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Archery qualification rounds.

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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 Start Copying Here [ hide] Event and Date Gold Medal Winner Silver Medal Winner Bronze Medal Winner Athletes CANOE SLALOM Men's C1 Day 4, August 9th, 2016 Vitezslav Gebas Denis Gargaud-Chanut Sideris Tasiadis David Florence Takuya Haneda Aleksander Lipatov Matej Benus Benjamin Savsek Ander Elosegi Any Other ROWING Men's Quadruple Sculls Day 5, August 10th, 2016 Australia Canada Estonia Great Britain Germany Lithuania Poland Switzerland Any Other ROWING Men's Lightweight Four Day 6, August 11th, 2016 China Denmark France Great Britain Germany Netherlands New Zealand Switzerland Any Other ROWING Women's Double Sculls Day 6, August 11th, 2016 Australia Belarus France Germany Greece Lithuania New Zealand Poland Any Other CANOE SLALOM Women's K1 Day 6, August 11th, 2016 Jessica Fox Corinna Kuhnle Ana Satila Katerina Kudejova Marie-Zelia Lafont Melanie Pfeifer Fiona Pennie Jana Dukatova Maialen Chourraut Any Other ROWING Women's Pair Day 7, August 12th, 2016 Denmark Great Britain Germany Italy New Zealand Romania South Africa United States Any Other ROWING Women's Single Sculls Day 8, August 13th, 2016 Kim BRENNAN Magdalena LOBNING Ekaterina KARSTEN Carling ZEEMAN Jingli DUAN Miroslava KNAPKOVA Emma TWIG Jeannine GMELIN Genevra STONE Any Other ROWING Men's Eight Day 8, August 13th, 2016 Great Britain Germany Italy Netherlands New Zealand Poland United States CANOE SPRINT Men's K1-1000m Day 11, August 16th, 2016 Daniel Bowker Artuur Peters Miroslav Kirchev Adam Joseph van Koeverden Josef Dostál René Holten Poulsen Max Hoff Bálint Kopasz Fernando Pimenta Roman Anoshkin Dejan Pajić Peter Gelle Dejan Pajić Any Other CANOE SPRINT Women's K2-500m Day 11, August 16th, 2016 Australia Belarus China Denmark Germany Great Britain Hungary Poland Russia Serbia Any Other CANOE SPRINT Men's C1-200m Day 13, August 18th, 2016 Valentin Demyanenko Isaquias Queiroz Li Qiang Zaza Nadiradze Jonatán Hajdu Henrikas Žustautas Silva Helder Andrey Kraitor Alfonso Benavides Yuriy Cheban Any Other CANOE SPRINT Women's K1-500m Day 13, August 18th, 2016 Inna Osypenko-Radomska Émilie Fournel Zhou Yu Conny Waßmuth Rachel Cawthorn Danuta Kozák Lisa Carrington Ewelina Wojnarowska Teresa Portela Dalma Ružičić-Benedek Špela Ponomarenko Bridgitte Hartley Any Other TRIATHLON Men's Individual Day 13, August 18th, 2016 Aaron Royle Ryan Bailie Pierre Le Corre Vincent Luis Alistair Brownlee Jonathan Brownlee Crisanto Grajales Kristian Blummenfelt Joao Pereira Joao Silva Richard Murray Fernando Alarza Mario Mola Any Other MODERN PENTATHLON Women's Individual Day 14, August 19th, 2016 Yane MARQUES Qian CHEN Elodie CLOUVEL Annika SCHLEU Lena SCHONEBORN Zsofia FOLDHAZI Claudia CESARINI Laura ASADAUSKAITE Oktawia NOWACKA Any Other CANOE SPRINT Women's K4-500m Day 15, August 20th, 2016 Argentina Canada China Denamrk France Germany Great Britain Hungary New Zealand Poland Serbia Ukraine CANOE SPRINT Men's K4-1000m Day 15, August 20th, 2016 Argentina Australia Czech Republic Germany Hungary Kazakshtan Portugal Russia Serbia Slovakia Spain TRIATHLON Women's Individual Day 15, August 20th, 2016 Ashleigh Gentle Flora Duffy Vicky Holland Helen Jenkins Non Stanford Ai Ueda Andrea Hewitt Rachel Klamer Nicola Spirig Gwen Jorgensen Sarah True Katie Zaferes Any Other MODERN PENTATHLON Men's Individual Day 15, August 20th, 2016 Amro EL GEZIRY Omar EL GEZIRY Valentin BELAUD Valentin PRADES James COOKE Adam MAROSI Pierpaolo PETRONI Jinhwa JUNG Justinas KINDERIS Any Other [ /hide] End Copying Here

Because prediction contests have to be opened with a certain pre-determined margin of days that not always matches the amount of time I need to make my own personal predictions. Anyway, I think she's more worried about medal matches predictions, not the first prediction post.

