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I voted PD. I know, it sucks, but there aren't many options.

Argentina again in a final of world sevens series. PLEASE DON'T LOSE IT

One of our Buenos Aires 2018 hopefuls made the final in men air rifle However it seems, according to wikipedia, that we didn't pick the host quota for boys air rifle in YOG, so he will have to earn his quota in american qualifier hoping the Wikipedia info is not true...

No, it's like this: 5 continental champions + Japan --> to olympics. top 4 of pro-league (not counting continental champions) + top 2 of hockey world league (which is now left only with lower ranked countries) + other 6 best ranked countries left ---> to OQT (which in turn gives the remaining 6 places for the olympics). There is almost no way for any hockey pro-league participant country to fail to reach at least the OQT since they are all highly ranked. Here is a blog article that refutates the arguments given from Hockey India to pull out of Pro-league: https://be-hockey.com/what-is-happening-in-india/

The most Europe can get is 6, the first 2 will be the best european teams at the World Cup, the other 4 could be (in theory) the 4 places that are given in the final qualifier tournament.

More rugby news: Canada has qualified for both boys and girls competition, however they may leave the boys quota as they are aiming to qualify in Hockey next week. If they reject the quota, it will go to USA.

Women's Rugby 7s Colombia defeated Brazil in the south american QT final and qualified for the games.

India always wins lots of world cup medals, nothing new.

Del Potro's record against the 6 players ranked consecutively above him: Anderson 6-0 Goffin 1-1 Thiem 4-0 Zverev 2-0 Dimitrov 6-2 Cilic 10-2

Women's rugby rarely allows any surprises, I think Brazil is safe for this cycle but we'll see the future. Brazil can't possibly lose in women's handball. In men's handball Brazil losing seems unlikely right now, but Argentina now has a top level coach so I don't know what can happen in one year.

Basketball Men's Women's Handball Men's Women's Field Hockey Men's Women's Volleyball Men's Women's Rugby Sevens Men's Women's Water Polo Men's Women's - -

Just write what your heart tells you (?)

@hoversaBR I like you men's handball prediction even if it's a bit unrealistic

You can predict just one team sport, all of them or as many as you wish, the choice is yours. You can post your predictions as a normal comment or using the template you can find in post #2. If you are using the template, copy and paste the table(s) for the sport(s) you want to add your predictions for. Now you have two ways to add a flag in the each cell: 1) you can add the three letter IOC country code (AUS for Australia, GER for Germany, USA for United States etc.) and when you will save the post the flags will appear; 2) you can select the flag you want from the emoticons list in each cell. These predictions are just for fun, no ranking will be kept. Therefore, you can edit your post whenever you want, even when the qualification period will be started. 3x3 Basketball Men's : : : : : : : - - - - Women's : : : : : : : - - - - Baseball Men's : : : : : Basketball Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Handball Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Field Hockey Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Football Men's : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : - - Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Rugby Sevens Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Softball Women's : : : : : Volleyball Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : : : Water Polo Men's : : : : : : : : : : : Women's : : : : : : : : : - -

Yes, France is developing a good team. I think soon they may become better than for example Canada or Pakistan.

OOOOH sorry, I forgot about volleyball team, France instead of Slovenia then.

If that is true, then I remove or maybe if they don't take their best players to WC.

Men's basketball (assuming everyone here takes the world cup seriously and with best or close to best squad): I didn't include Japan cuz I Heard there is some sort of standard and they are almost out of WC, right?

Ha, let's have some fun. I'll predict handball, volleyball and field hockey. Men's volley: Womens volley: Men's Field Hockey: Women's Field Hockey: NOTE hockey: I'm predicting in both gender will win african championship but will reject quota. Men's Handball: Women's Handball:

Pools for the Men's World Cup: A - B - C - D - We were handed the worst pool unfortunately, with the hardest teams from band 3 and 4 (Spain and France). All the other pools have at least one clear "weakling". Pool winners go straight to QF, 2nd and 3rd placed teams advance to a pseudo Round 16.

haha againt the main sponsor wins. These awards are a joke.

Rugby Sevens/Field Hockey

PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Bet Contest Final Standing available here Dunadan phelps Albe Italian 1-2-3 for our Bet Contest! @Dunadan impressive as always, managed to obtain a mind-blowing 212 points out of a possible 250 (with 49 bets won). Second place for @phelps who won more bets than Dunadan (51 to be exact), but lost key points in a few bets. 3rd place for @Albe, who was the participant that won the most bets of all (54, really impressive). A special mention to 4th placer @Nate River, unfortunately he couldn't give Canada the first prediction medal of the year (those missed 10-pointers in Speed Skating...). With this, I now go back to prediction management retirement. I won't be organizing the next editions of Bet Contest (unless no one else is willing to do it), so thank you all for everything, from the Bet Contest Organization Committee (LDOG & Quasit)

Final Standing Rank User Nation Total TB (Bets Won) 1 Dunadan 212 2 phelps 198 3 Albe 194 4 Nate River 190 5 Jahiegel 185 45 6 De_Gambassi 185 42 7 OlympicsFan 181 8 Dmitry 180 9 dcro 178 10 Forzazzurri 176 11 Henry_Leon 171 12 orangeman 170 13 Pavlo 169 44 14 heywoodu 169 41 15 Federer91 168 16 chrischi08 167 17 Gianlu33 166 45 18 Matteo92 166 42 19 EselTheDonkey 165 20 Herberth 164 21 Monzanator 163 22 hckosice 158 23 Gigs 157 24 ady48 152 42 25 FC Mezhgorye 152 40 26 juliosilva 150 27 vinipereira 149 28 tuniscof 147 29 Wanderer 145 30 MCMXC 144 31 KhanBeaver 143 32 uk12points 141 33 stamura84 140 46 34 justony 140 43 35 AIFHg 136 36 pjwasz 135 40 37 suchyy7 135 39 38 Pablita 133 39 africaboy 129 41 40 hoversaBR 129 37 41 Bohemia 128 42 Kirkpatrick 127 43 Ufilov 124 44 Nathy 122 45 Vojthas 115 46 bestmen 109 47 GoPoland 89 48 ArK 88 49 wpwells 63