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

[Trofo]

Done testing too. Just one question for clarification. Is it allowed or no to use Free bet that I have on Sportsbet as mandatory bet for the round?

No. It isn't the same at all and that way Sportsbet doesn't really get the traffic. Also to make it fair to other users we would then need to make free bets for double the amount of money or maybe for min odds of 2.5 which would complicate rules even more.

This is first time competition like this has been attempted at forum and we need to keep it as simple as possible while hitting our goals.

[EarnOnVictor]

I was initially excited to see this competition that is targeted towards the world cup because it's a new challenge for the BTT members, but I don't like his arrangement. I don't think others view it the way I do, it's not a competition that advocates evenness and access for all intending participants at the same time. This could accommodate only 32 participants per round, what about the many more people that are interested from the beginning? I believe they should not be disenfranchised too.

[cryptofrka]

I was initially excited to see this competition that is targeted towards the world cup because it's a new challenge for the BTT members, but I don't like his arrangement. I don't think others view it the way I do, it's not a competition that advocates evenness and access for all intending participants at the same time. This could accommodate only 32 participants per round, what about the many more people that are interested from the beginning? I believe they should not be disenfranchised too.

We are actually surprised that the spots filled so quickly. We would have wanted to include more participants, but then it cannot be made in the same format as the World Cup and loses its purpose.
If you had applied on time, based on your forum status you would have had a guaranteed spot.

I completed the test.
Can you set this up so we could read it and send answers without logging on our google accounts?
I couldn't see anything without that and I can't log in every time when I had to send something and answer questions.

I don't think It would work without logging on to our goggle accounts, because of security reasons and as to as well be sure of who is answering what, because just a participant if there is no need log on to google account can anonymously asnwer the questions multiple times or for other users with an obviously wrong answers or something.

This is correct. We don't show your e-mail addresses in the spreadsheets but need to have some sort of control - otherwise you could submit 10 times, with names from other participants, without us being able to see who is doing it.
You would have to log in once in a week, so it really should not be a problem.

[Shaha98]

FIFA World Cup 2022 is just four days away. Four days later, the FIFA World Cup 2022, on November 20, will be the first innovation to begin in Qatar. However, this year's World Cup is challenging for everyone, only 32 teams will be able to participate in this World Cup. But everyone is invited to watch the game to enjoy the game of everyone's favorite team and player. But good news for BTT members as you can bet on this World Cup either way.

[slaman29]

Test also worked for me

I was initially excited to see this competition that is targeted towards the world cup because it's a new challenge for the BTT members, but I don't like his arrangement. I don't think others view it the way I do, it's not a competition that advocates evenness and access for all intending participants at the same time. This could accommodate only 32 participants per round, what about the many more people that are interested from the beginning? I believe they should not be disenfranchised too.

Interested people from the beginning would have been active on the forum, would have been active gamblers, willing to share betslips and applying early.

These are the requirements anyway for joining, I can see who joined who were interested from the beginning and met all the requirements.

Besides there is still the World Cup pool which is still only less than 30 people. There's nothing to prevent them from joining that, right? Maybe we can see you join that? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5419161.0

[KTChampions]

We are actually surprised that the spots filled so quickly. We would have wanted to include more participants, but then it cannot be made in the same format as the World Cup and loses its purpose.
If you had applied on time, based on your forum status you would have had a guaranteed spot.
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On the contrary, I was surprised that the seats were not reserved instantly. The contest is obviously lucrative with a nominal entry fee plus a brand new format. Given the number of active members of the forum who take part in various contests and pools, I'm glad that I managed to get a slot.

P.S. I can’t do a test task yet, but I don’t think there will be any problems.

[darxiaomi]

I was initially excited to see this competition that is targeted towards the world cup because it's a new challenge for the BTT members, but I don't like his arrangement. I don't think others view it the way I do, it's not a competition that advocates evenness and access for all intending participants at the same time. This could accommodate only 32 participants per round, what about the many more people that are interested from the beginning? I believe they should not be disenfranchised too.

