid stream and at the same time supporting reactive agents (such as membranes, polymers, hydrophobic materials, hydrophilic materials, catalysts, etc) that can enhance reaction rates of constituents in the fluid stream. The engine system includes an internal combustion engine exhaust (such as from a gasoline, diesel or other fuel engine), a catalytic converter having a housing, an inlet port formed in the housing and fluidically connected to the engine exhaust and an outlet port formed in the housing and fluidically connected to the atmosphere. The catalytic converter also includes a plurality of inlet channels in the housing, a plurality of outlet channels arranged adjacent to the inlet channels, a plurality of substantially fibrous non-woven porous walls separating the inlet channels from the outlet channels, and typically a waschoat disposed on the porous walls, a first reactive agent or catalyst material disposed on the porous walls, and a second reactive agent or catalyst material disposed on the porous walls.
In a more specific example, the catalytic device itself is constructed as a having a plurality of inlet channels and outlet channels arranged in an alternating pattern, a substantially fibrous non-woven porous wall between respective adjacent inlet and outlet channels, a surface area enhancing washcoat with stabilizers and additives disposed on the fibers constituting the substantially fibrous non-woven porous walls, a catalyst portion disposed on the substantially fibrous non-woven porous walls, an inlet port coupled to the inlet channels, an outlet port coupled to the outlet channels, an inlet block in at least some of the inlet channels, each inlet block positioned in respective inlet channels and between the inlet port and the outlet port, and an outlet block in at least some of the outlet channels, each outlet block positioned in respective outlet channels and between the inlet port and the outlet port. In another specific example, the catalytic device is constructed as a monolithic nonwoven substantially fibrous block having an inlet end and an outlet end. The inlet channels and outlet channels are arranged in an alternating pattern in the block with a porous wall positioned between adjacent inlet and outlet channels. The inlet and outlet channels may run parallel to each other, perpendicular to each other or in some other configuration. A catalyst is disposed on the porous walls, such that the walls of the pores inside the porous wall contain catalyst for reaction with gases and solid particulates, and an inlet block is included in each respective inlet channel and positioned at the outlet end while an outlet block is included in each respective outlet channel and positioned at the inlet end. The blocks force the fluid stream through the substantially fibrous non-woven porous refractory material.
Advantageously, the catalytic device provides a method for removing particulate matter and carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and hydrocarbon pollutants and for trapping particulate matter from the exhaust stream of an engine. This is done by directing an exhaust gas stream from an engine through a substantially fibrous nonwoven filter, catalyzing the conversion of hydrocarbon pollutants into carbon dioxide and water, catalyzing the conversion of carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide, catalyzing the conversion of nitrogen oxide into molecular nitrogen gas, and extracting particulate matter from the exhaust gas stream via filtration. The particulate matter may later be burnt off during regeneration process in the presence or absence of catalysts, heaters and other devices.
These and other features of the present invention will become apparent from a reading of the following description, and may be realized by means of the instrumentalities and combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims.
The drawings constitute a part of this specification and include exemplary embodiments of the invention, which may be embodied in various forms. It is to be understood that in some instances various aspects of the invention may be shown exaggerated or enlarged to facilitate an understanding of the invention.
Detailed descriptions of examples of the invention are provided herein. It is to be understood, however, that the present invention may be exemplified in various forms. Therefore, the specific details disclosed herein are not to be interpreted as limiting, but rather as a representative basis for teaching one skilled in the art how to employ the present invention in virtually any detailed system, structure, or manner.
The drawing figures herein illustrate and refer to an exhaust system pathway that is specifically described as a component of an internal combustion engine exhaust system. However, it should be appreciated that the exhaust pathway may be used with other types of exhaust systems. For example, the exhaust system pathway may be used in petrochemical, air-filtration, hot-gas filtration, chemical synthesis, biomedical, chemical processing, painting shops, laundromat, industrial exhaust, generation plant, or commercial kitchen exhaust applications.
Generally, a catalytic converting device consists of a host or a structural substrate support, and a catalyst that at least partially coats the support. Often the catalyst components reside on a washcoat that includes surface area enhancers, surface modifiers, stabilizers and oxygen storage components. A catalytic device contains the appropriate type and mass of support and catalyst so that it can fulfill a precise catalytic function under the desired operating conditions and environment. For example, the catalytic device may facilitate a chemical conversion, such as that of a first gaseous species into a second gaseous species, a first liquid species into another liquid species, a liquid species into a gaseous species, or the like. Typically, the chemical conversion reaction or set of reactions are deliberate and well-defined in the context of a particular application, e.g. simultaneous conversion of NOx, HC, and CO into N2, H2O, and CO2, the conversion of MTBE to CO2 and steam, the conversion of soot to CO2 and steam, and the like.
Some constructions may have gap 29 between inlet channel 19 and outlet channel 21. The gap 29 enables a flow-through exhaust path from inlet port 14 to outlet port 16. Accordingly, catalytic device 10 may use a combination of wall-flow (i.e., the gas passes through a porous wall) and flow-through (i.e., the gas interacts with the wall but does not pass therethrough) processes to provide catalytic effect. The size and placement of any gap 29 may be set according to backpressure requirements, filtration efficiency required, expected gas flows, and required conversion levels.
The pore size in wall 25 and wall 27 may be selected to trap particulate matter and to catalyze particular reactions. The overall porosity, pore-shape and pore-size distribution may also depend on the washcoat and the catalyst material being used to coat the walls of the substantially fibrous non-woven porous refractory material. The wall(s) 25, 27 may have a pore-size gradient. The highly porous and fibrous nature of the wall(s) 25, 27 allow for the device 10 to be made smaller and lighter than the prior art converters and allow for faster heating and 'light off'. The intertangled refractory fibers making up the walls 25,27 further contribute to the toughness of the walls 25, 27, making them able to withstand mechanically harsh conditions, such as those close to the engine. This combination of properties allows the device 10 to be positioned closer to the engine than known converter devices, such that the device 10 may be heated to it 'light off' temperature more quickly by the engine gasses and thus begin to function sooner with less pollutants passing therethrough unconverted during its light off phase.
