[PREDICTION CONTESTS] Discussion Thread

[Agger 1,663]

Just now, heywoodu said:

I had missed that and thought to do it now...yeah, I don't think I'm gonna have time to do this  

2/3 through the men's right now 

[heywoodu 15,141]

3 minutes ago, Agger said:

2/3 through the men's right now 

There really should be a way to do this with keyboard only (number, tab, number, tab, number, tab, number, tab), this clicking with my shabby mouse is driving me mad  

 

I might give it a try tomorrow morning in between work, out of respect for @Wumo's hard work  

[Wumo 3,002]

34 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

There really should be a way to do this with keyboard only (number, tab, number, tab, number, tab, number, tab), this clicking with my shabby mouse is driving me mad  

 

I might give it a try tomorrow morning in between work, out of respect for @Wumo's hard work  

I would appreciate if you took the time as I spend alone 3-4 hours on the brackets 

[heywoodu 15,141]

7 minutes ago, Wumo said:

I would appreciate if you took the time as I spend alone 3-4 hours on the brackets 

I'll do my best, although I do think it would be invaluable for everyone if we can all figure out a way to make this way quicker for both the organizer and participants  

 

Maybe using an online tool or something for the tennis contests, where for example the winner of match A is already placed in the next round's match automatically instead of having to do double work (entering score and copy-pasting names)  

[heywoodu 15,141]

Posted the men at least, I'll try the women tomorrow  

[Olympian1010 7,976]

I thought about coming off the bench for both the Tour de France and the US Open. I didn’t do the Tour de France after I came to the realization that’s it been a good year or two since I last watched professional cycling (which is crazy), and I didn’t want to look like a complete fool.

 

The sole reason I didn’t the US Open is because of how many matches I would have to predict. I agree with @heywoodu on this one, there’s got to be a better way to run this contest next time around (for both participants and organizers). 

Thanks to @Wumo for organizing these latest contests though.

[heywoodu 15,141]

6 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I thought about coming off the bench for both the Tour de France and the US Open. I didn’t do the Tour de France after I came to the realization that’s it been a good year or two since I last watched professional cycling (which is crazy), and I didn’t want to look like a complete fool.

 

Too bad. I've been watching it for at least 20 years, the last at least 10 of which pretty intensive, and I'm still looking like a complete fool  

 

By the way, about the US Open: the number of matches is no problem for me, it's the inconvenience of Totallympics (or any text-based forum in general) to quickly fill them in. I believe there are websites where you can just Tab through the whole thing in a couple of minutes if you don't need ages to think about your picks. This is not meant to criticize anything or anyone by the way, it's just the nature of a forum.

[Federer91 2,796]

We do tennis once a year, so even if it takes a bit longer, it's not of an issue for me.  At least this way i get very familiar with the brackets and know instantly who is in which half and what is his path, when the matches start 

[Monzanator 4,503]

55 minutes of typing all the names! That took longer than I expected and I didn't have to print the flags. I was afraid I ain't gonna make it on time

 

But hey, it's tennis so I expect to finish higher in this game than Tour de France

[Wumo 3,002]

Provisional Standing of the ASO/UCI Tour De France Prediction Contest after Day 3 is available here

 

To all contestants, you are now allowed to edit your predictions until the start of Stage 4, 13:30 (GMT +2)

 

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