Die Soccer Manager Elite Beta wurde nun für März angekündigt. Laut meinen Informationen haben sich über 10.000 Leute für diese Beta beworben, leider werden zum Start nur ca. 100 User die Ehre haben das Spiel auf Herz und Nieren zu testen. Aber es werden nach und nach mehr Leute hinzugenommen oder zumindest ist das der Plan Full release ist wie schon erwähnt für Mai 2020 geplant. Soccer Manager 2020 hat schon wieder über eine Million Downloads und wenn man sich anschaut was The Sandbox so macht, dann denke ich, dass auch die Team- und Spielershares von SME recht beliebt sein werden.

Die Beta Tester werden als Dank für ihre Mühen einen Teil der in der Beta erworbenen Shares behalten dürfen.

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Die Telegram-Gruppen von Xaya und Taurion wurden gestern auf read-only umgestellt und dienen nur noch als Announcement-/News-Channel. Jegliche Kommunikation wird im Discord (und ein bisschen im Forum) gebündelt.

This. I used to play a bit with them, when my Betfair account was closed, and it's a pretty shitty exchange. I don't know anyone who plays there and 99% of liquidity comes from their market makers imo.

What turned me off was their commission model (not sure, if it's still the same). They charged commission on every matched bet and this is just a no-go. You can punt there, but even some low-frequency trading is already a nightmare. If you are doing multiple trades in a market you are totally doomed. The commission will eat a huge portion of your winnings, if not all.

I am waiting for the day there is a real competitor to Betfair. They are really annoying with their monopoly and can do whatever they want with their customers. After Betfair shut down for a lot of people, Betdaq got some more liquidity, but it was only short-lived. Everybody returned to Betfair sooner or later with faked utility bills, bought accounts or via agents.

Yes, think so too and I quite like that rule. NFL wants to get rid of kick offs for a long time and the way they do it in XFL seems to be a good compromise.


Commentators said, the 3-point-conversion from LA was only the second successful one, so I guess there weren’t that many by now.

1-point-conversion is of course fine, if you trust your running game. In the end it’s maybe just a mathematical calculation. If you are able to convert a 10yd (pass) play with 33,33+%, then you are better off just attempting the 3-point-conversion every time. Maybe some lower percentage would be fine as well, since you don’t convert the 1-point-conversion at 100% and the 2-point-conversion at 50% most likely (or pretty sure !).

But when you look at how teams often struggle to move down the field for just a FG and all the effort it needs to get there, these 3 points look pretty cheap.

Ich gehe mal so weit zu behaupten, dass das Eröffnen einer Kampagne mit dem entsprechendem Thread bereits den meisten Werbeeffekt hat Die allgemeinen Bounty-Threads in den ganzen lokalen Boards sind dort sicherlich genau so beliebt, wie hier im deutschsprachigen Bereich. Und es wird auch regelmäßig über die Kampagnen geredet, wenn neue Plätze frei sind, Zahlungen gemacht wurden oder eben halt, wenn sie beendet werden. Die Posts an sich haben da einen geringeren Effekt imo, es sei denn, du hast viele sehr gute Poster, die interessante Beiträge schreiben.

Die überwiegende Zahl der Posts der Teilnehmer wird jedoch eher in Spam-Megathreads gemacht (aus verschiedensten Gründen) und dort liest kaum jemand Posts, geschweige denn interagiert mit eben jenen.

Yes, she lost, but second set went to tie-break, where she had her chances, but was a bit rusty. Being out of competition for so long, always makes you lack in sharpness in tough situations. But I still think she played pretty well and would have beaten a lot of girls inside Top100 today. Playing Muguruza, who seems to gain some form again, was a bit unlucky.

The top athletes never lose their passion for the sports. Clijsters retired pretty early, so her body is maybe more like someone in her early 30's (leaving the pregnancies aside here). Afaik she was still playing some exhibiitions and/or charity matches in the last years, so you can see that she never hung her racket up. Those girls often want to have children as well, so it's not easy to time everything properly for them. They have enough money for the rest of their life and they don't want to be old mothers. So you often see WTA players around 30 getting pregnant (Vesnina, Minella, Shvedova come to my mind) and halting their career or even call it a career.

Life on tour isn't easy. Those that hate it, just accept it as part of the game. Those that don't bother with being on the road for 40 weeks a year and living in hotels all the time, being jet-lagged frequently, are more likely to come back after pregnancy. Dementieva for example retired the same age as Clijsters, since she wanted to have kids. She never liked the tour life and thus never came back, just enjoying family life. Clijsters seems ok with going through all the hassle again and I don't think she does it for the money. I guess she has enough money and if not, she could always work as TV commentator or something like that.

