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^ A good post to end the thread. Locking it now...
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A possible comeback in Formula 1.
Vettel can race at the start of the season with Aston Martin.
Stroll has his hand broken and it is not sure he will race, it is improbable.
In his place, it will race their 3rd driver or Vettel.
Vettel never seemed like the kind of guy who will take his word back and join the Formula 1 again. He is a racer at heart, but when I saw his goodbye message I thought that this is surely final. Alonso can't get enough and people thought he might stop driving years ago. Perhaps he is still driving when he is 45. Yup and if ever he's gonna return to F1 again, I think it's gonna be as a team principal or a team strategist role. He has a good mind for the sport and has always showed his interest behind the scenes in the paddock. I remember before when he used to be a young racer in Red Bull whenever he had a DNF, he's always there beside Horner and Newey in front of the monitors and trying to learn new things about the sport. I hope we see him as a team principal as I think he'll be good at it. |
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^ Yeah Till's run in the UFC is done. They gave him more than a couple chances to get back on track after having high hopes of him becoming the next big thing in the UFC. It was Woodley who spoiled all of it for Till during his first run for the belt. As for Tukhugov, I had him at my top ticket in his last match. He looked like he didn't want to be in there anymore. And finding out just now that it was the lst fight in his contract, the more that he should've showed that he wanted to be in there... :/ Join us at the Multi Master guys.  UFC 285 - Multi Master Challengehttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441604.0 |
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14. Jon Jones
13. Valentina Shevchenko
12. Shavkat Rakhmonov
11. Jalin Turner
10. Bo Nickal
9. Cody Garbrandt
8. Dricus Du Plessis
7. Viviane Araujo
6. Marc-Andre Barriault
5. Ian Machado Garry
4. Cameron Saaiman
3. Tabatha Ricci
2. Farid Basharat
1. Loik Radzhabov
NOT go the Full Distance: 6
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Ey guys.. How do I sign up for the pool?
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^ No wonder Ricciardo left, swallowed his pride and went grovling back to Red Bull to be the reserve driver.  And looking at coinlocket$'s list... It's going to be so funny if Aston Martin really gets good enough to be top midtable this coming season. Vettel will prolly be kicking himself for leaving. Lol. |
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Dont forget that Shavkat Rakhmonov (16-0) is also fighting in main card. This fighter gives is able to get in top5 of welterweight. But due to Jones and Gane, he is in shadows. His opponent, Geoff Neal, is not an easy opponent either. Now to Gane vs Bones. Interesting to see if Bones still has his magic; elbows, dirty tricks How long has he been inactive? 3 years? Usually fighters lose their a lot from such a pause, and Bones was not only inactive, as far as I know there were long periods when he did not even train. I feel like Gane is going to finish him before timer runs out. Rakhmonov is my top ticket guy for 285. Geoff Neal hasdecent hands with powerrr but I think Rakhmonov is gonna make it look easy. He'll prolly find a finish around R2 imho. Dirty tricks... Go watch Jones vs Teixeira again and in the match, prolly around R2 - R3, Jones grabbed Teixeira's right arm and yanked it hard. It dislocated the arm and that's why Jones looked so dominant. Pretty much he could do something with Gane. Some free fights to watch. Enjoy! Jones vs Machidahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLQbFS76tBYGane vs Lewishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4mGKkjbeqEShev vs Andradehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xABSlyPgCpIGrasso vs Woodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Oabz5z6WLI |
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^ It was the only RTS game I played as a kid.  I was addicted. Lol. I have cousins who are a couple of years older than me who were really into it too. I watched them play online a lot and learned their build orders, strategy and other stuff. They're actually using SC Remastered since it came out. And in a Bo1 format for the early rounds, the underdog has a chance to go thru to the Round of 16. It's what makes it exciting. Anyway, Group A is done. Action and sSak are in the Round of 16. Mini the guy in my top ticket is out but he won his first Bo1 for the group, so the lottery ticket is still alive... On to the next one... Group B will be tomorrow at 6:00pm KST. ASL 15 Round of 24 Group A Results |
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Group A is gonna start in around 1.5 hours or so! You guys can watch the English stream here... https://play.afreecatv.com/dth03119/If you guys want the Korean stream, I do, I got the link above in the OP. Enjoy... So far only sportsbet.io has a betting market for the tourney. Hopefully we see more books get in the action as we go to the next rounds in a couple of weeks. My updated lottery ticket is above. Got my bets locked and ready. Just made small bets but I'm ore nervous about the ASL than the UFC or the EPL. Lol. |
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ASL 15 starts tomorrow with Group A of Round of 24 with Mini vs Hiya and Action vs sSak! Sportsbet was the only known book in crypto that has a betting market for Starcraft/Broodwar rn, a very ooold RTS game. https://sportsbet.io/sports/esports-bettingSo stoked that Steve went thru with his word. Anyway here's my lottery ticket for the round. Mini - Soma 1.86 Add: Zero - Bisu - Best 4.35 Add: Light - Snow - Shine 11.84 Add: Sharp - Jaedong - Action 45.2 Add: JyJ 126.55 Haven't made the bet yet. Action va Hiya doesn't have a market but will prolly add Action at my fourth ticket if it's on. I'll have to go with the one above if it doesn't. Edit: Lottery ticket updated. |
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^ Yeah could be a rocky start but I'm pretty sure they'll get it right and have some decent development of their car. They have one of the best engineering teams in F1. Stranges results from the tests, based on the predictions of sky journalists.
