⚽⚽⚽ Sportsbet's Bitcointalk World Cup 2022 - discussion ⚽⚽⚽

[Trofo]

I think in modern football yes, Croatia its by far the most sucefull little country (talking about population and dimesion) but in total football history we also have Uruguay with the same size in term of population.

Trofo how many Croats do you are talking ab out Croat diaspora?,not only the people in Croatia.

I have no idea how many Croats are there in the world but we are not getting a lot of players from that pool. There is occasional player, most famous probably being Rakitić who passed all the football schools in Switzerland and then decided to play for us. Another one is Stanišić who played for us as RB yesterday.

Most of our players are born in Croatia, raised in local league and then bought by Dinamo. At that moment you get a call to national team, that inflates your price and Dinamo sells you for good money to big European clubs

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[slaman29]

Small countries different focus I guess. I know some other small countries focus on science competitions, others on farming, others on sports but again different sports. Football is a culture in Croatia I guess? I don't even know the history of that.

I hope Croatia knocks out some big teams from rankings (which is shit anyway as Belgium proved!!!) sometimes its nice to see #1 rank that never won the right to wear a star on their jersey.

But anyway, enough congratulations and sympathy for winners and losers, time to prepare our weapons for French and Argentinian losers later lol.

I'll see if I can also bet on you haha, same odds again I expect?

This time I am not so sure, we have some data to slightly offset the odds based on past performances and taken bets so we will see. And while I was writing this I realized that special should be available already. I can only find the one for our final match and that one is slightly slanted to Harkorede favor. Is this a chance to take Casper as underdog? I think so, at least for me

https://sportsbet.io/sports/sportsbet-specials/matches/future

I missed these specials, otherwise I would have bet on myself again (I maxed bet on me the last time and lost, would have been cool to try recover something).

Oh well, I hope everyone had fun betting, I'm just happy there were people who had belief in me other than myself lol

[Harkorede]

Small countries different focus I guess. I know some other small countries focus on science competitions, others on farming, others on sports but again different sports. Football is a culture in Croatia I guess? I don't even know the history of that.

I hope Croatia knocks out some big teams from rankings (which is shit anyway as Belgium proved!!!) sometimes its nice to see #1 rank that never won the right to wear a star on their jersey.

But anyway, enough congratulations and sympathy for winners and losers, time to prepare our weapons for French and Argentinian losers later lol.

Football is actually a global sport, it's just the level of exposure that differs, and regardless of the population of a country, almost every country has a national league of it's own and often multiple division, If Iceland as a country of less than 400,000 people could have a multiple division league and even the same goes for their females as well.

It's has became customary to always have dark horse(s) in these type of competition, we've seen a couple in Euro, and some previous World Cup tournament, especially what brought Iceland, and Hungary to limelight a couple of years ago, as well as an Algerian team that were playing a beautiful style of football some years back, possession and attacking game, like an European team, having the likes or Riyad Mahrez, Slimani, Feghouli and Ghezzal. This current Moroccan squad typical reminds me of Algerian team of that year.

[Docnaster]

I wouldn't believe the world cup final stage between two giant countries like France and Argentina would play above 3 goals, as I know that the probability of such an outcome in this stage would be very narrow. I know gamblers with such a mindset will be so few. same with the quarter-final stage between Morocco and Croatia (two defensive sides) whose under-two goals odd prediction was very small, this means that the expected result was to be 0:0, 0:1, 1:0, highest 1:1 followed by PK, but the whole thing turns out to be 2:1. Indeed, football is so difficult to predict. for one to graduate from the school of football one needs to be under relentless scrutiny.

[buwaytress]

Giroud seems to have been a popular pick, I also fancied him but his early substitution prevents him from any further contribution... Too lazy to count the lineups or who took shots so not sure of anything there, but it looks tight as always, and tiebreakers again favouring those who went for earlier goals (semi and finals hunger huh!).

I'll just wait and wake up tomorrow to see Cro2's final tallies. Didn't get very much in on Harko in the end, but will be a nice bonus to have to cap off Argentina's win!

Well done Messi and friends deserved it. @darxiaomi, don't get too drunk =)

Final thanks to Sportsbet and all involved. I had a lot of fun, even just following the remaining participants.

[casperBGD]

it was a real thriller, congrats to darxiomi and Argentina, it was a popular pick after all
so many penalties in regular time and overtime, there will probably be a total discussion on that, same as Croatia vs Argentina?

similar thriller in our final too
not sure how it all went in the end, Lloris is on the move for me, but cannot count shots/saves at the moment, waiting for final results by Cro2

[cryptofrka]

So, the answers for this round were hard to check
We will recheck tomorrow once more as well, but please check by yourselves too.

Messi will probably be player of the tournament but all of you have the same answers so it won't influence the results.

