[PREDICTION CONTESTS] Discussion Thread

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Provisional Standing of Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2023 Prediction Contest after Day 10 is available here

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Provisional Standing of Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2023 Prediction Contest after Day 11 is available here

[Cinnamon Bun 413]

What's the plan for next month's contests, there's a lot going on.  

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8 hours ago, Cinnamon Bun said:

What's the plan for next month's contests, there's a lot going on.  

This week I will open a poll where users can vote for some of the prediction contests for the last half of 2023.

 

There are five prediciton contests which I have already decided will happen in the last half of 2023.

See below for the list:

 

The current Totallympics Prediction Contests Calendar for July-December 2023.

 

- Women's Football FIFA World Cup 2023 - July 20 - August 20

- Swimming at the FINA Aquatics World Championships 2023 -July 23-30

- Athletics WA World Championships 2023 - August 19-27

- Men's Basketball FIBA World Cup 2023 - August 25- September 10

- Women's Handball IHF World Championship 2023 - November 30 - December 17

Edited May 23, 2023 by Wumo

[Cinnamon Bun 413]

1 minute ago, Wumo said:

This week I will open a poll where users can vote for some of the prediction contests for the last half of 2023.

 

There are five prediciton contests which I have already decided will happen in the last half of 2023.

See below for the list:

 

The current Totallympics Prediction Contests Calendar for July-December 2023.

 

- Women's Football FIFA World Cup 2023 - July 20 - August 20

- Swimming at the FINA Aquatics World Championships 2023 -July 23-30

- Athletics WA World Championships 2023 - August 19-27

- Men's Basketball FIBA World Cup 2023 - August 25- September 10

- Women's Handball IHF World Championship 2023 - November 30 - December 17

Have you decided which events will be included - I assume the likes of European Games and World Shooting Championships will be included?  

[Wumo 2,820]

1 hour ago, Cinnamon Bun said:

Have you decided which events will be included - I assume the likes of European Games and World Shooting Championships will be included?  

I have assembled a list of 11 events I plan to put in the poll. 

 

I do have have the Shooting ISSF World Championships inlcuded in the list of the 11 events. 

 

I have looked into the idea of an European Games Prediction Contest. Though, I have realised in my research process that the European Games would demand too much of preparation compared to what the outcome would become. I first excluded the non-Olympic sports from the list of sports, but I still ended up with 197 events in total. I planned to do 50 events in total for a prediction contest. However, I realised that many sports will have very few events. Athletics, which would have taken up many of the events in a prediction contest, are also contested in a differerent format with the team events, but where individual medals are handed out to the best athletes across all divisions. I wasn't sure how this would work in the format the prediction contest we have here are currently contested in. 

 

After som consideration, I did abandon the idea of making an European Games Prediction Contest with all these things considered. 

[Cinnamon Bun 413]

4 minutes ago, Wumo said:

I have assembled a list of 11 events I plan to put in the poll. 

 

I do have have the Shooting ISSF World Championships inlcuded in the list of the 11 events. 

 

I have looked into the idea of an European Games Prediction Contest. Though, I have realised in my research process that the European Games would demand too much of preparation compared to what the outcome would become. I first excluded the non-Olympic sports from the list of sports, but I still ended up with 197 events in total. I planned to do 50 events in total for a prediction contest. However, I realised that many sports will have very few events. Athletics, which would have taken up many of the events in a prediction contest, are also contested in a differerent format with the team events, but where individual medals are handed out to the best athletes across all divisions. I wasn't sure how this would work in the format the prediction contest we have here are currently contested in. 

 

After som consideration, I did abandon the idea of making an European Games Prediction Contest with all these things considered. 

Cheers, one last question. How many get chosen from the poll?  

[Wumo 2,820]

13 minutes ago, Cinnamon Bun said:

Cheers, one last question. How many get chosen from the poll?  

The 5 championships with most votes in the poll will be selected as prediction contests.

 

Users will be able to votes for as many events/championships he/she would like to vote for in the poll. 

Edited May 23, 2023 by Wumo

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Prediction Design for the Quarterfinals in the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2023 Prediction Contest can be found here

Deadline is May 25th, 16:20 (GMT +3)

 

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Provisional Standing of Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2023 Prediction Contest after Day 12 is available here