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 Various Cities Start Date August 6th, 2016 End Date August 20th, 2016 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 appropriateCells 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. Examples Event and Date Gold Medal Winner Silver Medal Winner Bronze Medal Winner Athletes CANOE SLALOM Men's C1 Day 4, August 9th, 2016 Matej Benus Sideris Tasiadis Ander Elosegi Vitezslav Gebas Denis Gargaud-Chanut Sideris Tasiadis David Florence Takuya Haneda Aleksander Lipatov Matej Benus Benjamin Savsek Ander Elosegi 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: 1 bonus point will 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). 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 CANOE SLALOM Men's C1 Day 4, August 9th, 2016 Matej Benus Sideris Tasiadis Ander Elosegi Vitezslav Gebas Denis Gargaud-Chanut Sideris Tasiadis David Florence Takuya Haneda Aleksander Lipatov Matej Benus Benjamin Savsek Ander Elosegi Any Other Results: 1. Matej Benus - 4 Points 2. Sideris Tasiadis - 3 Points 3. Ander Elosegi - 2 Points Bonus Points: - 1 Point Your Total: 10 Points 1. Matej Benus - 4 Points 2. Ander Elosegi - 1 Point 3. Sideris Tasiadis - 1 Point Bonus Points: - 1 Point Your Total: 7 Points 1. Matej Benus - 4 Points 2. David Florence - 0 Points 3. Sideris Tasiadis - 1 Point Bonus Points: - 0 Points Your Total: 5 Points 1. Matej Benus - 4 Points 2. Any Other - 0 Points 3. David Florence - 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. 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I agree with you, my comment wasn't sarcastic

I'm sorry but I'm not that big of an sports ace that I can predict instantly, I too need to take my time to search for past results, etc and this olympics it's worse because I also have many problems to solve per day. You maybe suspect I cheated you in the Copa America contest or something? I predicted USA 0-1 COL and ARG 3-1 CHI, you predicted USA 1-2 COL and ARG 1-0 CHI, so you could have perfectly won if the results had turned out your way (this can be verified by any administrator). If you don't trust me, then ok, If I'm in top position of some contest I will be the first to predict medal matches.

That's fantastic then, no Africa. What are the european chances of making that competition?

My proposal for Baseball/Softball qualification: Japan 1 Asia 1 Oceania 1 Europe + Africa 2 Pan American The ideal thing would be to just qualify the best 5 from world championships though.

It doesn't really matter, I could still edit my prediction anytime I want without you all finding out if I tried to. You will just have to trust in us Personally I only participate in contests in which my knowledge is good enough (mostly team sports) to predict by myself. I'm not interested in participating just to copy other people predictions (and I don't care about general standings, so I don't feel forced to do it).

Just cut a bunch of junk quota from athletics/swimming and 4 teams from men's football.

We already have 13 prediction contests, we can't make more. It would require too many updates and threads.

ehhh as far as I understand the last man(woman) rule was scrapped a few months ago by FIFA....

The only good thing about Karate is that it will give medals to smaller nations. Baseball in the current conditions (no MLB, only 6 teams) is worthless. Skateboarding is ridiculous. Surf i'm not a fan of either.

You'll have to predict Taekwondo blindly.

The most recognizable are Bolt, Nadal, Djokovic, Neymar and Phelps. And that's it. Murray is famous, but I don't think he's particularly liked outside of UK. Gymnastics isn't popular at all outside of your country and Russia/East Europe, so I don't think many people would tell Biles apart. EDIT. Serena Williams is very popular too.

Durant is maybe the only "world famous" of this team. I mean, for those who aren't american and don't follow basketball particularly close.

It's the latter.

No, but high chance he doesn't play singles.

Something to kill time with... a video made by our NOC about all argentine medalists in history. They are all in random order and that makes an interesting contrast to watch, also there's some nice old footage for some. Since we don't have that many medals it's only 12 minutes long

Without Wawrinka, Federer, Nadal, Berdych and Thiem I seriously start to believe in Del potro if he can get lucky in draw.

Yes. Those 3 are from left to right Pablo Simonet, Juan Pablo Fernández and Federico Vieyra.

I think like half of argentine delegation took photo with Djokovic.

Nope, you're right, that's why I ask for patience. Don't expect so many corrections in the medal candidates though, a bunch will be made, but not a lot.

Some corrections are to be done, just wait a while please.