The (unofficial) results are:

Final:
Harkorede - casperBGD 3-5

3rd place:
Kanapka - slaman29 4-5

We will make an official announcement tomorrow afternoon, and we will also send the rewards then so please send your wallets to Trofo if you haven't already.
We will also prepare a questionnaire for you to fill out and provide some feedback.

Congrats to everybody that participated and especially to casperBGD - the Sportsbet's Bitcointalk World Cup 2022 champion!

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EDIT: all wallets have been submitted, make sure to doublecheck them.
EDIT2: Messi won player of the tournament, points have been added.

[Trofo]

Big congrats to CasperBGD, you played one hell of a competition and big thanks to all of you guys participating. It was a real pleasure to organize competition like this even though it got quite challenging sometimes in the early rounds.

I have collected all your BTC addresses in the meantime and you have until tomorrow to double check them and yell if something is not as it should be You can find them in the last sheet of official tournament spreadsheet. Rewards will go out tomorrow afternoon, same time as our Livecasino campaign and since there is quite a few of you in it, you now know when you are getting the money.

[Igebotz]

Big congrats to CasperBGD, you played one hell of a competition and big thanks to all of you guys participating. It was a real pleasure to organize competition like this even though it got quite challenging sometimes in the early rounds.

I have collected all your BTC addresses in the meantime and you have until tomorrow to double check them and yell if something is not as it should be You can find them in the last sheet of official tournament spreadsheet. Rewards will go out tomorrow afternoon, same time as our Livecasino campaign and since there is quite a few of you in it, you now know when you are getting the money.

This is without a doubt the best competition on the forum ever; thank you to the cro2 team and sportsbet for putting something so big together in such a short period of time, and congratulations to CasperBGD on winning the championship. It was well worth my time, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

This is by far the best World Cup and the best World Cup final in history. 6 goals rush and the golden boot decider. My liver was about to explode when Argentina nearly blew a 2-0 lead in a game in which the French team was nowhere to be found. I'm not sure what Deschamps told his players in the second half, but it sure brought out the beats in them, and the early sub worked perfectly. Mbappe had a fantastic game, just when we thought he was having the worst game of his career after a disastrous first 45 minutes. Argentina fully deserved this one, they worked hard for it.

[Harkorede]

Thriller in Manilla!

That was breathtaking and even old folks here who have witnessed nothing less than 15-18 world cups agrees that this is most dramatic and thrilling final, what a brilliant show, I would have loved to say it signals the end of an era, and gave birth to new one, but then Mbappe at age 23 is already living the life long dream that even legends of the sports couldn't afford to, but should this be the last dance for Messi with Argentina, I'd say, Yes! He's finally done it all, he should step down and let the next generation take charge, what a career he's had, and to end it with the most coveted prize that eluded him once before, and more so doing it so deservingly is just pure class.


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Upon seeing Argentina making numerous attempts easy attempt on goal and giving Lloris so many saves opportunities, I could only just hope Argentina would secure the clean sheet because to win the first position, because as at the 75th minute of the game, France still doesn't have an attempt on goal, so I already knew what the chances were for me, It was either a clean sheet or burst for me.

This is however the best competition I've participated in here, it was thrilling from MD1 to MD2 and there was never an easy choice to those questions, Big congratulations to CasperBGD and every other winners as well, it was such a pleasure competing with you guys.

@Trofo and Cryptofrka, big ups to you guys for the wonderful experience and thanks to the entire Sportsbet.io team!

See you guys around, I've got an FPL team to manage ! , too bad I really didn't get to understand how exactly the FIFA fantasy works especially with substitutions and transfers until around MD3-MD4, trying different things just to understand how it literally works, I however managed to finish 12th position, so I think I still did pretty well given my circumstances, but I love the fact the it's one of the forum regulars here that won the 1st position, Congratulations @morvillz7z!

[minime0105]

I wouldn't believe the world cup final stage between two giant countries like France and Argentina would play above 3 goals, as I know that the probability of such an outcome in this stage would be very narrow. I know gamblers with such a mindset will be so few. same with the quarter-final stage between Morocco and Croatia (two defensive sides) whose under-two goals odd prediction was very small, this means that the expected result was to be 0:0, 0:1, 1:0, highest 1:1 followed by PK, but the whole thing turns out to be 2:1. Indeed, football is so difficult to predict. for one to graduate from the school of football one needs to be under relentless scrutiny.

I taught that the match will end within 2:0 as Argentina early score goal, and the early goal demoralize the France activeness, which i have never believed that at 90 minutes mbappe will score two goals under five (5) minutes, and i never believe that France would have equalize this match to extend of scoring when Argentina score for the extra time, so the match was terrible and it ended 3:3, and without penalty or the extra time finished France would have defeated Argentina.

[LTU_btc]

Congratulations to @casperBGD for winning competition! I won't lie, I backed @Harkorede in the final. His win would mean that I got eliminated in Round of 16 by future champions
Also, big thanks to @Trofo and @cryptofrka fro making this competition and all these difficult and creative question. And offcourse Sportsbet for generous support.
I think everyone will agree with me - first attempt didn't failed and I'm waiting for future competitions.