I would support you, but the reality is that many here talk but then they don't end up competing in the enormous number of pools that we have, and those of us who always play wonder how it is that since there are +1000 users going around this section we are always the same 20 competing.
And no matter how big the prizes are when you ask them for a few cents to enter, they disappear, it seems that they want everything for free.

So once a more closed format has been chosen, I will not tolerate it coming to say such a thing, and as they told you above, if you are so handsome, enter the other one to compete.

And yes, I'm being harsh with words but it's reality.

And this is my opinion, being just a player not an organizer or anything like that.

EDIT: I enter you profile and see you are new, so you can say that, but my words are true

[LTU_btc]

I was initially excited to see this competition that is targeted towards the world cup because it's a new challenge for the BTT members, but I don't like his arrangement. I don't think others view it the way I do, it's not a competition that advocates evenness and access for all intending participants at the same time. This could accommodate only 32 participants per round, what about the many more people that are interested from the beginning? I believe they should not be disenfranchised too.

I think there was enough time to join until all spots got filled. If you really wanted to play, there was wt least few days to join. And if you think that there should be more than 32 players accepted, can you offer how to keep format identical to World Cup?
And maybe not greatest example, but you probably don't complain when spots of signature campaign got filled before your application.

No. It isn't the same at all and that way Sportsbet doesn't really get the traffic. Also to make it fair to other users we would then need to make free bets for double the amount of money or maybe for min odds of 2.5 which would complicate rules even more.

This is first time competition like this has been attempted at forum and we need to keep it as simple as possible while hitting our goals.

Yeah, it makes sense completely, just wanted to get confirmation.

[casperBGD]

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Besides there is still the World Cup pool which is still only less than 30 people. There's nothing to prevent them from joining that, right? Maybe we can see you join that? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5419161.0

there is something to prevent users from joining that pool, an entry fee
because most users do want to pay to compete, they want to have it for free, and get rewards, but that is simply not possible always

with all said, these paying pools, with all free bets, sponsorships and rewards in the end, without cut from entry payments for organization really seem as a bargain, and have real value for users, at least I see it that way, and question myself how it is possible that there is no more than 20 participants in all beside EPL

[Igebotz]

Done testing. It is working here.

People in my group seem familiar, especially morvillz7z being active in the NBA thread. I can't wait for this to start. I will be a huge underdog here. But I'll give my best. Vamos Argentina!

There are a lot of underdogs in my group, but I've only ever encountered you twice or less. I don't know how much football you guys know, that makes you guys more dangerous than Morvillz7z and I are. At least, I feel confident going up against Morvillz7z. The devil you know is better than the angel you don't know.

I have a few questions after seeing the test page even though I did not participate. Does the first question count for any points? and how many points are awarded for each right answer? And how would a tie-breaker be decided? I apologize if the answers to these questions have already been answered elsewhere; I just didn't see them. cryptofrka

[Trofo]

I have a few questions after seeing the test page even though I did not participate. Does the first question count for any points? and how many points are awarded for each right answer? And how would a tie-breaker be decided? I apologize if the answers to these questions have already been answered elsewhere; I just didn't see them. cryptofrka

What do you mean does first question count? This was test and it doesn't count, it was purely for your convenience to see how it will work. There will be 10 questions each round and each of those questions count as one point. There will be some other questions like your username or place to link ticket that is on top of those 10 "real" questions. We will have tie breaker in each round, time of first goal in last game of the match day. They will probably be needed only in knockout stages and hopefully not often since 10 questions should be enough to get a winner.

[notblox1]

This is correct. We don't show your e-mail addresses in the spreadsheets but need to have some sort of control - otherwise you could submit 10 times, with names from other participants, without us being able to see who is doing it.
You would have to log in once in a week, so it really should not be a problem.

This is true, but I could also create 10 google addresses and answer 10 times if I really really wanted to cheat like this
If I have to sign once in a week that is ok, I had silly idea that we are going to answer questions every day when matches are played in World Cup 
Do you know exact day we should receive our first real questions, so I could make a reminder?

