⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ COPA America ⚽ Prediction Pool Discussion Thread

[LTU_btc]

it may well be that the brazilian national team will not participate in the copa 2021

"They have an opinion and they disclosed it to the president," Tite said when asked if players had asked for permission to skip the tournament that begins in less than two weeks. "They will disclose it to the public at the appropriate time. That's why our captain Casemiro is not here today."

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/does-brazil-renounce-copa-america-quot-have-disclosed-their-opinion-to-the-president-quot-/view/news/386512

Wow, this is something very unexpected, I don't even know what to say. Without Brazil this tournament probably will lose half of value. Imagine if Messi and co will win this trophy, such win without their main rival would be not that much significant.
After all, decision to move Copa to Brazil instead of USA for me initially looked strange and a bit stupid because of pandemic thing there.

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[cygan]

it may well be that the brazilian national team will not participate in the copa 2021

"They have an opinion and they disclosed it to the president," Tite said when asked if players had asked for permission to skip the tournament that begins in less than two weeks. "They will disclose it to the public at the appropriate time. That's why our captain Casemiro is not here today."

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/does-brazil-renounce-copa-america-quot-have-disclosed-their-opinion-to-the-president-quot-/view/news/386512

Wow, this is something very unexpected, I don't even know what to say. Without Brazil this tournament probably will lose half of value. Imagine if Messi and co will win this trophy, such win without their main rival would be not that much significant.
After all, decision to move Copa to Brazil instead of USA for me initially looked strange and a bit stupid because of pandemic thing there.

i would have moved the copa to the states as well - especially since the whole south american continent has not yet got a grip on the pandemic, from what we hear here from europe

[Trofo]

After all, decision to move Copa to Brazil instead of USA for me initially looked strange and a bit stupid because of pandemic thing there.

i would have moved the copa to the states as well - especially since the whole south american continent has not yet got a grip on the pandemic, from what we hear here from europe

That was such an obvious solution to the problem that I can't believe they did not took it. They could have moved the Copa to southern USA states and they would have got:
* much better covid situation
* supporters on stadium
* extra popularization of soccer in USA
* more then ready infrastructure
* no extra tensions between South American teams, wherever you move Copa in South America somebody would get "unfair" advantage and it will result with complaints from their arch rivals

[morvillz7z]

Bump! 

The Brazilian national team is in, they will not boycott the tournament (as of today...lol).

source: https://twitter.com/BrasilEdition/status/1401913940322435077

GLOBO:
The Brazilian national team will play in the 2021 Copa America. Although dissatisfied, the players confirmed their participation in the tournament.

Yesterday they had their football president Rogerio Caboclo suspended:

"Brazil Soccer President Caboclo Suspended Over Sexual Harassment Allegation"
source: https://www.si.com/soccer/2021/06/07/brazil-federation-president-suspended-rogerio-caboclo

[tomahawk9]

Bump! 

The Brazilian national team is in, they will not boycott the tournament (as of today...lol).

source: https://twitter.com/BrasilEdition/status/1401913940322435077

heh! sounds to me like they realized the other team captains were not going to support the boycott 😂
tweet (in spanish) from the argentina football association yesterday https://twitter.com/afa/status/1401582952295849985  they made it very clear they were going to participate in the copa america

[Trofo]

Was about time to settle that, must admit I was starting to get a little nervous. Is it also settled that games will be played in Brazil? Still think that is stupid considering covid situation in Brazil.


Reminder to @jeremypwr and @LFC_Bitcoin, time to pay up guys  , you two are the only one from the "interested list" left that did not already send buy in. Copa starts this Sunday.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

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PM me how to join?

[darxiaomi]

I think im IN good luck for all!

[Trofo]

I think im IN good luck for all!

That is 14 of us for now and it should be at least 15 in a couple of days. I see you are new to Superbru so feel free to ask any questions here. Most of us in the pool have couple of seasons worth experience predicting results on Superbru so somebody should be able to provide answers to anything

[tomahawk9]

bump! thread got buried at the bottom of the 2nd page 

well, the uncertainty surrouding the Copa America is finally gone: Brazilian Supreme Court rules tournament can go ahead

Two more days!

[Trofo]

bump! thread got buried at the bottom of the 2nd page 

well, the uncertainty surrouding the Copa America is finally gone: Brazilian Supreme Court rules tournament can go ahead

Two more days!

