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.
While waiting for the results, I want to suggest a different predictor design for the contests where we have to guess the winners instead of the results.
The idea is due to the fact that it could be very hard-working filling a big table like in Swimming and Athletics and many errors can happen for example wrong cut-and-paste, accidentaly copy two times the same athlet or have misteriously mix up the whole table.
I think the design shown below could help to
make the prediction quickly because you have only to put 'x' instead of copy-and-paste the names
avoid cut and paste errors
make easily the prediction also with smartphone because you have only to copy the big table and then fill it with 'x'
What do you think? Could it be useful? Maybe we can make a test at the beginning of 2018.
Here a couple of examples (if you have to guess the first 5 athlets it's enough to add two more columns on the left)
I think you should try and have the athletics contest up first and then worry about the other results. It would be good if there is more time for predictions, as to get more users to participate.
I agree with Federer91, after these busy weeks, it would be nice to have a couple of days for the predictions instead of a handful of hours.
Congrats to all the winners of the last contests (it's very interesting to have all these different winners) and to our Dunadan that is increasing his collection of wooden medals.
Thanks to vini and tuniscof for the organizational.
Ben Youssef Meité
Jimmy Vicaut
Chijindu Ujah
Yohan Blake
Thando Roto
Christopher Belcher
Any Other
It would be good if there is more time for predictions, as to get more users to participate.
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