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8 years ago
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Russia - South Africa 2:0
Egypt - Uruguay 0-2
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8 years ago
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Russia - Saudi Arabia 2-0
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I suggest that the organizer consider a fundamentally different format for the competition.

Each participant manages ONE post. Their own. With all predictions and results.
They write about each match in the following format:

First:
1. Russia - Saudi Arabia. Prediction: 2:0.

After the match ends, they edit the post, adding information to the following:
1. Russia - Saudi Arabia. Prediction: 2:0. Result: 0:3. Points: 0.
And at the end, they calculate their total points for the current moment.

Of course, editing technically opens up the possibility of retroactively changing the prediction to a more favorable one. But:
1) This is just childish.
2) All predictions are visible to everyone. Anyone who wants to take the risk is welcome.
3) We can establish (for this – for falsifying predictions retroactively) unclear, but definitely strict, measures of retribution, up to and including being added to the official Heroes blacklist.
And I think that's where the downsides end.

The advantages, in my opinion, outweigh the disadvantages. The topic won't turn into a billion technical messages, and no one will have to calculate anything for anyone.
In terms of calculating results, both overall and at any specific point in time, everything will be simpler by a couple of orders of magnitude.
In reply to Grando
8 years ago
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Al Feyn
I suggest that the organizer consider a fundamentally different format for the competition.

Each participant manages ONE post. Their own. With all predictions and results.
They write about each match in the following format:

First:

After the match ends, they edit the post, adding information to bring it to the following form:

And at the end, they calculate their total score for the current moment.

Of course, editing technically opens up the possibility of retroactively changing a prediction to a more favorable one. But:
1) This is just childish.
2) All predictions are visible to everyone. Anyone who wants to take the risk is welcome.
3) We can establish (for this – for falsifying predictions retroactively) unclear, but definitely strict, measures of retribution, up to and including being added to the official Heroes blacklist.
And I think that's where the downsides end.

The advantages, in my opinion, outweigh the disadvantages. The topic won't turn into a billion technical messages, and no one will have to calculate anything for anyone.
In terms of calculating results and in general, and at any specific point in time, everything will be simpler by a couple of orders of magnitude.
In general, this is convenient for me because I put all the predictions into an Excel spreadsheet, and everything is structured there. If each person has their own post, I'll have to scroll through pages, go back, and I might miss something. And if everyone calculates for themselves, then what's the point of this topic?
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8 years ago
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Russia - SA 0:0 amen.
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8 years ago
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Please register me for the tournament!!! Russia - Saudi Arabia 3-1 Egypt - Uruguay 1-2 Morocco - Iran 3-0 Portugal - Spain 2-2 P.S. I have added the results of the games for June 15th, as I might not be able to post after our games.
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8 years ago
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Egypt - Uruguay - 0-2
Morocco - Iran - 0-0
Portugal - Spain - 1-1

Maybe we could also make predictions about who will score? +0.2 for each correct prediction added to your score, for example.
In reply to Armageddets
8 years ago
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Egypt - Uruguay - 0-2
Morocco - Iran - 0-0
Portugal - Spain - 1-1

Maybe even predictions on who will score? +0.2 for each correct prediction added to your score, for example.
Too much writing and too much to memorize.
8 years ago
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at the moment, the prediction table looks like this.
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8 years ago
Egypt 0:1 Uruguay
Morocco 1:0 Iran
Portugal 0:1 Spain
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8 years ago
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Egypt - Uruguay 0-2
Morocco - Iran 1-0
Portugal - Spain 1-2
8 years ago
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Russia - Saudi Arabia 2-0
Egypt - Uruguay 0-1
Morocco - Iran 0-0
Portugal - Spain 0-2
8 years ago
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Egypt-Uruguay 0-3
Morocco-Iran 0-1
Portugal - Spain 0-1
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8 years ago
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Egypt-Uruguay 1-1
Morocco-Iran 2-4
Portugal - Spain 3-3
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8 years ago
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Egypt-Uruguay-1-2
Morocco-Iran-1-0
Portugal-Spain-1-1

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