BC.Game 🦁 Fantasy Pool | Euro 2024 ⚽ Discussion Thread

[Igebotz]

@cls63 congratulations in advance - had all week to sort out Newcastle assets but wanted to get deadline News before making a move but luckily for you i slept off. A big chance for you to leadfrog me.

[Rruchi man]

I would play him as left back probably. We are week on CB positions but all the guys that played there were actually quite good. I just think Gvardiol deserves to play on his best position.

The left-back position from where Pep Guardiola has started him for a couple of weeks has shown and given him his best form in the Premier League so far. He has scored unexpected, crucial goals and defended very well. If I am the Croatian coach, I'll take cue from that and keep him in the left-back position for the national team.

Congratulations To Manchester City on winning the league for the fourth time in a row, we (Arsenal) did so well to take the battle to the last day and not make it easy for Manchester City, who have dominated the other clubs in the league. I am proud of my team and where we are, and I am certain that next season we will be stronger.

Foden's player of the season award is well deserved.

[Trofo]

What a last round, almost lost first position to Mateta heroics. I was picking between Eze and Olise this morning, if I have gone different route. it wouldn't be so close  Congrats Brahim on second place, you made it though for me in this last round. Without Porro goal, it could have gone your way.

With that, the last 1 mBTC free bet for round winner goes to Smartvirus. TC on Isak paid up for you and there were rumors he will not even play 

[Igebotz]

What a last round, almost lost first position to Mateta heroics. I was picking between Eze and Olise this morning, if I have gone different route. it wouldn't be so close  Congrats Brahim on second place, you made it though for me in this last round. Without Porro goal, it could have gone your way.

With that, the last 1 mBTC free bet for round winner goes to Smartvirus. TC on Isak paid up for you and there were rumors he will not even play 

What a disasterious end of the season for me. Mateta hattrick and assist smash it for Cls63. Waited for deadline News only to miss the whole shit  congratulations CLS63. I bottled it.

[Trofo]

Money positions for the pool should be as follows but we will wait until official page updates before making it final:
🥇 1st place ~ 40% ~ 70 mBTC* - Trofo
🥈 2rd place ~ 25% ~ 43 mBTC - Brahim012
🥉 3rd place ~ 15% ~ 26 mBTC - Spack17
🏅 4th place ~ 10% ~ 17 mBTC - cls63
🏅 5th place ~ 5% ~  8.5 mBTC - Abiiiii12
🏅 Best overall GW ~ 5% ~  8.5 mBTC - Renato297 for 155 points in GW34

I guess icopress will need our BTC addresses but I will let him advise where he wants them  Congrats guys

[icopress]

Money positions for the pool should be as follows but we will wait until official page updates before making it final:
🥇 1st place ~ 40% ~ 70 mBTC* - Trofo
🥈 2rd place ~ 25% ~ 43 mBTC - Brahim012
🥉 3rd place ~ 15% ~ 26 mBTC - Spack17
🏅 4th place ~ 10% ~ 17 mBTC - cls63
🏅 5th place ~ 5% ~  8.5 mBTC - Abiiiii12
🏅 Best overall GW ~ 5% ~  8.5 mBTC - Renato297 for 155 points in GW34

I guess icopress will need our BTC addresses but I will let him advise where he wants them  Congrats guys

I need Bitcoin addresses in PM within 15 hour (if you want me to process payments tomorrow). Anyone who does not send me a Bitcoin address before this deadline will receive payment on May 27th. Friends, congratulations again!

[CLS63]

I'm very happy to have finished the season in top 5. I decided to add Mateta to my squad in the last moment and this helped me win the extra points I needed. I would like to thank BC.game very much for sponsoring the league. At the same time, thanks a lot to icopress for taking care of the league. I hope that our number would be bigger next year.

🏅 4th place ~ 10% ~ 17 mBTC - cls63

I have sent the address by PM.


Thanks a lot to everyone who has joined the The Top Bottlers Gang league. I needed a small miracle to win the league and Igebotz provided me the opportunity I needed. If there isn't any change I'm winning the league by 1 points. If this comes true it would really be a heartbreaking result for Igebotz.

[nelson4lov]

Thanks a lot to everyone who has joined the The Top Bottlers Gang league. I needed a small miracle to win the league and Igebotz provided me the opportunity I needed. If there isn't any change I'm winning the league by 1 points. If this comes true it would really be a heartbreaking result for Igebotz.

The table has been updated and yes, you're finished with 1 point above Igebotz. That last minute top spot steal from Igebotz is wicked ngl. I just saw that you made the cut for the main league as well. Massive Congratulations — winning on both sides.

Congratulations to all winners especially to Trofo who has consistently held up his top spot except of very few occasions that he dropped momentarily. It's my first FPL and while my performance was below average, I had plenty of fun and will be looking forward to competing with you all next season.

[NotATether]

Congratulations CLS63 for winning the bottlers league. Now give us your BTC addy so we can send you 1mBTC

See you all next season.

