Is Norrie's second game schedule for the second week, because the Norrie's questions involves him winning his first two games, not reaching the second week like it was asked for top four 4 seeds, perhaps, your statement isn't related to the question asked, but just your making point, right ?

I put Sri Lanka and Scotland, without even knowing the games was scheduled for today, but unfortunately for me, I didn't put who will win the finals, it still has everything to do with me reading the questions or interpreting it wrongly, and maybe not understanding the sport well enough to know there will still be a final between them, because these are the two teams that said is left to make it the world cup because question go thus "7. Cricket World cup qualifiers are going on, 6 teams are left in qualifiers and 2 will make it to the World cup later this year in India. The question is which two teams will make it to the final of qualifiers and who will win it? Provide your answer in the following form: Sri Lanka,  Scotland - Sri Lanka. This is a H2H question." So my brain probably stopped functioning at the 6 teams are left and only 2 of them will make it to the World cup.

14. Alexander Volkanovski
13. Brandon Moreno
12. Robert Whittaker
11. Jalin Turner
10. Bo Nickal
9. Niko Price
8. Jack Della Maddalena
7. Yazmin Jauregui
6. Jimmy Crute
5. Vitor Petrino
4. Cameron Saaiman
3. Jesus Aguilar
2. Kamuela Kirk
1. Tatsuro Taira

NOT go the Full Distance 7

Aside from the cricket being my most hated sport, I still think about 8 of the questions looks quite easy to make a decision, there are certain cons that could it go from making the all No answers answers being a Yes outcome with very small unfortunate circumstances the reason for making go side ways.

For the cricket, I'm probably worse player that have no clue about that sport, although I've played in a paid cricket pool here before but I have zero clue about how the scoring is being counted or any other of it's rules of playing it.

Damn!

The draw still feel pretty much like a loss to me because, just snooping around this thread before submitting my pick would have totally change the outcome, but there's no point crying over spilled milk, finding out all possible info be any means necessary is part of the requirements of the competition.

Now, it's time to move on to the next round, which is playing against a very tough opponent in mitchr4 for the next round, I'm waiting for the questions already.

I don't think they're broke or can't afford him, but they know he's already surplus to requirement at Chelsea, and the fault is that of no one but Chelsea, they were so indecisive with Romelu Lukaku, they had him at first loaned him out year in year out, until it was eventually sold to Everton, I believe that should that should have been the end his spell at Chelsea, Everton had the best version Lukaku for some years before cashing in on him with a deal to Man Utd, the fact that Lukaku didn't fully live up to expectation at Man Utd should have been a kind of signal for Chelsea imo, Man Utd sold for less than paid Everton for his service, just barely 2 years of good, but not so spectacular season at Inter, and there comes Chelsea again, head over heels for him and paid 3x as much they had sold him Everton for without proper thought of how well he'd fit in to their game plan. Inter Milan are just being smart enough to hold their ground and not fall for Chelsea's antics that have worked for them this season in the Transfer Market so far, and should Lukaku stay back at Chelsea, I'm sure they'll probably sell him for less than what they're asking off Inter Mlian.

I don't think PSG will be totally in the driving seat of making a deal happen, regardless of them being able to reach conclusion with a team and accepting a potential transfer fee, it's still going to be up to the player to also agree personal terms with the new club before a deal can be completed, I remember vividly the issue be Frenkie De Jong, Barcelona and Man United last summer, Barcelona did everything possible to sanction the deal, both teams reached a transfer fee very early into the transfer window, but Frenkie never wanted a moved to Man United and as such never reached personal terms with Man United hence Barcelona were force to have for another season, so all I can foresee is such scenario playing out between Mbappe and PSG, and PSG theatrics of holding players against their will to remain the club and whatnot is becoming a very evident and consistent issue, while they feel they have all the money lure any player away from their current club, It's probably just going to keep having a negative impact of their chances of get the biggest stars of the game henceforth, especially with their extremely flawed structure of what's expected of a supposedly top football team in Europe.

