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I need Mensik to stop Fritz from getting into the final. With Zverev out, that is my best shot at not losing that point. But before then, Sheffield need to help me out with a solid win and the game to have less than 3 goals, if that goes wrong, there goes my chance of even getting a draw in this one.

Quote from: arallmuus on March 28, 2025, 12:47:55 PM

Team Falcons need to win tonight against GG or else it would be 2 teams max as the potential answer.

I should be cheering for that, but my opponent also picked 2 on that one and I am no longer in LMS.

- Jay -

Quote from: un_rank on March 28, 2025, 02:20:41 PM

That would be a great scenario for me also, but I need Djokovic to win first Grin

I saw results from yesterday and Fritz was struggling against Berrettini Matteo in las round.
Mensik is a big underdog in this match, and he lost last time against Fritz, but he is in amazing form right now.

Two important matches for me tonight and a chance to get in lead: I need Sheffield to win with over 2.5 goals in the match + Djokovic winning vs Dimitrov.

I think its time to do some hedge betting magic and get some points (and loose money). Grin

Quote from: buwaytress on March 27, 2025, 08:19:01 PM

Not really paying full attention at all to be honest but took a sneak peek at DOTA and it does look like the 4 teams in BSFL are not doing too well at the moment. Frka must be smiling inside, but he will soon find that false joy is short-lived, and only earned joy is lasting.

Nah, I'm great with my joy, thanks Grin

I'll let Trofo clear all DOTA doubts, but we need top 4 teams left in the tournament. If you reach lower bracket final without actually playing in the lower bracket, still counts.
I think 2 is max that can happen now, but I'll leave that to Trofo too. As I see it, only 1 team that is currently in the lower bracket can finish in the 4 and 3 teams we asked about are playing there already.

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I'm away from PC most of the weekend, family trip. I'm usually doing the spreadsheet so expect some delays in points calculation.
Other than that, you're in good hands with Trofo.

Quote from: cryptofrka on March 28, 2025, 07:47:43 PM

Quote from: buwaytress on March 27, 2025, 08:19:01 PM

Nah, I'm great with my joy, thanks Grin

At the moment maximum is 2, that stands if Falcons win their match against GG which just started. If GG wins then 1 is the maximum.
Yesterday was a strange day with all the favorites loosing

Have fun on the trip and stay away from the forum, will be plenty to do when you come back on Sunday Grin

Quote from: Trofo on March 28, 2025, 08:10:16 PM

At the moment maximum is 2, that stands if Falcons win their match against GG which just started. If GG wins then 1 is the maximum.
Yesterday was a strange day with all the favorites loosing

Its still 3 max if Falcons win tonight and 2 max if they lose against GG

Assuming Falcons win, they automatically get into upper bracket final (thats 1 team). On the lower bracket if both Team Spirit and Tundra win tomorrow then both of them are going into lower bracket semifinal so that means either one of them going to the lower bracket final (2nd team). Team that lose on lower bracket semifinal takes the 4th spot (3rd team)

There is no way that we can have all 4 different teams on lower and upper bracket final because loser from the upper bracket final goes to lower bracket final

Sheffield already scored 2 goals and only half an hour has been played. If another one goes in from either side, I would have lost on that question and the round. This was supposed to be a difficult game for Sheffield, but they are showing their desire to make it back among the big times.

I need all the luck I can get for this one.

- Jay -

Quote from: arallmuus on March 28, 2025, 08:33:26 PM

Quote from: Trofo on March 28, 2025, 08:10:16 PM

At the moment maximum is 2, that stands if Falcons win their match against GG which just started. If GG wins then 1 is the maximum.
Yesterday was a strange day with all the favorites loosing

Its still 3 max if Falcons win tonight and 2 max if they lose against GG

Assuming Falcons win, they automatically get into upper bracket final (thats 1 team). On the lower bracket if both Team Spirit and Tundra win tomorrow then both of them are going into lower bracket semifinal so that means either one of them going to the lower bracket final (2nd team). Team that lose on lower bracket semifinal takes the 4th spot (3rd team)

There is no way that we can have all 4 different teams on lower and upper bracket final because loser from the upper bracket final goes to lower bracket final

You are right of course, I looked at it wrong when writing the question and then checked on mobile today and just assumed same thing once again.

Bold sentence from question should have been. How many of these 4 teams will reach upper bracket finals or lower bracket semi-finals? But no harm done since last sentence was super clear: How many of them will be in the last 4 teams standing in the tournament? and we had 4 as possible answer.

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7. FISSURE Universe, half a million dollars DOTA tournament, is being played this week. After Day one usual suspects are doing really good, we had wins for Team Spirit, Tundra Esports, Team Liquid and Team Falcons. How many of these 4 teams will reach upper or lower bracket finals? In other words, how many of them will be in the last 4 teams standing in the tournament?

Enjoy your break frka, because when you come back it will be ashes and charcoal left for you to enjoy.

Sheffield should score 1 more goal and I'll get a nice point, too bad notblox1 also has the same answer. He does have the DOTA advantage of evil frka though.

Quote from: Trofo on March 28, 2025, 08:55:24 PM

How many of them will be in the last 4 teams standing in the tournament? and we had 4 as possible answer.

Yeah, last 4 teams standing still means there can be a max 3, but I wonder if we will now see even 0 teams -- seeing as how all the favourites are struggling, that could even be a nice thing to bet on, if I actually look at DOTA.

