Wanderer 1,726 Posted May 19, 2018 #1 Share Posted May 19, 2018 (edited) Prediction Contests Are Just-For-Fun Games You don't need to be an expert to take part in a Prediction Contest. If a mistake penalizes you, always keep in mind that everyone is in good faith. Competition Details City Paris Start Date May 27th, 2018 End Date June 10th, 2018 Participants 25 Gold Wanderer Silver Pablita Bronze dcro Instructions In order to post your predictions, you have to do the following: Select with your mouse specified content of the Post named Prediction Contest Design Copy the selected content Go to Reply Box at the end of the Page, click on "Reply to this topic" Paste the copied content ( When information "You have pasted content with formatting" appears at the end of the Reply Box, ignore it, it will disappear eventually. DO NOT click on "Remove formatting" under any circumstances) Once you have specified content in new Post, start making your predictions according to the Rules To post your predictions, click on "Submit Reply" button Rules This Prediction Contest consists of two parts. In the first part of the Contest, you are predicting only winning players for First, Second, Third and Fourth Rounds, not scores. To do that, you have to Copy/Paste or Type the name of the Athlete from the first Column (named First Round) into appropriateCells in Columns named First Round Winner, Second Round Winner, Third Round Winner and Fourth Round Winner. NOTE: When you Copy/Paste or Type the names, PLEASE, make it sure that the names you are entering in empty cells are THE SAME AS THE NAMES IN PREDICTION DESIGN TABLE. In other words, if you have "Caroline Wozniacki (2)" in first column, you should have "Caroline Wozniacki (2)" through your draw, and not "C. Wozniacki" or only "Caroline Wozniacki". If you see only "Novak Djokovic (18)" PLEASE, don't write "Novak Đoković" or "Novak Djoković" Just copy/paste as you see it. Example Women's Singles First Round First Round Winner Second Round Winner Anna Blinkova (Q) Taylor Townsend (WC) Caroline Wozniacki (2) Taylor Townsend (WC) Yulia Putintseva Caroline Wozniacki (2) Caroline Wozniacki (2) Scoring system for the first part of the Contest: For each correct First Round Winner you will earn - 1 Point For each correct Second Round Winner you will earn - 2 Points For each correct Third Round Winner you will earn - 4 Points For each correct Fourth Round Winner you will earn - 8 Points You don't need to have both players correct for a particular match in order to earn Points. If any match finishes with walkover - it won't be counted. If any match finishes with retirement of one player, it still will be counted. In the second part of the Contest, which starts with Quarterfinals, you are predicting both - a Winner and a Set Score for each match. From Semifinals onward, you will predict Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles matches as well. To do that, you have to write in empty Cells a number of Sets won by each Athlete (or Doubles Team). If your prediction is that Athlete 1 is going to win, you should type appropriate number of Sets won by that player (3 for Men's Singles, 2 for all other categories) in appropriate Cell of A1 Column and do the same for Athlete 2 of that match-up. If your prediction is that Athlete 2 is going to win, then do the same accordingly. Example Women's Singles Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Athlete 1 A1 A2 Athlete 2 June 7th 2018, h. 13:00 Fatma Al Nabhani 2 1 Chanel Simmonds June 7th 2018, h. 15:00 Sada Nahimana 0 2 Abigail Tere-Apisah Scoring system for the second part of the Contest: Quarterfinals 8 Points - Correct Winner+Correct Set Ratio 4 Points - Correct Winner+Wrong Set Ratio 0 Points - Wrong Winner Semifinals 10 Points - Correct Winner+Correct Set Ratio 6 Points - Correct Winner+Wrong Set Ratio 0 Points - Wrong Winner Finals 12 Points - Correct Winner+Correct Set Ratio 8 Points - Correct Winner+Wrong Set Ratio 0 Points - Wrong Winner If any match finishes with walkover - it won't be counted. If any match finishes with retirement of one player - you will earn points only for correct winner. TB Rules If two or more contestants have the same number of points at the end, Tie-Break rule will be applied to break the tie. Number or perfect predictions from Quarterfinals to Finals will be compared for the involved contestants. If involved contestants are still tied, number