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Someone took the time to organize a contest, post it, users posted their predictions, and then it's cancelled. And it's not possible to let this be a stand-alone contest? That's just impossible, or what am I missing? I mean, we have an organizer, we have at least 16 participants, you really think cancelling the whole thing is better than letting these 16 people have their contest? The only one who should decide whether or not it continues is the organizer (which is tuniscof). If he wants to continue this contest and has the time to keep track of the points, for crying out loud, let the contest go ahead. This is just....no, not gonna say what I think. It's better not to.

Thanks Sindo, I just lost interest about prediction contests by your unfair decision... Such decision like this for sure will not help to gain more people competing in the contests. Talking about number of user in the contest tell me how many more people compted in contests about World Champs in rhythmic gymnastics or Tour de France? Why these contests weren't cancelled? You said that we should focus on contests about Olympics, yes, I agree, but having contest about Australian Open will not be big obstacle, as for sure before end of Australian Open we still will not have full and official lists about competing athletes in Olympic Games. Late withdrawals is just part of this sport, people which take part in tennis contests should know that such things can happen and be prepared to updated their predictions, even if they wouldn't be able to do it missing just 2 or 3 matches it wouldn't be big detail in final standing. I recommend you open this contest again and give people some chances.

I have just left 'Qualifier' where I think the qualifier would lose in round one anyway (just not at the men's tournament because there I thought it would be useful, but it wasn't ), and where I thought the qualifier would win at least the first round, I wrote the name with (Q) behind it.

This one definitely can't count for the general standings. Short notice, not complete templates, contradicting statements from prediction contest mods... It's back to the same old story from 2016 and 2017 (for which we still don't have results btw), as @Pablita very well explained in her post. There must be some rules, although they can seem harsh, they should be for the best. I don't think prediction contests on Totallympics can survive any more flops to be honest...

Prediction Contest is open again. Tuniscof is online so he will take the decision. I decided to take the decision because tuniscof was not online since more than 48 hours and I didn't know when he would have been back (I also tried to contact him on Facebook). I think to run this contest would be the wrong decision, but since tuniscof is the organizer, he will decide.

I still dont get it ... 1) So not allowing anyone to predict the results is better than some people missing the contest because of the short notice? How? 2) I think everyone here who predicted saw that the draw wasnt completed, so everyone who still posted a prediction was well aware of that problem. 3) How exactly is this contest taking time away? Isnt tuniscof the one who manages it and therefore should decide whether he has enough time or not? I am sorry, but i really hate this decision. Either you shouldnt have allowed it from the beginning (but again, why?) or you should have just stayed out of it. Many people invest quite some time and really looked forward to this. I think this problem has been adressed before, if you try to control everything, people will lose interest if they have no freedom to creat their own threads, contests and so on.

Ice Hockey at the Winter Olympic Games 2018 Prediction Contest is now OPEN Scoring system is slightly modified - 7 points for correct winner and 5 points additionally for goal difference. Best of luck!

Pa jel mislis da ce oni biti realni u svojim izjavama? Idu oni na pobedu sad. Sacekaj pa ces videti

Well, yeah, I guess skiing is indeed more important than shooting in nordic combined.

New Year but always the same old song for the prediction contests: no old results, no schedule of the new year, decisions overturned in few days (Sindo said on 2nd January that Australian Open won't have a prediction contest and now we have the contest) no planning, why work on Australian open while it would be better to open the Olympic contests (we still don't know how many they will be and what are we waiting for opening the hockey contest?) Moreover I think the choice of Australian Open is quite nonsensical because past tennis contests showed that they don't capture the interest of new people because the two brackets are big and tedious (you need a lot of time to fill them) it's necessary a lot of work for the organizer (check many results in the first week, create many predictions in the second week) the contenders have to work a lot in the second week because there are many matches and you don't know when they finish, so many matches predictions are forgotten or skipped Good luck to the contenders and to the organizer (it's nice to see tuniscof come back on predictions) for the Australian Open but I hope that this contest doesn't steal time and energy from the Olympics.