[Smartvirus]

Money positions for the pool should be as follows but we will wait until official page updates before making it final:
🥇 1st place ~ 40% ~ 70 mBTC* - Trofo
🥈 2rd place ~ 25% ~ 43 mBTC - Brahim012
🥉 3rd place ~ 15% ~ 26 mBTC - Spack17
🏅 4th place ~ 10% ~ 17 mBTC - cls63
🏅 5th place ~ 5% ~  8.5 mBTC - Abiiiii12
🏅 Best overall GW ~ 5% ~  8.5 mBTC - Renato297 for 155 points in GW34

My address wouldn’t be needed so, I have to snipe that out, lol…

Congratulations to all you winners, you’ve guys are some of the best to not just play with but learn from. I contested in some random league and emerged 1st yet here I am in the 8th place. That tells the caliber of persons am playing with and learning from, you guys made it a contest for real and I don’t mind losing to champions though, I hope to feature in the wins some day. With that, I can’t wait for next season to kick-off.

Hhampuz, you’ve been a lot silent this season! Hit a wrong turn somewhere in the season, what’s good man? It’s over now.

With that, the last 1 mBTC free bet for round winner goes to Smartvirus. TC on Isak paid up for you and there were rumors he will not even play 

That was a trick out of Icopress’s play book. So yeah, tanks Icopress fro that tip on your approach to GW27. It paid off here with a free bet consolation and it wasn’t difficult for Trofo to announce the winner this round, right from Sunday, .
I had less expectation from Chelsea in their final fixture even though I knew they would win, I just had to go Isak, ain’t no way he wasn’t going to feature while they still had a chance for the Europa spot should Chelsea not take their chances.

[Igebotz]

Table fully updated - congratulations again CLS63, that was a close one and a very painful one point advantage. You were literally out of the race twice but you kept taking risking hits and coming back like Undertaker unexpectedly..

Thank you, buwaytress, for always showing an interest in making things around you work despite the fact that you are not very good at it. That is what I consider to be sacrifice and passion for the game. You never disappoint.

nelson4lov, NotATether, thank you for giving us a reason to play until the end with passion - I took my mind off the main league for 9 GWs. I'm hoping to host another decentralized mini Bottler league season to create more earning opportunities for bottlers.

Cls63 drop your addy so the donations can start coming in, it's a Decentralized pool.  our mistake was letting you into our Bottler league from a Top 5 position 

Little Mouse will donate my 1mBTC to your address.

Icopress thank you for hosting us once again. See you next season.

[CLS63]

Trofo managed to stay at top during nearly all of the season and deserved to win the prize all the way. I know that Trofo is the favourite for next season again. However as I learned my lesson from the mistakes I made this year, I think that I will win the pool next year. (using wc early etc.)

You're welcome to the Top Bottlers Gang League - we're still open to new entries. DM

60% of you have nothing left to fight for why not join us for as low as 1mBTC and start over again ? It's winner take all.

Win free money, take your girl/crush out for a date and spend our money. 

As I don't have anyone to go on a date with, I guess I will buy a video game with this money lol. For the people who are in the bottlers league, I'm leaving the address:

bc1qtqywqs6j0hxlwdhta0pg3nc6y93fd08kqsydvf

[Igebotz]

Trofo managed to stay at top during nearly all of the season and deserved to win the prize all the way. I know that Trofo is the favourite for next season again. However as I learned my lesson from the mistakes I made this year, I think that I will win the pool next year. (using wc early etc.)

Trofo improved with every season, learning a lot from last season's mistakes, and the whole fpl thing demanded greater attention; the second you let your guard down, you're gone. Icopress, what's happening on? With your experience, I expected you to be able to compete with Trofo. Your advice was quite useful in my first season here. Understanding upcoming matchups and when blank weeks and DGW are scheduled gives Trofo an advantage over everyone here; he knows these things properly and prepares his team accordingly. Well deserved.

Hard to banter you here..... I'm dying inside

As I don't have anyone to go on a date with, I guess I will buy a video game with this money lol. For the people who are in the bottlers league, I'm leaving the address:

Whatever you do, don't buy FIFA 2024!! Great graphics but the defence is shit.. why not go on a date with a VR girlfriend though.   

[Trofo]

Trofo managed to stay at top during nearly all of the season and deserved to win the prize all the way. I know that Trofo is the favourite for next season again. However as I learned my lesson from the mistakes I made this year, I think that I will win the pool next year. (using wc early etc.)

Trofo improved with every season, learning a lot from last season's mistakes, and the whole fpl thing demanded greater attention; the second you let your guard down, you're gone. Icopress, what's happening on? With your experience, I expected you to be able to compete with Trofo. Your advice was quite useful in my first season here. Understanding upcoming matchups and when blank weeks and DGW are scheduled gives Trofo an advantage over everyone here; he knows these things properly and prepares his team accordingly. Well deserved.

I am just vocal about it and I don't mind sharing good advice. There is a couple of serious players in our pool but they don't write as much as I do and even if they do, they don't advertise their moves.

I actually had much more fun last season. My ranking suffered just because I started with Kane instead of Haaland and Trent/Robertson. Haaland went on to score 8 goals in the first 3 games and Liverpool was conceding left and right. After that, I played an almost perfect season and climbed the ranks all the time. This season I started well and just played safe game all the time, wasn't as much fun but ended up quite lucrative for me.