The use of pore diffusion wall flow dramatically increases the efficiency of the catalytic device 10, particularly during light off. As a result of the wall flow design, the exhaust gas is forced to go through the wall and hence the bulk diffusional limitation is severely reduced. Thus, the exhaust gas only needs to diffuse in the pores to reach the catalyst residing on the walls of the pores. That distance is much shorter, and hence the overall conversion efficiency is much higher. The efficiency is further enhanced due to the lower thermal mass of the highly porous walls 25, 27 enabling them to be heated more quickly. The increased efficiency and lower thermal mass enable the catalytic device to be made smaller, or to have less catalytic material and still maintain effective catalytic processes. Such a size and mass reduction saves space, material, and cost, while significantly reducing emission of pollutants due to shorter light off delays. Additionally, the emittance/emissivity of the material can be altered, such as with the application of emittance agents, such as to affect the conversion efficiency and/or for thermal management.
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After the catalyst first activates, a catalytic converter goes through a period of time where the rate of the catalyzed reaction is limited primarily by the pore diffusion processes. In other words, once the temperature threshold of the first portion of the catalyst is reached, the rate of the catalyzed reaction is now limited by how fast the gas heating the catalyst may be transported to the remaining catalyst after it has already entered the pores and how fast the gaseous species to be reacted at the catalyst interface can be transported through the porous walls thereto. The pore diffusion effect dominates the reaction rate until sufficient amounts of substrate/catalyst has been heated; at this time, bulk diffusion of the pollutant species to the catalyst on the surface of the substrate becomes the dominant and limiting process.
When sufficient substrate material 65, 67 has been heated, the catalytic device 50 has its bulk transfer characteristics dominate and limit conversion efficiency. However, the impact of bulk transfer rate is typically very small. Since the typical catalytic converter has a relatively large thermal mass, it takes time 141 to approach its final conversion efficiency. Since catalytic device 50 has a lower thermal mass and a more effective pore diffusion process, the time 139 to approach its final conversion efficiency is shorter. The difference is shown as time reduction 149. The total time reduction 115 (
It will be appreciated that the catalytic device 150 may be designed in many physical arrangements. The diameter, length, channel density, blocking pattern, blocking material, blocking material placement, catalytic material, catalyst placement, wall porosity, pore-size, pore-shape, and wall thickness may all be adjusted for application specific needs. Each of these characteristics may affect conversion rate, backpressure, and light off time. The effect of each of these propertied is generally discussed below.
The particles filtered from the exhaust stream would need to be removed from the filter (i.e., the filter would need to be regenerated) at periodic intervals to keep the filter clean, its permeability high, and its conversion efficiency high. In such cases, 'active' or 'passive' regeneration strategies can be employed. In passive regeneration, the particulates captured are burnt of periodically in the presence of the oxidizing catalyst as the temperatures go higher than the soot burning point. In active regenerations, heat has to be supplied to such a catalytic converter to increase the temperature of the soot sufficiently to burn off into primarily CO2 and H2O. Active regeneration also employs fuel-borne catalysts and mechanical devices, such as heat traps, pressure valves, etc. In the case of particulates that have been captured using depth filtration, the efficient contact between the particulates, catalyst and the incoming gas allows for fast, efficient and more complete burn off of particulates and regeneration.
In one configuration, the catalytic device 150 is fluidically connected to the exhaust stream coming from a gasoline engine 190 and also to a fuel injection port 152 that, from time to time, is used to inject fuel into the catalytic honeycomb monolith 155. (See
In addition to the faster light-off time and more efficient conversion of pollutants to nonpollutants afforded by the fibrous and porous nature of the catalyst support substrate materials used herein, the fibrous and porous nature of the devices described hereinabove also tend to dampen and attenuate sound and noise generated by the associated engine and gas flow. Thus, the devices are additionally attractive as their use tends to reduce or minimize the need for extraneous sound muffling or baffling devices.
While the invention has been illustrated and described in detail in the drawings and foregoing description, the same is to be considered as illustrative and not restrictive in character. It is understood that the embodiments have been shown and described in the foregoing specification in satisfaction of the best mode and enablement requirements. It is understood that one of ordinary skill in the art could readily make a nigh-infinite number of insubstantial changes and modifications to the above-described embodiments and that it would be impractical to attempt to describe all such embodiment variations in the present specification. Accordingly, it is understood that all changes and modifications that come within the spirit of the invention are desired to be protected.
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Comments (186)
|curl-6 (on 19 February 2017)
I still think it can make it, yes.
|fedfed (on 27 January 2017)
5 mil still possible you think?
|AngryLittleAlchemist (on 15 December 2016)
God this game is just awesome. Nintendo, please support more new IPS!
|Nautilus (on 22 October 2016)
With the Switch version, assuming its a port, Splatoon is easily going to get more 3 or 4 million sales.
|curl-6 (on 09 September 2016)
With 6 months til NX, including a holiday season, 5 million is practically in the bag
|Munchies (on 26 August 2016)
I haven't bought this yet.
|Luke888 (on 08 August 2016)
15k in Japan after a year and two months...
|Nuvendil (on 07 August 2016)
I mean 500k, my bad :P
|Nuvendil (on 07 August 2016)
Not sure if you all noticed but Splatoon is now just 50k behind Titanfal's TOTAL sales. So it passed the 360, passed the One, now it looks to pass them all. Crazy.
|Ryng_Tolu (on 28 May 2016)
Happy birthday. :)
|BayonettaHair (on 22 May 2016)
One more week. The day is coming.
|KungKras (on 11 May 2016)
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|Zach808 (on 28 April 2016)
4.34 million. Looks like passing 5 million is definitely possible. I would never have guessed this would sell that much originally. If the NX is a successful console I could see a sequel doing COD numbers.
|Proxy-Pie (on 08 April 2016)
Damn, I didn't realize it was past 4m. Definitely gonna have a sequel lol.
|Ryng_Tolu (on 06 April 2016)
By end of 2015, Nintendo sold 4.06 million, VGC has Splatoon at 4,035,000.
25,000 unit is of course toooooo low. we already know in many region digital sales are huge, and of course, some copies are in the store, and not sold to consumer.
Now VGC has the game at 4.30m. I believe Nintendo should easy ship another 400K, most likely more.
4.5 million by end of March seem about right. So, difference between Nintendo and VGC should be 200k or so. Still overtracked, but with this trend the numbers should start looks at least realistic by September 2016, if VGC countinue to undertrack Splatoon.