PlayYourBet.com Kampagne ist beendet.

Nach einer Woche ist schon hart, bisschen mehr Durchhaltevermögen und Geduld sollte man schon haben.

Ich denke bei diesen Crypto-Gambling-Seiten hat auch eine gewisse Sättigung stattgefunden. Gibt es ja mittlerweile wie Sand am Meer und die Süchtigen haben auch nur so viel Geld/Krypto. Wenn man nicht Frontrunner in diesem Markt ist, ist es schon einigermaßen schwer neue Kunden zu gewinnnen - wenn man als Neuling versucht Fuss zu fassen ungleich schwerer. Man kann schon noch Geld machen, da es eine sichere Sache ist, aber im Zweifel lohnt sich der Aufwand nicht oder man wird halt von einem Größeren übernommen. War vor ein paar Jahren mit den Fiat Buchmachern das gleiche Thema.

Ist auch unheimlich schwer, gute Poster zu finden, man glaubt es kaum bei der Masse. Bei der Kampagne von efialtis und mir war die Mehrzahl auch eher in den durchschnittlichen Bereich einzuordnen; 3-4 gute Poster waren dabei. Aber insgesamt viele belanglose Posts, die kein Mensch braucht (und auch kein Mensch liest oder sich damit auseinandersetzt). Bei den Heros & Legendary findet man noch eher gute Leute, bei den Seniors war es sehr dünn, weshalb wir auch einen Senior Spot an einen Hero vergeben haben.

Ein paar Tage nachdem unsere Kampgagne gestartet war, ist dann eine andere Kampagne gestartet und dort wurden lustigerweise dann viele Leute angenommen, die wir insta-abgelehnt haben. Schon ein komisches Business.

Former world #1 and multiple Grand Slam winner Kim Clijsters is just giving her comeback at WTA tournament in Dubai. It's her first pro match since  losing to Laura Robson in the US Open in 2012 (!). She is a mother of three by now, but after watching the first few games I have to admit that she looks to still have it She is not in top shape, but she is just so talented and still has good zip. Will be intresting to see, if it's just some comeback for a few months or maybe 2-3 seasons - she is 36 now.

They finally released their song (and video) and it is named, ta-da, "Release Me". It's a very pure and sad song, but quite nice, though I don't think it's winner material. Such songs tend to land somewhere in the 5-10 range. Odds went from 25ish yesterday to 60+ now. Belgium often has trouble getting past the semifinal, but the times they did in recent years, they had good placements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAqjksxc4iA

In the twitter link he starts english and switches to french afterwards. In the youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1WR2Vd7Qk) he starts with french and then switches to english, weird. I like that song, especially the switching from englisch/french, but odds have gone up for France during the evening, so looks like the market doesn't like it

I still couldn't find the song from North Macedonia (Vasil Garvanliev "You"), so if anybody has a link to it, please post.

I sat through the second half and it was worth it Good action in Q4 and even Josh Johnson showed glimpses of why he was able to be at least a journeyman in NFL (13 teams in 12 years).

This 3-point-conversion is very worth trying imo - after every touchdown. It gives as many points as a FG and attempting a pass from 10yd line is often better than from like 2yd line. There are a lot of different rules in comparison to NFL (which is quite confusing) and from what they said, this is a testbed to adopt some of them for NFL. I would have to watch some more games, to see if any of those rules could change anything for the better in NFL.

Final result: Dallas 25-18 LA

First half done in my first XFL game Quality wise it's quite poor compared to NFL, but way better than GFL, what I accidentially watch from time to time. There were turnovers all over the place, miscommunications etc.

They have only 25sec per play and thus play no huddle offense mainly. This should normally make for a fast game and lots of points, but nope.

There are often sideline interviews from players that just made a great play the previous drive. It's a good idea, unfortunately it's just some bla bla like you hear so often from athletes. Seems to be some delay too, since they beeped out the f-words.

You can hear what the refs talk when a flag has been thrown and if some player engages in that discussion you can hear that too. Quite interesting. There was a booth review after a fumble, that was ruled down by contact initially, and you could hear the refs in the booth talk as well. Some coaches are mic'd up, f.e. the OC from the Wildcats, and you can hear their playcalling.

German commentators said that players earn a base salary of $27k per season with bonuses being added for winning games etc. From what I understood it's the same for everyone but the QB's. Some of those QB's might even earn more than the NFL minimum (which is around $500k).

Hard to get some NFL feeling all in all, stadium is maybe 50% full.

Score at halftime: Dallas 3-3 LA

Would love to watch it in person. Not only because it would be quite some fun, but it would also mean I would be in sunny and warm LA now and not sitting in some shitty, rainy and windy weather It will be streamed on some german website, that is also doing the main coverage for NFL here.