1 Red Bull
2 Ferrari
3 Mercedes
4 Aston Martin
5 Alpine
6 Alfa Romeo
7 The rest
I don't think this will happen.
The Red Bull it seems to be very strong yes but I have the feeling that Ferrari can be faster.
Keep in mind they were slippery and they always used a low drag back wing profile, if they manage to use it without the slippery problem they will be unstoppable.
I would probably give McLaren a little bit more credit I'm not sure what you're watching. Lol. McClaren sht itself again and Lando Norris is prolly thinking about his dumb decision of signing a long term contract for the team. That's gonna be more holes on the wall for the guy. I think his contract runs until 2028..? Tsk tsk... |
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^ What the tape again... Gane had the first couple of rounds. But Ngannou had a bum knee tho. https://www.mma-core.com/videos/Francis_Ngannou_vs_Ciryl_Gane_Full_Fight_UFC_270_Part_A/10431964I won't exactly call Gane as somebody overrated as he's an elite striker and he's fast for his weight class. He just lacks some wrestling. Even Ngannou with a bum knee was able to control him. And the books actually rate Jones higher than Gane. Jones is at 1.62, Gane is at 2.41. If anything, Jones could be overrated as he's been away from the cage for so long. |
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Did you guys watch the ONE on Prime event? Missed it but heard the makn event between John Lineker and Fabricio De Andrade was a banger. I also heard some comments saying that De Andrade is a beast and could prolly hold his own in the UFC. And he's just 25 years old. Seems like ONE is having great talent in their roster recently...
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What's happening with the betting lines? Just a few hours before the fight, there's a lot of action going into Tommy Fury. I think it was close to 1.60 just a couple of days ago for Jake Paul. Right now the line is at 1.77 and it went as high as 1.85 or so a couple of hours ago. https://stake.com/sports/boxing/international/international-matchups/43306904-paul-jake-fury-tommyIs everybody still as confident for a win for Jake Paul as his prior fights? Beating Anderson Silva got my attention but dunno... Does Tommy Fury have something on Paul? |
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It was really a bummer for most of my bets lost but it was OK the thing that I get frustrated about was the Nikita Krylov vs. Ryan Spann canceled fight because Krylov become ill and the Jasmine Jasudavicius vs. Cortney Casey because Cortney Casey withdrew,
There were too many cancelled bouts which was a bummer and Jasmine Jasudavicius fought Gabriella Fernandes which was a short notice replacement, the main frustration is the André Muniz fight, who is coming into the bout with wins against Ronaldo Souza, Uriah Hall and he was no way near those caliber after watching the fight against Brendan Allen which i thought would be an easy pick and that pick messed my parlay  . Andre Muniz was really good with the stand-up and pretty much getting those clean shots on Brandon Allen but after that kick, Allen timed it to catch Muniz off guard then the takedown, commence then all of a sudden Muniz gave his back that Brendan Allen capitalized and so the rear naked choke was executed on him, No Andre Muniz was not great in stand up as well, Brendan Allen won the first round just with stand up alone and in the second round Brendan Allen was controlling the positions and when Muniz tried to take down, Brendan Allen reversed the position which makes me think that i overestimated Andre Muniz  . Muniz is a bit overrated, yeah. I thought he could more with his back on the mat. But in fairness Allen's 'reversal' happened due to the momentum when both fighters went to the ground. So he kinda got lucky there. The third round tho... No excuse. The event kinda was disappointing as it had 4 cancellations. As for my lottery ticket, another break even night. At least it wasn't an L. Lol. On we go to the next one. Enjoy... UFC 285 Jones vs Gane: Countdown Full Episodehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYNS3C1_Pc |
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Still with the dominating Redbull car. They would still top it out with it. The race is near and I hope it would be an entertaining season.
From what we could see based on testing, it's gonna be entertaining at the start and up to the end of the first half of the season then it could start to get boring if Verstappen and Red Bull starts pulling away in points. Merc and Ferrari should up their game in card developmen to give them a fighting chance until the end of the season. Maybe not this year for Ferrari but Mercedes has some of the best engineers in F1 and one of the best drivers on the grid. I hope they give RBR a run for their money. ... For entertainment's sake. Still want Red Bull to win.  |
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Shame about the draw last night, probably should have seen that coming but I felt it was close enough to warrant my pick of a Wolves win.