I don't get why GVC just don't adjust the numbers in 2015, but oh well...
|OneKartVita (on 01 April 2016)
Cool. I only said it when the guy was celebrating a milestone it hasn't hit yet. I've said the game is selling very well numerous times. Don't give out to be for providing the correct info while I'm at it.
|Goodnightmoon (on 01 April 2016)
Onekartvita, Its less than a 10% overtrackment, wich is considered very good for an estimation, wich is what VGC does, but of course you feel the need to come here and say is overtracked everytime you can. We all know you already.
|OneKartVita (on 31 March 2016)
Nintendo says shipped not sold and that includes digital which isn't tracked on here. The Vgchartz retail numbers are overtracked. That's all I'm saying. The game is selling great though. Already in the Wii U top 5!
|Gamemaster87 (on 20 March 2016)
Where the heck are the sales overtracked? Nintendo said it sold 4 million units until December 31st, 2015. Vgchartz also says that it sold 4 million units in 2015. It's not overtracked in the slightest.
|Ryng_Tolu (on 19 March 2016)
I predict over 7 million lifetime. And i also think that's conservate, honestly...
|Ljink96 (on 18 March 2016)
The Vita kid needs to go home. He feels like he has to whiz on any accomplishment Nintendo makes. Get over it, it's selling well.
|OneKartVita (on 17 March 2016)
The sales are good but you can't have people celebrating numbers that official figures disagree with.
|Darwinianevolution (on 10 March 2016)
Well, this is going to outsell NintendoLand soon, if it hasn't already. You don't kid with the squid.
|iceland (on 10 March 2016)
Slightly overtracked but VGC did pretty well. Good sales either way
|Goodnightmoon (on 09 March 2016)
Onekartvita, you really have to come here to say the game is overtracked as amny times as you can, dont you? even when we are talking about a 5% overtrackment, something completely insignificant, VGC is very on point with Europe sales.
|OneKartVita (on 09 March 2016)
Nintendo just announced 1m sold in euro. Considering Vgchartz don't track digital it's a bit over tracked in that region too.
|Ryng_Tolu (on 09 March 2016)
VGC know that lifetime sales by end of 2015 are overtracked, but VGC has not adjusted it for... Some reasons...
But since they know it's overtracked, they are now completely undertracked the weely sales, so at some points they will be spot on.
Wait for the Nintendo quarter report on April, and you will see if Splatoon is really "slowing down". ;)
|OneKartVita (on 05 March 2016)
Sales slowing down now. but it's still ahead of Halo 5. Have Vgchartz adjusted the sales down yet to match official numbers?
|SpokenTruth (on 24 February 2016)
NPD doesn't track bundles. Why must you overtrackers forget this?
|Goodnightmoon (on 23 February 2016)
@OneKartVita That's less than a 10% of difference, how is that a "Well off" traking? It's pretty accurate for VGC.
|tbone51 (on 10 February 2016)
80k a month? Looks at Japan, sold around 70k alone..... Nah 80k a month maybe starting Apr :p
|OneKartVita (on 09 February 2016)
Yeah tone probably around 3.7m sold through (is that retail plus digital?) if so then the retail tracking on here is well off.
Anyway it's selling about 80k a month from now on by the looks of it. another 1m by October?
|Thunderbird77 (on 05 February 2016)
Overtracked but still above 4m. Will easily sell another 2m but probably 3m+
|Gamemaster87 (on 02 February 2016)
I expect 6 million lifetime.
|tbone51 (on 02 February 2016)
Official numbers over 4mil by years end! (4.06mil exactly) overtracked here by a good amount. Sold through is probably around 3.7mil though!
|SlayerRondo (on 31 January 2016)
It's is the success of a game like this that gives me hope for the future of Nintendo. I hope that the NX can somehow bring Nintendo back from its current slump with 3DS falling short of the DS and the WiiU looking to be the worst selling Nintendo console of time. Good luck Nintendo.
|Shikamo (on 23 January 2016)
|Nuvendil (on 20 January 2016)
WOW 4mil in just a bit over 7 months. Dang. And as pointed out, NPD tracks no bundles and we know the Splatoon bundles did well so the overtracking is not as bad as it seems. But even so, dang, what a success story.
|b00moscone (on 20 January 2016)
4m! Congrats!
|LipeJJ (on 20 January 2016)
Congrats on reaching 4m! I may not even be completly overtracked.. if we take digital numbers, it's even undertracked in Japan, for example. :P I'm sure it's at the very least sitting at 3.5m right now.
|Munchies (on 20 January 2016)
4 million!
|AZWification (on 19 January 2016)
It might be overtracked, but not THAT much. That 850k number doesn't bundles and we know that the Nov bundle sold 140k. Add another 200k from May and Dec bundles and Splatoon would be at around 1.2m in the US.
|OneKartVita (on 18 January 2016)
850k in USA according to NPD so it's heavily overtracked. Vgchartz doesn't track digital so keep that in mind.
|AZWification (on 15 January 2016)
Splatoon is probably at round 1.2-1.4m ( probably closer to the latter) in North America if we take everything into consideration
|Bofferbrauer (on 15 January 2016)
Apperently though, the NPD numbers did not include bundles. While the Splatoon bundle only came out fairly late, one could probably still add some 200-300k to these numbers. In other words, still overtracked in US, but not as much as I feared at first.
|Bofferbrauer (on 15 January 2016)
@Tbone51: Looks like you where right, seems like Splatoon was overtracked by quite a lot in NA. However, I do believe Splatoon is actually undertracked in europe and rest of the world, so this might even out. We will know more when Nintendo releases it's quartal numbers by the end of the month.
|Darwinianevolution (on 14 January 2016)
@tbone51 Believe in the squid.
|tbone51 (on 13 January 2016)
I really want this game to succeed but I'm starting to think we got this wayyyYyyy overtracked. I'm guessing shipments+digital were to be around 3.75mil,but if VGC got this correct were looking at 4.8mil-5mil from nintendo. Well we'll know soon enough. NPD tomorrow, Splatoon is easily over 1mil in the us
|SpokenTruth (on 12 January 2016)
Mr. Puglsy, Splatoon got bundled after Halo 5 got bundled.
|Mr Puggsly (on 11 January 2016)
@OneKartVita - Halo 5 didn't have the same mass bundling, Halo 5 was released later in the year, AND we don't know the digital numbers of Halo 5.