Will watch my first XFL game today, when the LA Wildcats host the Dallas Renegades

I have no idea what to expect tbh. From the previous results, it looks like there is not a lof of points scored, which is a bit meh, but lets see. Landry Jones is set to start for Dallas, while LA will have Chad Kanoff under center - never heard that name. Wikipedia says, that he was signed by the Cardinals as undrafted FA and also stayed with the Lions and the Bucs. But he didn't get beyond practice squad with these teams. Will probably have a small punt on Dallas.

You should start placing some bets on Spain then

The odds for the countries that have announced their entries until now (taken from Orbit Exchange).



The market is still young and it's missing liquidity of course. For those not familiar with exchanges - right hand from the blue fields are orders waiting to get matched, f.e. someone is looking to place a bet of 2,- Euro on Spain.

Lithuania is pretty low for my liking. I like the song, but don't think it's special enough to have a shot at winning that whole thing. Will be interesting to see how the markets move as more and more songs get announced.

While Germany sits at around 40-ish at the moment, bwin has already a bet up, if Germany will get zero points (5.00 yes / 1.13 no).

Yes, one of the better entries so far for my liking, has some 80´s vibes, especially that sequence starting at around 1:16. That trousers from the frontman are hilarious though


Yes, Norway selected their entry as well. Ulrikke with "Attention" has won the Melodi Grand Prix and will go to ESC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYI_FrDixLY

The intro is great, but then a bit lame that whole song. It's missing some climax and/or up-tempo. Only in the very end, there is some more "action", but maybe it's liked by the people. Norway is another country that is always doing quite well and often has very good and perfectly arranged songs.

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Edit: Looks like the song from North Macedonia is now known as well, but I can't find it on Youtube.

Armenia had their national selection tonight and it will be Athena Manoukian with the song "Chains On You" representing them at Rotterdam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgT9EjD_0No

Not the music I like, but it can of course still be successful in ESC. Armenia is a country that tend to be very succesful in ESC anyway. They have yet to get a Top3, but in 13 participations, they finished Top10 an impressive seven times (54%). Last two years they failed to make the final though and by my judgement they will fail for a third time in a row.

Yes, this is correct. What Diced90 says is correct, if each player plays only once ever in his lifetime. Then you would have 49.5% winning players and 50.5% losing players. But this is not the reality

Lets say a gambler plays 1,000,000 times against a house edge of 1%. He always stakes 1 unit per play/bet. He would lose 505,000 units and win 495,000, netting him a loss of 10,000 units. So on average he loses 0.01 units per unit staked. You can't beat house edge in games of luck longterm. You play against a machine that is programmed to take 1%, 2% or whatever from your stake on average.

Slowly but surely.....scheint das was mit peaq zu werden oder zumindest gibt es mal wieder neue Informationen.

• Sie sind in Verhandlungen mit den ersten Systemintegratoren, aber ohne angemeldete Patente wird es keine weitere Informationen geben.
• Sie haben einen großen Partner aus der Automobilindustrie und den ersten Teil des "Produkts" bereits erfolgreich entwickelt, das dann auf der peaq Plattform laufen soll. Geht wohl um einen mittleren sechsstelligen Euro-Betrag.
• Sie sind in Verhandlungen mit einen Telekommunikationsanbieter, mit dem auch ein LOI unterzeichnet wurde. Sie arbeiten auf eine langfristige Lizenz hin. Es geht um Abrechnungen im IoT-Bereich.
• Sie (also Advanced Blockchain AG) hatten wohl eine weitere Finanzierungsrunde, die überzeichnet war und 1,1 Mio Euro gebracht hat.
• Neue Team-Mitglieder: Corneliu Vasiliu ("top performer von Ubisoft), Jackson Palacios ("Bilingual Systems Engineer"), Mike Lubinets (ETC dev und Rust Russia co-founder).
• Michael Ganser (Cisco-Mann) ist neu im Aufsichtsrat, Jan Wiecher und Michael Jackson^^ (former Skype COO) neue Advisors.

Sie reden immer davon, die "leading Blockchain-as-a-Service company" in Deutschland/Europa werden zu wollen und da frag ich mich, warum sie dann nicht gleich go big or go home machen und weltweit sagen.

Der vollständige Letter to Investors: https://blog.advancedblockchain.com/advanced-blockchain-letter-to-investors-2020/

Great. As mentioned, I am not able to join on 23rd, but will be regular participant afterwards (if I don't rage quit at some point^^). If this is ok with you, I can update the Bitcointalk/Sportsbet/SwC handles in this post here, already added a column: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217547.msg53793470#msg53793470