That was fast.

But please post this in the Registration Thread instead: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1248467 - let's leave this thread to more general discussions and updates.

Hmm, so, your suggestion is we could run several, independent, Side Competitions throughout the tournament, instead of just the one? I suppose we could try something along those lines (perhaps in a future competition); let's see what other participants think about that.

Here is the official announcement with the winners of the X Tipster Championship


Main Competition
1st - bitbollo (1) 145.35 ROI% - won 1000 mBTC (plus the tips on the winners tipping address)
2nd - Karpeles (3) 94.18 ROI% - won 500 mBTC (plus 30mBTC from side competition)
3rd - Amel (1) 89.61 ROI% - won 300 mBTC
4th - irsykes 87.26 ROI% - won 200 mBTC
5th - Mark Frappeles 50.93 ROI% - won 150 mBTC (plus 330mBTC from side competition)
6th - Emperor Magnus 42.69 ROI% - won 100 mBTC (plus 530mBTC from side competition)
7th - Free1bitcoin (1) 42.68 ROI% - won 50 mBTC


Side Competition
1st - Emperor Magnus - won 500 mBTC
2nd - Mark Frappeles - won 300 mBTC
3rd - White Sugar - won 100 mBTC


Congrats to the winners, and thank you all for participating!

As for how to claim the prizes, please wait for the posts from Directbet and Michelle (Directdice) - they will explain how to claim them.

Also, a Happy New Year to everyone.

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As usual, feel free to tip us if you would like!!!
FrueGreads did come up with this competition and got us a great sponsor!
BTC address: 17fwjpc3fvJwLJG2SqudpcGdVJ1urCZ4sx

Well, considering it's the same market, only the first bet you place will count.

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Yep; full prizes for everyone.

Hey, guys. Here's the update to the provisional standings for the first day of the Semi Finals.

As usual, the winners of yesterday's Daily Challenge (Winning bet at the highest odds (minimum odds @1.2)) have an asterisk next to their name.


Playoffs phase:

1/8-Finals     ragavancoin* (1) White_Sugar (4)         NewBet (0) Too.Cool(E2)* (4)   Mediator* (2) Emperor_Magnus* (4)         BurstIncomeAsset* (3) jordixal* (2)     Karpeles(E3)* (6) cr7 (1)         Mami.eryta* (3) Google* (2)     Joca97* (1) Mark_Frappeles* (4)         Pai Mei* (4) tyoA7X* (1)

Quarter Finals             White_Sugar* (4) Too.Cool(E2)* (1)                     Emperor_Magnus* (6) BurstIncomeAsset (0)                     Karpeles(E3) (3) Mami.eryta* (1)                     Mark_Frappeles* (6) Pai Mei* (1)

Semi-Finals                         White_Sugar* (2) Emperor_Magnus (0)                                                     Karpeles(E3)* (1) Mark_Frappeles (2)

Final (3rd-Place)                                                     User (0)(0) User (0)(0)

Final                                                     User (0)(0) User (0)(0)

Hey, everyone. Here's the update to the provisional standings for the first day of the Quarter Finals.

As usual, the winners of yesterday's Daily Challenge (Winning bet at the highest odds (minimum odds @1.2)) have an asterisk next to their name.


Playoffs phase:

1/8-Finals     ragavancoin* (1) White_Sugar (4)         NewBet (0) Too.Cool(E2)* (4)   Mediator* (2) Emperor_Magnus* (4)         BurstIncomeAsset* (3) jordixal* (2)     Karpeles(E3)* (6) cr7 (1)         Mami.eryta* (3) Google* (2)     Joca97* (1) Mark_Frappeles* (4)         Pai Mei* (4) tyoA7X* (1)

Quarter Finals             White_Sugar* (2) Too.Cool(E2) (0)                     Emperor_Magnus* (4) BurstIncomeAsset (0)                     Karpeles(E3) (1) Mami.eryta* (1)                     Mark_Frappeles (1) Pai Mei* (1)

Semi-Finals                         User (0)(0) User (0)(0)                                                     User (0)(0) User (0)(0)

Final (3rd-Place)                                                     User (0)(0) User (0)(0)

Final                                                     User (0)(0) User (0)(0)

And finally... Happy Holidays, guys!

Hey, everyone. Here are the results for the first day of the 1/8 Finals.

The winners of yesterday's Daily Challenge (Winning bet at the highest odds (minimum odds @1.2)) have an asterisk next to their name.


Playoffs phase:

1/8-Finals     ragavancoin(*) (1) White_Sugar (1)         NewBet (0) Too.Cool(Entry2)(*) (2)   Mediator (0) Emperor_Magnus(*) (2)         BurstIncomeAsset(*) (2) jordixal (0)     Karpeles(Entry3)(*) (1) cr7 (1)         Mami.eryta(*) (2) Google (0)     Joca97(*) (1) Mark_Frappeles (1)         Pai Mei (1) tyoA7X(*) (1)

Quarter Finals             User (0) User (0)                     User (0) User (0)                     User (0) User (0)                     User (0) User (0)

Semi-Finals                         User (0) User (0)                                                     User (0) User (0)

Final (3rd-Place)                                                     User (0) User (0)

Final                                                     User (0) User (0)

PS: Please remember that you need to place at least 3 bets on any given day to qualify for points.