But hey, Splatoon is still hit but Halo 5 MIGHT be ahead in overall sales.
|LipeJJ (on 11 January 2016)
It's definitely above 4m physically by now, which is extremely impressive. I guess 5m is a pretty safe bet at this point.
|OneKartVita (on 11 January 2016)
Stretched it's lead over Halo 5 this week! Top selling exclusive shooter of the year
|Munchies (on 11 January 2016)
70k more until 4 million.
|SpokenTruth (on 11 January 2016)
2 weeks away from passing MK8 in Japan.
|Munchies (on 10 January 2016)
Easily coming for 5 million.
|b00moscone (on 08 January 2016)
At this rate, it could sell 4+ million before the years end, very impressive!
|Zach808 (on 07 January 2016)
Another week of increasing the lead over Halo 5. At this rate, the gap's never gonna close.
|tbone51 (on 07 January 2016)
Anybody interested, Splatoon with known digital sales sold 1.32mil by years end in Japan. This doesn't include digital in nov+Dec.
Shipped+digital might be over 1.5mil by years end. It should be the best selling HC game this gen in Japan.
|SpokenTruth (on 07 January 2016)
The best selling exclusive new IP on any platform since The Last of Us.
|Salnax (on 06 January 2016)
This is now the first new series to sell a million units in Japan since Wii Party.
|Munchies (on 06 January 2016)
|xboxonefan (on 06 January 2016)
A million in japan
|LipeJJ (on 06 January 2016)
Damn, Splatoon is outselling Halo 5 despite releasing back in May/June.
|SpokenTruth (on 06 January 2016)
Yep. Just updated and it's now at 3.7 million. Wow.
|Machina (on 06 January 2016)
Takes time for the figures to filter out to individual game pages.
|SpokenTruth (on 06 January 2016)
Whoa. Page says 3.35 million. Global weekly chart says 3.6 million. Both claim as of Dec 19th.
|Luke888 (on 01 January 2016)
@kooltrex me too, I really hope to be able to get it on NX either with a port or with BC
|kooltrex (on 26 December 2015)
I predict 4.5 million lifetime. Its insane how much this sold on an 11 million userbase along with being a new IP. I hope to pick it up one day.
|OneKartVita (on 21 December 2015)
It's already the 6th best selling game on wii u. The next 12 months will be fun seeing now high it can get
|IamAwsome (on 20 December 2015)
They pushed the heck out of this game and it paid off.
|DarkRPGamer007 (on 20 December 2015)
Maybe Nintendo will now invest in new IPS more
|Junkrixx (on 20 December 2015)
|LipeJJ (on 19 December 2015)
Holy cow! 3M already? This game might hit 5M+ LT indeed...
|Munchies (on 19 December 2015)
3 million!
|OneKartVita (on 19 December 2015)
|b00moscone (on 19 December 2015)
Three million now! Congrats!
|Goodnightmoon (on 19 December 2015)
3 Milions on VGC :D
|Nautilus (on 17 December 2015)
@AZWification oh I didnt know.I stand corrected then
|OneKartVita (on 17 December 2015)
OK so the dream lives on. Splatoon didn't outsell Halo for the month but more importantly it outsold it on black friday and the week after. So it should have better legs over the next year. It's hard to believe Nintendo is beating halo in the US. great achievement!
|AZWification (on 17 December 2015)
@Nautilus I've read somewhere that Splatoon hit 1 million 2 weeks ago, but Nintendo decided to make the announcement yesterday because there was a Splatoon related event in Japan.
|DolPhanTendo (on 17 December 2015)
Hey Curl- 6 still think 5 million isn't guaranteed like I say safe bet I hits 5 million
|DarkRPGamer007 (on 16 December 2015)
Already hit 1m in Japan alone! Hopefully Nintendo will continue to make great new IP's like this!
|SpokenTruth (on 16 December 2015)
France is undertracked by 100,000 units.
|Nautilus (on 16 December 2015)
@IamAwsome actually its not undertracked.Splatoon hit 1 Million this week, and vgchartz has its sales up until 28 november, and in the last weeks Splatoon sold around 90k.So counting digital, the sales here is spot on
|IamAwsome (on 16 December 2015)
Undertracked in Japan.
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|Proxy-Pie (on 16 December 2015)
It's barely gonna get past the 300k mark - Some guy on the forum back when it was announced :P
|FloatingWaffles (on 14 December 2015)
I love when games like Splatoon come out and blow expectations completely out of the water. Some people need to have more faith and stop assuming so quickly, such as all the comments when this was first revealed about how it would apparently bomb and sell horribly.
|Redguy (on 13 December 2015)
I am betting 4mill by end of year,the rate of splatoon selling must be at least 350k each week to hit 4mill
|Goodnightmoon (on 13 December 2015)
@OneKartVita you are wrong, there is no proof of this game being overtracked. VGC said it outsold the game just in Black Friday, not the whole month.
|VaultDweller (on 12 December 2015)
I bet this has already passed 3m sold... Vgchartz is somewhat innacurate because of digital sales - like Super Mario Maker (1.88 in September, official Nintendo numbers VS 1.66, Vgchartz numbers in Decemeber)
|VaultDweller (on 12 December 2015)
I bet this has already passed 3m sold... Vgchartz is somewhat innacurate because of digital sales - like Super Mario Maker (1.88 in September, official Nintendo numbers VS 1.66, Vgchartz numbers in Decemeber)
|Bofferbrauer (on 12 December 2015)
@OneKartVita: The game outsold Halo 5, but only on Black Friday and just barely, not the whole month. The first 2 weeks of November Halo 5 outsold Splatoon by ~ 250k combined, so naturally Halo stayed on top for the month
|OneKartVita (on 12 December 2015)
NPD numbers are in and I think this is being heavily overtracked in the US. if I remember correctly Vgchartz had this outselling halo in the US? well halo sold a lot more on NPD so it can't be right. Still awesome sales though and this will have great long legs.
|iLikeEggs (on 11 December 2015)
On black friday, I went to Best Buy to buy Splatoon and Shovel Knight and Borderlands HC. Four parents in front of me and one dude behind me were buying splatoon, so it might have sold really well on BF.
|PAOerfulone (on 11 December 2015)
What's going on here?
The front page says 2.60m.
But the global lavel says 2.41m.