I believe I some news about David De Gea being offered a new contract with wages reduction and he has supposedly signed it before leaving for the summer holidays, I can't remember the source of the news, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case, I don't think any big club in Europe would be making any move on getting De Gea even as a free agent and offer him anywhere near what he was earning at Man Utd 375k per week, as a 32 year old GK, especially now that coaches are prioritizing goalkeepers that are good with their feet and can help the team player out from the back conveniently.

Yeah, I really just hope they can mess things up, because a draw with Slackovic for this round would feel like a loss to me to be honest due to the fact that I got fucked over by the Tennis issue regarding De Minaur, but I just want to believe that what are chances he would reach the final, and of course win the trophy, because since Cerendulo made it to the final and won the first tournament, I’ve taken it in good fate because now it’s justified, it’s time to move on and look forward to the next round of fixture.

Teams are going nuts with these trades honestly, and so are players, It's going to be a whole new team shuffling by the time the news seasons gets underway, it's literally going to take a while I adjust to these players and their news clubs.

I really can't blame Lillard, it's Dame time he tryout a new path for himself, and Blazers aren't doing well enough to give him a reason to keep trust the project, as for the Houston Rockets, I'll be keeping a huge tab on them for the season they look really highly prospective and a very young too, If they can keep the structure and players, VanVleet is gonna come in very handy for them honestly.

As for Damian Lillard, Heat is said to be preferred destination, that'd be a perfect place for him, I would have said Boston Celtic since they've already Marcus Smart out Lillard could come in as quite an upgrade in terms of points, but I'm not sure if they will be able to make an allocation within their salary cap to afford him.

I wasn't expecting an all out activity from Barcelona in this transfer window, but I indeed expect a couple of signing to complement the team's dynamism and fluidity especially after losing two senior member of the team, the transition period of the club is almost done, just a couple of transfer, a wing back, full back and then an extra player in the front line would bring the team to near perfection and almost fully ready for the new season as far as I can tell.

This is a different bet, It's sprint race which is different from the main event, I believe.

The sprint race is current on, while the main race is going to take place tomorrow.

I think it does racing position does give some form of advantage, prior to the qualifiers or it is test race it's being call, the odds for Leclerc to finish in the top 3 was well above 2.4 Odds, but now it's 1.60 odds the him not finish amongst the top 3 is valued 1.95 Odd.

When it comes to combination and permutation my mathematical skills isn't so great but for anyone that wants to know the chances here are the odds as at the time of this post;

To Finish On The Podium        Yes     |   No

1. Charles Leclerc                  1.6         1.95
2. Carlos Sainz Jr.                  2.2         1.37
3. George Russell                  11.0        1.07


According to the odds for other players, it's seem Leclerc is the best shot for those who picked, so unless Lewis Hamilton, Alonso and Sergio Perez can pull off some decent stunt, it's going to be a Yes to the question.

Crazy stuff, Serbia is going to mess things up for me to get a perfect 4/4 there, already down by 29 points at half time, I don't think there is any coming back from this as far as I can tell, so me and Slackovic would share equal score here, but he'll need to win the F1 fixture to earn a draw, because I'm still having a point advantage, which just one question to go.


Yeah right, I was on the verge of submitting my post before the notification of a new post popped up and it was your post, I guess I was right after all, I was confident of Turkey winning but Serbia losing like this isn't something I foresaw at all.

a.  Palmeiras
b.  Under
c.  0-1
d.  No
e.  61'

This really is an enormous sponsorship again, wow!

I hope we can get as many users more than those of the previous seasons, and the weekly free bet also is something worth playing for the entire 38 weeks, I just hope I'll do much better this season, because I fell off totally in the last edition.

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It's better to have the signup thread available as soon as possible so that there will be enough time for a wider audience reach and also enough time for everyone interested to join in. 

Looks like the same scenario between me and slackovic, the group stages ended exactly how I expected it to turn out and I have Turkey, USA, Serbia and Spain. and we only have Spain and USA as common pick and I already have the advantage with Turkey win against Canada, so the worse thing that could happen to me now is the question being a draw, and should Serbia win, I'm victorious for the week already.

