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Los Angeles would win anyway in 2028 if they bid again (who's gonna beat them?). And Paris will probably not bid for the next 50 years if they are snubbed again, so... yes, awarding both games now would be a good decision.

van As winning is undeserved, should have been K. Walsh or S. Michelsen. The other awards are ok I guess, though I'm a bit salty cuz our men's team didn't get a single category.

Exactly. The only way it could work is if we were to set a number of nations that every participant has to present a song for. For example, 2 nations. The problem is that it could reduce interest in the contest since many people either don't feel like presenting a song for any country other than their own or they simply don't have the time to do so.

1) 34 in the Annual contest, 33 in the Open one. 2) Someone forgot to write it in the rules for some reason, but we have established since the first contest that a user can only represent one nation. And it has to be the nation he/she chose to represent in this forum (not necessarily the one the user was born in, e.g. Wanderer is serbian but he represented New Zealand out of sympathy cuz he moved there). In your case it has to be Germany, unless you wish to change your country.

Well, I, of course, haven't seen you lay out all of your political ideology here, but from what I got out of your opinions whenever there is a terrorist attack you seem to be at the very least "skeptic" about the integration of muslims into european society.

^Won't you vote him? at least on Islam you have opinions similar to his...

They can't be so obvious, that's why they give him some random category. These awards ain't serious, it's all commercial interests. They give prizes to people who are super popular in countries where they can sell cars (USA, UK, Germany, Australia, etc) and leave some categories to lesser known people to give an image of "plurality".

Cuz this shit is funded by Mercedes

and qualified for semifinal round of women's world league. With taking 3rd, it means has also qualified due to higher ranking. However, Scotland has a high ranking (17th), so they will qualify too as long as India doesn't finish 3rd in the last tournament of this second round.

Brazil out of U20 world cup. & qualified

Not as relevant as these matches of course, but in the "6 nations B" Germany defeated Romania big upset. Maybe Germany will play their first WC in 2019...

That's one ambitious schedule If some indoor volleyball had to be included I'd like a return of the world league or grand prix instead of Norceca championships to be honest. Also I have no idea who here follows women's rugby union... Anyway, if you can make 21 events, you're a god.

[hide] Round Robin February 4th - March 18th, 2017 6 Nations, One Group, 1st Nation wins the championship. Week 1 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 February 4th 2017, h. 14:25, Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Scotland 7 Ireland February 4th 2017, h. 16:50, Twickenham Stadium, London England 12 France February 5th 2017, h. 14:00, Stadio Olimpico, Roma Italy 12 Wales Week 2 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 February 11th 2017, h. 14:25, Stadio Olimpico, Roma Italy 21 Ireland February 11th 2017, h. 16:50, Principality Stadium, Cardiff Wales 3 England February 12th 2017, h. 15:00, Stade de France, Paris France 8 Scotland Week 3 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 February 25th 2017, h. 14:25, Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Scotland 1 Wales February 25th 2017, h. 16:50, Aviva Stadium, Dublin Ireland 1 France February 26th 2017, h. 15:00, Twickenham Stadium, London England 30 Italy Week 4 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 March 10th 2017, h. 20:05, Principality Stadium, Cardiff Wales 5 Ireland March 11th 2017, h. 13:30, Stadio Olimpico, Roma Italy 9 France March 11th 2017, h. 16:00, Twickenham Stadium, London England 15 Scotland Week 5 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 March 18th 2017, h. 12:30, Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Scotland 3 Italy March 18th 2017, h. 14:45, Stade de France, Paris France 7 Wales March 18th 2017, h. 17:00, Aviva Stadium, Dublin Ireland 3 England [/hide]

Well, I'm kind of a purist for prediction, so I don't like any kind of bonuses (I don't even like the multipliers for knockout stages!). I think they increase the "luck" factor and decrease the "pure knowledge" factor to decide the winner, which I don't like too much.

Buenos Aires will bid for PanAms 2023 hope we get this, it would be the perfect moment to host.

haha bestmen was right at the end, just as I told you

bestmen is gonna be sooo right, Norway will play the final

So, the world league and champions trophy will be replaced by some sort of home and away league that will serve as qualification for the next olympics. FIH asked nations to send bids to participate in both or either men's and women's competition and these were the nations that made the first cut: Both men's and women's: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, England, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain. Only Women: China, Italy, USA Only Men: Malaysia, Pakistan Canada was the only top 16 men's nation that didn't bid, Malaysia also wanted to bid for women's but were rejected due to low ranking. The final cut will be down to 8 or 9 per gender and those nations will participate in the new league. I would say that Argentina, Australia, Germany, Netherlands and England are 99% sure going to get both teams in. Also I think India and Belgium men and USA/NZ women are 99% in too. So, that would leave 1 or 2 spots for men and women available..

Why would the football national team and Cibulkova need state support? they earn millions already... In Argentina all big money professional athletes are excluded from state support (football, tennis, basketball or volleyball players are only supported at youth level).

& advance to semifinal round of women's world league. The latter made an slight upset beating , who will have now to wait to get a best third place in next round (it is highly likely). Ireland strong team, was close to the olympics and should now qualify for world cup.

1st half of argentina: missed shot, turnover, missed shot, turnover, missed shot, turnover... At least they reduced the difference to keep a little chance vs Egypt.

As some may or may not have noticed since a few days ago my username color has gone back to blue, which means I've resigned as administrator. I hope the new people can take proper charge of prediction contests as I couldn't. From what I see tuniscof is doing an excellent job so far, rest assured that this will be in better hands from now on

Today started in Malaysia the first tournament of World League round 2, which gives two places (and maybe a best 3rd eventually) in semifinal round. & should have no big trouble taking the 2 available places, should take 3rd, but has to watch out for

It's not a surprise Qatar losing either, they lost half of their bought foreigners.

I think you didn't read well, he meant that Africa should have more places, not less.