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[Pulsar77]

Round 1 didn't go well for me I'm afraid and got a loss by 4-2 against Rikafip. I hope to be successful against MAAManda in Round 2. I have checked our answers on the spreadsheet and the look of it was surprising to me. Because I wasn't expecting this many same answers.    It's like only a couple of answers are different and the rest of them are the same as far as I can see.

This means that we can have a quite close score at the end. Let's see which one of us will be more successful on the different ones.    Last season wasn't very good for me as I barely made it to playoffs. This time I will try to be more focused and especially do more research about the question of the sports I don't know.

[MAAManda]

I hope to be successful against MAAManda in Round 2. I have checked our answers on the spreadsheet and the look of it was surprising to me. Because I wasn't expecting this many same answers.    It's like only a couple of answers are different and the rest of them are the same as far as I can see.

The results in the Belgium match against Austria will certainly make a difference, mate. I answered that Belgium would win with a score below 3.5 goals while you answered above 3.5 goals. I'm not sure you can manage to get 3 points against me in round 2, Because Austria isn't a weak team, so there will be few goals here. Whatever can happen, let's just see the end result later.

[Harkorede]

I also missed your mention, because I don't get notified for the acronym or abbreviation "Harko" you used, perhaps I might just add it to the notification checklist, but just so you know I'm up for the side bet 2 mBTC as usual is fine by me, just quote this post if you're on, before the spreadsheet goes live.

Since the game has not yet begun, we can continue with the bet. I'm in for the 2mbtc bet; it's always fun to play against you; most of our answers are different, so there's no way we'll draw this one.

Is there something we don't know because none of the Croatians believe in their team against the Netherlands?  

Yeah, we are on!

I really don’t think it’s because they don’t believe in their team any, but I’d say it’s more like edging your bet here, at least that’s what I think, most would rather see their country in the finals and lose a point just, than otherwise in my opinion, and more so it doesn’t give their guesses away because some might are actually feel pretty good about getting a H2H advantage over when they’re quite familiar with your preferences. Or maybe I’m wrong totally and they’re more of an insider than we are, so maybe there’s more than what meets the eye in this instance.

[ralle14]

The Vegas Golden Knights making it look easy, as they're currently up 6-1 after the second period. I was hoping the Panthers would hold them within four goals after they scored, but the momentum for Vegas allowed them to attack relentlessly.

I might've lost a point, but I still got a winning ticket for the day.  

[Harkorede]

GG jayce, just glad we both gave it a good go, different answers to every question except City and Stanley Cup. I'm more relieved than anything to get a win in BSFL, which sort of goes to show what quality we're up against every week.

Nations League will be tricky, I think, because it'll be a glorified friendly and you can't trust coaches and teams to play the same way as in other competitive matches, and lineups aren't at all clear yet.

Slissy is up next, yikes *cracks fingers*

Ha, I have seen that match and gave it a derby title in my weekly article on Sportsbet. Go give it a read, especially if you like seeing your name online 

https://sportsbet.io/sports/soccer/news/bitcoin-talk-sports-fanatics-league-1

And yes this means we have coverage on Sportsbet site as well as dedicated chat group there. Drop by and say hello to a couple of people that are playing with us but can't have bitcointalk account. This is of course invitation for everyone, not just buwaytress.

I actually got some chills down my spine after seeing my name appear of the platform, and this apparently 2nd or 3rd, and this shows how serious how SB are actually taking this, I just implore every other players to reciprocate the energy that Sportsbet.io is channeling into this competition and continue to do their due diligence and not just give free points to their, except against me (Of course, haha) as it only would only undermine their efforts and that of the CRO2 team as organizers, everyone have a life outside this room and yeah we know that, but if you can't spare less than 2 hours a week to do proper analysis on some sports you'd probably gamble on, or at least in the name of fairness don't just put some random BS without minimal effort trying to make findings about a sport you don't have a knowledge, it takes barely a couple minutes to get good information about these things and making an informative/opinion-based guesses, there is no fail proof to these questions, but it makes no sense putting no effort whatsoever.

Harkorede will be monitored closely for fears of insider information. It is almost unheard of for someone to get 8/10 correct answers  

Just like street No. 1 Rule always stands, I'm not going to rat out nor snitch on my insider mole...  

[Jinetics1111]

OMG 12 goals in an NHL finals is crazy. I guess a lot of us will be getting Question 1 correct. Stone with a hat trick too wowsers.

