Sportsbet.io's FIFA World Cup 22 Prediction Pool Discussion thread

[cryptofrka]

In Champions league is it obvious that PSG is going to win the title?

Well, they have been among the favorites the last 5+ years but have managed to get out of the quarterfinals only twice - eventually losing the 2019 final to Bayern and a semifinal to City in 2020.
They have a tough draw in the R16 - Bayern had 6 clean victories with a 18-2 goal difference in a group with Inter and Barcelona.

It would not surprise me if PSG gets kicked out in the 1st knockout round.

[sam00]

Thank you guys once again for everyone congratulating me, feels great to win one of these for the first time

My apologies to sam00 as he is the winner of the Boosted Yellow Cap.
Sorry about that sam00!

Thank you @jeremypwr and sorry @bullrun2020bro for not getting the yellow cap. I hope everyone else is still happy with their winnings
edit: thank you guys once again for the organization of this whole contest and the whole sponsoring. I'll be happy to try out Sportsbet.io

There you are brother. Sorry, If I am not wrong then I can remember you from WO. There is a long break between me and WO these days though. Good to see you are the winner. 0.1 btc in current market don't seem much but hold it. Wait for the next halving and beyond. The rate will reach over $100k and you will find it a lot of money.
You are lucky AF 😘

No problem, as I said, I am not really active on the english board and don't think I ever posted on Wall Observer to be honest (maybe once or twice).
To me, 0,1 btc is a lot even at the current price of bitcoin because I only started investing into bitcoin in 2020 so It's not like I have a big stash already haha

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Congratulations sam00, great performance & well deserved. Thanks to hilariousandco & sportsbet.io for running this pool, really enjoyable experience.  

Will PM you my bitcoin address hilariousandco for my 9th placed payment

 

[notblox1]

Guys we really need to have one more pool prediction competition like this soon
This was so fun and rewarding for everyone who finished in top table positions, and this was one of the best world cups I watched.
I want to personally thank the whole Sportsbet team, including Steve for sponsoring, and hilariousandco for managing all this competition.

[slaman29]

In Champions league is it obvious that PSG is going to win the title?

Well, they have been among the favorites the last 5+ years but have managed to get out of the quarterfinals only twice - eventually losing the 2019 final to Bayern and a semifinal to City in 2020.
They have a tough draw in the R16 - Bayern had 6 clean victories with a 18-2 goal difference in a group with Inter and Barcelona.

It would not surprise me if PSG gets kicked out in the 1st knockout round.

You wrote first before I did. PSG and City are Top2 favorites in champions league ever since I remember from the days when Mbappe and Neymar together and from when City just kept winning every title so easily.

Both sides have the best superstars but like World Cup, you only need 1 upset or bad game to get knocked out

I think both sides need much more experience first, both from players and managers.

[hilariousetc]

I will send the payments out ASAP but no later than over the weekend. Just waiting for 2 more people to send me their addresses.

Guys we really need to have one more pool prediction competition like this soon
This was so fun and rewarding for everyone who finished in top table positions, and this was one of the best world cups I watched.
I want to personally thank the whole Sportsbet team, including Steve for sponsoring, and hilariousandco for managing all this competition.

Well there's nothing you can do if you're not in the PL pool other than wait for the Euros in two years  . Hopefully these tournaments keep growing and we can have huge jackpot one day. I'd love to aim for something like a whole bitcoin for first place eventually but we'd need a lot of players. I'm happy if we can get 50 each season now like we have done for both this and the last PL one. Each pool has grown by at least ten players so we might get there eventually.

No problem, as I said, I am not really active on the english board and don't think I ever posted on Wall Observer to be honest (maybe once or twice).
To me, 0,1 btc is a lot even at the current price of bitcoin because I only started investing into bitcoin in 2020 so It's not like I have a big stash already haha

Not bad for a 50 usd fee. That's what I like about these pools as it's a small fee for essentially a month or even a whole seasons worth of entertainment without breaking the bank or causing anyone to chase their loses.

[KTChampions]

Guys we really need to have one more pool prediction competition like this soon
This was so fun and rewarding for everyone who finished in top table positions, and this was one of the best world cups I watched.
I want to personally thank the whole Sportsbet team, including Steve for sponsoring, and hilariousandco for managing all this competition.

