[PREDICTION CONTEST] Men's Football FIFA Confederations Cup 2017

tuniscof · June 14, 2017

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	Various Cities
Start Date	June 17th, 2017
End Date	July 2nd, 2017
Participants	33
Gold	ady48
Silver	africaboy
Bronze	mihamiha

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 infromation "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 the result (win of either team or draw) for each match.

To do that, you have to write in the empty Cells the number of goals each team will score in that particular match. If your prediction is that Team 1 is going to score 3 goals, you should type that number in appropriate Cell of T1 Column. If your prediction is that Team 2 is going to score 1 goal, then type that number in appropriate Cell of T2 Column. From the Quarterfinals onward, result at the end of eventual overtime (BEFORE penalties/shoot out) will count as final result.

Examples

Group A

Date and Venue	Team 1	T1	T2	Team 2
June 17th 2017, h. 18:00, *Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg*	Russia	3	1	New Zealand
June 18th 2017, h. 18:00, *Kazan Arena, Kazan*	Portugal	1	1	Mexico

Points will be awarded as follows:

- Right predicted outcome (winner or draw) + right score at the end of the regular time (at the end of the overtime/before penalties/ from quarterfinals onward) - 5 points.
- Right predicted winner + wrong score but right goal difference - 4 points.
- Right predicted draw but wrong score and right predicted winner + wrong score and wrong goal difference but right number of scored goals for Team 1 or Team 2 - 3 points.
- Right predicted winner + wrong score + wrong goal difference + wrong number of scored goals for both teams - 2 points.
- Wrong predicted outcome (winner of draw) but right number of scored goals for Team 1 or Team 2 - 1 point.
- Wrong predicted outcome (winner of draw) and wrong number of scored goals for both teams - 0 points.

Examples

Group A

Date and Venue	Team 1	T1	T2	Team 2
June 17th 2017, h. 18:00, *Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg*	Russia	3	1	New Zealand

If Russia wins 3-1, you get 5 points
If Russia wins 4-2 or 5-3 or 6-4..., you get 4 points (right winner and goal difference)
If Russia wins 4-1 or 3-0 or 2-1 or 10-1..., you get 3 points (right winner, wrong goal difference, right number of goals for one of the teams)
If Russia wins 1-0 or 5-2 or 8-3..., you get 2 points (right winner, wrong goal difference, wrong number of goals for both teams)

If New Zealand wins 4-3 or 5-3 or 6-3... or if match ends 1-1 or 3-3, you get 1 point (wrong outcome, right number of goals for one of the teams)

If New Zealand wins and Russia score more or less than 3 goals or if match ends with draw but not 1-1 or 3-3, you get 0 point (wrong outcome and wrong number of goals for both teams)

Group A

Date and Venue	Team 1	T1	T2	Team 2
June 18th 2017, h. 18:00, *Kazan Arena, Kazan*	Portugal	1	1	Mexico

If match ends 1-1, you get 5 points
If match ends with draw but not 1-1, you get 3 points

If match ends with winner and one of the teams scores exactly one goal, you get 1 point

If match ends with winner and both of the teams score more or less than exactly one goal, you get 0 points

In the Knockout Round, points will be multiplied by:

In the Semifinals, points will be multiplied by 1.5
In the Medal Matches, points will be multiplied by 2

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 second best scores will be compared, then number of third best results and so on.

Example

Contestant 1: 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3

Contestant 2: 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 2

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 Championship - June 17th, h. 18:00 (GMT +3).

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 Match of the Prediction Contest. You can't remove a Jolly you have submitted after the start of the first Match of the Prediction Contest.

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.

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, POR 2 1 MEX or POR 2 MEX 1 means Portugal beats Mexico by 2-1. POR 2 MEX 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:

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 July 4, 2017 by tuniscof

tuniscof · June 14, 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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Preliminary Round

June 17th - June 25th, 2017

8 Nations, 2 Groups, 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for Semifinals

Group A

Date and Venue	Team 1	T1	T2	Team 2
June 17th 2017, h. 18:00, *Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg*	Russia			New Zealand
June 18th 2017, h. 18:00, *Kazan Arena, Kazan*	Portugal			Mexico
June 21st 2017, h. 18:00, *Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow*	Russia			Portugal
June 21st 2017, h. 21:00, *Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi*	Mexico			New Zealand
June 24th 2017, h. 18:00, *Kazan Arena, Kazan*	Mexico			Russia
June 24th 2017, h. 18:00, *Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg*	New Zealand			Portugal

Group B

Date and Venue	Team 1	T1	T2	Team 2
June 18th 2017, h. 21:00, *Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow*	Cameroon			Chile
June 19th 2017, h. 18:00, *Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi*	Australia			Germany
June 22nd 2017, h. 18:00, *Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg*	Cameroon			Australia
June 22nd 2017, h. 21:00, *Kazan Arena, Kazan*	Germany			Chile
June 25th 2017, h. 18:00, *Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi*	Germany			Cameroon
June 25th 2017, h. 18:00, *Otkrytiye Arena, Moscow*	Chile			Australia

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bestmen · June 14, 2017