of correct winners from Quarterfinals to Finals will be compared, then number of correct Fourth Round Winners, and so on. Example Contestant 1: 4, 8, 9, 3 Contestant 2: 4, 8, 8, 4 Contestant 1 will be placed ahead of Contestant 2. Contestant with most points wins the competition. The Ranking is determined by the Sum of Points the Contestant scores in all predicted Matches. You can enter the Contest whenever you want. The moment you post your predictions is the moment when you are entering the Contest and your points will be calculated for all the matches you predicted AND which haven't started. In order to earn points from the start, you should post your predictions before the start of the first match of the Tournament - May 27th, h. 11:00 (GMT +2). You can EDIT your predictions whenever you want until the start of the first match of the Prediction Design Post. Once competition starts, you are not allowed to edit your post and any further changes will be ignored. On contestant's request, edited predictions will be accepted, but contestant will earn 0 points for finished matches and the matches that have started. Moment at the latest editing will be considered as the entry moment, in other words. Qualifiers: If it happens that the main draws are already known, but qualifiers are yet to be determined and their placement in the draw, you can fill in the draw according to the Rules (meaning - you are putting in Qualifier 10 if Qualifier 10 appears in the first Column). Once qualifiers are placed in the draw, I will put the names in Prediction Design post. If there is still time to edit your predictions, you are allowed to do so. In Tennis there is always possibility of Draw Changes because of late Withdrawals. If there will be such late changes, all "new"1st Round Matches involving all moved Athletes will not be counted. It means you can receive Points for right predicted 1st Round winning Athlete only if the Match started with both Athletes from the Prediction Design Table. You will be allowed to edit your Predictions (if you want) for the 2nd to 4th Round Matches involving moved Athletes, but only before the start of the first Match of the 2nd Round. All other editing will be ignored.But please - before you edit, send a PM to the manager, otherwise editing will be ignored completely. You can fill in Men's and Women's Singles Draws in separate posts if you want to. If you want to comment on this Prediction Contest, please use Prediction Contests - Discussion Thread only. If you have problem with the format, you can post your predictions in simplified format. Also, if the forum is down, or you cannot access the forum for any reason, you can send you predictions on e-mail: totallympics.predictions@gmail.com. Make sure your predictions are understandable. For instance, S. Williams 2-1 means Serena Williams wins 2-1. Williams 2 means nothing. And please, write your Totallympics username so the contest manager can know who actually sent predictions. Every contestant MUST HIDE own predictions. To do that, you have only to delete the space between the bracket "[" and the text "hide" in "[ hide]" at the beginning of prediction post. Do the same with "[ /hide]" at the end of prediction post too. The hidden content will appear to other users as follows: This post has been hidden. Only the user who posted it is able to see the content If you have any other questions concerning this prediction contest, problems with format, editing etc... please, contact the contest manager via Personal Message. 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Wanderer 1,726 Posted May 20, 2018 Author #2 Share Posted May 20, 2018 (edited) You MUST hide your post. To do that, you have only to delete the space between the bracket "[" and the text "hide" in "[ hide]" at the beginning of prediction post. Do the same at the end of prediction post with "[ /hide]" too. PREDICTION DESIGN - START COPYING HERE ---> [ hide] Men's Singles First Round First Round Winner Second Round Winner Third Round Winner Fourth Round Winner Rafael Nadal (1) Simone Bolelli (LL) Joao Sousa Guido Pella Malek Jaziri Mikhail Youzhny Andreas Seppi Richard Gasquet (27) Denis Shapovalov (24) John Millman Ryan Harrison Maximilian Marterer Yuki Bhambri Ruben Bemelmans (LL) Jurgen Zopp (LL) Jack Sock (14) Diego Schwartzman (11) Calvin Hemery (WC) Mirza Basic Adam Pavlasek (Q) Matthew Ebden Thomas Fabbiano Borna Coric