I already said it on this thread over and over again, that I'm done with Tsitsipas until he gets back to the form that made and got him to number 5th in the world men tennis ranking.

Dude was top seeded so he got a pass in the round 32/ first round, but at the first opportunity he gets, he's out ?! what a clown man has become...

If the competition had started to begin with before he withdraw drew to injury or other issue, it would be understandable, but his name wasn't even in the bracket at all, If it was, it would have be recorded as Walkover or Retirement, in that case then it's fine, but in this case he replaced by another player, as a new draw was made.



There is no sportbook that would have settled the bet as lost, if you placed an outright on him to win the tour or going further than some other player.

I'll leave the decision to Cro2 team to decide according to their initial intention of the question, if it was intentional, I'm sure it would have been graded already by now on the spreadsheet.

I really don't know if it's booby trap from Cro2 team, but if that's he case I would rather we don't have this kind of questions that are inconclusively, If when I did my research and it was stated that Alex De Minaur would not be participating, I will get it that they just want everyone to do their due diligence, but I don't know if in Tennis a player can join just along the way without starting the from the first round, just like it's not every one that would participate in Wimbledon have play through the qualifiers.

So If Alex De Minaur isn't going to participate in Eastbourne, then it's an invalid question, at least that's my opinion.

I knew the first half would have been concluded before deadline, but I literally just didn't care about it because I knew it wouldn't give me any advantage, so I submitted my pick from the first glance of opening the questions after my due diligence, that's why I'm one of the first people to submit their answers.

Guadelope is on the verge of giving me another correct answer, I was happy when they took the lead and when into halftime with the lead, Canada is now up 2-1 with 4 minutes to go.

EDIT: They've the equalizer it's 2-2 now, wow!



Probably because I pay more attention to the question rather who sets what, honestly, but I totally understand your concerns too, but I'm glad it's bants and just observations.



Just by looking at the H2H and recent games, they didn't seem like -2.5 Handicap team for Canada, it was an easy decision...

On the Tennis question, I think the question should be null and void, how can some not playing in a tournament get eliminated, and I did research on the tournament after not finding him on the bracket, and I'm sure there was a link that mentioned that he would join the tournament from a specific round or so.

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I'll remain here as well, but I wouldn't be dropping out of any major pool either...

If there is anything I've noticed about most of the pools I participate, the more attention and I put into it, the more horrible I perform at it, this concluded season was the first time I'll fall out of a prize slot in the Uefa Champions League after 4 years or thereabout, and the first in the PL in the last few season as well, but these were my major focus all season long including the FPL, I go as far as having a draft potential picks from Monday and watch the trends at least once to twice daily, but that didn't save me from performing woefully, and there I go doing rather well in Bundesliga and Serie A, both languages from which I don't understand a single word from... While I still suck at La Liga despite being Barcelona fan   Coincidence ? I don't think so... I'll only just participate in as many pool as I can possibly monitor and submit my picks weekly for, imo, that'd increase my chances of finishing well in one of them.

I might have an idea on this, it's just going to be an extra work for you and cryptofrka, I suggest that you create a new form a perhaps 10 maximum entries of possible questions for the next round when publishing a new round questions, and there will also be a deadline for all submission maybe Friday, where users submitting the questions could be or not be anonymous, but will have to fill in a couple of criteria; like category the question fall under, starting date and ending date, is the event confirmed to hold or there is a possible of delay beyond the ending day of the week, then the question which should be at least 2 or more, you don't have to ask the questions verbatim, but it will bring new ideas of possible questions, and show another level of transparency from you guys.

As for me, this is not any form of d*ck riding because I don't even communicate with either of you except on these gambling threads, but in all fairness you both are doing a great job without any form of bias, the questions aren't straight and nobody gets an edge when you to pick questions with entangled clauses that have no feasible answers because the opinions on a each clause of the question are often repelling just like like charges in physics, or are logically 2/3 opposing scenarios.


