[PREDICTION CONTEST] Biathlon World Championships 2017

tuniscof · February 7, 2017

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Prediction Contests Are Just-For-Fun Games

"There are things that are uncertain for us, things more or less probable,

and we seek to compensate for the impossibility of knowing them

by determining their different degrees of likelihood.

So it was that we owe to the weakness of the human mind one of the most delicate

and ingenious of mathematical theories, the science of chance or probability."

Competition Details
City	Hochfilzen
Start Date	February 9th, 2017
End Date	February 19th, 2017
Participants	23
Gold	dcro
Silver	heywoodu
Bronze	rybak

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

For this Prediction Contest you are predicting medal winners for each event of the Prediction Design.

To do that, you have to write or Copy/Paste the names of Athletes/Nations from the Column named Athletes in appropriateCells for each Event. Write or Copy/Paste one name you predict to be a Gold Medal winner in adequate Cell, and do the same for Silver Medal winner and Bronze Medal winner as well. Do the same for each Event of the Prediction Design.

Examples

Event and Date

Gold Medal Winner

Silver Medal Winner

Bronze Medal Winner

Athletes

Men's 10 km Sprint

Day 3, February 11th, 2017

Martin Fourcade

Simon Schempp

Anton Shipulin

Julian Eberhard

:FRA Martin Fourcade

Simon Schempp

Johannes Thingnes Boe

Emil Hegle Svendsen

Anton Shipulin

Any Other

Points will be awarded as follows:

- For right predicted Gold Medal Winner - 4 points.
- For right predicted Silver Medal Winner - 3 points.
- For right predicted Bronze Medal Winner - 2 points.
- For right predicted Athlete/Nation but wrong place/medal - 1 point.
- Bonus points: 1 bonus point will awarded to predictor who predicted all medalists correctly, regardless of the order (1-2-3, 1-3-2, 2-1-3, 2-3-1, 3-2-1, 3-1-2).

If you (by mistake or on purpose) picked two or more Athletes/Nations for the same place in one event, and if the total number of picked Athletes (options) for that event isn't over three, you'll get exactly 1 Point for each of them NO MATTER WHICH POSITION (and one bonus Point if you predicted all top 3 Athletes/Nations). If the total number of pickedAthletes/Nations in one event is over three, you'll not get any Points for Athletes/Nations picked for the same position.

The first physical medal presentation is binding. If, for some reason no medals are presented for an event during the Games, this event will be eliminated in this contest.

Examples

Event and Date

Gold Medal Winner

Silver Medal Winner

Bronze Medal Winner

Athletes

Men's 10 km Sprint

Day 3, February 11th, 2017

Martin Fourcade

Simon Schempp

Anton Shipulin

Julian Eberhard

:FRA Martin Fourcade

Simon Schempp

Johannes Thingnes Boe

Emil Hegle Svendsen

Anton Shipulin

Any Other

Results:

1. Martin Fourcade - 4 Points

2. Simon Schempp - 3 Points

3. Anton Shipulin - 2 Points

Bonus Points: - 1 Point

Your Total: 10 Points

1. Martin Fourcade - 4 Points

2. Anton Shipulin - 1 Point

3. Simon Schempp - 1 Point

Bonus Points: - 1 Point

Your Total: 7 Points

1. Martin Fourcade - 4 Points

2. Julian Eberhard - 0 Points

3. Simon Schempp - 1 Point

Bonus Points: - 0 Points

Your Total: 5 Points

1. Martin Fourcade - 4 Points

2. Any Other - 0 Points

3. Julian Eberhard - 0 Point

Bonus Points: - 0 Points

Your Total: 4 Points

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 throughout the contest will be compared for the involved contestants. If they are still tied, number of correct Gold Medal Winners will be compared, then number of Silver Medal Winners and at the end number of Bronze Medal Winners. If players are still tied, answer on TB question will be taken into consideration. Contestant with closer answer on the question wins the Tie-Break.

Example

Contestant 1: 6x10, 12x4, 10x3, 7x2

Contestant 2: 6x10, 12x4, 8x3, 8x2

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 Events.

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 Events 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 Event of the Championships - February 9th, h. 14:45 (GMT +1).

If you want to use Jolly in this Prediction Contest (which will double your Points for General Standings), Copy and Paste the following picture at the top of your Prediction Post.

You can add Jolly in your Post until the start of the first Event of the Prediction Contest. You can't remove a Jolly you have submitted after the start of the first Event of the Prediction Contest.

You can EDIT your predictions whenever you want until the start of the first event 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 events and the events that have started (heats included). Moment at the latest editing will be considered as the entry moment, in other words.

If you want to comment on this Prediction Contest, please use Prediction Contests - Discussion Thread 2016 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, 1 - Fourcade, 2 - Schempp, 3 - Shipulin, means Fourcade wins gold medal, Schempp silver and Shipulin bronze. 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:

You don't have permission to view this hidden content

If you have any other questions concerning this prediction contest, problems with format, editing etc... please, contact the contest manager via Personal Message.

Edited February 19, 2017 by tuniscof

tuniscof · February 7, 2017

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.

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Event and Date	Gold Medal Winner	Silver Medal Winner	Bronze Medal Winner	Athletes
2 x 6 km + 2 x 7,5 km Mixed Relay Day 1, February 9th, 2017				Austria Czech Republic France Germany Norway Russia Any Other
Women's 7,5 km Sprint Day 2, February 10th, 2017				Gabriela Koukalova Kaisa Mäkäräinen Someone from France Laura Dahlmeier Dorothea Wierer Anastasiya Kuzmina Any Other
Men's 10 km Sprint Day 3, February 11th, 2017				Julian Eberhard Martin Fourcade Simon Schempp Johannes Thingnes Boe Emil Hegle Svendsen Anton Shipulin Any Other
Women's 10 km Pursuit Day 4, February 12th, 2017				Gabriela Koukalova Kaisa Mäkäräinen Anaïs Chevalier Marie Dorin Habert Laura Dahlmeier Dorothea Wierer Any Other
Men's 12,5 km Pursuit Day 4, February 12th, 2017				Martin Fourcade Someone from Germany Someone from Norway Anton Shipulin Jakov Fak Any Other
Women's 15 km Individual Day 5, February 15th, 2017				Gabriela Koukalova Kaisa Mäkäräinen Someone from France Laura Dahlmeier Dorothea Wierer Tiril Eckhoff Any Other
Men's 20 km Individual Day 6, February 16th, 2017				Dominik Landertinger Martin Fourcade Erik Lesser Simon Schempp Someone from Norway Anton Shipulin Any Other
Women's 4 x 6 km Relay Day 7, February 17th, 2017				Czech Republic France Germany Italy Norway Ukraine Any Other
Men's 4 x 7,5 km Relay Day 8, February 18th, 2017				Austria France Germany Norway Russia Ukraine Any Other
Women's 12,5 km Mass Start Day 9, February 19th, 2017				Darya Domracheva Gabriela Koukalova Kaisa Mäkäräinen Marie Dorin Habert Someone from Germany Dorothea Wierer Any Other
Men's 15 km Mass Start Day 9, February 19th, 2017				Ondrej Moravec Martin Fourcade Someone from Germany Someone from Norway Anton Shipulin Any Other