Can You Outpredict Paul the Octopus in the 2014 PF World Cup League?

[micromass]

By the way, I hope I'm not asking for too much, but can you add the results to the prediction post (above our predictions) when every match is over ?

Sure.

 

[PhysicsGente]

18th June
Australia - Netherlands: 0 - 5
Spain - Chile: 0 - 2
Cameroon - Croatia: 0 - 2

 

[DennisN]

Every team has played at least once now. I want to congratulate montadhar for being in the lead!

Me too, congratulations, montadhar!

DennisN is rising very quickly though, considering that he didn't vote for some games.

I think I've been pretty lucky .

I predict that he will be a good first by the time each team has played their second matches.

I hope there will be competition! I really like this thread, the idea, setup and point system is very good and fun, I think.

We could start a new thread, PF World Cup Futbol League², where members could predict the outcome of this thread. And then we can start another thread in which members predict the outcome of the previous thread. Micromass...? (only kidding, of course)

 

[D H]

For June 19:

Columbia v Côte d'Ivoire: 1-0
Uruguay v England: 0-1
Japan v Greece: 1-0

 

[cristo]

Uruguay v England: 0-1

Yaaay! :)

 

[D H]

Yaaay! :)

I took the weather into account this time. Had I done that last time I would have predicted a loss for England. England trained to lose against Italy in Manaus. Tomorrow will be wet, dreary, and cool in Sao Paulo. Perfect English weather!

 

[AlephZero]

Tomorrow will be wet, dreary, and cool in Sao Paulo. Perfect English weather!

And the nasty Brazilian Agriculture Department officials have confiscated Uruguay's "magic weapon"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-27889343

Still, England might as well get it over with and exit the tournament as fast as possible, preferably in a way that they can blame on everybody except the players.

 

[trollcast]

19TH JUNE
Columbia v Côte d'Ivoire: 2-1
Uruguay v England: 1-2
Japan v Greece: 2-0

 

[Logger]

19th June
Colombia - Côte D'Ivoire: 1 - 1
Urugay - England: 1 - 2
Japan - Greece: 1 - 0

 

[PhysicsGente]

19th June
Colombia - Côte D'Ivoire: 3 - 1
Uruguay - England: 0 - 2
Japan - Greece: 2 - 1

 

[micromass]

19th June
Colombia - Côte D'Ivoire: 3 - 1
Uruguay - England: 0 - 2
Japan - Greece: 2 - 1

You have no guess for the overall winner? It's a lot of points!

 

[cristo]

Colombia v Ivory Coast: 2-1
Uruguay v England: 0-5
Japan v Greece: 3-0

 

[Matterwave]

Going to try my hand at this.
June 19:
Colombia - Côte D'Ivoire: 3-0
Uruguay - England: 1-1
Japan - Greece: 1-0

 

[PhysicsGente]

You have no guess for the overall winner? It's a lot of points!

Alright.

Winner: Germany of course!

 

[micromass]

Going to try my hand at this.
June 19:
Colombia - Côte D'Ivoire: 3-0
Uruguay - England: 1-1
Japan - Greece: 1-0

No overall winner?

 

[micromass]

20th June:
Italy - Costa Rica: 3 - 1
Switzerland - France: 0 - 2
Honduras - Ecuador: 0 - 1

 

[Intrastellar]

19th June
Colombia - Côte D'Ivoire: 3 - 1
Uruguay - England: 1 - 2
Japan - Greece: 2 - 1

 

[micromass]

Important notice!
We have had a lot of predictions made after the deadline. I have ignored the situation until now, but it's a bit unfair towards the people who make their predictions tomorrow. Since I am posting so short before the deadline (5 hours), I will let tomorrow's matches pass too. But after that, I expect the predictions on time (i.e. before midnight GMT). Any posts after the deadline, even 1 minute, will not be accepted

 

[D H]

For June 20:
Italy v Costa Rica: 2 - 1
Switzerland v France: 0 - 2
Honduras v Ecuador: 0 - 1

 

[trollcast]

20th june
italy v costa rica: 3-1
switzerland v france: 1-2
honduras v ecuador: 0-1

 

[cristo]

Important notice!
We have had a lot of predictions made after the deadline. I have ignored the situation until now, but it's a bit unfair towards the people who make their predictions tomorrow. Since I am posting so short before the deadline (5 hours), I will let tomorrow's matches pass too. But after that, I expect the predictions on time (i.e. before midnight GMT). Any posts after the deadline, even 1 minute, will not be accepted

Is the deadline not the time the first game kicks off? I must have missed that. (I generally don't think about the games until the morning of)

 

[Logger]

Italy - Costa Rica (20 June): 2 - 0

Switzerland - France (20 June): 1 - 2

Honduras - Ecuador (20 June): 1 - 1

Argentina - Iran (21 June): 2 - 0

Germany - Ghana (21 June): 3 - 0

Nigeria - Bosnia and Herzegovina (21 June): 0 - 2

Belgium - Russia (22 June): 1 - 0

Korea Republic - Algeria (22 June): 1 - 0

USA - Portugal (22 June): 1 - 2

 

[cristo]

Italy v Costa Rica: 3 - 1
Switzerland v France: 1 - 3
Honduras v Ecuador: 0 - 4

 

[DennisN]

20th June:
Italy - Costa Rica: 2 - 1
Switzerland - France: 1 - 2
Honduras - Ecuador: 1 - 2

I will be posting my 21th June prediction later today.

 

[Intrastellar]

20th June:

Italy - Costa Rica: 2 - 1
Switzerland - France: 1 - 2
Honduras - Ecuador: 0 - 2

 

[Matterwave]

When are the deadlines for predictions?