And both are as of the 21st Nov.
|GoldenTriforce (on 10 December 2015)
It is black Friday so it isn't absurd to have it sell 230k
|Zach808 (on 10 December 2015)
Are these US numbers overtracked this week?? This game has legs, but selling almost Fallout 4 numbers seems a bit ridiculous. This is more than the US first week sales.
|OneKartVita (on 09 December 2015)
According to VGChartz this outsold halo 5 in the US this week. If true. WOW.
|Shadow1980 (on 09 December 2015)
Media Create has Splatoon at 861k, making it the #3 best-selling Wii U game so far in Japan. This game has some insane legs over there. It hasn't left the MC Top 10 since it came out.
|LipeJJ (on 06 December 2015)
This game will definitely reach 3m this year! And it might even do it physically.
|Zach808 (on 06 December 2015)
Wow, almost outsold Halo 5's week 4 in this game's 26th week. This game doesn't mess around. Almost becoming as big of a seller as Sm4sh and MK8. Completely shattered my 500k LT prediction.
|Redguy (on 06 December 2015)
At the rate at it is selling,i have a feeling that it will hit 3million physical sales at the end of the year
|OneKartVita (on 02 December 2015)
Got a nice boost on mediacreate this week. It's going to have a great holiday in Japan and definetely world wide!
|Luke888 (on 29 November 2015)
I wonder if it already sold more than 1M in the US due to Black Friday...
|Goodnightmoon (on 29 November 2015)
The inkvasion is unstoppable!
|Mr Puggsly (on 28 November 2015)
So I bought Wii U on Black Friday. Primarily so I can play Bayonetta 2.
It came with this game and its surprisingly pretty damn fun. Refreshing in a similar way as Sunset Overdrive. If I can find a few games I really enjoy on Wii U, its a purchase I won't regret.
|LipeJJ (on 26 November 2015)
60k this week. No one can contain it! :P
|OneKartVita (on 23 November 2015)
50k this week. Beeeeeeeeeeast!! I wonder how high it will get in a week before Xmas?
|curl-6 (on 21 November 2015)
If you said it'd reach 4m back before it's release, you'd be labelled crazy...
|Skullwaker (on 18 November 2015)
Yay for 2m!
I'd say 4m is a really safe bet to make at this point, which is crazy. It's selling very well in all regions, especially NA and Japan. Wouldn't be surprised to see it break 3m by year's end.
|LipeJJ (on 17 November 2015)
I agree... 4m is a safe bet and 5m is completely possible, but not "safe". Anyway, AMAZING sales, that's a new IP they'll probably carry on to their next systems like Mario Kart or Smash Bros. Imagine how much Splatoon 2 would sell if well made and released on a sucessful system with a good install base? Would probably do 7-10m...
|curl-6 (on 17 November 2015)
@Nuvedil, agreed. I myself was skeptical it could hit 1m lifetime.
|Shikamo (on 17 November 2015)
congratz 2m :)
|Nuvendil (on 14 November 2015)
@curl-6 The fact that now we're talking about 4mil as the safe bet and 5mil is the more uncertain goal is crazy. I remember when 1mil was considered a longshot!
|curl-6 (on 14 November 2015)
I wouldn't say 5m is a "safe" bet at all. 4m is likely, but 5m isn't guaranteed.
|b00moscone (on 14 November 2015)
1.99! Should safely reach 2m in the next update
|DolPhanTendo (on 07 November 2015)
It's safe to say Splatoon does 5 million lifetime
|LipeJJ (on 06 November 2015)
This game just keeps selling. I wonder how it will do once the Japan bundle and maybe a western bundle arrive. 2.5m is a lock this year, it may even have a chance of reaching 3m (considering digital sales).
|MotherBound (on 03 November 2015)
Splattered expectations
|S.Peelman (on 30 October 2015)
Nintendo says 2.42m as of september 30.
|Nuvendil (on 27 October 2015)
Well some of this is going to depend on how Nintendo handles kthe Wii U moving forward. Good word of mouth and marketing have made it one of the games many would probably pick up soon after purchasing the system. Thing is, Nintendo has to get people to buy the system. And the number one thing I hear out and about concerning Wii U is "there's some great exclusives and I've been thinking about getting one *but* the price is a bit high.". And it's not even NX doing this as I hear essentially nothing about that outside the forums and very serious communities. It's just that $300 is pricey for a 100% exclusives driven companion system. The Wii never had this issue partly because it was never that expensive, even at launch. A price cut is sorely needed and long overdue.
|Zach808 (on 25 October 2015)
Maybe if Splatoon keeps up this 70-80k average every week from now until the holidays, I could see it reaching that high. I was expecting the sales to go down these past few weeks to maybe around 35k per week, but if the game's now at around 2.5 million, then that obviously isn't happening.
|Nautilus (on 25 October 2015)
@Zach808 The game by now is already at around 2.5 Millions, and that number is without a Holiday season to improve its numbers.So 5.5 by the end of 2017 is really plausible, considering all factors
|Zach808 (on 23 October 2015)
5.5 million? That sounds a bit overkill. Those are MK8 numbers and not much else. Unless this game gets a HUGE holiday boost, I'd say 3 million.
|Ryng_Tolu (on 17 October 2015)
Splatoon is gonna sell 5,500,000 by 31 December 2017. Maybe a bit more, or maybe a bit less, but i'm pretty sure this game will be over 5 million, but under 6 million.
|Meret (on 16 October 2015)
@PAOerfulone Famitsu tracks digital (in monthly reports). Splatoon is best selling game ever on Wii U eShop in Japan.
|PAOerfulone (on 15 October 2015)
Nintendo had this at 1.62 as of June 30th.
Chartz had it at 1.12 as of June 27th.
It's now at 1.60, so ad .48 to 1.62, that would be 2.10 million as of August 08th.
Media Create updated their numbers and currently has this game at .71 million in Japan. That's another .18 added to the .53 that Chartz has it now.
So now it's 2.28.
I'm going to just take a completely wild guess and say this game added another .24 in N. America and Europe between August 8th and now.
Which would put it at 2.52 million. All of this is not including whatever additional digital sales that were added. Because neither VGChartz or Media Create tracks digital.
So I think there's a very strong chance that this game may have already cracked 3 million!!
|marsoRa200 (on 08 October 2015)
@Teeqoz if your talking about NPD numbers, well that is no proof, NPD never gets right about nintendo games, for example: bayonetta 2,Npd said that it only has 200k+ sold in the us, when in preorders it had almost 100k (not from vgc numbers) so don't believe them
|Jranation (on 28 September 2015)
im guessing this is already @ 2mil+ If we count digital as well. Because according to this http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/software/wiiu.html It sold 1.6m+ in its first month. We could even say it nearly 3mil .
|Teeqoz (on 17 September 2015)
Undertracked worldwide, overtracked in the US.
|b00moscone (on 13 September 2015)
I reckon that after the post-Christmas drop it will maintain a 40k per week, looking at its legs right now.
