^ Yup... And we're still just at FP2. Lol. Let's see how Ferrari and Mercedes react in FP3. I'm guessing Hamilton and Leclerc could do better after a little adjustment and tweaks in their cars. It's still too early to say where Alonso might stand in the leader board. But if by FP3 Alonso is still up there, he could get at least fifth at quali. Damn, it might finally be the year Aston Martin has a decent car. Vettel should've stayed a couple more years. I'm both laughing and crying.  From Formuladank in Reddit. Lmao.  |
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Right, I'm going to put my predictions up now, since I'll only forget tomorrow. I always do. Anyway, some tough fights, some huge favourites, and some huge pie shitters in this event. My biggest concern is Ian Garry against Song, I don't really understand the odds there. Garry is a fantastic striker, but he leaves himself open on a lot of his shots, and Song has power.
Anyway here's my predictions:
Jon Jones
Valentina Shevchenko
Shavkat Rakhmonov
Mateusz Gamrot
Bo Nickal
Trevin Jones
Dricus Du Plessis
Amanda Ribas
Julian Marquez
Kenan Song
Cameron Saaiman
Tabatha Ricci
Farid Basharat
Loik Radzhabov
I haven't made my bets yet, and they'll probably be slightly different to my predictions here. I'll probably post my bets when I've made them, that's if I remember obviously. I've worried for Dricus Du Plessis, I love the way he fights, but I think this could potentially be a difficult fight for him. Gamrot I'm quite confident on, along with Rakhmonov.
True that... Garry is a concern but if you think about why the UFC matched him up with Kenan Song, I'm thinking someone behind the scenes is setting it up for an easy W for Garry as Kenan Song isn't really that good. He has some KO powerrr, but not he's not good. I guess I'll just have to cross my fingers. I got him at tier two of my lottery ticket. Been having a knack in putting the pie shtters up there. Lol. In hindsight Saaiman is also a concern. I should've placed Rakhmonov instead. Had second thoughts as Neal is a beast. Here are the weigh in results. A couple of guys came in heavy. Jon Jones (248) vs Ciryl Gane (247.5) Champ Valentina Shevchenko (124.5) vs Alexa Grasso (124.5) Geoff Neal (175)* vs Shavkat Rakhmonov (171) Mateusz Gamrot (156) vs Jalin Turner (155.5) Bo Nickal (185.5) vs Jamie Pickett (186) Cody Garbrandt (136) vs Trevin Jones (135) Derek Brunson (185.5) vs Dricus Du Plessis(185) Viviane Araujo (126) vs Amanda Ribas (126) Marc-Andre Barriault (185) vs Julian Marquez (186) Ian Garry (171) vs Song Kenan (171) Mana Martinez (137)* vs Cameron Saaiman (135) Jessica Penne (116) vs Tabatha Ricci (115.5) Farid Basharat (136) vs Da’Mon Blackshear (136) Loik Radzhabov (155.5) vs Esteban Ribovics (156) * Missed weight |
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1 day at the start
Hamilton said: we are not at the level of Red Bull and Mercedes
Leclerc said: Mercedes will be competitive.
Someone here is lying.
Lolol... I think as the tests showed, Hamilton is telling the truth. Leclerc on the other hand doesn't want the pressure that Ferrari might perform worse than expected so he's saying that Mercedes is competitive to make everyone think the gap between second and third isn't that big. But what it really means is they're both correct. As is, right now, both Mercedes and Ferrari aren't at the level of Red Bull. But we'll see as the season goes. Both teams have fine engineers and will def develop their cars. Anyway, join us in the F1 pool. It's fun! FORMULA 1 2023 Season🏁🏎️Prediction Pool Discussion Threadhttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441078.0 |
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If Gane hasn't been practicing his wrestling, and Jon Jones has half the ability he had in wrestling a few years ago, Gane is in for a extremely long night. We talk about how wrestlers tend to have the edge against strikers, and Jon Jones is literally one of the best wrestlers to have ever done it. The poor showing from Gane against Ngannou were warning signs to me, and I saw a image the other day of a quote from Gane saying he doesn't train until fight camp.
Now, I don't know how true that quote was, but if is then I'm not sure how he expects to beat one of the greatest of all time, and keep a belt too. I wouldn't have thought the quote was true, since Gane definitely has talent behind him, but you never know heavyweight is probably one of the weaker divisions in terms of quality.
We really don't know. Gane could be practicing a lot of wrestling as he knows who he's up against. As for Jones, he just needs half of his wrestling ability to hold down and control Gane. Ngannou isn't an astute wrestler but he was able to control Gane. Ngannou had an injured knee and was kinda gassed too. The only worry I have for Jones is his mindset. And a lot of guys are giving Jones flack for his 'dad bod'. I think that's fine and nothing to be too worried about. I'd be more worried if Jones came out jacked to the tits as it could mean he'll slow down carrying around tight muscles. My lottery ticket for 285... Jones - Basharat 1.98 Add: Saaiman - Garry - Shev 3.45 Add: Du Plessis - Nickal - Rakhmonov 6.38 Add: Barriualt - Araujo - Garbrandt 34.75 Add: Radzhabov - Penne - Turner 481.77 Jones not really my most confident pick but I'm forced to put him at the top. No value if I put my more confident picks unless I go for 3 - 4 legs. |
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Group B was yesterday and I lost my tier 4 and tier 5 tickets because of one guy who decided he wasn't gonna play well that day. Sharp didn't show any interest at all and it felt like he threw the game. There was some shenanigans in the SC/BW pro scene when a couple of players were caught fixing matches back in the day. Wouldn't totally be surprised if it happened again. :/ Anyway, here are the results for Group B... ASL 15 Round of 24 Group B Results Group C tomorrow. If Soma wins, I win my tier 1 ticket and break even. |
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Game 1: 39, 20'
Game 2: 39, 32'
Game 3: 39, 25'
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1. Verstappen
2. Verstappen
3. Verstappen
4. 20 seconds
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^ Been doing these threads since last year and I would like to continue doing them. Thanks.
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Dragonvslinux made a good post in the Feb sentiment thread about how BTC ended up mostly neutral with the smallest monthly gain... But he also said that there were a couple of spots when it closed the month the same way and went on to go up the next month. So what do you guys think? Up above 25k USD by end of March or still below it? Here's how monthly chart ended for Feb.  |
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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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