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World Cup 2010 Prediction Contest Join in & enjoy it :)

#61 User is offline   Aberlour10 

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Posted 2010-June-12, 07:14

gwnn, on Jun 12 2010, 07:43 AM, said:

1 out of three. A group of blind monkeys on a properly configured typing machine could do the same...

I wanted to add a virtual participant named WCMonkey with completely random guesses but I gave it up. ;)
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Posted 2010-June-12, 07:24

actually a dead monkey (just zeroes) would do quite fine at this moment.
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Posted 2010-June-12, 07:31

gwnn, on Jun 12 2010, 07:43 AM, said:

1 out of three. A group of blind monkeys on a properly configured typing machine could do the same...

On the upside, you are doing better than hanp.
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Posted 2010-June-12, 08:32

cherdanno, on Jun 12 2010, 08:31 AM, said:

gwnn, on Jun 12 2010, 07:43 AM, said:

1 out of three. A group of blind monkeys on a properly configured typing machine could do the same...

On the upside, you are doing better than hanp.

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Posted 2010-June-12, 11:09

Have I not seen wrong? Everyone else thinks Brazil will draw N. Korea and Spain will not beat the Swiss?!

BTW, I once partnered the uncle of Danny Feilhaber (USA) for a bridge session...
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Posted 2010-June-12, 14:46

Rossoneri, on Jun 12 2010, 12:09 PM, said:

Have I not seen wrong? Everyone else thinks Brazil will draw N. Korea and Spain will not beat the Swiss?!

BTW, I once partnered the uncle of Danny Feilhaber (USA) for a bridge session...

you are the only one who got the USA match right :blink:
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Posted 2010-June-12, 14:59

Aberlour10, on Jun 12 2010, 09:46 PM, said:

Rossoneri, on Jun 12 2010, 12:09 PM, said:

Have I not seen wrong? Everyone else thinks Brazil will draw N. Korea and Spain will not beat the Swiss?!

BTW, I once partnered the uncle of Danny Feilhaber (USA) for a bridge session...

you are the only one who got the USA match right :blink:

Yeah, I clearly did not bank on Rob Green being so helpful!

I must say Onyewu's pretty impressive despite only playing 30 minutes for Milan all season.
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Posted 2010-June-13, 07:23

First European team to win a match :D !

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Posted 2010-June-13, 08:23

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First European team to win a match!


[polemic] And the good ones haven't even played yet :D [/polemic]
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Posted 2010-June-13, 08:41

Time for the 2nd round of predictions maybe?
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Posted 2010-June-13, 08:42

Gerben42, on Jun 13 2010, 09:23 AM, said:

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First European team to win a match!


[polemic] And the good ones haven't even played yet :D [/polemic]

S.th. the Germans and the Dutch can agree on, for a change!
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Posted 2010-June-13, 09:03

cherdanno, on Jun 13 2010, 09:41 AM, said:

Time for the 2nd round of predictions maybe?

Current scoreboard and schedule of 17-32 at the evening, after Germany-Australia match.
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Posted 2010-June-13, 09:52

Europe sucks :P
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Posted 2010-June-13, 10:28

Rossoneri, on Jun 12 2010, 12:09 PM, said:

BTW, I once partnered the uncle of Danny Feilhaber (USA) for a bridge session...

Heh - if its the guy I'm thinking of (Alberto) he's a regular in my game. He also plays with Steve Love who some of you know.
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Posted 2010-June-13, 14:01

*** SCOREBOARD AFTER 8 MATCHES *** all are close together :)

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Posted 2010-June-13, 14:16

*** Part II - Pairings # 17 - 32 ***

17) South Africa – Uruguay
18) Argentina – Korea Republic
19) Greece – Nigeria
20) France – Mexico
21) Germany – Serbia
22) Slovenia – United States
23) England – Algeria
24) Netherlands – Japan
25) Ghana – Australia
26) Cameroon – Denmark
27) Slovakia – Paraguay
28) Italy – New Zealand
29) Brazil – Cote d’Ivoire
30) Portugal – Korea DPR
31) Chile – Switzerland
32) Spain – Honduras


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Posted 2010-June-13, 14:39

Wednesday is 16th.
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Posted 2010-June-13, 14:42

uuups :) tx
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Posted 2010-June-13, 14:43

17) 1
18) 1
19) 1
20) 1
21) 1
22) 2
23) 1
24) 1
25) 1
26) 0
27) 1
28) 1
29) 1
30) 1
31) 1
32) 1

so many 1s :)
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Posted 2010-June-13, 14:45

also the predictions are clearly rigged.
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