But who knows, it might be even higher :P
|garretslarrity (on 11 September 2015)
It looks like sales have stopped falling. I'm curious to see how this plays out.
|Skullwaker (on 11 September 2015)
@MatrosRx in physical sales, definitely. It was at 1.6m shipped+digital at the end of June, so it's very likely over 2m shipped+digital now.
|MatrosRx (on 10 September 2015)
Well we now know that at the end of August both Japan and America sold over 600,000 units each. So the global total should be over 1.6 million now.
|mZuzek (on 05 September 2015)
I remember someone questioning me why I believed this game would have legs. Oh well, I guess time showed the answer.
|Skullwaker (on 05 September 2015)
Splatoon is a very leggy game. It seems like the constant updates and in-game events consistently put the game in the press, which sparks more people to hear about it and buy it. In Japan, the game has actually raised the baseline for the Wii U, so new people are buying the console every week specifically for this game. I've heard from several sources that it's actually one of the most talked about games in schools (in addition to Yokai, of course).
|b00moscone (on 04 September 2015)
Welcome, my friend, to the might of Nintendo legs.
But yeah, this is amazing for a new IP on the Wii U
|Zach808 (on 04 September 2015)
Wow, is it just me, or is this game's sales dropping really slowly compared to other similarly selling exclusives this year? I wasn't too impressed by the opening week sales (pretty much thrashed by The Order and Bloodborne), but those two dropped like a brick afterwards. Splatoon's managed to maintain the 100k mark for several weeks, and has pretty much been stuck around 70-80k ever since, while the other two had long since dropped under 40k by week 10.
|PAOerfulone (on 02 September 2015)
Or how much of a success it has yet to be!
I could see this game finished with around 5 million lifetime now.
|b00moscone (on 02 September 2015)
Will easily reach 1.5m in the next two weeks.
Heck, it could reach 2m before the holidays
|Nuvendil (on 01 September 2015)
And to think this game was once thought to be lucky to hit 1 million lifetime...
It's kinda crazy to think how much of a success Splatoon has been.
|Nuvendil (on 01 September 2015)
And to think this game was once thought to be lucky to hit 1 million lifetime...
It's kinda crazy to think how much of a success Splatoon has been.
|zippy (on 30 August 2015)
My Xbox fan cousing came to stay at the weekend, and after playing Splatoon, he immediately ordered a Wii U. His words were "best game I have played this year". Those are my thoughts too, and this deserves all the good sales it gets. Let's hope this garage team are busy at work on something else unique.
|Screamapillar (on 29 August 2015)
As of this week's Media Create, Splatoon is over 600k in Japan (physical) and set to surpass Smash Bros. Wii U by the end of September. Crazy!
|Ljink96 (on 26 August 2015)
Pretty sure, Japan numbers are at 585K. Man, what's happened to VGC. They used to be on top of their game.:(
|Cheebee (on 24 August 2015)
3 million by the end of the year seems pretty doable imo, including digital. As of right now it could be close to 2 million already.
|thewastedyouth (on 20 August 2015)
I thought this game was gonna bomb and I was completely wrong. Can't believe it. Gonna get a wii u just for this and pikmin
|ExplodingBlock (on 18 August 2015)
"It will be lucky if it sells 750k lifetime". I still get a kick out of reading those comments
|Nuvendil (on 14 August 2015)
Wow, just announced Splatoon is about 540k in the US alone end of July. So around 600k North America seems reasonable. Japan is at 500k+ retail iirc at the end of July. And then there's Europe and the rest of the world plus digital in Japan. I'd say Splatoon is well on its way to an easy 2mil+ end of year sales. It even does have a chance for 3mil by the end of the year, especially shipped+digital.
|b00moscone (on 12 August 2015)
@Paatar Wow, if so then you might be right, Splatoon might have a chance of reaching 3m if it keeps its weekly sales as it is.
|Paatar (on 11 August 2015)
Boomoscone, only a few weeks ago they just announced it had reached 1.61m sold.
It will hit 3m by years end I think.
|b00moscone (on 09 August 2015)
By now this game has to be at 1.5m +
Will probably reach 2m by end of year, with Christmas giving it a major boost.
|Stellar_Fungk (on 05 August 2015)
Gangsta sales
|Ryng_Tolu (on 04 August 2015)
Splatoon is confirmed overtracked in the US, because NPD said 290k for June, VGChartz has Splatoon in 4 weeks ( miss one week) at 315,058.
The game can be undertracked in other countries of course.
But to be honest, i'm not interesting. I just give about the Nintendo annunced, even if are shipped + digital, so, in my book, Splatoon is at 1,620,000 for end of June.
|garretslarrity (on 29 July 2015)
Nintendo has confirmed that Splatoon has sold (shipped + digital) 1.62M as of June 30, 2015. So clearly VGC has NOT been overtracking it.
|ExplodingBlock (on 29 July 2015)
I wonder who sold more copies
Squid or Kid
|Ultrashroomz (on 21 July 2015)
...I'm a squid kid...
|Goodnightmoon (on 12 July 2015)
Is showing inkredible legs already
|Skullwaker (on 10 July 2015)
@Darwinianevolution probably not in actual sold numbers. Hyrule Warriors was confirmed 1m shipped in January, and I'd be surprised if it hadn't reached it before Splatoon.
|Jranation (on 10 July 2015)
|Darwinianevolution (on 10 July 2015)
Did Splatoon beat Hyrule Warriors in the first to achieve 1m retail numbers?
|LipeJJ (on 09 July 2015)
2m+ by the end of the year: here we go!
|TreeTurtle (on 09 July 2015)
daaaaang, 1 million already?
|Skullwaker (on 09 July 2015)
1m! That didn't take long at all. Now let's see how far it can go. :)
|Ryng_Tolu (on 09 July 2015)
1,000,000 now in VGChartz. :)
|bunchanumbers (on 09 July 2015)
I am so happy that this game is selling so well. It deserves every sale it gets.
|garretslarrity (on 09 July 2015)
Since VGChartz only tracks physical, this is probably a little overtracked. Unless the 1.1M statement, even though announced on the 24th, was as of an earlier day.
|Clyde32 (on 09 July 2015)
It was confirmed to be at 1.1M on June 24th. So either it's 100K in 4 days or...
|GuyDuke (on 09 July 2015)
So happy this game sells so much!
|xboxonefan (on 09 July 2015)
it sold 1 millons
|OfficerRaichu15 (on 09 July 2015)
1 million seller!!!!
|Skullwaker (on 08 July 2015)
1m was confirmed on June 24th, which was a little over 2 weeks ago. So yes, it has been weeks. The game itself has been out for over a month.
|darkneal (on 08 July 2015)
He confirmed 1 million a few weeks ago? Its only been out a few weeks! Now if you said a few DAYS ago, now that makes sense.
|Pillow (on 08 July 2015)
Game is proably arround 1,2M by now. Iwata confirmed 1M a few weeks ago.
|Goodnightmoon (on 08 July 2015)
|OfficerRaichu15 (on 07 July 2015)
Going to be around 820k 3rd Week.
