Officially throwing in the towel. My fault mostly, for not entering MD subs or transfers in time. Jota (captain) didn't even play. Lukaku once more denied by VAR. And the icing on the cake, KdB, who I couldn't sub in, scored.

I'm just going to transfer out on a wildcard now, keep most probably, use up my cards, but I can't see a way back in. Also, travelling tomorrow and only able to properly look on Tues/Wedn, so I'm probably going to suck it up and play for fun.

GL guys!

Sweet, freebets received, and duly spent TY Steve!


Then we'll both be $250 richer at the end of Copa, plus all those freebets/chips. Not bad for a no-brainer Uruguay pick, eh?

And a signed shirt from Colombia's captain, wow. Icing on the cake, good on you!

I'm fine with this if everyone is. Everyone picked Argentina anyway, and he still missed the 2nd game, 1 point would have been what he'd gotten at least. So do I understand this means we get a late participant, and just +1 point to their total at the end? If so, go for it. But I don't think we should be accepting any more late players after tonight (or we can, if they don't mind losing out on early points).

Don't want a case of people trying to see if they could predict well and then join late when they have many points, is all

I thought this was a lost cause for me, picking 0-3 points. I gambled on Scotland winning and Georgia, despite my belief in them, would not get a single point this tournament.

And then we get both draws. 1-1 is the score of MD2 it seems. Good for me, since if Scotland did actually win, I'd be with 2 points. As it stands, 4 points in a stretch, I would love to get the last one and stand tall with 5! But VAR doesn't love Lukaku at all..!

Definitely not my week. Couldn't make my subs last night, and rushed home today to try again, but I guess you can only sub for a period in the morning before the first MD? My poor expensive KdB is sitting on the bench, I was hoping to sub out one of my 1-pointers for him.

I'm really good at Fantasy, aren't I?

Finally, out of the "zero" zone with 2 points today. 4 whole points this entire contest so far, while jeremypwr has 8 and b1gfudge has 10(who on earth is this?!?!). If things don't turn around for me, I am also questioning buyins beyond group (or am I bluffing?).


As Rikafip already wrote, both strikers in the questions were fit, fighting recent injuries in friendlies to play full games (remind me why I hate friendlies). I guess especially Lewie was a muscle they didn't want to risk unless they absolutely needed to. I like Pistol Piotr, though, too bad he's not enough.

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Yeah, immediate regret picking an unlikely 4-0, but I thought I was being smart.

3 prize spots you said darxiaomi? I'll go for that, it doesn't change the prize much and gives one more person, potentially a new person, a taste of winning. Then we hook them in and rob them blind


My instinct says Chile and Ecuador here (not necessarily my prediction in pool) -- like you said, hard to pick, and harder still as I won't be watching any of them until next week when I'm in a different timezone, and likely, not able to anyway.

Monday's Uruguay vs Panama will tell me if I'm right all along about Darwin (cough cough).

Don't forget, there's also a Copa promotion going on. The outright promo I love and take every comp Sportsbet offers it: https://sportsbet.io/promotions/2024-copa-victory-rewards


Easy bet, just put $50 (the exact amount will be displayed in your selected/active currency) on any team in the outright market, you'll get a $5 freebet and $5 freechip for every win your selected team wins.

I got Darwin and co on my pick

So the team that beat Belgium lost to the team that lost to Romania. Was somehow hoping Ukraine would lose as I need ONE team in any group to end the tournament with 0 points heh. As it stands, unlikely for Belgium to lose their next 2 matches.

At least I've climbed up 11 spots now... still far from darxiaomi but no longer rooted to the bottom.

Now Poland behind so hope they stay down! Edit: goddang equaliser!


Tell you what though, they're going far. In the most frustrating way possible. Penalties, shootouts, whatever it takes. If you want to quit watching football, watch teams like England.

I actually spent some time reading about this, but there was no conclusion I would find. Or perhaps I should have looked at Ukrainian sites.

