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Prediction Contests Are Just-For-Fun Games "There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery." Competition Details City Various Cities Start Date May 6th, 2016 End Date May 22nd, 2016 Participants 30 Gold africaboy Silver mihamiha Bronze hckosice 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 infromation "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 goal difference for each match. Every match ends with a winner (there are no ties, draws). To do that, you have to write in empty Cell a number - goal difference for particular match. If your prediction is that Team 1 is going to win, you should type goal difference in appropriate Cell of T1 Column. If your prediction is that Team 2 is going to win, then type goal difference in appropriate Cell of T2 Column. Example Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 6th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Sweden 3 Latvia May 6th 2016, h. 20:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Czech Republic 1 Russia Scoring system: Basic number of points is 5 If you predict right winner for a match, you will get 5 points regardless of the goal difference. If your prediction is perfect (correct winner + correct goal difference) you will earn 5+5=10 points. Depending on difference between your prediction and actual result, earned points will differ. Example Group A Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 May 6th 2016, h. 16:15, VTB Ice Palace, Moscow Sweden 3 Latvia If Sweden wins by 9, you will earn 5 points [5 pts for correct winner + 0 pt for goal difference: (5-|9-3|) - no negative points] If Sweden wins by 3, you will earn 10 points [5 pts for correct winner + 5 pts for goal difference: (5-|3-3|)] If Sweden wins by 1, you will earn 8 points [5 pts for correct winner + 3 pts for goal difference: (5-|1-3|)] If Latvia wins by 1, you will earn 1 point [0 pts for correct winner + 1 pt for goal difference: (5-|-1-3|)] If Latvia wins by 3 or more, you will earn 0 points [0 pts for correct winner + 0 pts for goal difference: (5-|-3-3|)] In the Knockout Round, points will be multiplied by: In the Quarterfinals, points will be multiplied by 1.25 In the Semifinals, points will be multiplied by 1.5 In the Medal Matches, points will be multiplied by 2 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 second best scores will be compared, then number of third best results and so on. Example Contestant 1: 10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 8, 7 Contestant 2: 10, 10, 10, 9, 8, 8, 8 Contestant 1 will be placed ahead of Contestant 2. Contestant with most points wins the competition. You can enter the Contest whenever you want. The moment you post your predictions is the moment when you are entering the Contest and your points will be calculated for all the matches you predicted AND which haven't started. In order to earn points from the start, you should post your predictions before the start of the first match of the Championship - May 6th, h. 16:15 (GMT +3). You can EDIT your predictions whenever you want until the start of the first match of the Prediction Design Post. 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Round 16 of Copa Libertadores are set, here are the match-ups: (In brackets the number of seed, the lower numbered team will play return leg at home, the seeds remain for the following rounds too) (1) Atlético Nacional - Huracán (16) (8) Rosario Central - Gremio (9) (4) Atlético Mineiro - Racing Club (13) (5) Toluca - Sao Paulo (12) (2) Pumas - Deportivo Tachira (15) (7) River Plate - Independiente del Valle (10) (3) Corinthians - Nacional (14) (6) Boca Juniors - Cerro Porteño (11)

Brazil will probably choose the group with Qatar in Men's and the group with Argentina in women's (unless NOR and KOR are in that group too).

The problem (at least with the volleyball uniforms) is that they look like training clothes rather than actual match uniforms.

If had their Hockey team I'd support them without a doubt like I always did, but in this case I'll just go with nearby

You say that because Europe has strong club competition, so your players don't lose much if they only have to turn up for the world cup or olympics. But what about the rest of the world? world league or champions trophy is crucial for them to not lose level.

Brazil has a presidential system, not a parliamentary one. The head of government and the head of state is the same person, so there is no PM, only a president.

With qualification in Gymnastics we have 189 athletes confirmed Only 11 to go to achieve the round number and -curiously- all-time record of 200. I think we'll have for sure 3 in Judo, 2 in BMX, 2 male golfers, 4 male tennis players and 1 female pentathlete. 2 or 3 more swimmers is likely too. And quotas in Triathlon, MTB and Kayaking are also in the cards.

Not that I really care about our performance in this sport, but... sigh...

Lost to Virgin islands, total fail. 0 will be then.

Today start american qualifiers, I predict we will qualify in Men's Sabre (we have the best ranked and there are 2 spots) and only that. We also have chance in Women's Epee, but I feel she will fail. Our Foil is terrible and in Men's Epee we don't have our best fencer here so, no chance either.

lol just like before the world cup draw, I got my wish granted. Thanks FIFA group D is the farthest away from facing Brazil and has the best venues (no matches in the north..). I don't like two things however: a- to play the first match with Portugal. b-Having the prospect of Germany/Mexico in the opposite group. But we'll have to pass the group first...

Well, the positive aspect is that Messi and Mascherano will have more rest for the copa america. I also hope atlético and city lose in semis because we have half of our team between those two clubs. Let bayern and Madrid play the final (and hopefully bayern leave Madrid trophyless )

We also have a law of protected events in free tv (everything that involves an argentina national team of any sport), but the new government will scrap it

Decent performance of the argentines (though Cabrera had a nightmare last 4 holes...). I hope Cabrera climbs rankings and gets our 2nd olympic quota instead of Gomez, since I think Cabrera is better despite inconsistency.

No, it's goal difference in the matches played between the tied teams.

Best: 70s/80s Worst: 2000 onwards.

Women's Pan American Junior Championship 7th Place Match: Mexico 1 (4) - 1 (3) Barbados 5th Place Match: Uruguay 9 - 1 Trinidad and Tobago Bronze Medal Match: Canada 0 - 3 Chile Gold Medal Match: Argentina 6 - 0 USA ARGENTINA 7th Title (out of 8 editions) 63 goals scored, 0 received

Neymar is already confirmed to play (and because of that he had to opt out from the Copa America, to please Barcelona). The other two I don't know, but I think they have like 10% chance to play since both are in the Euro.

Sorry If I seemed aggresive. Yes, Messi is an unrealistic pick. There is no way a club like Barcelona will release their star player for TWO summer tournaments. Much less if one of them isn't in the FIFA calendar. (anyway in his case doesn't matter because the coach already confirmed he won't play the olympics).

I agree, but I wrote "isn't always true".

1) many users, when the draw came in the old forum everyone was sure that Poland and Macedonia were unquestionably going to get the tickets. 2) I don't agree that Macedonia is weaker than those specific nations you mentioned (results of mid-level european handball teams seem to vary a lot with each tournament), but it isn't important to my point. I just criticize the eurocentric prejudice that made everyone predict Macedonia when Tunisia has a lot of players based in european clubs and has produced great results in the past.

Give me right now your list of what you consider your 18 best U23 players, so you don't make your usual excuses later about "we were missing x, y or z" if you lose. Include if you wish the 3 overage players, but realistic picks (not something like "Muller, Gundogan and Boateng", which isn't realistic).

One more lesson for totallympics euro-users that "europe > everything else" isn't always true.

There is no country that will participate in all 7 team sports (or 8 if you consider beach volleyball another team sport). Mostly because USA, China, Japan and Australia all happen to suck at handball PS: Except for host Brazil, obviously.