20th June:
Italy - Costa Rica: 2 - 0
Switzerland - France: 1 - 3
Honduras - Ecuador: 0 - 0

Overall winner: Argentina. I think Messi is bound to win a world cup one of these days...might as well be this year.

 

[micromass]

Here is a table which shows the deadline in various timezones: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=World+Cup+Deadline&iso=20140621T00

 

[Matterwave]

So I missed that last deadline? =[

 

[micromass]

So I missed that last deadline? =[

No, since I said the deadlines start counting from today. So the last deadline was not important.

 

[micromass]

21 June:
Argentina - Iran: 3 - 0
Germany - Ghana: 3 - 0
Nigeria - Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 - 0

22 June:
Belgium - Russia: 2 - 0
Korea Republic - Algeria: 1 - 0
USA - Portugal: 2 - 1

 

[DennisN]

(almost like micromass, but not quite )

21 June:
Argentina - Iran: 3 - 0
Germany - Ghana: 4 - 0
Nigeria - Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 - 2

22 June:
Belgium - Russia: 2 - 0
Korea Republic - Algeria: 1 - 2
USA - Portugal: 2 - 1

 

[D H]

For June 21:

Argentina v Iran: 3-0
Germany v Ghana: 2-1
Nigeria v Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1-2

 

[trollcast]

21 June:
Argentina - Iran: 3 - 0
Germany - Ghana: 3 - 1
Nigeria - Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 - 1

 

[cristo]

Argentina v Iran: 4-0
Germany v Ghana: 2-1
Nigeria v Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2-3

 

[Matterwave]

21 June:
Argentina - Iran: 4 - 0
Germany - Ghana: 2 - 0
Nigeria - Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 - 1

22 June:
Belgium - Russia: 1 - 2
Korea Republic - Algeria: 2 - 1
USA - Portugal: 0 - 0

 

[Intrastellar]

21 June:

Argentina - Iran: 3 - 1
Germany - Ghana: 5 - 0
Nigeria - Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 - 2

 

[trollcast]

22 June:
Belgium - Russia: 2 - 1
Korea Republic - Algeria: 2 - 1
USA - Portugal: 2 - 1

 

[D H]

June 22:

Belgium v Russia: 2 - 0
Korea Republic v Algeria: 2 - 0
USA v Portugal: 1 - 0

 

[Intrastellar]

June 22:

Belgium v Russia: 2 - 1
Korea Republic v Algeria: 2 - 1
USA v Portugal: 1 - 2

 

[cristo]

Belgium v Russia: 3 - 0
Korea Republic v Algeria: 1 - 0
USA v Portugal: 1 - 2 (sorry)

 

[micromass]

23th June:
Netherlands - Chile: 1 - 2
Australia - Spain: 0 - 2
Cameroon - Brazil: 1 - 3
Croatia - Mexico: 0 - 2

24th June:
Italy - Uruguay: 3 - 2
Costa Rica - England: 2 - 0
Japan - Colombia: 0 - 1
Greece - Côte D'Ivoire: 1 - 2

 

[Matterwave]

23th June:
Netherlands - Chile: 3 - 1
Australia - Spain: 0 - 1
Cameroon - Brazil: 0 - 2
Croatia - Mexico: 1 - 2

24th June:
Italy - Uruguay: 0 - 2
Costa Rica - England: 0 - 1
Japan - Colombia: 1 - 1
Greece - Côte D'Ivoire: 2 - 1

 

[trollcast]

23th June:
Netherlands - Chile: 2 - 3
Australia - Spain: 1 - 2
Cameroon - Brazil: 1 - 3
Croatia - Mexico: 1 - 2

24th June:
Italy - Uruguay: 2 - 1
Costa Rica - England: 2 - 1
Japan - Colombia: 0 - 1
Greece - Côte D'Ivoire: 1 - 2

 

[DennisN]

I'd like to change my winner prediction from Argentina (posted on 12 June) to Germany (posted now on 22 June).

And some match predictions:

23th June:
Netherlands - Chile: 0 - 1
Australia - Spain: 0 - 2
Cameroon - Brazil: 0 - 3
Croatia - Mexico: 1 - 2

24th June:
Italy - Uruguay: 1 - 2
Costa Rica - England: 0 - 2
Japan - Colombia: 0 - 2
Greece - Côte D'Ivoire: 0 - 2

 

[Intrastellar]

23th June

Netherlands - Chile: 4 - 2
Australia - Spain: 2 - 1
Cameroon - Brazil: 0 - 3
Croatia - Mexico: 0 - 0

 

[DennisN]

Australia - Spain: 2 - 1

EDIT: It can very well happen, I have to add

 

[Intrastellar]

EDIT: It can very well happen, I have to add

I'm the one who's surprised! Now if Germany wins the world cup, I will get 8 points more than you will (4 if they reach the final), and if Germany doesn't, someone else will get a considerable advantage, and maybe win.
Edit: Perhaps, by changing to Germany, you have spelt your own doom

Edit2: I mean 6 not 8, sorry.

 

[DennisN]

I'm the one who's surprised! Now if Germany wins the world cup, I will get 8 points more than you will (4 if they reach the final), and if Germany doesn't, someone else will get a considerable advantage, and maybe win.
Edit: Perhaps, by changing to Germany, you have spelt your own doom

Edit2: I mean 6 not 8, sorry.

Yes, this contest is very fun! And very addictive!

 

[D H]

June 23th:

Netherlands v Chile: 1 - 2
Australia v Spain: 0 - 2
Cameroon v Brazil: 0 - 3
Croatia v Mexico: 0 - 1

 

[micromass]

Yes, this contest is very fun! And very addictive!

Glad you enjoy it! I'm not sure about your switch to Germany, but we'll see how it turns out.