I'm joining in the thanks! It was a really cool competition, but now you can repeat it only after 4 years  Although I'm sure that the European Championship, as always, will be better than the World Cup, so we have to wait only two years.
In general, this competition was more exciting due to the timing than, for example, the Premier League pool, where the competition lasts a very long time - we had to make predictions almost every day. But there is not enough strength to compete at such a pace all the time, so now you can have fun in the pools of the national leagues and take a break from intense forecasting.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Not bad for a 50 usd fee. That's what I like about these pools as it's a small fee for essentially a month or even a whole seasons worth of entertainment without breaking the bank or causing anyone to chase their loses.

At current price even the 10th member of the leader board made $168. I always enjoy the pools except few times I was not in much enthusiastic to join. Next is after 4 years, I hope we all will live for that 🙂

No problem, as I said, I am not really active on the english board and don't think I ever posted on Wall Observer to be honest (maybe once or twice).

Well now next time when you join in a pool I will be watching you and is not going to dare to ask who is sam 😉

Well, they have been among the favorites the last 5+ years but have managed to get out of the quarterfinals only twice - eventually losing the 2019 final to Bayern and a semifinal to City in 2020.
They have a tough draw in the R16 - Bayern had 6 clean victories with a 18-2 goal difference in a group with Inter and Barcelona.

It would not surprise me if PSG gets kicked out in the 1st knockout round.

It will be funny to tell now but when Argentina lost their first match I had a weird feeling that they are going to revenge it by taking the world cup. Unbeaten 36 matches and they had to lose it against a team like Saudi. That was supposed to be an egoistic issue for them. I remember in cricket once Australia won a world cup from very similar position.

Look at this way, in PSG team they have Mbappe, Messi and with them they have Neymar. Both Mbappe and Massi are in their top form. Not only the form but the mental strength after this final. I am having this weird feeling again that PSG will win the season.

[sam00]

Not bad for a 50 usd fee. That's what I like about these pools as it's a small fee for essentially a month or even a whole seasons worth of entertainment without breaking the bank or causing anyone to chase their loses.

I don't really think too much about the Dollar value... I payed 0.002 BTC to enter an amazing competition and received 0.10 BTC. That is just amazing

Well now next time when you join in a pool I will be watching you and is not going to dare to ask who is sam 😉

Haha thank you! I just make a quick appereance in the Gambling forum, take home 0.10 BTC and be remembered as sam the footbal pro huh ?
Now that's how I like it

In a few years we probably/hopefully won't see such huge sums (in bitcoin) anymore though.

[cryptofrka]

Congrats to all the winners, I was good in the group stages but managed to fail miserably in the knockouts. There were a lot of unexpected results - and a lot of games went the wrong way for me in the last minutes.
Turning my focus to the PL and CL pools now - hopefully it will be better there.

I won the Fifa bracket challenge in 2 leagues with friends but here it was enough only for 7th place. A lot of good players enter these pools

[slaman29]

I won the Fifa bracket challenge in 2 leagues with friends but here it was enough only for 7th place. A lot of good players enter these pools

I did badly everywhere else on betting, whether on Sportsbet, or on direct with some friends. Actually we play very simple handicaps, outcome is always 2 to 1 so sometimes people willingly take something that is actually very good odds, so I should have made money but my team either kept drawing or directly losing lol.

The funniest thing for me is in the pool, my 2nd and 3rd group games were totally picks without knowing anything as I was on vacation and entered it all ahead. And I won something.

Same as Bracket in Sportsbet, entered everything randomly, and ended up 10th spot.

That's how luck plays...

[bullrun2024bro]

Back to the club grind now people.

A month feels like ages. I am so frustrated that pretty sure I will be continuing shit selections for the coming few rounds. Only 7 days to restart premier league.

In Champions league is it obvious that PSG is going to win the title?

Nope. FC Bayern, of course, haha.

I can't wait for the national leagues and the Champions League to start again. Even though I'm pretty far behind in the current Premier League pool. It's about time I make up a few places there. But I don't know shit about the Premier League. So I guess it will be pretty tough.

Nevertheless, the Champions League should also be really exciting this year. Besides FC Bayern and PSG, there are several other clubs that are good contenders for the title. IMHO, it hasn't been such an open race for a long time.

[hilariousetc]

Payments have been sent now. Thanks everyone for participating and massive thanks to jeremypwr and Sportsbet for hooking us up with the sponsorship. Without them this pool wouldn't be anywhere near as fun.

I will leave this thread open until the end of the year and then I'll probably lock it if it hasn't already died before then.

Back to the club grind now people.

A month feels like ages. I am so frustrated that pretty sure I will be continuing shit selections for the coming few rounds. Only 7 days to restart premier league.