Add around 100k 4th week and that should be fine with digital.
170k digital too high perhaps?
|Ryng_Tolu (on 07 July 2015)
LMGAO. 1.5m was my prediction... It will easy double those numbers. :~P
|xboxonefan (on 07 July 2015)
400k in 2 days
|CWegzz (on 07 July 2015)
400k in 2 days, nice!
|Octane (on 24 June 2015)
Already surpassed 1 million. VGChartz should update this stuff, we're still stuck in April...
|FloatingWaffles (on 18 April 2015)
Actually Splatoon made it on the charts one week before Xenoblade X did.
|ExplodingBlock (on 18 April 2015)
This and Xenoblade X both debuted in the pre order charts the same week!
|fory77 (on 16 April 2015)
It's in the pre-order charts finally!
|fory77 (on 16 April 2015)
It's in the pre-order charts finally!
|drake_tolu (on 16 July 2014)
I predict 1.5 million! :D


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I don't mind waiting for an order so long as there is a reason for it. there is no reason to wait 3 days before picking something off a shelf and putting it on a van. There's also no reason not to order a rapid delivery option.
Sadly since this company got bought out, it appears that its lost its vision and become just another retailer shaving costs at the expense of its customers.
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From an ugly loss on a pretty Sunday afternoon in Green Bay come some telling statistics, explaining, at least in part, how and why the Dallas Cowboys defeat at the hands of the Packers was such a painful one. At the risk of reopening fresh wounds, here's the ugliest of the ugly from a woeful performance on Sunday:
*Dallas ended the first half with 111 yards of offense. They ended the third quarter with 114; sadly, this is not a typo. The Cowboys' offense could muster only three yards of offense over 15 minutes of the second half. Marion Barber, who ran the ball four times for 27 yards in the first quarter, opened the second half with a run for a loss. This would be his last carry of the game.
*Tony Romo was sacked five times in what was an awful day for Dallas's offensive line no matter how you look at it. Flozell Adams once again had difficulty with the speed rush, as he managed to get a finger or two on rookie Clay Matthews before he burned the veteran, wrapping up Romo and tossing him to the ground. Injuries to Marc Colombo and Adams didn't help matters, as Dallas, for a time, featured an offensive line consisting of Leonard Davis at left tackle, Cory Proctor at right guard and Doug Free at right tackle. For those keeping score at home, that is two backups and a former Pro Bowler playing out of position.
*Roy Williams will once again face the heat of local fans and media, as he turned in the ugliest and, statistically, best performance of his career. Williams caught five passes for 105 yards and a touchdown, which came with the game out of reach. But when it mattered, Williams dropped a ball that would have meant a first down, after it hit him in the facemask, and fumbled after a 42-yard catch-and-run, ending what looked to be a promising drive.
*Miles Austin dropped what looked to be a certain touchdown pass in the first half, as he mistimed his jump and couldn't get his hands around Romo's high-by-design pass. The team had a total of three drops on the day, at least two of which came in crucial spots.
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*In a battle of the two most penalized teams in the league, the Packers and Cowboys did not disappoint; which, I suppose in this regard, means they did disappoint quite a bit. Dallas had ten penalties for 67 yards. Green Bay had 12 for 100 yards. High-level NFL football it wasn't.
*Dallas had the fewest three-and-outs of any team in the league coming into Green Bay, with 11. On Sunday, out of 11 total possessions, five resulted in three-and-outs. This means a tired defense and a hard-to-watch game, for Dallas and their fans.


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Want to lose weight so bad!
I'm 29 and I need to lose like 50lbs! I never thought I'd ever have to deal with it but now I do. Problem is I know swimming is one of the best ways to burn fat and tone all your muscles but I just don't have the confidence to go down to the pool at my club house!! I know I shouldn't care what people thing but I do. So, I might just stick around in my house and do step aerobics like 4x week and then do free weights w/ lower and upper body workouts 3x week. I eat pretty good. I just have this major problem with chocolate!! I'll usually eat wheat free cereal like Puffins or oatmeal with crushed pineapple for breakfast w/ a glass of juice. Lunch might be a salad w/ veggies and chicken strips and some fruit. Then dinner is sometimes a frozen dinner like rice and veggies and chicken. I'm trying really hard to drink tons of water too. I try to snack on other things that are good for me like raw almonds,low fat cheese and dried fruits. Does this sound good? If i eat chocolate it might be like 3 snack size hershey. mabe once a week. Is that bad? I'm taking a multivitamin for more calcium since I break out when i eat yogurt. Does this sound pretty decent? It's so hard!!! I'm taking two summer classes at night and I'm currently not even working til end of August so I definitely have the time to work out during the day. I don't know. Does anyone have other ideas or does it look like I'm ok.
Re: Want to lose weight so bad!
Here is the thing Susanna..when you need to lose weight, EVERYTHING that you already know is bad for you, is still bad for you even in smaller quantities.. if you want to start losing weight, you have to take drastic measures.....some people may look at you and say losing an arm is drastic..excluding chocolate from your diet for a few months is NOT, but i am a chocolate lover as well, i know how hard it is.. Here is the thing...50lbs equals approx 175000 Calories that you have to burn. Now whether its 20 or 200 unneeded calories with no real nutritional value, doesnt matter, it still counts against you.. Say you run hard for 45 amount of time and it burns 300 calories..Then you eat a bag of chips or whatever thats 200 calories....you wasted your time...Not 100% of it, maybe not even 50%..but still..if you want it bad, it takes A LOT of hard work.. You want everything you do to have the maximum effect otherwise you WILL get discouraged when you do not start seeing results as quickly as you would like...Once you have lost the weight, and maintain a healthy and active lifestyle, then its ok to splurge once in a while, and your metabolism should be high enough to burn off the junk you eat...as long as you stay active and eat somewhat healthy....you **WILL FAIL** if you dont discipline yourself....you will have to know the right exercises and form, but start with your EATING HABITS.....
