2010 FIFA World Cup Tipping competition

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Tip scoring:
Tip win correct 5 points.
Tip win, match drawn 2 points.
Tip win, opponents win 0 points.
Tip draw correctly 6 points.
Tip draw incorrectly and the winning margin is 1 goal, 1 point.
Tip draw with a bigger winning margin -1 point.

Scores scoring:
Margin correct 2 points.
Goals correct team 1, team 2, 1 point each.
Both correct bonus 1 point.
Both incorrect -1 point.

All games in a day correct 5 bonus points.
All games in a group correct 10 bonus points.
Tip Cup winner correct 1 point per day before the match you make your prediction.
Cost to change cup winner prediction -2 points.

Does this sound like fun? Any suggestions re:scores or categories?


LEADER BOARD
1. Edu, 82 points
2. Lewis, 74 points
3. Franzl, 68 points
4. Jas, 67 points
5. Lief, 63 points
6. Hugh, 60 points
7. Bacon King, 46 points
8. Akno, 45 points
9. Tender Branson, 26 points
10. Earth, 11 points
11. Gustaf, 4 points.
 
WORLD CUP WINNERS PREDICTION
15 June: Akno, Brazil
16 June: Hughento, Spain

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New Zealand 1 vs. 1 Slovakia

Cote d'Ivoire 0 vs. 1 Portugal

Brazil 5 vs. 0 North Korea

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Just scores, please. After all we've pretty much been doing those already.

So no first goal? Fair enough.

I think tipping makes games like NZL v Slovenia interesting, especially if you've tipped a draw and NZ is up by one or whatever.

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11 points, awesome. Jas gets 3 and 2 for the others.

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hmph, sure, seems fair to me. Any objections to giving Edu 3 points?

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Scores updated. Lewis and I are out in front, but one good tip could put anyone up the top. My tips are Spain 2 v 0 Switzerland, Honduras 0 v 2 Chile, Uruguay 0 v 0 South Africa.

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Indeed. Almost worth tipping a Honduras win for the points gain you'd get.

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Based on these tips, I wonder just what'll happen to the ladder... Not too much I suppose. I've also logged your Brazil prediction, Alex.

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So far this round, everyone who tipped has 6 points except Earth and Edu, who have 7 points (due to predicting a Swiss goal, in a Spanish win). I'm also going to make my prediction for the cup win, to Spain. Even though they lost, they were brilliant. The difficulty now though is that they may have to go up against Brazil in the round of 16, but they would have had to do so eventually anyway.

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Current ladder:↲
1. Hughento, 25 points (+6) ↲
2. Lewis, 21 points (+6)↲
3. Edu, 17 points (+7)↲
4. Franzl, 15 points (+6)↲
5. Jas, 14 points (+4)↲
6. Earth, 11 points (+11)↲
7. Leif, 10 points (+10)↲
8. Bacon King, 8 points (+0)↲
9. Gustaf, 5 points (+0)↲
10. Akno, 5 points (+0).↲
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Still anyone's game, but missing a round is costly. Also, I scored Brazil v North Korea incorrectly, but everyone benefited equally so i'm just going to call it a first round tippers bonus point until I can use an actual keyboard to edit it .↲
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And, tips! France 2 v 1 Mexico, Argentina 3 v 1 South Korea, Nigeria 2 v 0 Greece.

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Lewis and Akno earned 4 points, Franzl lost a point, and Jas, Edu, Lief and myself got 6 points from the Argentina/South Korea game. With everyone tipping Greece to lose in a scoreless effort except Jas for a one all draw and Franzl tipping a one nil Greek win, this game will either change very little and continue a horror round for Franzl or prove to be a masterstroke that propels him to the top of the ladder. Or at least near the top, I can't be overtaken just yet

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I also ran over my spreadsheet again and it turns out I mistakenly counted Edu's tip in the Uruguay game. The actual current standings, after Argentina v South Korea, are 1, Hughento 29 points. 2, Edu 28 points. 3, Lewis 23 points. 4, Jas 18 points. 5, Lief 15 points. 6, Franzl 12 points. 7, Earth 11 points. 8, Akno 8 points. 9. Bacon King 7 points. 10, Gustaf 4 points. This also reflects errors in scoring I made in the Brazil v North Korea game.

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Jas and Franzl are looking like geniuses

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Franzl got 6 points, Jas got two points, Lief and I lost a point, and Lewis, Akno and Edu gained a point meaning Edu is our new leader!

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Germany 2 v 0 Serbia, Slovenia 0 v 2 USA, ENG 3 v 0 ALG

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Ladder going into the next day, after a horrible tipping round:↲
1. Edu, 29 points.↲
2. Hughento, 27 points.↲
3. Lewis, 22 points.↲
4. Jas, 18 points.↲
5, Franzl, 17 points.↲
6. Lief, 12 points.↲
7. Earth, 11 points.↲
8. Akno, 8 points.↲
9. Bacon King, 7 points.↲
10. Gustaf, 4 points.

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Current ladder:

1. Edu, 34 points
2. Lewis Trondheim, 33 points
3. Hughento, 32 points
4. Jas, 23 points
5. Franzl, 22 points
6. Lief, 17 points
7. Akno, 15 points
8. Earth, 11 points
9. Tender Branson, 10 points
10. Bacon King, 7 points
11. Gustaf, 4 points.

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Netherlands 3 v 1 Japan
Denmark 1 v 1 Cameroon
Ghana 1 v 2 Australia (not really, but I can't bring myself to tip against them)

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Paraguay 1 v 1 Slovakia, Italy 3 v 0 New Zealand, Brazil 2 v 0 Cote d'Ivoire.

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Current ladder:

1. Edu, 68 points
2. Jas, 53 points
3. Hughento, 48 points
4. Lewis, 47 points
5. Lief, 47 points
6. Franzl, 41 points
7. Akno, 39 points
8. Bacon King, 35 points
9. Tender Branson, 26 points
10. Earth, 11 points
11. Gustaf, 4 points.

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Portugal 2 v 1 North Korea
Chile 1 v 1 Switzerland
Spain 4 v 0 Honduras

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France 1 v 1 South Africa
Mexico 1 v 2 Uruguay
Nigeria 1 v 2 South Korea
Argentina 3 v 1 Greece

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Current tally, after Lewis and Franzl both gained the 5 bonus points for tipping the winner in each game successfully:

1. Edu, 82 points
2. Lewis, 74 points
3. Franzl, 68 points
4. Jas, 67 points
5. Lief, 63 points
6. Hugh, 60 points
7. Bacon King, 46 points
8. Akno, 45 points
9. Tender Branson, 26 points
10. Earth, 11 points
11. Gustaf, 4 points.

so as we've seen this round, anything can change pretty quickly.

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Sorry for being awol for a couple of days. Netherlands 2 v 0 Cameroon. Denmark 1 v 1 Japan. Italy 2 v 1 Slovakia. Paraguay 3 v 0 New Zealand.

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Everything will be the same for the first ninety, and if you tip a draw you should then say who the eventual winner would be, plus a point if you're correct, minus one if you're wrong. No relevance for goals/penalty predictions.