[mv1986]

The Vegas Golden Knights making it look easy, as they're currently up 6-1 after the second period. I was hoping the Panthers would hold them within four goals after they scored, but the momentum for Vegas allowed them to attack relentlessly.

I might've lost a point, but I still got a winning ticket for the day.  

Lol, now it would be funny if you guys knew how I was scrolling through the past Vegas Knights results and thought, well, they do have games here and there when they score 5 or more, but this game is so important and the Panthers will resist, could very likely end in a 4:2. But a 9:3 I can't even recall I saw a result like that when I checked the results of their last season games.

But whatever, @Woodie and I agreed on this one so no points for anyone

But we have a number of different answers @Woodie, which makes it quite interesting. Hopefully not another draw for me again.

Good luck!

[Igebotz]

I also missed your mention, because I don't get notified for the acronym or abbreviation "Harko" you used, perhaps I might just add it to the notification checklist, but just so you know I'm up for the side bet 2 mBTC as usual is fine by me, just quote this post if you're on, before the spreadsheet goes live.

Since the game has not yet begun, we can continue with the bet. I'm in for the 2mbtc bet; it's always fun to play against you; most of our answers are different, so there's no way we'll draw this one.

Is there something we don't know because none of the Croatians believe in their team against the Netherlands? 

Yeah, we are on!

I really don’t think it’s because they don’t believe in their team any, but I’d say it’s more like edging your bet here, at least that’s what I think, most would rather see their country in the finals and lose a point just, than otherwise in my opinion, and more so it doesn’t give their guesses away because some might are actually feel pretty good about getting a H2H advantage over when they’re quite familiar with your preferences. Or maybe I’m wrong totally and they’re more of an insider than we are, so maybe there’s more than what meets the eye in this instance.

I just took another look at the spreadsheet and it happens to be only trofo who went for Netherlands, Slokovic went for Crotia and cryptofrka details are hidden in the spreadsheet I admit I exergerate the whole thing, I've been drinking a lot of beer lately and it sometimes smokes out my brain.

It's good to make another bet with you; I lost the last one and am hoping to win this one.

The Vegas Golden Knights making it look easy, as they're currently up 6-1 after the second period. I was hoping the Panthers would hold them within four goals after they scored, but the momentum for Vegas allowed them to attack relentlessly.

Fuck me. I had this game on my ticket, how did I get the timing wrong? I forgot to play, and I was extremely convinced that they would flush out Florida. Well, congratulations.

Sorry to burst your bubbles, but we're just two games into the season and we're seeing a number of late entries and no entries at all from some old participants. What's up peeps, let's get this rocking..... The point deduction is cool, and I'm glad my suggestion was considered.

[slackovic]

I just took another look at the spreadsheet and it happens to be only trofo who went for Netherlands, Slokovic went for Crotia and cryptofrka details are hidden in the spreadsheet I admit I exergerate the whole thing, I've been drinking a lot of beer lately and it sometimes smokes out my brain.

It's good to make another bet with you; I lost the last one and am hoping to win this one.

/snip

Wow! Most of you went with Netherlands to qualify for the finals. Being from Croatia I couldn't help myself to go with Croatia. It won't cost me anything if I answer it wrong because my opponent answered the same as me. But what surprised me more is that few people answered that Italy will beat Spain. I know that Italy is on a rise and yesterday Olmo got injured yesterday, but I still think that Spain is a much better team. I was sure that everyone would go with Spain.

[Trofo]

I just took another look at the spreadsheet and it happens to be only trofo who went for Netherlands, Slokovic went for Crotia and cryptofrka details are hidden in the spreadsheet I admit I exergerate the whole thing, I've been drinking a lot of beer lately and it sometimes smokes out my brain.

It's good to make another bet with you; I lost the last one and am hoping to win this one.

/snip

Wow! Most of you went with Netherlands to qualify for the finals. Being from Croatia I couldn't help myself to go with Croatia. It won't cost me anything if I answer it wrong because my opponent answered the same as me. But what surprised me more is that few people answered that Italy will beat Spain. I know that Italy is on a rise and yesterday Olmo got injured yesterday, but I still think that Spain is a much better team. I was sure that everyone would go with Spain.

Now I can talk about it so here it goes. We (Croatia) after getting good result have mentality of we are the best in the world result will come by itself and play like shit. On the other hand rest of the world and especially big football countries see us as a top team that that is 3rd in the world and have no problem at motivating themselves for a win against us. Then add the fact that we are always bad in this time slot at season end and we are playing without Guardiol our best defender. Last time we played nations league game after getting 3rd place in the world, it was Spain and we lost 6:0. I won a shitload of money on that game and plan to do the same here.

