Morning all! It's the last week of World Cup games, but there's some big matches to enjoy before the end of the tournament!

At least we won't have long to wait before the start of the EPL (and the national league for any other unlucky Leyton Orient supporters!)

Which events are you looking forward to this week?

@Defran I'm really sorry for the slow response, i've dropped a message to our support teams asking for them to investigate the delay and get in contact as soon as possible, there may have been some manual checks run on your account but they probably should have been processed by now if the correct information has been provided.

Thanks very much,

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

I hope you've all managed to recover from an exciting round of quarter final games, because now that they are over we've tallied up the votes and some leaders have emerged in our World Cup Predictor competition!





As you can see from the table above, three sharp tipsters managed to pick all the winning teams that progress into the semi finals! Unfortunately we only have one graphics card up for grabs, so now it's time to bring out the random number generator to pick the lucky winner:





Drumroll please....





Congratulations to sir.humus on winning our Grand Prize of a GeForce GTX 1060 Graphics card! Commiserations to iwutitan and Avirunes for coming so close, but you will receive 25 free spins each on our casino slots!

We still need to pick 2 other runners up to receive free spins, so back to the random number generator we go for those who got three correct guesses!





Drumroll please....





Congratulations to eroejoe and cryptothief on grabbing the last two runner-up spots, you too will receive 25 free spins on our casino slots!

Thanks to everyone who took part in the competition! I'll be in touch with the winning top tipsters soon via private message to discuss prize delivery.


We'll soon be launching a new competition on Twitter for crypto enthusiasts and world cup fans alike, so keep an eye on @Cloudbet for the announcement early this week!

Have a great day and enjoy the rest of the world cup!

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

I hope you've all managed to recover from an exciting round of quarter final games, because now that they are over we've tallied up the votes and some leaders have emerged in our World Cup Predictor competition!





As you can see from the table above, three sharp tipsters managed to pick all the winning teams that progress into the semi finals! Unfortunately we only have one graphics card up for grabs, so now it's time to bring out the random number generator to pick the lucky winner:





Drumroll please....





Congratulations to sir.humus on winning our Grand Prize of a GeForce GTX 1060 Graphics card! Commiserations to iwutitan and Avirunes for coming so close, but you will receive 25 free spins each on our casino slots!

We still need to pick 2 other runners up to receive free spins, so back to the random number generator we go for those who got three correct guesses!





Drumroll please....





Congratulations to eroejoe and cryptothief on grabbing the last two runner-up spots, you too will receive 25 free spins on our casino slots!

Thanks to everyone who took part in the competition! I'll be in touch with the winning top tipsters soon via private message to discuss prize delivery.


We'll soon be launching a new competition on Twitter for crypto enthusiasts and world cup fans alike, so keep an eye on @Cloudbet for the announcement early this week!

Have a great day and enjoy the rest of the world cup!

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

Update after the first two games:



What are your thoughts on tomorrows matches? We've got a new blog with a few tips for tomorrow's Quarter final games.

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

Wow this game so far!

If Belgium complete the upset it's going to shake up the leaderboard, but I can already see there's some savvy tipsters in here.

The bit that really worries me as an England fan is that some of the current leaders have picked Sweden to win!

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

The first game has now kicked off, so entries are now closed!

The final tally:



Good luck everyone, enjoy the football!  

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

The first game has now kicked off, so entries are now closed!

The final tally:



Good luck everyone, enjoy the football!  

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

Only a few hours left to go!

The competition closes at 2:00pm UTC today, when the first Quarter final game kicks off with France facing Uruguay.

We'll announce the winners on the 8th July (after recovering from Saturday's games! ), and contact the winners soon after via PM on BitcoinTalk.

On a side note, I've got France in the office sweepstake, so i'll be cheering them on this afternoon! Anyone else have a sweepstake team still in the comp?

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

Thanks to everyone that's entered so far!





It's looking like FRA/BRA/CRO/ENG is currently the most popular prediction, but with this being the world cup of upsets anything could happen!

Actually, if anyone manages to get every prediction wrong (a skill in itself!) I might be able to swing a small prize to reward their bad luck  

The competition closes at 2:00pm UTC today when the first Quarter final game kicks off, so there's still time to get your entries in!

Good luck!

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

@Ivotrumpet88 Thanks for getting in touch, and sorry you have experienced delays with your withdrawal. Our SMS verification is usually pretty smooth but we've had a few reports similar to your so our teams are investigating. If you could please PM me your Cloudbet nickname I'll work with our support teams to get this sorted out for you as a priority.

@panjul07 Thanks very much for the feedback! I'll be looking to tighten up the next comp we run on here, and since this is just for fun I'll try to work the prizes so that everyone can join in without the need for an active Cloudbet account

Thanks very much,

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

Today's the last chance to get your entries in before the start of the first Quarter final game! 

Good luck everyone, and enjoy the football!

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

@buwaytress Thanks for joining in!

Our competition is to pick the team to progress, and I have a funny feeling you could be right about the BRA v BEL game. Brazil haven't exactly blown me away with their performances so far and Belgium have looked quietly confident, I can see them parking the bus and holding out. As for football coming home I'm an England fan myself so I'm trying not to let myself get excited yet... I've been burnt before! 

I'm making a spreadsheet of all the entries as they come in to ensure we don't have anyone switching results, but next time I'll definitely add a blanket 'no edits' rule to the T&Cs to make life easier!

Have a great day!

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

There's some great insight in here. Wish I'd read through the thread earlier before making my own World Cup bets! 

If anyone thinks they can predict the winners of the upcoming World Cup Quarter final games we are running a Competition to give away a Graphics Card!

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

@Trofo Y'know it's my first time running a comp like this on BitcoinTalk and I hadn't even thought of quoting to prevent edits, so far I've just been taking screenshots of all the entries when they are posted but your way seems a lot easier! I'll definitely do that next time, thanks for the feedback!

EDIT: I've put all entries in a spreadsheet for ease, thanks again

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

Thanks to all the people who have entered so far, the competition is heating up with only one day left to get your predictions in! 

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

Thanks to everyone that's entered our World Cup Predictor competition so far!

New to our Cloudbet thread? There's still time to get your entries in! Competition details can be found here

I don't really know what to do with myself during this break between World Cup rounds, but at least it gives England fans time to recover from that penalty shootout  

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

@defran Thanks for getting in touch. Sometimes these manual checks can take a while to process if there is a large queue, but if you have provided KYC you should have received a response by now. I'll contact our payment teams and find out where the delay is coming from and get back to you asap.

I've recorded the email address that you provided, so you can remove it from your public post if you prefer. I'd normally ask players to PM me their details to keep them private.

@NickNammee Glad to hear it, enjoy your winnings! 

Have a great day!

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

Always nice to wake up to a few competition entries!  

@NickNammee I've just heard from our support teams who have informed me your withdrawal has been processed, enjoy your winnings! 

@goxcraft We do have a thread to notify people in the Games and Rounds section, but we would prefer to keep the competition entries to our one 'Meta' thread as this is where most of our players know to reach us. As far as I'm aware we are keeping to the 'one thread per site only' rule in Gambling, but if we get a message from the mods about moving the location for entries I'm of course happy to do so.

Thanks very much, have a great day!

Ronnie @ Cloudbet

Only 5 entries so far! I thought we might have a few more BCT sports tipsters here!  

Ronnie @ Cloudbet