LDOG

^Chance for Budapest is 0,00000001%

Final Standing available here. rybak OlympicIRL LDOG Congratulations to OlympicIRL who once again achieves a high position in a Hockey contest. Silver for rybak who had a big final sprint in semifinals/medal matches. Water Polo results... in a few days. PS. Please people, in the future read the rules more carefully. Some of you predicted draws (?) or outright wrote the word "penalties" (without any number) in knockout matches. This obviously is not valid. Also, some of you predicted exact results (like 3-1, 5-3) which isn't valid in this contest, but in these cases I just counted the goal difference.

Final Standing Rank User Nation Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 TB 1 OlympicIRL 539 44 52 61 40 67 54 43 53 43,75 31,25 4,5 25,5 10 10 2 rybak 535 53 37 57 44 45 48 30 45 27,5 37,5 25,5 25,5 22 38 3 LDOG 531,75 46 44 59 40 59 57 37 42 45 38,75 15 15 24 10 4 ady48 530,5 43 39 67 29 61 63 31 49 43,75 37,5 4,5 28,5 10 24 5 valtellina 528 42 42 55 36 57 52 35 43 36,25 36,25 3 28,5 26 36 6 Pavlo 518 45 54 52 44 62 62 43 45 30 27,5 4,5 15 24 10 7 africaboy 514,5 41 43 66 28 62 62 28 40 36,25 28,75 4,5 27 24 24 8 amen09 513,25 44 40 51 28 51 49 41 41 46,25 30 4,5 25,5 38 24 9 MCMXC 512 49 43 51 33 60 49 36 49 35 27,5 3 28,5 22 26 10 Forzazzurri 509 32 49 63 29 59 44 34 41 31,25 33,75 13.5 25,5 36 18 11 juliosilva 507 45 48 64 41 62 62 29 40 26,25 31,25 3 25,5 4 26 12 Crolympic 506,5 42 44 66 35 61 59 33 48 36,25 38,75 1,5 24 10 8 13 SteveParker 506 39 55 54 29 46 48 29 16 33,75 41,25 16,5 28,5 34 36 14 suchyy7 504,5 41 44 49 43 60 49 32 45 45 - 25,5 27 22 22 15 varnoldr 495,5 38 42 67 37 63 54 41 50 - 35 1,5 15 34 18 16 tuniscof 494,5 41 44 61 34 55 36 44 41 36,25 27,5 3 25,5 24 22 17 Henry_Leon 490,25 43 52 50 26 55 48 42 38 43,75 27,5 4,5 16,5 22 22 18 vinipereira 488,5 40 42 58 43 47 49 29 49 45 27,5 - 27 10 22 19 Ufilov 487,75 40 33 55 48 58 58 21 45 46,25 32,5 1,5 25,5 6 18 20 Pabloffo 486 55 47 56 24 51 47 39 37 25 35 15 27 8 20 21 bestmen 480,75 36 42 50 39 55 70 29 23 35 26,25 15 16,5 24 20 22 dcro 480,25 50 61 53 31 47 50 34 42 37,5 28,75 13,5 16,5 8 8 23 Dolby 479,25 47 41 57 32 53 63 28 35 35 23,75 15 25,5 4 20 24 Dunadan 477 45 40 55 30 54 62 36 49 - 30 15 27 10 24 25 mrv86 463 44 36 62 27 59 52 36 40 25 27,5 3 25,5 22 4 26 Federer91 446 45 50 53 30 60 49 32 33 - 30 3 27 10 24 27 heywoodu 440,5 50 42 50 43 58 53 35 47 35 27,5 - - - - 28 tirtha22 436,5 57 26 45 30 58 52 35 45 - 27,5 15 - 38 8 29 titicow 432,5 37 37 58 24 60 55 42 39 - 47,5 - 27 6 - 30 James 427 46 24 48 29 43 25 40 39 15 27,5 1,5 27 26 36 31 Otilio 426,5 58 48 54 28 59 50 36 56 37,5 - - - - - 32 Pablita 423,25 39 38 57 26 54 37 30 42 - 31,25 4,5 16,5 24 24 33 vlad 405,5 51 47 53 33 48 42 25 36 - - 1,5 27 22 20 34 yellowviper2001 401,5 39 39 54 24 53 57 33 38 - - 3 13,5 26 22 35 Adriano 399 38 31 25 41 41 37 22 52 - 25 - 15 36 36 36 Akin Baddy 396,5 50 45 51 25 55 40 46 39 - - - 13,5 10 22 37 GoPoland 382 54 45 65 36 48 45 44 45 - - - - - - 38 gubchandrolai* 380,25 50 44 52 44 54 37 35 34 - 28,75 1,5 - - - 39 See-ya 380 40 41 67 34 58 55 46 39 - - - - - - 40 OlympicsFan 379 42 41 64 37 63 55 34 43 - - - - - - 41 The Protagonist 371 57 45 49 32 61 55 32 40 - - - - - - 42 pjwasz 364 44 38 53 36 43 55 28 32 - 20 15 - - - 10x8 43 hckosice 364 41 43 63 29 56 48 37 47 - - - - - - 10x7 44 wpwells 362 49 33 67 27 60 53 32 41 - - - - - - 45 gvaisakh 355 42 48 55 36 55 57 30 32 - - - - - - 46 Gianlu33 354 41 42 60 32 61 55 23 40 - - - - - - 10x9 47 shrikant 354 42 42 59 35 54 52 35 35 - - - - - - 10x8 48 Dimast 335 39 40 53 44 34 56 35 34 - - - - - - 49 ChandlerMne 334 40 38 72 25 59 44 27 29 - - - - - - 50 ritesh 329,75 - - - 28 59 48 39 47 26,25 27,5 1,5 25,5 8 20 51 Agger 326 29 42 57 42 50 42 28 36 - - - - - - 52 hoversaBR 321 44 29 60 36 46 43 30 33 - - - - - - 53 FC Mezhgorye 301 35 41 45 29 37 30 45 39 - - - - - - 54 Il_qar 298 58 26 27 36 41 41 35 31 - - 3 - - - 55 Danylove80 290 43 33 27 26 27 51 47 36 - - - - - - 56 Wanderer 238 - - - 39 60 55 37 47 - - - - - - 57 KaewThailand 232 33 22 16 31 28 44 28 30 - - - - - - 58 sanjaydas 140 30 13 13 30 12 20 22 - - - - - - - 01: Group Stage, August 6th 02: Group Stage, August 7th 03: Group Stage, August 8th 04: Group Stage, August 9th 05: Group Stage, August 10th 06: Group Stage, August 11th 07: Group Stage, August 12th 08: Group Stage, August 13th 09: Quarterfinals, August 14th 10: Quarterfinals, August 15th 11: Semifinals, August 16th 12: Semifinals, August 17th 13: Medal Matches, August 18th 14: Medal Matches, August 19th *= using Jolly Mistakes are always possible. If you have any complaint, please PM me

