Sooo fellas, I tried to rate the Thursday's EL/Conference question, but decided against it. It was a semi-rough night and I really need some sleep, I would probably mess it up anyway.
A tight schedule with SB tomorrow, so it will probably be graded in the evening.

I managed to see that I won the point against slaman29 though

In $ terms yeah, but in mBTC I think the Cup is where it was last year. Percentage-wise it's a bit bigger part of the rewards, yeah.
The Cup is extremely difficult to win so we want to give it an elite feel as well.


Nah, some weird results happened. It will probably balance itself out by the end of the week.
Then again, there are rounds with an average of 3 correct results and there are rounds with an average of 5.

Wherever we ask questions, we always try to make it as close to 50-50 as possible. Or 4x25% if there are 4 possible answers.

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We're both on a trip this week, so there might be some delays in our answers here.
The questions will be live on Sunday, maybe a bit later than usual though - depending on our flight schedule.

I just saw the highlights and it was really a spectacular game.
If Luton gets relegated, this just might be the game that decided it. Crazy to lose such a lead in such an important game.

The break is coming at the right time for us, the next PL game is 2 weeks away.
I hope we get some players back by then, we won't be able to keep winning with kids forever.

Damn, Ulven with 2 correct results yesterday. Well done man, you are now 4,5 points in the lead.
If only Inter could have held on, I had 1-1 and would be in front now.

To be honest, it was weird seeing that Superbru didn't take 2-1 as the correct result before ET ended. I always forget they calculate it like that - I'll need to take that into consideration before the next round of games.

buwaytress is still asleep but I think I retain my 2nd place in the Pot B after Borussia's win yesterday. All in all, looks like this will be a profitable pool for me.

Yeah, as Trofo said, in H2H competitions it's important to keep players active.
When there's a few mBTC's to play for for every person until the last round, the competitiveness remains.

The problem is of course Division 3 as you saw yourself - the rewards are low so people don't care much. Therefore we have big playoffs so that the driver is that you play until the end for your promotion chance.

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The bad thing is that you don't have these '50 mBTC' huge rewards for the winner.
To battle that, we do have something new we plan to add in BSFL's Season 5. It's a side competition for pure degen gamblers, we will introduce it during the Euros. The winner of that one will walk away with a bigger prize than BSFL champion.

OK fellas, this season's rewards have been calculated and will be added into the OP.



Percentage-wise, Division 2 rewards have increased a bit compared to Division 1 in Season 4, that is because Division 2 charges a fee as well.

Total rewards are over 10.000$ (according to current BTC price), and there is an extra 2.160$ to be won in freebets.

There is an additional 16 mBTC left for the Cup.

The rewards for the Cup will be:

1st place - 8 mBTC
2nd place - 4 mBTC
3rd place - 2 mBTC + 50$ freebet
4th place - 2 mBTC
5th - 8th place - 50$ freebet

So, in total 154 mBTC and 2.410$ in freebets.

A big budget, thanks again to Sportsbet for being a great partner and making it happen.

Yup, the general idea was to give you the chance to balance - in case you want to hunt freebets and submit early, there's always VAR that you can use. But use that strategy too much and you might be without one when you need it the most.

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I'm in the lead but still a lot of different answers left. I need this win - Division 2 is so beneath me.

Regained my 1st position before today's games, hopefully I increase the lead.
Why am I in front of Ulven considering that we're on equal points? What are the differentiators?


Nah, in this case his math works in my favor. He's already joined the dark side.

If you want to group semis and the finals, that's actually easy to do. You'll have outright odds for the winner and that can be used - covers it all.
Then again, buway bu-oost extra sounds way more fun than picking outrights.

Nije samo to, ima i hrpetina GBTC-a koja se dumpa od firmi u stečaju (FTX, Genesis, Gemini, još vjerojatno masa drugih).

Udio GBTC-a svaki dan poprilično zdravo pada i s obzirom na ogromne feejeve koje konkurencija nema, za očekivati je da će GBTC uskoro imati mizeran udio na marketu.

You have 3 per season, you just send a DM (Telegram works too) to Trofo or myself before the submission deadline. It allows you to change an answer to a specific question.
We introduced it specifically for situations like this one, where we want to include a major event but where it's impossible to be 100% sure that the question will still be 100% legit before the deadline.

It is meant to give a minor advantage to those that are active and are tracking upcoming events as well.

We did, but we received another one as well. It said only 'buwa to lose'.
Not sure whether it was from chi20 or the Chinese gambling mafia, but it was significantly bigger than yours. Sorry mate.

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Sponsorship funds (106 mBTC) have been received, I will make the rewards distribution latest tomorrow. Probably today.
The budget for Season 4 is 154 mBTC.

Hey man, I saw you didn't use VAR. Obviously this was a joke
Why didn't you take it?

We have a lot of different answers so it might not be important, but if I was you I wouldn't hesitate for a second here.

EDIT: you sent to Trofo, sorry about that. Changed

This means 20 more total stakes to bet with?
I expected to have 50 left (10 per each QF and SF round and 1 for the final).

Not sure how we'd pick anything from return games before we know the results from the 1st games.

Or did I understand something incorrectly?

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The less stakes remaining, the better for me though

I waited for it to end, although I wasn't expecting this. We have some VAR's already, not that many. The day is still young though.
Considering that you're playing against me, there's no sense for you to use VAR. You'll lose anyway and this way you can keep it for the moment you'll truly need it.

If you're that good, take the bet that you'll be in the top 15 this season.
It's even easier than what you gave me, half of the people outside top 10 aren't probably even playing anymore.

2mBTC? Don't chicken out now


Depends on how many people are there. If it's like 10 then yea, I'll wipe my team and join.
If it's like 3 or 4 of us, I'll stick with trying to get the top spot in the other league I'm playing with friends for merch, food and booze.

We talked about rewards distibution a lot when we started with BSFL. If you award only the top spots, a lot of people will lose interest.
In BSFL it is even more important that everybody plays - here not so much, but there's always more interest when more people are in the prizes.

I'm supporting the 'top 10' distribution that's being mentioned, the top prize still looks very attractive and almost half of the people get more than their buy-ins back so that's great as well.

Yeah, that's what happens when you're too defensive and give your opponent the whole court to use against you.
Doković struggled even in the round before - against Vukic.

Tommy Paul will fancy his chances now, I can see him getting to the final. The lower part of the draw is more interesting anyway, Sinner is my pick ahead of Alcaraz.

Ugrađeno je, naravno. Mislim da je najveći driver cijene to što nema BTC-a na prodaju, ETF-ovi su prva gigantska lova koja se legalno može sliti u kripto i sad počinjemo biti svjesni one scarcity priče koju smo svima pričali.
E sad, zamislite još kad GBTC završi dump. Ovo što se slijeva u BTC sad su promili ozbiljne investitorske love, zato i vjerujem da nam uskoro slijedi i odobreni ETH ETF.

Ne bi me uopće začudilo da ovaj put nema onih divljih 30% dropova, već da BTC ko SP500 lagano kroz 2 godine došeta do 300, 500, ko zna kolko tisuća dolara.

Došli smo u situaciju u kojoj doslovno nitko ne želi prodati svoj BTC. Nakon halvinga će prodavati samo mineri, ali potražnja će kad se još pridoda retail biti prevelika.

Where were you looking, my man? There's a question for the Cup fixture at Old Trafford.
No way we're not winning that one though, so your usual answer will be the winning one

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OP is mostly updated, I'll go through it one more time tomorrow.
BTC price is all over the place so I'll just wait for sponsorship money to arrive before doing the rewards - whatever I do now will probably be 10-20% different.