In Champions league is it obvious that PSG is going to win the title?

Nope. FC Bayern, of course, haha.

I can't wait for the national leagues and the Champions League to start again. Even though I'm pretty far behind in the current Premier League pool. It's about time I make up a few places there. But I don't know shit about the Premier League. So I guess it will be pretty tough.

Nevertheless, the Champions League should also be really exciting this year. Besides FC Bayern and PSG, there are several other clubs that are good contenders for the title. IMHO, it hasn't been such an open race for a long time.

The PL pool is so long that you can slowly climb up the leader board over time. You don't need to do amazing just be consistent with slightly above average scores and you will crawl up the table. The world cup you can't afford to be average as the competition is so short. I started off pretty badly but moved up the table in the knockout stages but wasn't enough to grab a paid place (though I wasn't far off in the end but it's so close that you need every point you can get).

[tumis]

Where is the list of winners ?

[bullrun2024bro]

Payments have been sent now. Thanks everyone for participating and massive thanks to jeremypwr and Sportsbet for hooking us up with the sponsorship. Without them this pool wouldn't be anywhere near as fun.

I will leave this thread open until the end of the year and then I'll probably lock it if it hasn't already died before then.

Prize received. Thanks a lot buddy! This has been my biggest pool win by far. Still feels crazy.

The PL pool is so long that you can slowly climb up the leader board over time. You don't need to do amazing just be consistent with slightly above average scores and you will crawl up the table. The world cup you can't afford to be average as the competition is so short. I started off pretty badly but moved up the table in the knockout stages but wasn't enough to grab a paid place (though I wasn't far off in the end but it's so close that you need every point you can get).

You are absolutely right. However, I was performing slightly below average the whole season so far. And that's unlikely to change with my non-existent expertise in the Premier League, haha. 

But it's still a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the first matches after the winter break. Time without football sucks.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Where is the list of winners ?

You can check the leader-board on superbru.

But it's still a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the first matches after the winter break. Time without football sucks.

Four days to go, so fasten your seat belt and get ready for the ride. The world cup was so frustrating for me that I have not logged in for several days and don't feel like to check my status until I am in good mood to make the selections for the match day.

[LTU_btc]

To summarize World Cup in few sentences, it was strange to see this tournament in winter, when there is full of snow outside the window. But if we talk just about tournament and don't pay attention to things which happened outside the pitch, it was great tournament.

In Champions league is it obvious that PSG is going to win the title?

For me it's more obvious that they're going to get eliminated by Bayern

[Trofo]

Payments have been sent now. Thanks everyone for participating and massive thanks to jeremypwr and Sportsbet for hooking us up with the sponsorship. Without them this pool wouldn't be anywhere near as fun.

Money received, thanks to hilarius for running it, and to jeremypwr & Sportsbet for sponsoring it.

To summarize World Cup in few sentences, it was strange to see this tournament in winter, when there is full of snow outside the window. But if we talk just about tournament and don't pay attention to things which happened outside the pitch, it was great tournament.

In Champions league is it obvious that PSG is going to win the title?

For me it's more obvious that they're going to get eliminated by Bayern

I already wrote in some thread before WC started that I expect great football. Top players are in top form at the moment and not tired with mind already thinking about holidays like in the usual WC slot. Problems will arrive latter on as the leagues get to their finish and players that came far in WC start to get more injuries or mental fatigue.

That being said I still can't believe Qatar got it. This WC simply did not have that magic atmosphere for the supporters. I don't think we ever had such low numbers when we compare recent world cups. I am not talking just number of supporters in the stadiums, I am also talking about all the supporter centers and stuff usually organized for those that can't get a ticket and there were very small number of those in Qatar.

[sam00]

Payments have been sent now. Thanks everyone for participating and massive thanks to jeremypwr and Sportsbet for hooking us up with the sponsorship. Without them this pool wouldn't be anywhere near as fun.

I am happy to confirm that I have received the 0,1 BTC.
Thank you once again @hilariousetc / @hilariousandco for organizing this contest, @Sportsbet and @jeremypwr for sponsoring this contest. I have never won such a high amount (dollar or bitcoin) before and will definitely be joining the next pool again

See you guys soon hopefully!

[Little Mouse]

Payments have been sent now.

Received.
Thanks everyone who was involved here including the sponsor and organizer. It was a great one month we had.

Time without football sucks.

I can't imagine Madrid with Rodrygo, Vini and Militao. I hope they recover fast, otherwise, it will be hard for Madrid for getting at the top.