[PREDICTION CONTEST] World Fencing Championships 2017

tuniscof · July 18, 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	Leipzig
Start Date	July 19th, 2017
End Date	July 26th, 2017
Participants	TBD
Gold	TBD
Silver	TBD
Bronze	TBD

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 appropriate Cells 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.

IMPORTANT!

In Individual events you are predicting TWO Bronze Medal winners ! While in Team events only ONE Bronze Medal winner is predicted.

Examples

Event and Date

Gold Medal Winner

Silver Medal Winner

Bronze Medal Winner

Athletes

Men's Team Sabre

Day 4, July 24th, 2017

France

Italy

Germany

France

Germany

Hungary

Iran

Italy

:ROU Romania

Russia

South Korea

United States

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 (Team Events) : 1 bonus point will be 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).

- Bonus points (inidividual events): 1 bonus point will be awarded to predictor who predicted all FOUR medalists correctly, regardless of the order.

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 picked Athletes/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 Team Sabre

Day 4, July 24th, 2017

France

Italy

Germany

France

Germany

Hungary

Iran

Italy

:ROU Romania

Russia

South Korea

United States

Any Other

Results:

1. France - 4 Points

2. Italy - 3 Points

3. Germany - 2 Points

Bonus Points: - 1 Point

Your Total: 10 Points

1. France - 4 Points

2. Germany - 1 Point

3. Italy - 1 Point

Bonus Points: - 1 Point

Your Total: 7 Points

1. France - 4 Points

2. Russia - 0 Points

3. Italy - 1 Point

Bonus Points: - 0 Points

Your Total: 5 Points

1. France - 4 Points

2. Any Other - 0 Points

3. Russia - 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. (Day-by-day posting is NOT ALLOWED !!!)

In order to earn points from the start, you should post your predictions before the start of the round of 64 of the first Event (POOLS NOT INCLUDED!!!) of the Competition - July 21st, h. 08:30 (GMT +2).

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. (Day-by-day posting is NOT ALLOWED !!!)

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 - France, 2 - Italy, 3 - Germany, means France wins gold medal, Italy silver and Germany 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 July 28, 2017 by tuniscof

tuniscof · July 18, 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.

PREDICTION DESIGN

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Event and Date	Gold Medal Winne	Silver Medal Winne	Bronze Medal Winne	Athletes
Men's Individual Sabre Day 1, July 21st, 2016				Vincent Anstett Max Hartung Andras Szatmari Aron Szilagyi Mojtaba Abedini Luca Curatoli Luigi Samele Gu Bongil Kim Junghwan Oh Sanguk Daryl Homer Any Other
Women's Individual Foil Day 1, July 21st, 2017				Eleanor Harvey Ysaora Thibus Astrid Guyart Martina Batini Arianna Errigo Alice Volpi Jeon Hee Sook Nam Hyunhee Inna Deriglazova Svetlana Tripapina Ines Boubakri Lee Kiefer Nicole Ross Any Other
Women's Individual Sabre Day 2, July 22nd, 2017				Cecilia Berder Manon Brunet Charlotte Lembach Anna Marton Someone from Italy Kim Jiyeon Yana Egorian Azza Besbes Olga Kharlan Any Other
Men's Individual Epee Day 2, July 22nd, 2017				Nikolai Novosjolov Yannick Borel Marco Fichera Enrico Garozzo Kazuyasu Minobe Someone from South Korea Max Heinzer Bogdan Nikishin Ruben Limardo Any Other
Women's Individual Epée Day 3, July 23rd, 2017				Nathalie Moellhausen Sun Yiwen Julia Beljajeva Emese Szasz-Kovacs Rossella Fiamingo Ewa Nelip Violette Kolobova Tatiana Logunova Choi Injeong Shin A Lam Sarra Besbes Any Other
Men's Individual Foil Day 3, July 23rd, 2017				Alaaeldine Abouelkassem Erwan Le Pechoux Richard Kruse Giorgio Avola Alessio Foconi Daniele Garozzo Cheung Ka Long Timur Safin Miles Chamley-Watson Race Imboden Alexander Massialas Any Other
Men's Team Sabre Day 4, July 24th, 2017				France Germany Hungary Iran Italy Romania Russia South Korea United States Any Other
Women's Team Foil Day 4, July 24th, 2017				Canada China France Germany Hungary Italy Poland Russia South Korea United States Any Other
Women's Team Sabre Day 5, July 25th, 2017				China France Germany Hungary Italy Mexico Poland Russia South Korea Ukraine United States Any Other
Men's Team Epée Day 5, July 25th, 2017				France Germany Hungary Italy Russia South Korea Switzerland Ukraine Venezuela Any Other
Women's Team Epée Day 6, July 26th, 2017				China Estonia France Germany Italy Romania Russia South Korea Ukraine United States Any Other
Men's Team Foil Day 6, July 26th, 2017				Brazil China Egypt France Germany Italy Japan Russia South Korea United States Any Other