I didn't expect at all Wolves to score let alone to win the game and got for a Fulham clean sheet as bet and also as a win for Fulham in the pool,nothing came right unfortunately but seeing that nothing has changed in the standings means that very few people have opted for a draw. We are coming near the end of the Premier League season (yes I know we have 3 months) and these rounds are of critical importance to the people fighting for a spot in one of the 22 places that nets you a prize. Yeah, I not only missed the Wolves upset, I actually had Mitrovic to score on another prediction. Serves me right for not waiting for lineup news. I completely forgot there are 22 places to play for and not 10 actually. Suddenly my 50+ position doesn't look so bad (who am I kidding, right?). Anyway, I've got a lot more upsets lined up this week. Let's see me get 2 consecutive yellow caps maybe and then see if I can switch back to "normal"? 22 spots are in the money? If I only knew I would've continued trying to get as much points as I can. Lol. I mostly just click and type the score line I feel and think of first after the first couple of months. How much does the 22nd place pay for? And how much as you move up a notch. I think it's cool that our little pool has grown and be where it is right now. It all started with hilarious saying he wants to start a pool one day and if we wanted to join... I think there were just around 12 people or so who showed up. |
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Morning timers: 1 Charles Leclerc MON Scuderia Ferrari 1m31.024s 42 2 George Russell GBR Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team 1m31.442s 56 3 Felipe Drugovich BRA Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team 1m32.075s 45 4 Sergio Perez MEX Oracle Red Bull Racing 1m32.459s 49 5 Pierre Gasly FRA BWT Alpine F1 Team 1m32.762s 40 6 Nico Hulkenberg GER MoneyGram Haas F1 Team 1m33.329s 46 7 Oscar Piastri AUS McLaren F1 Team 1m33.655s 31 8 Alex Albon THA Williams Racing 1m34.192s 38 9 Valtteri Bottas FIN Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake 1m36.854s 72 10 Nyck de Vries NED Scuderia AlphaTauri 1m38.817s 70 Source: https://www.crash.net/f1/results/1020955/1/f1-2023-bahrain-preseason-testing-day-3-lap-timesFerrari is very fast in the single lap but a disaster in the race time and management of the tires so far, unless they are hiding. Keep the updates coming coinlocket$! Kinda sad Red Bull not giving Ricciardo some time to test the car. I think they won't like what they'll see... A reserve driver showing that he's potentially faster than one of the drivers. I don't think Perez will get a contract extension if he doesn't help the team give a consistent 1 - 2 finish every race. Ricciardo, in a car like that, def could. By the time the market goes live again Verstappen's line could be around 1.50 to win the driver's championship. Red Bull might be 1.80 to win the constructor's. Still kinda high because of Perez's inconsistency. And here's Ricciardo rn.  |
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^ Had Krylov at first glance but thinking more about it and looking at both during weigh ins and the face off, I think Spann is a live underdog here. And for where the line is at, it could be a good gamble. Have him at the third tier of my lottery ticket and no regrets, It's putting Leavitt near the top is what I'm kicking myself with. Lol. Anyway, here are the weigh ins and the face offs. UFC FN 220: Weigh Inshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spMFd8ihsDAUFC FN 220: Face Offs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Be7b9guF4Enjoy... Here are the results. A couple of matches were cancelled due to illness. Nikita Krylov (206) vs Ryan Spann (205) Brendan Allen (186) vs Andre Muniz (186) Don’Tale Mayes (261.5) vs Augusto Sakai (265) Montana De La Rosa (125.5) vs Tatiana Suarez (125) Yohan Lainesse (171) vs Mike Malott (171) Erick Gonzalez (156) vs Trevor Peek (155.5) Gabriella Fernandes (126) vs Jasmine Jasudavicius (125.5) Jordan Leavitt (155.5) vs Victor Martinez (154.5) Charles Johnson (130) vs Ode Osbourne (130) Carl Deaton (156) vs Joe Solecki (155.5) Nurullo Aliev (155) vs Rafael Alves (155) |
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Today watching tests I realized that's just one week remaining until start of new season. Before I was sure that there is few weeks break between tests and first race and season will begin in second part of March. Ferrari has some proposing problems, while Redbull seem incredibly strong so far.
157 laps of Verstappen , it's like 3 full races in one day. As I understand, on 3rd day of testing Checo will have same opportunity to be on track whole day. Also noticed Leclerc head shaking on straights, I thought that porpoising was just past season thing. 157 laps means they have a good car without any serious technical and engineering shortcomings or problems that need tweaking. They got a stable and a consistent car. I think the odds for Verstappen to win the driver's championship will be cut a couple of notches down. Lol. I hope to see Ricciardo to be given a chance to test the car. I think between him and Perez, Ricciardo is a tad faster and be a couple of places up from where Perez was in testing day 2. IMHO. |
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