All times mentioned by FrueGreads / in the rules are in UTC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC), so the conversion should be fairly easy.

To answer your question, yes, the 1/8 Finals started today, approximately 13 hours ago.

Yep, that wasn't the final list - the final list, showing the 16 participants that will pass to the next phase, will be posted sometime today.

No, Joca97, the League Phase for the Side Competition ends today (in a little over 8 hours). Please make sure you have at least 18 valid bets by then.

In relation to your second question, we'll go with the setup we had already announced for the current tournament (we're already in the middle of it after all), but we really liked your idea for the Playoffs and will definitely consider implementing it in future rounds (this will give us, and other participants, more time to think about it and discuss it).

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Yep; wrong thread, tyoA7X.

Sorry, Mami.eryta, but hahay won yesterday's challenge (with a parlay won at odds of 13.13: https://directbet.eu/BetStatus.cshtml?BetID=16gmWvUX1fFC2Q2b4daxzdt1Q2XNnRFwT8).

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Hey, everyone. Here are the updated provisional standings for the third day of the League Phase in the Side Competition. We've again omitted participants who have 0 points, so don't worry if your name doesn't appear in the list yet - you can still make it.

And congrats to hahay for winning the first daily challenge; this doubled the 15 points he won today, and placed him in second place in the Side Competition.

Karpeles (31)(18) hahay (31)(4) Joca97 (28)(6) ragavancoin (26)(8) randal9 (17)(8) yolanda222 (16)(4) Jcga (16)(4) Falconer (16)(8) Mami.eryta (16)(8) MonsterV (14)(9) tyoA7X (13)(4) Kanapka (13)(8) God.Of.Gambler(Entry2) (12)(5) Free1bitcoin (12)(6) emersonlogan62 (12)(3) cr7 (11)(8)

HEPHAISTOS (11)(6) MadeinCoin (11)(10) amin28 (11)(5) Lavos (10)(2) jordixal (9)(9) Shankara (9)(2) Republikcoin(Entry2) (8)(5) BurstIncomeAsset (8)(10) Pyramid Head (8)(4) Too.Cool(Entry2) (7)(6) NewBet (7)(5) Mark Frappeles (6)(2) Google (6)(5) BitcoinHunt3r (4)(18) Carpeaux (3)(4) viziano (2)(8)

Emperor_Magnus (2)(1)

As in the previous tournaments, points in this phase are given to the participants with the most positive change in ROI each day (or the least negative change in ROI, depending on how things are going) - you can see your daily change in ROI in the Leaderboard, under the "Today's Change" column.

So, for example, yesterday you lost 2.68% ROI; any participant that didn't lose as much (or actually increased their ROI) would be ahead of you when receiving that day's points.

Yep; only the participants that received points so far were shown in the list I posted (otherwise the list would be many times longer, without actually showing any more relevant information - everyone else would still only have 0 points).

Hey, everyone. Here are the provisional standings for the first day of the League Phase (which now replaces the Group Phase from previous tournaments) in the Side Competition:


League Phase:

Jcga	(16)(1)
Joca97	(15)(2)
MonsterV	(14)(3)
Karpeles	(13)(1)
God.Of.Gambler(Entry2)	(12)(1)
HEPHAISTOS	(11)(6)
randal9	(10)(4)
jordixal	(9)(1)
BurstIncomeAsset	(8)(1)
Too.Cool(Entry2)	(7)(2)
NewBet	(6)(3)
Google	(5)(3)
amin28	(4)(1)
Republikcoin(Entry2)	(3)(3)
viziano	(2)(1)
hahay	(1)(1)

(for simplicity's sake, the list presented here includes only those who have received points so far)

Second and third entries? Sure.

By the way, what bankrolls will you be using with those entries?

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The late registration phase is now over.

Good luck to all who have joined us for the X Tipster Competition!

Yep, that's pretty much it - no extra rewards planned for this, at the moment.

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Yes; it started today.

Don't forget to place bets every day, guys (at least until December 18, so you get as many points as possible in the initial phase of the Side Competition).

Welcome, head shot.

Please make sure to read the competition rules, and let us know if you have any doubts (you can use the Discussion Thread to post them: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1256522).

Good luck!

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Sure thing; your second entries will be added to the Leaderboard as soon as possible.

Hey, everyone. The best bet of day 7 of the competition was Amin28's 3 selection parlay (won at odds of 2.4). Congrats, Amin28.



And here is the link to the parlay: https://directbet.eu/BetStatus.cshtml?BetID=1NiESHZmSm7GqU1CiYTr3Ywss5BZJNqWYz.

Welcome, twa, thegunner. Thanks for joining us.

Your entries will be added to the Leaderboard as soon as possible.

Good luck in the competition!

Welcome, arara. Thanks for joining us again.

Good luck in the competition!