And if it is not enough, Netherlands are playing at home.

I have only one thing that goes in our favor, this is play off and we are always good in important matches. If this was regular group stage match I am sure we would have lost with at least 3 goals difference but since it is important maybe we can pull together.

[cryptofrka]

Sent. Sorry.

We decided to keep usual deadline today even though no games start that soon. Those that miss the deadline even for a minute will get one penalty point and their answer on question 1 will not be counted. After that it goes as usual, we don't count anything that has already started or some new big info became available.

I understand the penalty point for delivering late, there is no doubt about that.

Now, you do not allow answer 1. Why?, that is your decision and I abide by it, but it was not written anywhere and it does not benefit me to answer late, That game is tomorrow, if you tell me where that is written apart from the post you just made today.

It was written:

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The questions for the Round 2 are live!

You can start answering, the deadline is Jun 13th, 17:00 GMT (forum time). You can always find that info in the 3rd post of the thread.
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Considering that we now have 50+ players on 2 platforms, we want to have fixed deadlines and we'll aim for Tuesday, 17:00 GMT for all rounds. We will probably keep the same deadlines even in rounds in which there is no real benefit to you if you answer later - like this one.
As you can see, we're still struggling with some players not answering and some answering late. It is not really beneficial for the competition, so from our side we'll do what we can to try and minimize it. Fixed deadlines is one way to do it, negative points for being late for submission another one.

In this case your answer would have been wrong anyway, so no real damage done

We really suggest you all to install the forum notifications Telegram bot, it helps you a lot because we tag you twice for each round of questions - when we release them and a few hours before the deadline if you haven't submitted the answers yet.

OMG 12 goals in an NHL finals is crazy. I guess a lot of us will be getting Question 1 correct. Stone with a hat trick too wowsers.

This was actually my trick question. I was sure they would go with under 4,5 and was happy to form the question in a way you'd all go with over.
Bobrovsky has been destroying the Panthers throughout the whole series, in their first 2 away games he had .7 and .88 save percentage and yesterday he had .75 again.
That is simply horrible, below every acceptable standard and no team can play confidently with a goalie like this.

Vegas surely deserves the title, they were truly dominant throughout the whole season - I just expected a different game yesterday.

[slackovic]

Now I can talk about it so here it goes. We (Croatia) after getting good result have mentality of we are the best in the world result will come by itself and play like shit. On the other hand rest of the world and especially big football countries see us as a top team that that is 3rd in the world and have no problem at motivating themselves for a win against us. Then add the fact that we are always bad in this time slot at season end and we are playing without Guardiol our best defender. Last time we played nations league game after getting 3rd place in the world, it was Spain and we lost 6:0. I won a shitload of money on that game and plan to do the same here.

And if it is not enough, Netherlands are playing at home.

I have only one thing that goes in our favor, this is play off and we are always good in important matches. If this was regular group stage match I am sure we would have lost with at least 3 goals difference but since it is important maybe we can pull together.

I knew that someone would burst my bubbles about today's game. Now that I read your post I can only agree with you. However I really hope that we will win today so that we get silver at worst just because it might be the last competition with Modrić in the national team. I know that he said he will play for the national team for as long as the team needs him, but he can't go against his age and soon he won't be able to play at the highest level. I would rather not see him in the national team than to see him playing just because he is Modrić.

[slaman29]

I am trying a new tactic this season, by not checking the spreadsheet this results. I know there's no meaning in the tactic but last season I checked almost every day and jinxed myself even when calculating that I won.

So the funny thing is I don't actually remember all my answers lol but anyway, it's rare to get a non football/tennis game as a first points decider.

BTW, I believe Croatia is better than Netherlands. Last World Cup Netherlands played like shit, too. Gakpo saved them it's all. The only reason I picked them though is Croatia's 2 best players in my opinion is either not going to play, or missing a lot of form since WC. Real Madrid suffered the most IMO.

[cryptofrka]

BTW, I believe Croatia is better than Netherlands. Last World Cup Netherlands played like shit, too. Gakpo saved them it's all. The only reason I picked them though is Croatia's 2 best players in my opinion is either not going to play, or missing a lot of form since WC. Real Madrid suffered the most IMO.