My problem with Chelsea is that they often play their players out of position with different players playing together while having different ideas and I'm not sure of the last Chelsea coach that have a squad or starting xi, playing in their rightful position and having one specific goal or philosophy, Havertz playing as Centre forward was the height for me, and every Chelsea fans blames a fish for its inability to sing, Mason Mount is just another player that you really can't place a specific attribute to, unlike Havertz who is very technically good player imo, but as No 10, or just behind the striker, while I would rather play Mason Mount as a LM, because he might not be the best individual player, he's a very good team player and players like that really cannot be attributed to just one skillset, but are pivotal to a team's general chemistry. That's why most the new Chelsea signing haven't figure their shit out either, there need to be an adaptive game plan and general structure, not just having 11 players on the field leaving them to just go figure it out themselves.

Arsenal and Arteta strengthening their squad isn't my problem but they're doing it ridiculously with paying these outrageous fees for players that aren't worth it or even had a spectacular season at least, paying such fees for Havertz who played in 35 of 38 matches for Chelsea this season but only scored 7 and assited only once, Eddie Nketiah off the bench was literally more productive than Havertz was last season, I'm not saying that makes him a better player than Havertz, but makes the outrageous fees Arsenal paid a dumb move, and now they're threading the same path with Declan Rice saga, Partey was a better DM than Rice was last season imo, and Arsenal would be better off not parting ways with over £100m plus addons for Rice, especially with his contract almost running out already at West Ham, and they could get for almost free next season, getting Declan Rice would not by any means increase their chances of winning the title race, imo opinion.

Yeah, that's what I initially felt this was because there are some players that ones they are given options, they don't try to do any research hence giving their opponents an unfair advantage, that we all were against but for those that didn't both submit their picks, at least there is a player in this round that wrote just USA and Spain in the FIBA u19 question.

So, It would have been very fine with me if that was the case in this scenario, but that'd have meant you already knew he wasn't going to play hence making it unfair, but from the way the question was asked and I was sure that you guys had no idea De Minaur had withdrew even before question was posted here, so that's why it wasn't an issue with me at all, however, going forward including this type of question might to some players beat the idea of fairness because either of you who sets the specific question would have known the answer beforehand, so that's like being one question ahead already, which is why those type of questions might really not work, myself personally, is very much okay with such question since it's expected of every user to do their due diligence on each question, but then I'm not everybody, so I can only speak for myself.

That's my point because having made certain picks already and waiting until sometime early on Tuesday, it literally means we all aren't waiting for any further information that could influence our decisions.

So I'm not sure how that would affect me, because about the tennis issue, by the time I first opened the form and up until when I submitted pick he wasn't in the Bracket so, I just didn't know well enough that a player that isn't currently in the bracket is not participating in the tournament and the sites I quoted yesterday stated that he wouldn't start from the first round so I thought until is opponent was known, only then would he available in the bracket so that's on me and my knowledge of tennis, If I had waited for even one minute before deadline, I still wouldn't have come across his withdrawal information and it's most likely due to being an ATP 250 tour was why the news wasn't an easy reach as at Monday and very early Tuesday, because I did check more than 5 times. I'm just trying to reiterate that me choosing De Minaur was never a case of how early or late I submitted my picks, it's rather about how familiar I was with Tennis rules regarding player withdrawal, I've never witnessed a player withdrawing that early with almost zero information about it, or I sure do usually find them in the bracket with the withdrawal or walkover/retired status but now I've got a very clear knowledge of it, I'm very sure!, and the same can be said for people who have in the past picked players that were to meet in the QF or earlier as their semi finalist answers, while that could be seen as playing it safe to get at least one answer right if 2 highly ranked/seeded players fall in the same bracket category in early rounds, but what about someone picking players from different tournament last week ?

In essence, I like how much efforts the CRO2 team are putting into this competition, making it better by every opportunity that arrives, and I hope there wouldn't be any further complications caused by this implementation of VAR.

EDIT: And for a slight suggestion: At the end of the season if there are players that cannot be separated points, SD, SA, H2H and other criteria that are already defined, should the player with the less VAR used have the edge ?