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They're completely different in terms of the way the question can be asked, for a full tour of about 64 matches combination gets played within 7 days and you're to pick the finalist, that can never be compared to MMA where there is often an easy way to answer question imo, if it's 3 round, I'll always go for UD on the favorite, I might likely be right 6/10, or 0/10, but I'll fancy my chances with the former, the NBA question that were asked were a combination 4 different match ups a couple of times too, I even believe the highly ranked boxing events with 12 rounds will be tougher to guess/predict than MMA, but I'm not against having MMA questions, because I now spend most of my Saturday or Sunday nights to watch every single fixture even the prelims, especially when I put in my prediction SB sponsored thread by jeremypwr and that's how I often find out if there is a Fight Night, or UFC round for the weekend generally.

Hey guys, I hope this is not becoming some personal attacks and what have you.


@notblox1 I really don't even don't think Trofo is the one in charge of setting this question and as far Esports is concern it's almost synonymous to tennis, no average middle aged guy loves Tennis outrightly, but we are forced to learn more about them and all I can say after a couple of months of consistent viewership is that I'll definitely take some Alcaraz vs a below 30 ranked player now rather than watch Brighton vs Chelsea football come the regular football season, but still I barely put my money on Tennis because the odds and chance doesn't correlate in my opinion.

MMA is often a this or that question except they'll have to include the likes of knockout or winning strategy like UD and SD, but you should know that most of us including me isn't familiar with MMA, and would rather just follow the sportbook odds like I would do for Formula 1 as well.

I have be clamoring for CS:GO questions not because it's the perfect spectrum for me, but at least I understand their players aim when streaming and how it work generally so it's literally fun watching for me, meanwhile I just stream Dota 2 for hours, I see kills scores but I really still don't understand major concepts like pros and cons of it, I just follow the commentary to know which team is having a better chance/game.

It only shows that nobody is having it fair and square here, the aim oof the sponsor is to bring wide audience to other sports, and in my opinion it is working, the only solution about MMA or UFC questions is that the Cro2 team can reach out to jeremypwr he knows the order of importance and expected spectators of these matches, perhaps it could be of help going forward.


Got it!

Thanks  

12. Sean Strickland
11. Damir Ismagulov
10. Michael Morales
9. Melissa Gatto
8. Ismael Bonfim
7. Brunno Ferreira
6. Rinat Fakhretdinov
5. Westin Wilson
4. Yana Santos
3. Guram Kutateladze
2. Ivana Petrovic
1. Alexandr Romanov

NOT go the Full Distance: 7

This is a good value bet imo, the England u21 squad are really and other than Germany being on the edge here, there is nothing else that could have made England be offered at such value against this awful German side, I might take the England win too, England double with a couple of other options as a betbuilder, and that would include Germany under 1.5 goals, maybe over 19.5 bookings too, and some corners to get a good 4-5 Odds.

I'm actually more surprised by the Georgia U21 side, coming into the tournament as an underdog in a group of supposed predators, but are currently at the top of the table and are still unbeaten with a high chance of qualifying for the next round.

I believe that is what sets Alcaraz and Ruud apart from this league, the hunger and passion is always there even when they're having a terrible day, they still manage to be there and show some great body language and will power, that's all sometimes we need as fans to keep supporting or stanning a specific athlete.

I don't think the any pool will be announced just yet, at least it will be by mid of next month, because there are still varieties of things to work out by the organizers from looking for sponsorship to struck and platforms to be used.

If you'd rather not have it with you, I'm sure there will be a couple of organizers that could help you out with keep them, such as Trofo, who I know will be handling a number of pools too, and plays in almost every pool out here, he could be willing to help.

I have a different perspective and all the questions seemed rather very easy at first glance imo, I probably would have taken a side bet of getting at least 6 correct answers after seeing the questions, that's why it was a bloodbath in the spreadsheet because we all had a similar idea on some instances. However, it's always easier said than done, as usual.

The screenshot is rather confusing, but if you're familiar with E-sports in general like CS:GO or Dota 2, there are often 3 finals, Upper Bracket Final (where the loser get another shot at making it to the final), by playing the winner of the Lower Bracket Final, then the winner faces the winner from the upper bracket final, the main or grand final (which usually is a best of 5 series).

EDIT: Trofo beat me to it, with a better explanation with the bracket image, that's ideally how it works some of these e-sports.