Seems a bit too much to replace a keeper after a first game, most teams don't do that midway until repeated mistakes but I suppose their ruthlessness paid off. He's even on my fantasy roster, so out he goes (if I remember heh). Eh, Trubin was on it. But he gets 3 points anyway...

Staring down the barrel of 0 again.

^ Poor Perez

I'm going to do another round of weird picks. Absolute stunner of a race last one in terms of placing, and my gambles still didn't pay off. So I'll once more sprinkle some pixie dust and hope (other than Max) some of the unusual suspects get on the podium. Leclerc's got to be due a 2nd again no?

I'm "importing" a quote below to bring the actual gamblers from Copa thread to the actual discussion thread =p

4 goals Argentina!


I may be biased but Firminho carried Brazil a bit too during early qualifiers when things weren't certain, only to not feature once the finals arrived (last World Cup I mean). And there was the last 2019 Copa too. Apart from Neymar and one or two others, he actually had the best goal contribution per minute in that period and still others below him got selected (I don't remember the precise stats but I remember making the argument). Just because he didn't turn on the flair needlessly, he paid for it. Don't blame him, Tite used him weirdly.

I don't know what's going on now with the team but something's really not right there. So much talent but so few of them actually stepping up.

Italy's going to hold out for second half methinks...


TAA's midfield experiment wasn't too bad, but felt like the whole team wasn't ready to risk anything much. Manager's orders I guess. Think England frustrates everyone in general, and definitely the most frustrating of all the teams thus far.

Remember the last Euro though. Boring wins, draws, wins. Looks like we're about to see the very same England all over again. Premier League may have the most modern attacking football, but English national football is reluctant to honour that tradition.

Just glancing at the answers and I see I haven't really played differently from most people, but too lazy to compute against the top scorers so far. Just get the feeling even if I score more points (doesn't look like it at the moment though), everyone else will too.

Too bad about the Serbia booking points. It all looked pretty good for me in the first half. Can't buy luck the way things are going.

Heh heh no problem. I hardly go beyond 5, if it's 10 or more, I'm really just going for fun. A 1 cent bet could turn into a million on a 20-leg quite easily though, as I showed from the screenshot of only semi-conservative bets.

Accas are for legs you're confident in -- I couldn't dream up 10 legs in a week!

Good luck, don't forget to share your 20-leg megawin

So much in the post that explains this isn't Bitcoin, but the payment processor (and as you said yourself, a problem later discovered to be with the Lightning node).

Now if they had just transacted on Bitcoin itself, there wouldn't have been a problem. Okay, one issue of consumer choice. I can pay 2800+ satoshi but do I want to pay the fee (today the recommended fee is about 43% of the payment)?

I'm not for or against LN but there's always that overlooked thing, not just in El Salvador but everywhere they tried using Bitcoin (or Lightning). You have to have the right support. Trained staff. People watching the nodes. Making sure the network's usable. A fault could also happen if using Bitcoin anyway, even if they were using BTCPay, for example, but it crashed. And you still couldn't say Bitcoin was at fault.

30 goals

Just so you guys know, I "decided" that my team roster would stay exactly the same. How did I decide? By thinking I did my transfers last night, one by taking out Szoboszlai and replacing with Kroos... and I guess I forgot to confirm. I suppose neither makes a difference.


I would be honoured to be in the same category as Hhampuz. Today, I will jinx Switzerland as Xhaka's in my midfield.


This has been argued to death, even at the last Euro... I have given up on Portugal realising their potential. Hope it was just a MD1 "fooled ya" move.

As explained by others before and above (DaveF's one the easiest to understand), if you're a miner, it's all about balancing your books. If a few seconds matter, and the higher likelihood of a block reward outweighs the fees, even I'd go for it.

I've wondered myself in the past if "overpaying" fees is a way of tipping, to convince miners back then when empty blocks were more common, to include these high-fee txs.

Finally in, and I'm at the bottom, yay! I've always rated Georgia, but they still surprised me at the quality they could bring to the table. 2 "debut" goals, what a feast, eh?

Now Albania, supposedly whipping boys, leading against Croatia. I'm wondering if we should also start taking Slovakia and Romania seriously...