[Harkorede]

This is correct. We don't show your e-mail addresses in the spreadsheets but need to have some sort of control - otherwise you could submit 10 times, with names from other participants, without us being able to see who is doing it.
You would have to log in once in a week, so it really should not be a problem.

This is true, but I could also create 10 google addresses and answer 10 times if I really really wanted to cheat like this
If I have to sign once in a week that is ok, I had silly idea that we are going to answer questions every day when matches are played in World Cup 
Do you know exact day we should receive our first real questions, so I could make a reminder?

I didn't try out the test form too, but I don't think there should be any problem from my end when answering the questions, I'm also curious as to when will get each sets of questions because I wouldn't want to miss out on any, but I'm sure I'll be very active here during the world cup, I have less school work and stuffs, so I should be able to watch at least 80-90% of all matches.


I have an idea to help curb the challenge of people trying send in multiple answers, impersonate and whatnot, since there are 32 participants, and you don't want to ask for emails, you can generate a unique ID or Tag for every participant which they have to send along with other information they are to provide when answering the questions, the Unique ID or Tag doesn't need to be shown on public spreadsheet, but you'll be sure no one is impersonating another since each participant will be responsible for keep their unique ID/Tag.

[cryptofrka]

This is true, but I could also create 10 google addresses and answer 10 times if I really really wanted to cheat like this
If I have to sign once in a week that is ok, I had silly idea that we are going to answer questions every day when matches are played in World Cup 
Do you know exact day we should receive our first real questions, so I could make a reminder?

You could, but then we'd ask for your e-mail addresses in the forms and we'd ask you to write a post on the forum with the exact time when you posted the predictions.
We really want to make this as easy as possible, but have methods of preventing cheating if it starts to happen.
If, however, it does - we'll probably find the guilty one, and also flag his BTT profile.

First real questions will be sent out some time during Friday - so you'll have plenty of time.

I have an idea to help curb the challenge of people trying send in multiple answers, impersonate and whatnot, since there are 32 participants, and you don't want to ask for emails, you can generate a unique ID or Tag for every participant which they have to send along with other information they are to provide when answering the questions, the Unique ID or Tag doesn't need to be shown on public spreadsheet, but you'll be sure no one is impersonating another since each participant will be responsible for keep their unique ID/Tag.

A really good idea, we might implement something similar. Thanks for the assist!

[EarnOnVictor]

We are actually surprised that the spots filled so quickly. We would have wanted to include more participants, but then it cannot be made in the same format as the World Cup and loses its purpose.
If you had applied on time, based on your forum status you would have had a guaranteed spot.

Thanks for this useful reply and kind words, I look forward to working with you in the future.

I was initially excited to see this competition that is targeted towards the world cup because it's a new challenge for the BTT members, but I don't like his arrangement. I don't think others view it the way I do, it's not a competition that advocates evenness and access for all intending participants at the same time. This could accommodate only 32 participants per round, what about the many more people that are interested from the beginning? I believe they should not be disenfranchised too.

I think there was enough time to join until all spots got filled. If you really wanted to play, there was wt least few days to join. And if you think that there should be more than 32 players accepted, can you offer how to keep format identical to World Cup?
And maybe not greatest example, but you probably don't complain when spots of signature campaign got filled before your application.

What has a signature campaign has to do with a competition for the forum members? I expressed that people should be given a level-playing ground and time and that the competition should be accessible to everyone. Do you think everyone reads everything on the forum at all times? It takes time, so why must they be disenfranchised? Well, one of the organizers has already replied kindly, so no issues.

I was initially excited to see this competition that is targeted towards the world cup because it's a new challenge for the BTT members, but I don't like his arrangement. I don't think others view it the way I do, it's not a competition that advocates evenness and access for all intending participants at the same time. This could accommodate only 32 participants per round, what about the many more people that are interested from the beginning? I believe they should not be disenfranchised too.

I would support you, but the reality is that many here talk but then they don't end up competing in the enormous number of pools that we have, and those of us who always play wonder how it is that since there are +1000 users going around this section we are always the same 20 competing.
And no matter how big the prizes are when you ask them for a few cents to enter, they disappear, it seems that they want everything for free.