[casperBGD]

thanks to all
it was a great competition, as Harkorede said, our final was tough till the end, he was up until Mbappe scored, but eventually France (Mbappe) make final more interesting, and scored goals for overtime and penalties

regarding FPL, Mac Allister earned perma spot in my team, Brighton to CL spot, finally EPL on Superbru as next matches

hopefully, we will have more of these competitions in the future

[slaman29]

thanks to all
it was a great competition, as Harkorede said, our final was tough till the end, he was up until Mbappe scored, but eventually France (Mbappe) make final more interesting, and scored goals for overtime and penalties

regarding FPL, Mac Allister earned perma spot in my team, Brighton to CL spot, finally EPL on Superbru as next matches

hopefully, we will have more of these competitions in the future

Thank you to everyone too, Trofo and cryptofrka for putting the time and effort into this and of course Sportsbet and Steve for making it special with prizes. I'm very happy to be the "Croatia" of this quiz, honestly didn't expect to get far but it seems some risks paid off except in semifinal, Yassine and Giroud really let me down at the wrong times

FPL, hmm, I don't know

[darxiaomi]

Congratulations to the winners of prizes of this competition, really good one.
Another time when CasperBDG its filling his pocket with us and SB money? Congratulations man. You are really one of a kind.

From my side being argentinian, yesterday i almost died, i was this Maradona from the 78 minute.



Argentina deserves the win (i know in football merits doesnt exist) but again like all the other matches in this WC , the other team doesnt shoot to our goal, and the first goal was a mistake/stupidity by Otamendi , you cant make that penalty it was an easy play to defend, also so much luck in Mbappe shoot if you see Martinez hand took entirely but in someway the ball goes in.

The first Half was a masterclass.
Di Maria what can i say... its a man made for finals. And this prove if he play the Brasil 2014 final surely we were champions in that time, but he always was injured.

[cryptofrka]

Fellas, it is time to make it official! We have our Sportsbet's Bitcointalk 2022 World Champion and it's casperBGD!





Harkorede came in 2nd, slaman29 in 3rd place and Kanapka in 4th.





It was really exciting, the final was decided only after the penalty kicks and the goalkeeper save percentages were calculated.

We will send the payments soon, definitely today.

As I've said multiple times already, we have prepared some questions for you so you can provide feedback. We left BTT names and last 2 questions as optional but we'd love to receive your feedback on them as well, and also with your names and not anonymously.
We'd love to do this at some point in the future again and based on your answers here we'll know how to organize it if it comes to that.


The questionnaire is here, so please go through it when you have a few minutes of your time.


Thanks again to Sportsbet for sponsoring the competition and listening to our feedback, they are a pleasure to work with.

Code:

buwaytress
CLS63
igehhh
notblox1
darxiaomi
LTU_btc
morvillz7z
famososMuertos
ralle14
slaman29
slackovic
icopress
Woodie
Harkorede
casperBGD
dittoup
KTChampions
jayce
Kanapka
Strongkored
vd309
Ulven
Renampun
mitchr4
vladu89
inthelongrun
rohang
jocoser
hakan2217
Slissy
entebah
Renato297
entebah
webtricks
Lolojones
Omikifuse

[Ulven]

Congratulations to all the winners, I think most of the participants had enough fun. Now we can move forward with the rest of the local tournaments.
@gasperBGD Now that you are the world champion of the Bitcointalk community, you can hold the trophy for four years. What do you think that we manufacture a special golden cup for the forum?

[slackovic]

Congratulations to casperBGD! I didn't follow the competition after I got kicked out in the first kno kout round, but I'm sure it wasn't easy. And the reward is really great! I will day it again, I really hope you guys (Trofo and cryptofrka) will be hosting this type of competition again. It was a pleasure to be a part of this new type of competition in the BitcoinTalk forum!

[Woodie]

Not sure if the competition was about luck, skill or both but you got to the finish line anyway, congratulations to all the winners, @CasperBGD our Bitcointalk community world champion congrats & enjoy the title for the next 4years, hope you will defend this title when the time comes,Enjoy ☃️🏆🏆⚽

What do you think that we manufacture a special golden cup for the forum?

4years is a long time, something tangible is certainly befitting!

[buwaytress]

Well done again to the confirmed winners!

I got something out of this too, beyond the small prize I snatched ha!

Filled in the response form but it's not much to really change -- only gave 4/5 on a couple as there's always room for improvement. Can't remember a more interactive format on a static forum, I wanted to also suggest a league/seeding aspect but you guys already thought about it -- I'm all in for that sort of thing.

Retention will be awesome after that, and also, we do need more active gamblers willing to put in more.

cryptofrka you mentioned a badge somewhere before, are we thinking blockchain-based?