Yep, the surface is extremely important. Clay is more slow, meaning that there's more time to return the ball, meaning that the points are longer and that the possibility of a break is quite more common.
If you take a player that's dominant on the serve, on faster surface he'll be difficult to break - whereas on clay you will have your chances.

Most players are specialists either for hard (faster surfaces) or clay (slower ones). Usually it goes with physique - smaller players tend to be better on clay because they are faster and don't have that much of an advantage on their serve.

Federer for example had almost 10% higher win percentage on hard surfaces than on clay, Nadal has 15% higher on clay than on hard and Đoković is fairly balanced on all surfaces.

Tsitsipas has under 65% win rate on hard, and only 57% on grass. He's mostly a clay player.

Mrzim Dubai, sletio sam tamo u 4 ujutro i bio 15 min na otvorenom i ne bi proveo tamo neko konkretnije vrijeme ni za što na svijetu.
Doslovno ne možeš udahnut, ne mogu ni zamislit kako je u 5 popodne.

Čuo sam da je grad svjetski, al ne paše meni ni ta njihova kultura baš.. Iako zapravo generalno i zazirem od svih tih velegrada.
Što se posla tiče doduše - to je the place to be.

Tsitsi on grass, always a bad choice..

He had good results last season though, but I trust him only on clay. He's not the best on fast surfaces.

Welcome! Glad to have you.

Kanapka is filling wwsocki's spot, he's starting from this round because he submitted on time and will play the Round 1 and Round 2 games vs bullrun2020bro and entebah in Round 12 and Round 13, same as Bonta.
Games against wwsocki from Rounds 1 and 2 will be voided, so bullrun2020bro and entebah will lose these points and these games will be rescheduled.


We will allow it for now, it gives another strategic element to the game.
If we decide to change these rules it will be between the seasons and you will be notified about the changes.

Yeah, this round really didn't work in your favor guys. In some other ones you'd be without 1 question and in this one it happened that it's 5 already and being late basically means a game lost.
Sorry about that - but we have to stick with the rules.

Only Danydee didn't submit now, so we're still keeping Pulsar77's answers hidden.

So, 4 players did not submit on time - among them one player from the Division 1.
Considering that in this round the penalty of being late is huge, looks like a walkover for buwaytress.


These players will be given a -1 point penalty. So far, the questions that won't be counted when they submit the answers are Q1, Q2, Q8, Q9 and Q10.

The spreadsheet is now visible for you all.
The answers from buwaytress and DireWolfM14 are hidden because arallmuus and Rikafip did not submit and Danydee and Pulsar77 are playing each other so one of them might actually end up winning.

A big number of you did not submit yet - I know most are still waiting for tennis and DOTA.

We also have Kanapka with submitted answers, it is possible that he will take wwsocki's place starting from this round onwards. He did not sign up but if he's willing to play, he starts today against Dittoup.
We'll let you know as soon as we discuss it with him properly.

This would be a bad round to miss the deadline - you get -1 point but also lose 5 answers (2 EURO qualifiers, 2 tennis questions and DOTA) if you miss it by a second.

The following players did not submit yet, get your picks in!

Fils withdrew. Rinderknech is the lucky loser so he'll be filling that spot.

Same here. I'll start vetoing eSports

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@hakan2217 - some things in the 3rd Division cannot be 100% organized - we received a huge number of new players that are still learning how it all works.
We have 1 player that immediately withdrew which caused us big problems and another that we were waiting for to start playing.
That one was replaced with another member, and the league will be organized in a way to be the same for all players - meaning that you will simply play against another player at another time.

As Trofo said, Kokee cannot be punished for a round that was voided. If he was playing against another player he would have lost the point, but he was lucky and his game was postponed.

He never won Wimbledon - he lost in the final against Đoković.

Yup, thanks! Changed it in my post.
The table actually says darxiaomi, but my eyes weren't really working at 2 am anymore

Holy hell guys, talking about pressure - I'm doing the Excel sheet and 19 of you are waiting for the results.

Everything has been rated, considering I had a few beers nothing is official yet. We'll say it's about the possibility of F1 results being changed but that will be a lie, it won't be official yet because Trofo will doublecheck it in the morning

Some streaks coming to an end - slackovic finally lost and slaman29 finally won. Division 3 is looking strong with a lot of teams scoring 6 points (and drawing with them as well).

We have the freebet results as well.

Division 1
darxiaomi and Harkorede still have a draw from Round 1 - it will be settled in round 3
in Round 2 we have a draw between Igebotz and buwaytrees - it will be settled in round 3

Division 2
We have a draw between notblox1, leea-1334 and slaman29. It will be settled in round 3

Division 3A
Dittoup is a winner in Round 2 - winning 10$ freebet
From Round 1 we had a draw between entebah, Coin_trader and bullrun2020bro, entebah lost and Coin_trader will play against bullrun2020bro for that 10$ freebet in round 3

Division 3B
hakan2217 is a winner in Round 2 - winning 10$ freebet
hakan2217 is also a winner in H2H duel between 5 players from Round 1 - winning another 10$ freebet

Guys, this round was really difficult to rate due to complex H2H questions. Please recheck your results and let us know if there were any mistakes.
We will do another round of checks tomorrow.

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Shame about Croatia, eh? We were really close once again.

Hey folks, this round is not yet over but we'll post questions a bit earlier because we have a lot of work to do after the final.
Considering some late changes can be made in F1 after the race finishes, nothing we mark in spreadsheets today will be official.

Round 3 questions are here!

Trofo's cartoon games find their way into our questions again, but other than that you should be comfortable with the selection of sports.

The deadline is standard, Tuesday 20th, 17:00 GMT.

Itshalaa is out of the competition, there's still 1 spot open in Division 3, it would be great to fill it until Tuesday. If you know someone that wants to play, send them over!

Good luck!

The high-scoring game for the 3rd place got me the victory already, now I can chill and enjoy the weekend in peace.
Last round I had 2-point lead before the last 2 questions and ended up drawing, now I had 3 points advantage before the last 3 questions but was about to lose 1 h2h duel so I was already getting nervous

We'll have questions for Round 3 ready for you today before the final, so that we can chill in peace and celebrate when we win.

This really is a huge surprise - only 3 players have Magdeburg and most of us have Barca to win in the final as well.

Let's see what the other game brings, I think that Kielce is the better team here.

Damn you, Denmark!

EDIT: disallowed by VAR it seems. What a crazy question this turned out to be

Nope, I don't think so. I expect the same 11 to start in the final as well.

I saw the stats and was wondering what the hell was going on.

They lost McKennie and Dest for the final vs Canada, they are among their best players and it is really unusual to receive 2 red cards in the situation in which the game is already won (especially in Dest's case).

Ja sam već postao otporan na taj Tether FUD. Imam dosta Tethera u ovom trenutku - ali oko Tethera se kripto vrti gotovo kao i oko Bitcoina.

Peg je brzo vraćen - iako je ovo za Tether najveći drop od (čini mi se) 2020. godine. Samo to zapravo govori i koliko je USDT stabilan, 0.995$ smo nazvali depegom.

Is there any truth of Havertz going to Arsenal? I'm hearing more and more about it.
It makes no sense at all, Havertz is a great player and is one of the rare positives in a horrible Chelsea team.

If they lose both him and Kovačić - they will lose half of their creativity. And they have too little of it anyway.