[icopress]

I'm faced with a dilemma.

Two users who took prizes in the football pool sent me Bitcoin addresses that clearly belong to the same person. Please note that when reviewing this case, I did not take into account such minor factors as the fact that these are newbie accounts and that the entry fee into the pool was made using the same exchange [1], [2]. I also wanted to thank Loyce, DaveF, Charles-Tim, hugeblack for sharing their objective opinion on this case (DM).

My BTC address 1MNsJV5q8JGCg5i8EPv1aJAuM7sZq37Pq1

BTC address : 1GdZnYf7np7uovA9Lux21Q3ZuFnwHKR5dW

• Both part of wallet 0000001bce which looks to be some sort of custodial wallet ^{[1], [2]}
• The first Bitcoin transaction was made on the same day with an interval of 19 hours and 13 minutes (2023-05-23).
• Both account reuse legacy addresses.
• They both sent to bc1qm34lsc65zpw79lxes69zkqmk6ee3ewf0j77s3h which belongs to Binance.
• Both addresses are links to a mixer / Both sent to this same address bc1qgzrva028eym96uax90j28qj3aqhh3dy8gk6qvp address.
• Both addresses are received coins from bc1qq904ynep5mvwpjxdlyecgeupg22dm8am6cfvgq
• Both addresses were directly interacted through 1FAAphFUwM4WWJtqjJjQuHcMANqoJDdpi2

In this regard, Trofo and I have decided to redistribute the rewards (but we will return the deposit to these accounts in the amount of 0.002 + 0.002 btc).

Thus, the prize fund will be 0.169 and the distribution of prizes will look like this:

🥇 1st place ~ 40% ~ 0,0676 BTC - Trofo
🥈 2rd place ~ 25% ~ 0,04225 BTC - Spack17
🥉 3rd place ~ 15% ~ 0,02535 BTC - CLS63
🏅 4th place ~ 10% ~ 0,0169 BTC - morvillz7z
🏅 5th place ~ 5% ~  0,00845 BTC - Renato297
🏅 Best overall GW ~ 5% ~  0,00845 BTC - Renato297 for 155 points in GW34

[Trofo]

....
In this regard, Trofo and I have decided to redistribute the rewards (but we will return the deposit to these accounts in the amount of 0.002 + 0.002 btc).
....

I hate getting involved in cases like this since I am aware of the drama they create but I had no way to run from this one I must admit I would have missed this one if it wasn't for icopress. So thanks man for being diligent.

I insisted that we include some more prominent bitcointalk members in blockchain analysis since I am not proficient in this field and wanted more opinions. After findings from Loyce, DaveF, Charles-Tim & hugeblack there wasn't any doubt in my mind that those addresses were connected.

Multi-accounting is a deplorable tactic in these pools and ruins the game for everyone. It takes away from other players even when caught like in this case. Most of us at the top would probably play a slightly different game and who knows what would be final positions if those players weren't in the pool or if it was just one of them. Maybe the punishment looks severe but I believe it is the only way we can fight against this problem.

[icopress]

I know that in the rules on the first page of the thread there is no mention of "multi-accounts" but I also know that in this kind of contests this is an unspoken rule. I don't think we would have resorted to such a solution if the prize pool consisted of 100% sponsorship funds because from my experience I can say that if the casino has to choose between losing a small amount or drama, they will always choose the first one. But since the lion’s share of this money is contributions from pool participants, this kind of fraud is an outright slap in the face to all pool participants.

[AHOYBRAUSE]

I know that in the rules on the first page of the thread there is no mention of "multi-accounts" but I also know that in this kind of contests this is an unspoken rule. I don't think we would have resorted to such a solution if the prize pool consisted of 100% sponsorship funds because from my experience I can say that if the casino has to choose between losing a small amount or drama, they will always choose the first one. But since the lion’s share of this money is contributions from pool participants, this kind of fraud is an outright slap in the face to all pool participants.

I was never a part of this pool and only saw this "controversy" by accident and I can only agree with this decision.
It should be clear to any participant that there is 1 participation per user. Anything else is cheating and it should be common curtesy to follow the rules (even if they are not written) and to not try to cheat.
On the other hand it is only fair to refund the participation fee of course, this person can be happy about that.

It's funny how many people here are so greedy and try to get an advantage without thinking twice about what they do. Sending the same wallet is such a beginner move, hahaha. Nice catch ico!

Congratulations to the winners, especially Trofo, nicely done!!

[icopress]

bc1qtqywqs6j0hxlwdhta0pg3nc6y93fd08kqsydvf

This bet was paid.  

I accept it. The one who scores the most points wins.  

What do you say for a 10 mbtc side bet on who finishes the league ahead instead of triple captain?

[darxiaomi]

Very sad to read this kind of thing happening.

Great work guys detecting the trick.

Well congratulations to all the ones who win something from the pool, and more to the ones who like in the tennis words were a lucky loser, and took an unexpected prize.