I added names of qualifiers by my own

Ok, I agree, this contest might not be counted for general standing, but give people chance for competing, as I remember good in old forum main motto for the prediction contests was "You not must be expert to taking part, it's just for fun"

I agree (and honestly I think most participants wouldn't have a problem with it), but at least let's have the people who did have their predictions in have their contest. Consider it sort of the Biathlon auf Schalke of prediction contests: it doesn't count for anything, but those who are there do want to win

So simply say "Ok people, there were some problems, short notice etc, so the contest will go ahead, but it won't count towards the general standings." Participants happy (at least most of them, I suppose) because they didn't spend their time for absolutely nothing, you happy because there's not an 'unfair' general standings or something. Nobody loses, unlike now.

In 2018 CONI will have from the state 419 millions of euro. Special founds: 5.4 millions for the Ryder Cup 2022 project 4 millions for the 2018 Volley World Championship 1 million for the youth basketball sector 3 millions of euro was gave to the Italian corps army; 241 millions of euro was gave to the federation, in this order (only top 40): Football - 30.42 mil (-7.87) Swimming - 4.91 mil (+0%) Athletics- 6.45 mil (+0%) Snow Winter Sports - 5.48 mil (+2.71) Cycling- 5.46 mil (+4.80%) Fencing - 5.10 mil (+4.08%) Volleyball - 4.97 mil (+0%) Judo/Wrestling/Karate - 4.85 mil (+2.10%) Tennis - 4.29 mil (+0%) Basketball - 4.19 mil (+0%) Skeet shooting - 4.06 mil (+3.84%) Gymnastics - 3.78 mil (+1.32%) Rowing - 3.60 mil (+5.87%) Rugby - 3.51 mil (+0%) Boxing - 3.32 mil (+3.11) Ice Winter Sports - 2.87 mil (+3.60%) Shooting sports - 2.79 mil (+0%) Canoeing - 2.76 mil (+3.75) Archery - 2.52 mil (+4.64%) Equestrian sports - 2.50 mil (+8.70%) Baseball/Softball - 2.49 mil (+4.26) Sailing - 2.4 mil (+3.52) Taekwondo - 2.06 mil (+5.10) Weightlifting - 2.05 mil (+0%) Golf - 1.73 mil (+0%) Roller sports - 1.92 mil (+8.44%) Motor sports - 1.90 mil (+2.70%) Pentathlon - 1.86 mil (+0%) Field hockey - 1.82 mil (+2.81) Triathlon - 1.70 mil (+6.26) Table tennis - 1.63 mil (+0%) Badminton - 1.58 mil (+0%) Handball - 1.49 mil (+0%) Winter skiing - 1.39 mil (+7.74%) Fishing - 1.27 mil (+0%) Powerboat - 1.23 (+0%) Boules - 1.23 mil (+4.23%) Dancing - 0.78 mil (+6.81%) Squash - 0.70 mil (+7.63) Hunting - 0.45 (+0%)

IMPORTANT The Prediction Contest for Australian Open 2018 has been cancelled. First of all, huge apologies to the 16 users who spent their time in posting their predictions. This is my decision and I take full responsabilities, so don't blame @tuniscof for that. My decision is based according to these 3 factors: 1) Too short notice: I wrote in this thread there would have not been an Australian Open Prediction Contest on January 7th, Wanderer confirmed it on January 10th, then tuniscof opened it on January 11th. 2) Draws: qualifications were delayed because of rain so they finished on Sunday instead of Saturday, and as some users wrote here there were some withdrawals which partially changed the draw. This would create a lot of unfair situations between users who posted their predictions with the "old" draws. 3) Focus on Winter Olympic Games Prediction Contests: Winter Olympic Games are few weeks away and Totallympics is going to organize several Prediction Contests during that period, so our focus should be on that and to guarantee results will be posted on time. The small number of participants few hours before the start of the Australian Open is mainly because of the previous reasons. Also, in general, I am against Tennis Prediction Contests because of the reasons Pablita pointed out. I suggest to make at most one tennis Prediction Contest per year, but this is a decision I leave to the organizers. I decided to intervene in this situation because of the urgency for a decision to be taken and the unavailability of tuniscof in the whole day. Once again, apologies for the time users spent to post their predictions, hopefully this is the only time we have to cancel a Prediction Contest!

Немате појма, то је била добро смишљена тактика. Изгубити убедљиво две прве утакмице да би се заврали Исланђани. И онда у одлучујућој утакмици кад то не буду очекивали бум и увалимо им реми.

