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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

Sorry, european championship of what exactly?

The grid is finally complete, thanks to everyone for participating! Results will be coming... in a few days.

Thanks for that one (your post is in the previous page btw). We have 4 then, but I just checked all the cross-country participants of the last event and there isn't a single one under the age of 18, so the answer will be a "no"

The Points Race and Madison events in track cycling follow a similar concept with the "lapping the field > sprint points" rule.

Thanks. From what I see there aren't any under 18s in the hockey or curling teams that can win a gold tomorrow and there aren't any U18s either in the current top 7 teams in bobsled 4s (haven't looked up the lower teams though). So, unless there are some U18s in the cross-country event, we are very close to a "no" answer

Participant help needed: does someone know how many under 18 gold medalists we have as of now? I'm only aware of Red Gerard and Zagitova.

Most tech-savy 80 year old for sure, I wouldn't be able to type that fast.

Also he seems to tweet move by move, how can he watch and tweet all that at the same time??

Ok, let's see... About 2): As I stated in the first post of the relevant discussion thread, the users do suggestions, but the selection committee reserves the right to reformulate them or give them another interpretation. Regardless of that, what you're saying in this case is not true. Here is the post where you made suggestions and you wrote "individual medals": About 3): Why does that matter? the predictions (and subsequently, the results) are set in stone since the deadline of February 9th, it's not like any participant can go now and edit their predictions according to what you say here. In fact, anyone that does that would be DSQ. This is a "one phase" contest. About 1): We are not perfect, far from it, and that's why we make mistakes. Sometimes some ambiguities or lack of clarity in the bets flies under my radar. In this case, somehow, we made a mistake and deleted the word "individual" from your original suggestion. I don't know how that happened and I apologize deeply for that. Since the last contest I established a policy that in the case any user presents to me a problem with the meaning of a particular bet in the discussion thread AFTER the contest has already opened and AFTER several users have already posted predictions, I would then clarify the meaning of that bet in the discussion thread. No one objected to this policy neither 2 years ago nor now, therefore, I understood that the participants gave tacit agreement to it. I'm just asking users to read the specific discussion thread created for this contest (that is apart from the regular prediction discussion thread), I don't think that's asking too much honestly. In the case of this particular bet, one user asked about the relays' problem (this was BEFORE the deadline) and I answered that according to our interpretation it doesn't take into account relays. The reason: we simply thought including the relays made the bet easier than what we wanted it to be. Later (AFTER the deadline), another user warned me of some ambiguity problems with bet number 58 and since it was after the deadline (so, users couldn't edit their posts anymore, unlike with bet 60) I decided to award the invested points for both YES and NO.

Relays don't count. Someone asked about it before the deadline and I clarified that (and by the way, your bet for that one was 1 point, not 10).

I'm just doing Occam's razor and inductive reasoning, but I don't claim to know anything.

Sure, and you could be a monkey typing from Thailand for all I know. We can't live life without making any assumptions. (now, being more serious, Pablita is either: a real female name -it's an unusual one in spanish at least- or, more likely, a nickname for Paola, which also is a female name in all latin languages).

Her profile says she's female (in the case the clues of having female username and female cartoon character as her avatar weren't convincing enough).

I need confirmation of something: Sweden officially finishes higher than Finland in this tournament, right? I see in wikipedia they place Sweden 5th but I need to know if that will be official or if it's just a unofficial ranking.