I have been working out for a while now, worked as a trainer then for some time...took me a long time of trial and error, college classes and weeding out the good and bad information to achieve my goals...and i found a few things...some people trying to gain muscle hard, arent exercising right, same thing with people trying to lose weight..but mostly****ALL****dont achieve their goals, whether if be losing weight or gaining muscle in significant amounts because of their NUTRITION... What, When, and How much you eat will make all the difference..
What you eat and when should be like a work schedule.....
Re: Want to lose weight so bad!
Before we can give a valid critique of your workout/diet, we need your stats. Height/weight/age. For the record, I don't think that 3 mini Hersheys a *week* is bad at all. In fact, if you're being very strict with workout and diet, I think it's a fantastic reward. The thing that I'm more concerned about is that you may not be eating enough, OR that the snacks are pushing you over your calorie threshold. I know it's a pain, but keep a food journal for a couple of days. Record everything that you eat - snacks, drinks, condiments. The food, how much and when, and note how many calories it is (use the nutrition info on the box, or if it's fruits and meats etc. you can look it up on the USDA site). The BIGGSET factor to losing weight is to make sure you are burning more calories than you are eating, but not TOO much more or your body will kick into a "starvation response" which slows metabolism, holds onto fat and eats up muscle instead which is what you REALLY don't want. Your workout looks fine for now if you stay consistent, but diet is what is going to make a big difference.
Re: Want to lose weight so bad!
I'm 29, 4'11" and 155lbs. I do have a small body frame and would like to get to a goal weight of 107-113 . FOr my body type I shouldn't be over 113 lbs. SO I'm really going to give my all. What do you suggest as nutrition? Because I only eat 3 times a day and may snack on healthy stuff like raw almonds and dried & fresh fruits and water of course. This is how I ususally eat
Breakfast: Oatmeal with crushed pineapple
glass of oj or
bowl of Puffins rice cereal w/ 2%milk
fruit & glass of juice
Lunch: Salad w/ lots of veggies,feta cheese and chicken strips w/ a red wine vinagrette or it could be a turkey or tuna wrap w/veggies and I always have some fruit. and water
Dinner: Salad w/ veggies, roasted vegetables , grilled chicken or turkey. Fruit.
sometimes a small sweet potatoe
Am I missing anything? I know I really need more calcium but I can't eat yogurt so I thought maybe a sugar free fat free pudding? Also, I'm taking a vitamin supplement. Any other ideas would be great.
Re: Want to lose weight so bad!
Your diet doesnt look too bad at all. For your current height and weight you should be shooting for 1300-1500 calories a day. On days that you work out, you should aim for the higher end of the range. Based on what you listed, this is a basic breakdown of your caloric intake (I'm not sure about the portion sizes, so you'll have to adjust accordingly)
1/2 c. Oatmeal = 150 calories
1/2 c. pineapple = ~70 calories
6 oz fresh orange juice = 170 calories
Total = 320
Salad/veggies = 50-100 calories?
1/4 c. feta cheese = 100 calories
1/2 chicken breast = 130 calories
Piece of fruit = about 60-100 calories
Total = ~410 calories
Salad = about 100 calories
Roasted veggies = 50-100? calories
1/2 chicken breast = 130 calories
fruit = ~80 calories
1/2 c. Sweet potato (no condiments) = 88 calories
Total = 240 - 328
Daily meal intake: about 970 calories
1 oz (23 whole kernels) almonds = 164 calories
1/4 c. packed raisins = 123 calories
Nuts have a lot of fat (but it's HEALTHY fat) so just be aware that calories add up quickly. Dried fruit generall has a lot of sugar too, so I'd generally avoid it if you can help it. You could probably use a little more protein and less high GI carbs (sugar). Some fruit is good for vitamins and all, but there is a lot of sugar in them. When trying to lose weight, it's best to either go for fewer pieces of low GI fruits (cherries, apples, grapefruits, pears) preferably in the morning only, or to replace the fruit with veggies, or protein. I'd ditch the OJ in the morning and go for the orange (then you get the fiber as well, no added sugar or preservatives) or skip it altogether and have tea or skim milk. Cereal is one of my least favorite things ever. Most cereals are primarily refined carbs that your body treats like sugar (metabolizes it very quickly and anything that isn't almost immediately used gets stored as fat). Oatmeal is a much better choice, takes longer for your body to burn. Whole wheat toast or an egg white omelette is good stuff too (and get some good protein). If you have to have carbs with dinner, have fruit OR a potato. Both is too many carbs before bed (unless you're particularly active after dinner). I'd recommend losing them if you can stand it. have some fat free, sugar free jello for dessert to satisfy the sweet tooth. :)
So like I said, overall it looks like you're doing pretty good. Might try to get a little more protein in and move some carb choices around, but with your workouts, I'd say you should expect to see weight loss fairly quickly. Good luck!
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Thank you so much for your tips and adivce. I really appreciate it.
Re: Want to lose weight so bad!
Naxis had some good advice, but people respond to different foods in different ways. I would say experiment too, and every 2 weeks track your progress. Definitely get a solid workout plan, resistance and cardio.
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Sydney - A "holy man" who lured women into having sex with him to rid themselves of black magic curses they thought would cause death in their families was on Friday jailed in Australia for at least 15 years.Tony Golossian, aged 63, seen by some in Sydney's Greek community as a holy man who could communicate with angels, was sentenced for 24 offences relating to the rapes of two women after being found guilty last December.Co-accused Arthur Psichogios,aged 41, was jailed for at least 12 years and his wife Frances Psichogios, aged 38, who was convicted over the drugging and assault of one victim, was sent to prison for five years.The charges relate to two victims who were told black magic curses had been placed on them and were forced into sex "prayer sessions" to free themselves.The judge said the emotional harm caused to both women was "substantial", Australian Associated Press reported.She said the first victim, who suffered a "terrible ordeal" over four and a half years, had been "cruelly manipulated into bizarre behaviour" and in effect "brainwashed".The offenders all maintained their innocence.The sentencing took place in a Sydney court surrounded by riot police after the officer in charge of the case was attacked, allegedly by a relative of one of the defendants, following the conviction hearing.
Ahhhhh - when are people going to stop being so gullible? Being a religious nut does not equate with being a good person - I think the Catholic Church has taught us all that!
Dr Musa Al Abijan has strong muti from Timbuktu that will rid anyone of gullibility....NOT.
"Holy man" indeed ! I'm also a holy man ... but then I'm a leg man and a breast man as well.
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