Granted that I'm not the expert here, but how is 3 possible?

Falcons are in upper, if they reach the final they are 1 team that reaches. BetBoom is already a finalist, wasn't our pick.

All lower bracket goes into 1 finalist, that plays against the loser of the Upper Bracket Final.

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So, either Falcons win and 2 is an option or Falcons lose, go to the bottom tier, and the max is 1.

Then again, is it possible that we have Upper Bracket Final between BetBoom and Gaimin, lets say Gaimin loses, and then we have lower bracket between Gaimin again and whoever?
So, basically, there are 3 teams in these 2 matchups and not 4?

Fooking hell, DOTA confuses me.

Quote from: Trofo on March 28, 2025, 08:55:24 PM

Quote from: arallmuus on March 28, 2025, 08:33:26 PM

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But no harm done since last sentence was super clear: How many of them will be in the last 4 teams standing in the tournament? and we had 4 as possible answer.

yeah it was worded correctly on the 2nd part of the question and basically its just top 4 out of those 4 teams

Quote from: buwaytress on March 28, 2025, 09:04:45 PM

hate to bring the bad news but it looks like Falcons is on the brink of losing the 2nd map as well after they lost the 1st map so yeah this potentially means 2 teams max unless Falcons could come back from this which I doubt this could happen

Quote from: cryptofrka on March 28, 2025, 09:41:08 PM

There cant be 4 different teams on upper and lower bracket finals and 4th rank is taken from lower bracket semifinalist (losing team) so if Falcons win then its 3 max but relax though Falcons is losing right now so its gonna be 2 max Tongue

Meanwhile Sheffield just scored their 3 goal and with less than 10 minutes to go, I doubt that they are going to lose

Ah it couldn't be zero, I misremembered the names of the teams heh. But yeah, it's now either 1, or 2. Can't be 3, as Falcons just lost.

Team Frka confused himself with the question but still has a 50-50 chance to get it right.

Quote from: arallmuus on March 28, 2025, 09:47:58 PM

Meanwhile Sheffield just scored their 3 goal and with less than 10 minutes to go, I doubt that they are going to lose

Hooray =)

That Falcons loss hurts, now 2 is likely to hit on the Dota question as it all comes down to the Tidebound vs. Tundra match.

We managed to tie the scoreline with that Sheffield win and over, but we could quickly return to catch-up duty if Tundra wins tomorrow.

For now I have correctly answered one answer out of five, but I'm not losing hope as we still have some more games left. I hope luck still serves me as I won 2 freebets in a row

Quote from: ralle14 on March 28, 2025, 10:18:00 PM

Tidebound just bounced a 2-0 win. So only 1 of the four named will be among the last four teams standing. Only Pulsar77 had the balls to go for that answer (0-1), it seems almost natural that it was someone from Div4 to be the sole participant who got the answer right.

Fritz exiting now also gives notblox1 the edge. I can only hope the DOTA luck for me also happens in tennis. This is what it's come to. Me rooting for results where neither I nor my opponent gains a point.

Quote from: buwaytress on March 29, 2025, 11:35:48 AM

That upset from Tidebound gave us a sigh of relief. The second game felt like it was in the bag for Tundra, but they got too impatient while clearing the base and Tidebound went for the counter push plus an all-in play catching Tundra off guard.

Same here, i'm okay with settling for no points or a draw until the end of the round since I can't get the upper hand against team Mafia. Tongue

Quote from: Rikafip on March 28, 2025, 04:13:47 PM

I think its time to do some hedge betting magic and get some points (and loose money). Grin

Quoting myself as hedge betting magic worked like a charm so now I am in a 3-2 lead vs SATWAT (already counting the point from tennis h2h question).

That might change soon though as Lepzig is losing 1-0 and there is less than half an hour left. I was out whole day today and totally forgot to bet on Monchengladbach.

Quote from: Rikafip on March 29, 2025, 03:54:15 PM

Quote from: Rikafip on March 28, 2025, 04:13:47 PM

I think its time to do some hedge betting magic and get some points (and loose money). Grin

I am also down and out of top race in this season as things are not going favorable for me currently have 6 draws which are most in this season for any player.

Just 15 minutes remaining mean I can take one point which will bring me back on draw, but this season is surely not ideal any result can happen in last few questions which are interesting.

Quote from: buwaytress on March 29, 2025, 11:35:48 AM

Tidebound just bounced a 2-0 win. So only 1 of the four named will be among the last four teams standing.

This is perfect outcome for LMS participants, no one had 1 as answer. Cryptofrka had 2 though, I thought he would be the only one that get the point

@Strongkored : there goes my chance to turn it around. Congrats on winning this and potentially take the trophy, now you gotta need to win few more rounds before concluding this round. Dang when I saw that Monchengladbach shot's actually hit the post few times, I knew from that moment that there is no coming back from Leipzig as they were dominated

Its -3 for me right now with 2 more questions to go, best I could do is to get the remaining two questions to make it -1

Quote from: SATWAT on March 29, 2025, 04:06:53 PM

Just 15 minutes remaining mean I can take one point which will bring me back on draw but this season is surely not ideal any result can happen in last few questions which are interesting.

Monchengladbach managed to keep that 1-0 lead so we are tied now with 2 different asnwers left.

I already hedged Fiorentina-Atalanta game and now thinking what to do about FA cup question as so far neither of us has advantage there since we both went with "Yes" on Fulham-Crystal Palace game, which was incorrect.