So once a more closed format has been chosen, I will not tolerate it coming to say such a thing, and as they told you above, if you are so handsome, enter the other one to compete.

And yes, I'm being harsh with words but it's reality.

And this is my opinion, being just a player not an organizer or anything like that.

EDIT: I enter you profile and see you are new, so you can say that, but my words are true

I quite understand your point and on second thought it's a very good reason. I hope for a similar competition in the future.

[Woodie]

I have an idea to help curb the challenge of people trying send in multiple answers, impersonate and whatnot, since there are 32 participants, and you don't want to ask for emails, you can generate a unique ID or Tag for every participant which they have to send along with other information they are to provide when answering the questions, the Unique ID or Tag doesn't need to be shown on public spreadsheet, but you'll be sure no one is impersonating another since each participant will be responsible for keep their unique ID/Tag.

I like the idea of Unique IDs or Tags , hope Cro2 team   implement this as a precautionary move against unforseen situations.

[Igebotz]

And maybe not greatest example, but you probably don't complain when spots of signature campaign got filled before your application.

What has a signature campaign has to do with a competition for the forum members? I expressed that people should be given a level-playing ground and time and that the competition should be accessible to everyone. Do you think everyone reads everything on the forum at all times? It takes time, so why must they be disenfranchised? Well, one of the organizers has already replied kindly, so no issues.

I'm sorry if you missed the point. LTU_btc was attempting to demonstrate, but his right if you consider his example: a campaign manager sets a number he wants and selects those he only wants to work with, and when all slots are filled up, no one complains. But, to be clear, the competition was open to all and was intended for only 32 players because we are using the official FIFA numbers of teams participating in this year's World Cup, and because it is a free entry, I'm not surprised we had so many new members wanting to join, but those of us who are already on the sportsbet paid pool and those who have been playing for years were given a preference.

Having said that, you are still welcome to apply for a reserve seat in the event that a few members do not show up. Other pools are still open for a few bitcoin fees to join. Tbh, everyone was treated fairly.

[boltz]

I'm angry at myself at this point. How did I missed this ? It was a perfect chance for me to enter as I'm sure this World Cup will be full of surprises and favorites teams will most likely go home first so it is a great chance to pick underdogs in this World Cup. Anyway, I'll be watching you guys compete and wish you all good luck and my bet for this WC is France won't make it past groups ....insane I know... .

[Trofo]

I have an idea to help curb the challenge of people trying send in multiple answers, impersonate and whatnot, since there are 32 participants, and you don't want to ask for emails, you can generate a unique ID or Tag for every participant which they have to send along with other information they are to provide when answering the questions, the Unique ID or Tag doesn't need to be shown on public spreadsheet, but you'll be sure no one is impersonating another since each participant will be responsible for keep their unique ID/Tag.

I like the idea of Unique IDs or Tags , hope Cro2 team   implement this as a precautionary move against unforseen situations.

How do you propose to cheat actually? You are entering with bitcointalk name and you are sending screenshot of your ticket. Every ticket in Sportsbet has ID and we can always ask Sportsbet to verify everything. Is it really worth giving us some extra work when you can't profit from it in the end? Plus your account gets tagged by couple of DT1 and DT2 memebers and maybe even some further consequences on Sportsbet account?

I simply don't see feasible attack vector here.

Just be normal guys and play fun game, no need to overthink everything. We can also make it in a way that you have to sign every messege from BTC addy, and use that same BTC addy to deposit on Sportsbet. But I don't want to screw good people just because some idiot may cheat. Let him try, we will deal with it as harsh as possible and adapt the rules for the future.

[Strongkored]

Don't know if this has been asked before or maybe this question will look stupid, but I'd like to be clear, my question is:
1. Each participant will answer the question according to the schedule of the match where will their group play in the WC? For example, I am in group F, I will only answer questions when the 4 National teams in that group compete
2. Questions will only be about the National team from the group where I am?