World Cup Competition!
Don’t say I never do anything special for you peeps.
For all registered users, you can now take part in the aEitFoO World Cup prediction competition! Simply make sure that you’re logged in (use the login section on the top of the sidebar) and then fill in your predictions for the matches over the next few weeks. There’ll be a live table of the top predictors and the competition will work on an ongoing basis, so you don’t need to make entries until right up until a team plays. What are you waiting for?
Live in Play
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Current Standings
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Player Predictions
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Group Tables
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Knock Out Tables
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Scoring
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Scoring is as follows
| Getting score exactly right | 10 | eg predicting 3-0 victory and 3-0 victory occurs | |
| Guessing a draw, but not right goals | 6 | eg predicting 2-2 draw and 1-1 draw occurs | |
| Guessing a victory, but not right goals | 6 | eg predicting 3-0 victory and 2-1 victory occurs | |
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| Bonus for correct number of goals (if not already 10 pts) | 2 | eg predicting 3-0 victory and 3-2 victory occurs | |
| Bonus for correct goal difference (if not already 10 pts) | 2 | eg predicting 3-0 victory and 4-1 victory occurs | |
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Enter Predictions Here
Match times are currently set to South African local time, please click here to convert to your time zone.
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Peter
Thanks for the competition! And as I live in the host country and will probably be going to a couple of the matches, I'll certainly be taking part. I should have an added advantage of 'local knowledge', shouldn't I? Do you want to offer a prize?
What do you think a good prize would be?
How about a bottle of 12 year old Glenfiddich?
How about a bottle as old as the last time England won the cup? :)
Do you want anything *in* the bottle? :-)
Ho, ho, ho!! I'd prefer 12 year old Glenfiddich in the bottle but I will accept a telegraphic transfer of sufficient funds to buy a nice South African red wine vintage – when I win!
Seriously, everyone is going crazy here in South Africa! Flags and wing mirror flags are on loads of cars and people are getting really excited! Me too!
I will make my first entry for the SA v Mexico game tomorrow after pondering deeply. I realise that I am in competition with a statistician!
Here we go…
http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-1605.aspx
BTW, given up on intensedebate?
I'm loving how people are assuming they're actually going to get scotch for a prize…
And yes, given up on ID. Lost a bit of control using it. Think this is now much better.
Well HO, if you're offering – I'm certainly up for a 1966 vintage whiskey!
You've got to win first. Oh and I've got to not drink it first, then there's postage, import duty, insurance… :)
I don't really 'do' football, so it's a bit of a random number generator. Do I need to fill in all the matches listed now, or only the upcoming ones?
Fill in as much as you want to at this point. As long as a game hasn't been played you can come back and update your predictions as many times as you want.
I've just saved my predications for today's opening games: SA 3 Mexico 2 and Uruguay 2 France 2. The atmosphere here is white hot with thousands of blaring vuvuzelas. I expect it to be quite initimidating for the players, so I'm expecting higher scoring matches than usual, at least until they get used to the type of atmosphere down here. So I'm going out on a limb with my first predictions! Anyone else want to follow?
How many people have predicted?
As of this moment, ten.
Shouldn't there be a 3rd place play-off near the end to make it more like the World Cup? (Not that – judging by today's ranking – finishing that high is something I ought to worry about! ;-))
Struggling with prediction for first match – no idea which way it will go!
Not a bad start, great goal from a guy with a great name.. Sif Tshabalala!
I totally agree with you, tallandrew! From the Supersport website in South Africa today: 'The European scouts are likely to be knocking on Chiefs chairman Kaizer Motaung's door before the World Cup ends on July 11. Tshabalala is going to be one of Bafana's World Cup stars'. Amen to that, brother!
Who else was watching it on ITV HD? Who else thinks that between ITV and Green its too close to call for "muppet of the evening"?
confused as to how i got 8 points each for the S Korea and Argentina wins and not 6?
Korea v Greece – 6 pts for correct Korea win and 2 pts for correct Greece 0 goals
Argentina v Nigeria – 6pts for correct Argentina win and 2 pts for correct Nigeria 0 goals
Comprendez?
I see that, so far, the Scots are doing as well at this competition as we did in the real thing. At least we are represented………
lol! If Heskey had been able to hit a ban door then I would have earned a mighty ten points! On balance, I'm glad he didn't ;-).
And that Argentina game was one of the least likely 1-0s I've ever seen – after the first ten minutes, I thought I should have predicted a 6-0 victory!
What a surprise! Another England goalie error! What ever happened to the great English goalkeeping tradition of Banks and Shilton. 6 points dropped for me (well 5, at least I got the USA score correct)
thank you, i comprendez maintenants.
nice. This morning the Oulds are both top. The fix is in!
I'm hoping that English members predicting patriotically -as opposed to sensibly – will allow Scots like me and David to climb the table! ;)
Go the Swiss! Nobody saw that one coming….
Not one of us predicted a swiss win…
Peter, far be it from someone near the bottom of the table to turn down points, but I don't think I should have got 8 for my Uruguay prediction – the actual goal difference was +3, when I predicted +1!
My heart said South Africa, my head said Uruguay… remind me never to listen to my heart ever again…
Trystan
Same here! Living in South Africa my heart well and truely overtook my head. It's a very deflated mood here this morning, as everyone knows that South Africa are almost certainly out of the WC. In truth, they were totally outclassed by Uruguay.
cerebusboy – you got 6 points for the win and 2 bonus for getting the correct number of goals for South Africa (0).
Ah, thanks! Plainly my ignorance of the rules is the explanation behind my shoddy performance thus far ;-)
Glad to see Argentina lived up to the goal-fest predictions!
The Slovenia-USA game is at 3pm UK time, isn't it? If Peter isn't about to correct it, the predictions are going to get messed up.
Kinda fixed. The time is now correct but for some reason it's displaying as South Africa time. Looking into it.
Germany 0 Serbia 1. Another shocker.
woah, nobody predicted the victories of Serbia or Mexico!
I think you might have missed some scoring. Don't a few of us get 2 points got predicting the correct number of goals for Serbia?
Yes you do, and the scores have now been processed.
I have the sad duty to inform everyone that many Scots are rejoicing and that sports shops are stocking up on on Slovenia tops for Wednesday's match.
As well they should, on this great occasion of Answered Prayer!!! ;-D!!!
Wow, Luke screams ahead with a great prediction on the US-Slovenia match.
Nice call, Luke.
I think one's England predictions are more in hope than reality. My next one is. I do hope eventually to get out of the relegation zone in this competition despite joining the 'fun' several matches later than you all.
Yes I missed predicting the first 7 games :-(
Praying for your treatment Peter. What is the diagnosis? I have twice had heart failure, one due to hypertension next atrial fibrillation. England are enough to give any one heart failure.
I have an arrhytmia (Ventricual Bigeminy) with an inverted T wave (so the electrical pulse in my heart is not repolarising at the end as it should do). I'm currently on Calcium Channel blockers to try and stabilise the rhythm. I'm not in any great heart attack risk, but when I get a funny turn it has to be checked out just in case.
You can read more here
Thanks for setting this up Peter, ("Heavenly Father, please heal Peter and be with his family. Amen") I didn't expect to get off to a great start with several dud predictions, including against my own team. (Aus) My tip is just to follow your heart, be who you wanna be, etc etc.