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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 Kamloops Start Date March 28th, 2016 End Date April 4th, 2016 Participants 26 Gold Ufilov Silver rybak Bronze Henry_Leon 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 March 28th 2016, h. 15:30, Sandman Centre, Kamloops Russia 3 Finland March 28th 2016, h. 15:30, Sandman Centre, Kamloops United States 1 Canada 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 March 28th 2016, h. 15:30, Sandman Centre, Kamloops Russia 3 Finland If Russia 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 Russia wins by 3, you will earn 10 points [5 pts for correct winner + 5 pts for goal difference: (5-|3-3|)] If Russia wins by 1, you will earn 8 points [5 pts for correct winner + 3 pts for goal difference: (5-|1-3|)] If Finland wins by 1, you will earn 1 point [0 pts for correct winner + 1 pt for goal difference: (5-|-1-3|)] If Finland 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. There are no Points to earn concerning General Standings at this Prediction Contest 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 - March 28th, h. 13:00 (GMT -7). You can EDIT your predictions whenever you want until the start of the first match of the Prediction Design Post. Once competition starts, you are not allowed to edit your post and any further changes will be ignored. On contestant's request, edited predictions will be accepted, but contestant will earn 0 points for finished matches and the matches that have started. Moment at the latest editing will be considered as the entry moment, in other words. If you want to comment on this Prediction Contest, please use Prediction Contests - Discussion Thread 2016 only. If you have problem with the format, you can post your predictions in simplified format. Also, if the forum is down, or you cannot access the forum for any reason, you can send you predictions on e-mail: totallympics.predictions@gmail.com. Make sure your predictions are understandable. For instance, RUS 4 means Russia wins by 4. RUS 4 FIN means nothing. And please, write your Totallympics username so the contest manager can know who actually sent predictions. Every contestant MUST HIDE own predictions. 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. The hidden content will appear to other users as follows: [hide]You cannot see this[/hide] If you have any other questions concerning this prediction contest, problems with format, editing etc... please, contact the contest manager via Personal Message.

Announcement There will be Women's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2016 Prediction Contest - but it will be a test contest, unofficial one with no points to earn for General Standings. Two main reasons are behind this decision: 1. My absence in recent days (not my fault, I didn't have access to the forum for days) and very few remaining days until the start of the championship 2. To test the software and check whether the format I am going to use is manageable under new conditions. Also, all of you can leave feedback what can be changed for the next one so we can be prepared for the main part of the year.

It is there, just it is hidden for you only. Joking, of course. I didn't have access to the forum until five minutes ago. Not my fault. If you think three days are enough, I can open the contest in next few hours. If not, we'll cancel it.

Using spoiler is optional Oh yes, we will use "hide" option as before. Spoiler is optional if some of users want to put own predictions into spoiler. I mean, I can do that by myself when I reveal predictions, but if participants do it I'll spare some time.

Right, let's hope there is at least one clean athlete from Eastern Europe So if I am not fan of Serena, just to give an example, I should be afraid is she clean and not on some drugs? I mean, she has muscles some men would be envy on. It is one thing not to be fan of someone and the other thing immediately suspecting something that serious.

Why is that strange? She'd done that before. And this season so far she plays well, not her best, but close enough to be in top 10.

Novak is now tied with Guillermo Vilas - both with 62 titles, 9th in the Open era

What? Are there some real signs, or only speculations? I mean, Roberta is doing really well Daniela and Fran can retire though, but the rest... And unfortunately yes, there are no real stars to replace them. I wonder when this situation in WTA will end...

Who does these days... Even Federer becomes all nervous and loses head.

Jesus, Nole Raonic is supposed to be one of the best servers today

Welcome to "Discuz-Free" Totallympics Prediction Contests Era! Unfortunately we weren't able to organize Biathlon World Championships prediction contest cause of well-known reason. Within next 24-hours, we shall start with Women's Ice Hockey World Championship according to our calendar. Format remains the same, rules as well. It is also left to each user to decide whether he or she wants to put own predictions in spoiler. I recommend that because it will be much easier to open and go through pages when we are facing massive tables.

Vichkaaaaa Almost choked, but title is here Welcome back to top 10

Would love to see Rublev-Tiafoe match in Irving, but Foe isn't doing well at the moment... Onto Nadal-Nishikori treat

What a week for Shapovalov! First challenger in career and already semifinal! Evans will be huge hurdle to pass, but this is great result so far.

Haven't been into football lately, but it is unusual to see no Italian club in quarterfinal stage, either Champions League or Europa League...

I still cannot get over that volley So, so close... But nevertheless, amazing match between Nadal and Zverev. Zverev is really good, and I hope he'll learn from this match. Has to be mentally tougher. Game is there. Welcome to top class, Sascha!

don't rush sascha

Wow, what a sensation, a win over top 100 player for Michael Venus. It is not common to see a Kiwi man winning in singles even at challenger level these days

Goffin was really afraid of win, but Wawrinka literally gifted it. That smash on 5-5 in tie break. Nolesque

The Feelies - Morning Comes

The problem is, big tournament usually means big names. You cannot force someone to play masters event one week after Grand Slam, to switch from clay to grass. It would be too much. I mean, I first love grass as surface, the original surface, and would love to see much more grass tournaments but in current conditions it simply is not feasible. EDIT: Yay, my 100th post

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I agree, Indian Wells is definitely best organized non-Grand Slam tournament. As for Masters 1000 played on grass... it won't happen. There is no time, 5 weeks on grass is really too few to put in a Grand Slam and a Masters/Premier 5/M tournament together. Only if they expand grass season on 7 weeks we can talk about such event, otherwise, having two ATP 500 and two WTA Premier events is really enough.

Indian Wells and Shanghai want own category, to be above other masters tournaments, something like "Super Masters" as both tournaments have capacity and conditions to organize such big events. Indian Wells also would like to switch to full 128-player draw. It seems it can be achieved in 2019... http://theyellowballcorner.blogspot.rs/2016/03/indian-wells-like-shanghai-wants-its.html

Neither Konjuh is flourishing I guess then Konjuh had less errors....