Два играча више и правимо пробијање, плус нам увале гол из контре. Значи ово је толико јадно да је сваки коментар сувишан. Па они дословно немају везе с мозгом, ни једне једине акције у нападу, одбрана не постоји

Sve je to okej naspram 70 milki za TSS

This quota is a true miracle, if you consider that we use a old bob that was hidden nearly 2 years in the garage and the guys started to think about competing in this sport only this September and had their first training run only few weeks later. Some of them never sat in a sled before !

I solidan rezultat za pocetak sezone, on nikada nije ni znao da trci u dvorani. A i 400m nije njegova disciplina. Nadam se da ce paziti sada i voditi racuna o svom telu, pa da ga gledamo na EP.

Those times when you're like 5 seconds to late to make a joke and someone else makes it

Australian Open: Bernard Tomic going home to 'count my millions’ after qualifying defeat Bernard Tomic said he was heading home to "count my millions" after failing to qualify for the Australian Open. The Australian lost 6-1 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 to Italian Lorenzo Sonego in the final round of qualifying in Melbourne. It will be the first time since 2008 that 25-year-old Tomic has not featured in the main draw, with Tennis Australia having chosen not to offer the world number 142 a wildcard. "I just count money, that's all I do," he told Channel 7. "You go do what I did. You go make 13-14 million. Good luck guys. Bye bye." The remark echoed his reaction to criticism for a lack of commitment in Madrid last year, when he said: "Would you care if you were 23 and worth over $10m?" A two-time junior Grand Slam champion, Tomic became Australian number one and reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals as an 18-year-old qualifier in 2011. He reached the third round at last year's Australian Open, but will fall further down the next set of rankings after this qualifying failure. Local media have reported he is considering taking part in the Australian version of television show I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. He was left out in 2015 after accusing the governing body of abandoning him following hip surgery in 2014, but has since returned to the team. Tomic's career has also been affected by off-court controversy. In July 2015, he was charged with resisting arrest and trespassing by police in the United States after refusing to leave a hotel room. And his father, John, was sentenced to eight months in prison for assaulting his son's training partner before the 2013 Madrid Open.

Now we know he's one of the lurkers on this forum.

Seriously Eurosport commentator stealing my joke of Bjoerndalen switching to Belgium

Cool, first ever top 30 for the former WJC bronze medalist Elias Kolega. This has probably secured his place on the Olympic team. Good luck!

Kolega into 26th! Please, please, stay inside!

Nostalgia is always a bittersweet experience . I hope you will come back to us one day and re-live your good times. And yes, Castle on the Hill was always on the radio here and yes is a million times better than Galway Girl. Bohemia, the Galway Girl, Ed Sheeran knew it

Sorry but when i have too much beer I always go for this song...

I have renewed my passport and I am expecting to be in Pyeongchang too. (Should add that I am also going to Beijing and Tokyo) so hitting the next 3 hosts in one month

except Novak vs. Young match cuz we already know the outcome, but it's still interesting to see Novak returns after nearly 6 months of absence , i see other 5 really looks challenging and worth watching , really sad for de Menaur who'll face a very experienced player like Berdych in 1st round , especially after 2 big tournaments in 2 weeks

perfect point in this part of the World, where the Olympic Games have been thought and created, history and tradition mean Winter = Snow & Ice so, imho the Winter Olympic Games must only include disciplines played on those 2 "elements"...

to vise nije iznenadjenje. tacno na osnovu ovoga vidis ko je dobar sa kim.

This song sounds so... heavenly, I don't know how to describe it: This one makes me nostalgic of my time in Ireland last year it was played a lot when I was there, I heard it a lot on the radio in the bus, going to the university, and the line "I can't wait to go home" made me think of me, even though I didn't want to go home at that moment XD But now this song is tied with the great time I had in Ireland and the memories and friends I made there (wow I'm gonna make myself cry :')) : (the song that makes me think of my time there could have been Galway Girl since I was in Galway (and I was still there when Ed Sheeran went to shoot the video clip, I think I've never been that close to an international star in my life ) but it's only a fun song, and it's far from being as good as Castle On The Hill in my opinion)