Blonde Football World Cup 2014 Predictions Competition

[MereNovice]

4 hours for the following to enter their predictions:

$heriff_Fatman
ForthThistle
Killer River
MPOWER
Nico29
Peter-27
Yian

[MereNovice]

30 minutes left.

[MereNovice]

Entry is closed for this round.

[MereNovice]

Selections are here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdHJYbjJ5bUxGc01RT2tQQWZCVXdlTmc&usp=drive_web#gid=4

[MereNovice]

Predictions for the first match:

France   15
Germany   10
Draw   14


That looks a pretty even split.

[MereNovice]

Two quarter-finals are complete and we have two confirmed semi-finalists:

Here is the table including QF results and confirmed SF-ists:

TommyD      144
BorntoBubble      136
George2Loose      135
bookiebasher      126
Big_D       124
Yian      124
kp24      121
mondatoo      121
TheDazzler      120
claypole      120
horseplayer      120

[kp24]

Colombia let me down

[MereNovice]

Colombia let me down

You and seven other people for the match prediction.
One person had Colombia for the semi-finals - very unlucky.

[tikay]

Two quarter-finals are complete and we have two confirmed semi-finalists:

Here is the table including QF results and confirmed SF-ists:

TommyD      144
BorntoBubble      136
George2Loose      135
bookiebasher      126
Big_D       124
Yian      124
kp24      121
mondatoo      121
TheDazzler      120
claypole      120
horseplayer      120

I don't see my name there - why is that, Vince?

Not being rude, like, but up until now, you appear to have been reasonably accurate & efficient in running this.

[MereNovice]

Two quarter-finals are complete and we have two confirmed semi-finalists:

Here is the table including QF results and confirmed SF-ists:

TommyD      144
BorntoBubble      136
George2Loose      135
bookiebasher      126
Big_D       124
Yian      124
kp24      121
mondatoo      121
TheDazzler      120
claypole      120
horseplayer      120

I don't see my name there - why is that, Vince?

Not being rude, like, but up until now, you appear to have been reasonably accurate & efficient in running this.

Apologies, one of the night shift boys posted that table.
He mentioned something about getting RSI from scrolling down the list far enough to find your name.
Here is the full table:

Manager      Score
TommyD      144
BorntoBubble      136
George2Loose      135
bookiebasher      126
Big_D       124
Yian      124
kp24      121
mondatoo      121
TheDazzler      120
claypole      120
horseplayer      120
MPOWER   **   119
Mark_Porter    *   118
Matt50      118
toddswain      115
smurf      114
Horneris   *   113
Nico29      113
ChipRich      112
anthonyl      112
TightEnd   **   112
Nakor      110
Doobs      107
craigbetts      106
Eddycadub      105
waz1892      104
ForthThistle      103
blueace      103
Killer River       103
Graham C    *   103
dino1980      103
Peter-27   *   102
$heriff_Fatman    **   100
willrobrobu       98
tikay      97
mic5      96
BulldozerD      95
booder   **   93
TL900      83


I'm sure that one of the nurses will help you if you can't find your name.

[tikay]

Thats better. Tucked in nicely, right behind the leading group, ready to pounce.

[MereNovice]

Predictions required for the following two games by 8:30pm on Tuesday 8th July.


Brazil v Germany   
Netherlands v Argentina

[MereNovice]

Just two people had The Netherlands to make the semi-finals.

[MereNovice]

After the quarter-final games, the table looks like this:

Manager      Score
TommyD      157
BorntoBubble      149
George2Loose      145
mondatoo      144
Matt50      138
Big_D       137
Yian      137
bookiebasher      136
horseplayer      136
kp24      134
TheDazzler      133
claypole      133
MPOWER   **   132
toddswain      128
smurf      124
Horneris   *   123
Nico29      123
Nakor      123
ChipRich      122
anthonyl      122
TightEnd   **   122
Mark_Porter    *   121
Eddycadub      118
Doobs      117
waz1892      117
craigbetts      116
ForthThistle      116
Killer River       116
dino1980      116
blueace      113
$heriff_Fatman    **   113
tikay      110
Graham C    *   109
willrobrobu       108
mic5      106
Peter-27   *   105
BulldozerD      105
TL900      96
booder   **   93

This table includes the results for all the quarter-final matches and the semi-finalist predictions.


Costa Rica conceded the least goals in the tournament; no-one predicted that. The other places for this market will be a multi-way tie.

[MereNovice]

60 of the 64 matches of the competition (fifteen sixteenths) have been completed.

Goals scored:  159
Yellow cards:  168
Red cards:  10

Note that these totals vary from those you may see elsewhere since I am including extra time.


Top scorers:

James Rodríguez   6
Lionel Messi   4
Neymar   4
Thomas Müller   4
Robin van Persie   3
Enner Valencia   3
Karim Benzema   3
Arjen Robben   3
Xherdan Shaqiri   3