I have BetBoom Team to win the tournament and to play against PSG.LGD in the final, I've already won the round against my opponent, Thanks to Alcaraz proving he can adapt pretty well to any surface, and Zverev also failing to secure a place in the final put the round in the bag for me, but now I believe I could be up for 2 different Free bets round If PSG can reach the final and lose to Betboom Team.


Good game mate, better luck next time 👍

I like the Golden State Warriors being rid of Jordan Poole, he'll be such a mess to have as the heir to the post splash brothers era and he's shown it multiple times, in my candid opinion. The supposed new deal he got last year is already getting way deep into his head, but the if the Warriors clearing massively off their salary cap is to retain Draymond Green or hand him some ridiculous deal as mentioned above then trading Jordan Poole would be a stupid move in my opinion, I think this players also need to understand that these franchises are peoples business and they as players only stayed over the years because their getting as paid they dim fit and their dreams aligned, but this felling of entitlement after they're getting old and the franchise needs to start thinking of the future they begin to play some victim card, instead of just getting the hell away to some place where to they can milk some money off before calling it quits on their already ending careers.

It was freaking disgusting to watch him play like that to be frank, and they all are humans and are bound to have bad or even terrible days as we all do, but showing no character whatsoever or even any passion for the match was an eyesore and I thought for a second that it was only myself who noticed it simply because I had money on the line, but this proves me right, If doesn't care about Halle, he could have just withdrawn from the tournament all along, I don't think there is penalty for that, is there ? I'm sure there are 100s of other Tennis players that would have wanted to witness that experience... I guess I'm done with him and Tsitsipas for the time being. I'll just stick to my Rude, Rune and Alcaraz for now!

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Alcaraz to the finals, and that brings home my first H2H edge, but GG have leveled up against Talon in the Dota 2 match up  

I was hoping Talon would eliminate Gamin Gladiators, at least that would give me my first edge in the H2H vs my opponent, but I don't know how to feel with your bet, Talon have been quite impressive later and I would have had my bet on them to win a map rather than ML on GG, Talon have won the first map, and I think any won who stream the fixture on twitch would definitely.

I was literally simultaneously watching Bublik vs Zverev, while also streaming Dota 2 on Twitch, I mean on Saturday afternoon, but when there no football event how much of a choice do we have. That said, Bublik with yet another upset by eliminating Zverev 2-0, that's coming after having great game versus Sinner, I'll probably be backing him for the finals.

I think given number of players on the flank or in the centre forward position that have arrived after Nicolas Pepe and made some real impact without being hyped up as much as Pepe was, it pretty much easy and straight forward to consider him one of the biggest transfer fails by Arsenal, arguing about the changes in coaches and general ideology would make a reasonable excuse for his failure at the club because pretty much almost nothing was working back then imo, and considering crucial goals and assist, I might not have been an Arsenal fan or saw every of their game, but I'm sure I would have seen between 40-50% of their important and crucial games they've played in the last 5-6 years (crucial and important as interpreted by me would be major cup finals, semi finals, some quarter finals (vs credible opponents), and most of the games vs top 6 opponents in the league), and I can say I barely even remember his name if I were to speak about any of these games. However, I'm sure our criterial for crucial goals and assist might be contrast for example any game winning is often crucial to every team regardless of the opponent, so it's very much likely that I missed it. Even as much as Andrey Arshavin spell almost didn't end up very well as it started, and it already should be about 10 years or more he left Arsenal, but then those 4 goals against Liverpool will live at the heart of most football lovers who witnessed it.

Yes, it's as though we have like minds on that, I'm sure looking at some dark horses outright for Wimbledon too, I just need a little bit of more information regarding the seedings and the draw path, so I might have about 2-3 outrights on some underdogs. Alcaraz winning this tour would put him back at World No 1, I don't know if that will be of any effect on the seeding for Wimbledon, so I'll just wait for the draw chart and how both current ends before I draw my conclusion.

Danil Medvedev with the huge let down for me, as I have already anticipated that Jannik Sinner game would be considered void and it was but Medvedev with non impressive and losing body language see to it that I lost my bet 

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Oh Ye Alcaraz doubters today is the day he gets to prove you all wrong, but it's now a very fine margin between me and my opponent, every remaining question now have it's own significant impact on how our fixture would end, and It's very likely that the winner would known by the end of today.