Philipp Kohlschreiber (22) Feliciano Lopez (28) Sergiy Stakhovsky (LL) Mischa Zverev Florian Mayer Aljaz Bedene Pablo Cuevas Paolo Lorenzi Kevin Anderson (6) Marin Cilic (3) James Duckworth Hubert Hurkacz (Q) Tennys Sandgren Evgeny Donskoy Jan-Lennard Struff Steve Johnson Adrian Mannarino (25) Fabio Fognini (18) Pablo Andujar Dudi Sela Elias Ymer (Q) Vasek Pospisil Marton Fucsovics Alex de Minaur (WC) Kyle Edmund (16) John Isner (9) Noah Rubin (WC) Horacio Zeballos Yuichi Sugita Peter Polansky (LL) Pierre-Hugues Herbert Jeremy Chardy Tomas Berdych (17) Albert Ramos-Vinolas (31) Mikhail Kukushkin Jordan Thompson Casper Ruud (Q) Leonardo Mayer Julien Benneteau Nicolas Mahut Juan Martin del Potro (5) David Goffin (8) Robin Haase Ivo Karlovic Corentin Moutet (WC) Martin Klizan (Q) Laslo Djere Elliot Benchetrit (WC) Gael Monfils (32) Nick Kyrgios (21) Bernard Tomic (Q) Marco Cecchinato Marius Copil Federico Delbonis Thomaz Bellucci (Q) Jozef Kovalik (Q) Pablo Carreno Busta (10) Roberto Bautista Agut (13) Denis Istomin Marcos Baghdatis Santiago Giraldo (Q) Jaume Munar (Q) David Ferrer Rogerio Dutra Silva (Q) Novak Djokovic (20) Fernando Verdasco (30) Yoshihito Nishioka Guido Andreozzi (Q) Taylor Fritz Nicolas Jarry Jared Donaldson Viktor Troicki Grigor Dimitrov (4) Dominic Thiem (7) Ilya Ivashka (Q) Stefanos Tsitsipas Carlos Taberner (Q) Oscar Otte (LL) Matteo Berrettini Ernests Gulbis (Q) Gilles Muller (29) Kei Nishikori (19) Maxime Janvier (WC) Benoit Paire Roberto Carballes Baena Nikoloz Basilashvili Gilles Simon Frances Tiafoe Sam Querrey (12) Lucas Pouille (15) Daniil Medvedev Peter Gojowczyk Cameron Norrie Karen Khachanov Andreas Haider-Maurer Guillermo Garcia-Lopez Stan Wawrinka (23) Damir Dzumhur (26) Denis Kudla (Q) Gregoire Barrere (WC) Radu Albot Jiri Vesely Dusan Lajovic Ricardas Berankis Alexander Zverev (2) Women's Singles First Round First Round Winner Second Round Winner Third Round Winner Fourth Round Winner Simona Halep (1) Alison Riske Myrtille Georges (WC) Taylor Townsend (WC) Bethanie Mattek-Sands Johanna Larsson Andrea Petkovic Kristina Mladenovic (29) Daria Gavrilova (24) Sorana Cirstea Bernarda Pera Elena Vesnina Heather Watson Oceane Dodin Varvara Lepchenko Elise Mertens (16) Angelique Kerber (12) Mona Barthel Ana Bogdan Marketa Vondrousova Aliaksandra Sasnovich Denisa Allertova Aryna Sabalenka Kiki Bertens (18) Shuai Zhang (27) Kristina Kucova Irina-Camelia Begu Anna K. Schmieldova Shuai Peng Aleksandra Krunic Yingying Duan Caroline Garcia (7) Garbine Muguruza (3) Svetlana Kuznetsova Fiona Ferro (WC) Carina Witthoeft Samantha Stosur Yanina Wickmayer Polona Hercog An. Pavlyuchenkova (30) Magdalena Rybarikova (19) Luksika Kumkhum Belinda Bencic Deborah Chiesa (Q) Lesia Tsurenko Stefanie Voegele Laura Siegemund Coco Vandeweghe (15) Julia Goerges (11) Dominika Cibulkova Alison van Uytvanck Isabelle Wallace (WC) Kristyna Pliskova Serena Williams Natalia Vikhlyantseva Ashleigh Barty (17) Maria Sharapova (28) Richel Hogenkamp (Q) Kateryna Bondarenko Donna Vekic Lucie Safarova Jessika Ponchet (WC) Barbora Krejcikova (Q) Karolina Pliskova (6) Jelena Ostapenko (5) Kateryna Kozlova Katerina Siniakova Victoria Azarenka Saisai Zheng Ekaterina Makarova Kurumi Nara Barbora Strycova (26) Johanna Konta (22) Yulia Putintseva Jennifer Brady Amandine Hesse (WC) Petra Martic Yafan Wang Qiang Wang Venus Williams (9) Madison Keys (13) Sachia Vickery Caroline Dolehide (Q) Viktorija Golubic (Q) Magda Linette Zarina Diyas Sofia Kenin Naomi Osaka (21) Mihaela Buzarnescu (31) Vania King Rebecca Peterson (Q) Su-Wei Hsieh Francesca Schiavone (Q) Viktoria Kuzmova Ajla Tomljanovic Elina Svitolina (4) Petra Kvitova (8) Veronica Cepede Ryog Lara Arruabarrena Timea Babos Alexandra Dulgheru (Q) Christina McHale Madison Brengle Anett Kontaveit (25) Anastasija Sevastova (20) Mariana Duque-Marino (Q) Camila Giorgi Grace Min (Q) Magdalena Frech (Q) Ekaterina Alexandrova Arantxa Rus (LL) Sloane Stephens (10) Daria Kasatkina (14) Kaia Kanepi Tatjana Maria Kirsten Flipkens Mandy Minella Maria Sakkari Ana Konjuh Carla Suarez Navarro (23) Alize Cornet (32) Sara Errani Chloe Paquet (WC) Pauline Parmentier (WC) Dalila Jakupovic (LL) Georgina Garcia Perez (Q) Danielle Collins Caroline Wozniacki (2) [ /hide] ---> PREDICTION DESIGN - STOP COPYING HERE Edited May 26, 2018 by Wanderer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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