Has Karlovic refused or retired from playing Davis Cup?

If Wanderer doesn't do it in the next few days, I'll post the results of some of the remaining olympic contests (probably water polo and Hockey).

I join in.

There are rumors that he played today because he got an injury yesterday and can't play another single.

They play for Italy because they don't have any chance for their native country, not because of love for their nonno, let's be honest. But anyway the main issue I have is that I really don't get why these countries do it in the long term... when the players retire they leave nothing behind, since it's an artificial team without a serious development structure to back it up. And also some other more "ethical" considerations, like "do the victories taste the same that way?" or "do they have equal merit as those countries who breed their own players?"

Ok, seems is gonna get through this round at least Pella surpassed my expectations.

He completed the poker of incredible wins in the span of July-September (Stan, Djoko, Nadal, Murray) Too bad all our other players are too weak and out of shape, this could have been the year to win Davis Cup.

where you found that info? is there for other countries?

It would be more useful if they released a list with all the athletes that took TUE during olympics, so we can see if USA is particularly taking advantage of it or not.

No. Not even host of finals is decided yet.

World League group 1 Schedule:

Fake mercenary team of defeated. Avoided Brazil in 1/16 most probably too.

It's not so much of an "invitation" but more like any member federation of FIH can participate in world league as long as they pay the entry fee I think. Next stop is in (only for ladies) with the home team and . 3 spots to take, I'd say it should be very close between them but with Switzerland as outsiders (first time they participate in women's IIRC).

Happy for Wawrinka, deserved title. I like Djokovic but winning a GS with 3 walkovers would have been a bit too much.

^He has some trace of his slavic accent in the spanish part and he mixed a few words with italian I think (the demonyms, he said "cino" and "serbo" instead of "chino" and "serbio"), but other than that, is good.

2-2 haha Well, there were too many missing players in attack to expect a good performance from our team. Hopefully they will stop getting injured when they have to play for NT...

^also Bulgaria against familiar rivals France and Sweden once again.

Yes, I was using that as part of my point, since Indonesia is a fast-growing economy. He only got there because of the $$$ and as soon as it stopped he's out. I don't even mean countries in utter poverty. Obviously no one is going to take car racing in Central African R. I'm talking about Argentina/Uruguay or the smaller european countries. With all respect Argentina has a much bigger car racing culture than Mexico, Venezuela or Colombia, yet...

I'll believe this the day I see a F1 driver from a broke country It's all about money. The indonesian driver was replaced by a french because his government stopped financing him lol. Argentina had a lot of drivers in history and we have had 0 since 2001 (our big economic crack) what a coincidence.

Never said Lopez was good, I didn't even mention him in my post. But anyway, he could have been the best driver in the universe and still wouldn't get into F1 because no private money whatsoever is put into sports in this country. F1 is more about the "show" than any other motorsport class.

F1 is a load of shit, 95% car 5% driver and you can only get in if you are from a rich country and have a sponsor willing to pour millions into these old men's bank accounts.

The Prague rounds of world league are over and the qualifier teams decided... In men's the home team is surprisingly eliminated at the expense of lower ranked Ukraine and Italy (the latter with a bunch of argentine players in the squad). In women's no real surprises as Czechia, Ukraine and Poland advance, though the "surprise" in this case would be Poland (the highest ranked team of all round 1) having trouble to beat the likes of Lithuania and even losing to Ukraine. Next up is.... - Glasgow tournament (only for men), where the home team should win. Second quota looks open between and . Completes the field for which just participation will be the achievement. - Accra tournaments for african teams (men and women)... where men and women should take the only place in round 2. - Antalya tournament (only men) in which should destroy the competition, second place and round 2 quota will be fought between and curious debutant which I suspect will maybe have some pakistani/indian/malaysian reinforcements.