We got to my projected number of 15 players so I let the thread rest a little before the real stuff starts. We have 4 matches in this match day and I am thinking what to do for mini weekly competition. There is no "derby" game at this stage so maybe we should do something for all the games
* predict 1x2 - but that is close to what we are doing in Superbru
* predict number of goals in the games - could be better solution, but hard to get correctly
* predict the number of booking points as under/over and I'll put margins - this one could be juicy and I am leaning towards this
* I'll probably use time of first goal or first card in Paraguay - Bolivia game as tie breaker since it is the last game in this first bunch of games

According to forum posting rules I believe I will have to open another thread in games and rounds for this. I'll make it so I can delete posts and just nuke all the post from freebie hunters that are not part of this pool. Will post link here so don't worry about missing it.

[Trofo]

Our first mini competition is live, hurry up and play something:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5343554.msg57222214#msg57222214

Had no input so went with the cards

[hahay]

Our first mini competition is live, hurry up and play something:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5343554.msg57222214#msg57222214

Had no input so went with the cards

I want to make a selection like 1-3 or 2-4 but it doesn't seem like it will be accepted because of the wrong format?
I don't really understand the format, but I've made it with a 3-4 format because I feel there won't be many cards that come out in the match, but I'm not sure if I should choose 1-2. Lol
Good luck!

[Trofo]

I want to make a selection like 1-3 or 2-4 but it doesn't seem like it will be accepted because of the wrong format?
I don't really understand the format, but I've made it with a 3-4 format because I feel there won't be many cards that come out in the match, but I'm not sure if I should choose 1-2. Lol
Good luck!

It would have been too many similar selections if I allowed for more cards under same selection. I have a feeling there will be lots of cards in COPA. As I said if you guys have good idea, feel free to propose. Those mini competitions during the week are completely under my jurisdiction and we can make them whatever we like.

Just added few more rules to clarify who will be the winner:
I will award each correct card prediction with one point and then use tie breaker to select winner if several users end with same points.
In case even tie breaker is same, then the winner is the one who posted first.

[tomahawk9]

Friendly reminder that the Venezuela NT confirmed yesterday that over 12 players in the squad tested positive for covid19 and they had to call 15 new players for today's debut against Brazil ^[1]. Bolivia confirmed 4 positive cases in the squad^[2].

So keep that in mind when making your predictions

Our first mini competition is live, hurry up and play something:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5343554.msg57222214#msg57222214

Had no input so went with the cards

let's plan the next one. How about total corners? same format as the yellow cards, 1-2 corners, 3-4 corners, etc

[Trofo]

let's plan the next one. How about total corners? same format as the yellow cards, 1-2 corners, 3-4 corners, etc

You got it. No point in offering 1-2, I'll go with something like under 5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, over 14.
I'll start it soon so that we have more time to join. Probably tomorrow. Feel like there will be less than half of us participating in this first one.

Thanks for Venezuela tip, I saw that it isn't possible to even make a bet on Brazil but did not know why

[LTU_btc]

@tomahawk9, thanks for sharing news about Venezuela, I wasn't aware about it. Though, probably even with full squad they wouldn't have much chances against Brazil. So, we can expect quite many goals tonight.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to watch Colombia - Ecuador game because it will start too late and it's Monday tomorrow :/. Colombia are favorites, though, I checked H2H results and last time Ecuador won 6:1. How!? Did Colombia missed half of squad because of Covid?

[Trofo]

We have a total of 15 participants which gives us 15 mBTC in the pot + 20 mBTC from our sponsor Sportsbet. That gives us a total of 35 mBTC to dish out for rewards. Rewards will be paid out as follows:
1. Place - 20 mBTC
2. Place - 10 mBTC
3. Place -  5 mBTC

*All transaction fees will be paid out from 1. place reward since it is slightly bigger then I intended initially (55% of the pot)
** There will be no sharing of the prizes, prizes will be paid out as per Superbru ranking. Even if 2 participants have same points, Superbru has some tie breakers implemented so the prize goes to the participant that is listed first.

[DIA7]

Friendly reminder that the Venezuela NT confirmed yesterday that over 12 players in the squad tested positive for covid19 and they had to call 15 new players for today's debut against Brazil ^[1]. Bolivia confirmed 4 positive cases in the squad^[2].

So keep that in mind when making your predictions

Our first mini competition is live, hurry up and play something:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5343554.msg57222214#msg57222214

Had no input so went with the cards

let's plan the next one. How about total corners? same format as the yellow cards, 1-2 corners, 3-4 corners, etc

Too bad I saw this after I locked my prediction at 2-0 if I didn't lock it I would added a goal or two.
A little reminder what's the risk of not locking up prediction on SuperBRU.
From what I remember the results should be accepted right?
The only benefit of locking it I you would be able to see other locked predictions before the start of the games.

[sportsbet.io]

Hi Guys!

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Good luck and thanks Trofo for running with this! should be some good fun.

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