Those first few posts in this thread are great spirce of information. Everything we all need is written there and I think that it's a perfect way. I often check them at the end of a round to see who I'm up against in the next round, but also when I wanna see my standings on the table. All in all, I think the way you manage this competition is great and you don't need to change anything.

A Telegram group would kill this thread or it would be empty all the time if the conversation resumes here, so there's no point in having two channels of communication.

The Telegram bot notification has been discussed a few times here already in both the first and second seasons, I'm pretty almost every player here uses it, but the problem how often people pay attention to the notifications, it could be easily when you're away from your devices for a while when the reminder comes, but the interest is what will make everyone not forget about submitting their picks, no amount of notification can help when there is an apparent lack of interest, it's just the same thing with how many people you actively find in the Gambling discussion and how many people have actually ever joined any of the league pools hosted here.
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That's true. I have a Telegram bot set up to notify me on every new message here and it works well. I turned off notifications on almost every Telegram channel that I'm a part of so I don't get pinged that much. But I have also developed a habit on checking questions on Monday and answering them trough Monday and Tuesday so I never miss the deadline.

But I agree that if someone is not that interested in the BSFL, all the notifications in the world won't make them submit answers on time.

Well... If I join a pool then I like to research my answers before submitting them. And I have no idea about teams playing the AFCON cup so I don't like doing research on teams like that.

As for our sidebet, I hope that Zheng can beat Yastremska who is a qualificant to go trough to the final.

This is why I didn't join AFCON pool. I have no idea about that and also about Asian cup so I would have definitely lost.

I guess this will be another boring round because Trofo and me have many answers that are the same. But that doesn't mean we can't comment on the results

Upravo to. Internet provider može blokirati pristup nekoj stranici ali ne može blokirati korištenje primjerice Metamaska. Može čak blokirati i pristup RPC providerima (kao što je npr. Infura) ali opet će se pojaviti novi koji neće biti blokirani. Kod crypta je to jako teško upravo zbog decentralizacije jer nitko ne kaže da Metamask mora koristiti baš Infura RPC.

Wow! That's really overthinking for one question Do you analize every question this thoroughly?

Trofo, what's up with the WTA question? Gauff and Sabalenka are playing the semifinal game so one of them will surely lose before the final. Is this your way of securing at least one point for that question?

Ma mislim da će to teško biti provesti u djelo. Kao što i sam kažeš, kako dokazati da je neki kripto došao sa self-custody walleta? Jedino ako zabrane rad tvrtkama koje imaju self-custody proizvode kao što su Trezor ili Ledger. Ali uvijek postoje open-source walleti koji se onda mogu koristiti, a iza kojih ne stoji nitko. Ne znam... Osobno se nadam da ipak neće biti ništa od toga.

Great! Just as I thought, but better to check than to screw up the answer

I just submitted. Trofo is still contemplating his answers but there's nothing to wait anymore. Sabalenka is leading 4-2 in the second set after winning the first set so that should be an easy win for her. All other games are after the deadline.

Just to be clear, in the "Đoković question" number of lost sets in the final game is not counted, right? For example if Đoković loses four sets in games before the final, correct answer will be "Djoković reaches the final and loses 5 sets or less in the process". Is that right? I tend to misunderstand that kind of questions so I'm just being careful

I thought about submitting my answers today but it's an important round for me. I was kicked out of the cup in the first round, but I have to try hard to make it 3-0 against Trofo. How do they call it in tennis when a player wins a game 3-0? I think there's a name for it.

I just quickly went trough the question and I see that most are football related which is great. And, of course, again with WTA. I hate women's tennis. It costed me a draw in the last round, but it costed me much in previous rounds also. Thankfully those questions are not that common

Trofo, just to be clear, we are also answering penalty questions for our sidebet, right?

So it looks like I didn't manage to get a draw out of this round against mv1986. That Croatian loss costed me win in this round where we had only two questions different. Congrats to you and now I have to concentrate on my sidebet with Trofo. I hope I can make it 3 wins in a row

I know that you are not gonna play with B team. You are just saying that so I take it easy, but it won't work. My team is all fired up, especially after winning the last game in the last minutes!

Great! I thought that you won't be up for it because of the two losses in a row. But hey, nothing breaks the curse like another bet I'm glad we are on.

I'm open for one more if anyone is interesting. The idea never crossed my mind, but then I saw that Trofo played against me and someone else in the same week so why not! I just hope I won't end up paying twice like Trofo did

Wait, next week we have cup round? I think Trofo or cryptofrka said something like that somewhere. If that's the case, is someone interested in a sidebet? Maybe Trofo so he can lose again? I'm offering a standard $50 in BTC. Let me know if anyone is interested.

I'm not that into betting so I'm not sure what you two are talking about. I understand what a hedge bet is (to bet on an opposite result than your previous bet), but I'm not sure how that can help you with BSFL. I'm guessing it can't help you, but can win you some money if an answer is wrong. Do you bet on your answers in BSFL? Like when you submit your answers, do you also place bets on them?

Haha. Yeah, that was the main reas9n why I decided not to join that pool. La Liga pool is hard for me and it's a known Spanish league. I really don't know what to do and how to research African football.

Yeah, I also wonder. I remember seeing the post where Trofo or cryptofrka have explained until when it's considered to be the first week of the tournament, but I can't find that post now. Or maybe it was in the question text, in the part that is not in the spreadsheet.

Damn that AFCON games. I have no idea about nations that are playing the tournament so I went with Ivory Coast to win just like my opponent mv1986. I wouldn't count that as a problem if it weren't for the fact that we have only two different answers. It was a 50-50 choice for me (I don't like going for a draw in games I know nothing about) and I chose wrong

Vrti li netko od vas ovdje Ethereum node, ali da je arhive node? Nisam baš siguran koja je razlika između "običnog" i archive node-a, ali htio bi pokrenuti Taiko node kojem u postavkama moram dati adresu Ethereum archive nodea. E sad, mislio sam ga sam pokrenuti ali piše da zauzima užasno puno mjesta na disku. Ovi public se ne mogu koristiti jer nakon nekog vremena limitiraju broj upita pa Taiko node ispadne iz synca.

Isto tako ako netko osim Trofo i cryptofrka vrte neki node, podijelite info jer imam VPS za XAI node na kojem imam još dovoljno resursa za pokrenuti još par nodeova.