I think that the Netherlands team doesn't really suit us. They play fast and aggressive, we will probably control the midfield but that won't be the area where the ball will be.
They will overload our flanks and won't let us calmly build while in possession, and it remains to be seen how much will Modrić and Brozović even play after excruciating seasons that they had.

I do feel we're better than Italy though, who I expect to lose against Spain. I put us in the 3rd spot, but I have to say that neither of these teams really stand out at this point in time. Italy's by far the worst though.

[Igebotz]

Now I can talk about it so here it goes. We (Croatia) after getting good result have mentality of we are the best in the world result will come by itself and play like shit.

The Super Eagles of Nigeria have the most exciting blavk talent in Europe doing well at club levels, join together at the national level, go into every game with great confidence, and dump shit when you least expect it. Same vibes

The Crotia National team players didn't have much of a chotic season at the club level this season, so I'm hoping to see a full roster at least because this isn't a friendly game. I'm not sure if I chose them at the wrong time or if I'm just being fanatic.

really hope that we will win today so that we get silver at worst just because it might be the last competition with Modrić in the national team.

Same reason bro.

I've been wanting to ask this; why is Crotia with limited talents compared to England always doing much better than them at international level? I don't get.

[slackovic]

Same reason bro.

I've been wanting to ask this; why is Crotia with limited talents compared to England always doing much better than them at international level? I don't get.

I wouldn't say that Croatia has players with limited talent. Maybe the reason why England's players are considered as more talented is because they come from England whose national league is considered as one of the best. Croatian national league is trash compared to the top European leagues. Maybe that's why Croatian players are never considered as stars. But majority of our national team players play in the top 5 European leagues and most of them are standard players in their clubs.

Additionally the Croatian mentality is a funny thing. One time they are all the best players and then one bad game happens and all national team members are trash. But I think that our mentality is one of the reasons why we usually play best against the strongest teams.

[Trofo]

Same reason bro.

I've been wanting to ask this; why is Crotia with limited talents compared to England always doing much better than them at international level? I don't get.

I wouldn't say that Croatia has players with limited talent. Maybe the reason why England's players are considered as more talented is because they come from England whose national league is considered as one of the best. Croatian national league is trash compared to the top European leagues. Maybe that's why Croatian players are never considered as stars. But majority of our national team players play in the top 5 European leagues and most of them are standard players in their clubs.

Additionally the Croatian mentality is a funny thing. One time they are all the best players and then one bad game happens and all national team members are trash. But I think that our mentality is one of the reasons why we usually play best against the strongest teams.

I would say mainly because of our mentality, always the best in important matches and against top opponents plus world class midfield. Not many teams in the world had anything close to Raktić, Modrić, Brozović and Kovačić. That is also England's biggest problem, they have one world class striker in Kane, shitload of world class wingers and nothing in the midfield. All their midfielders are just mediocre defensive players like Henderson and Philips, Mount and Maddison have some creativity when they get a chance but I would take any of our guys before them. Things could change for the better for England with Belingham now, he is the link they were missing lately.

Also All England players are overrated due to Premier League quality and rule that PL clubs have to have certain amount of English players. There is not enough of them going around and if you are young promising English player your price is by default 5x of same qoulity some other nationality player.

[Kokee44]

For the driver match-up, for example, without mentioning the names, there's one pair where the favourite odds-wise is huge, but performance wise, he's only beaten the guy once (when they both finished). For me it makes much more sense to bet on the underdog here given H2H this season he has an equal performance. But I must learn not to pick that underdog for this BSFL format, I believe that was my mistake last season, giving away points on big underdog.

Heheh, glad to see someone is actually trying to find mini-traps that we insert on occasions

It's time to announce the freebet winners.
Not much excitement there to be honest, quite a lot of draws so most of it will be settled this week.

Div 1 - darxiaomi and Harkorede have a H2H duel in Round 2 for 40$ freebet
Div 2 - Trofo is a 30$ freebet winner
Div 3A - bullrun2020bro, entebah and coin_trader have a H2H duel in Round 2 for 10$ freebet
Div 3B - Vivekdhyani1, imarios, Ozymandias_DZ, goodpunt and hakan2217 all have a H2H duel in Round 2 for 10$ freebet

Just a last reminder to the following players  - they did not submit their picks yet. The deadline is today, 17:00 GMT.

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bullrun2020bro
Coin_trader
DireWolfM14
famososMuertos
ILuckyGuyI
itshalaa
jeremypwr
mv1986
Pulsar77
Renato297
Rikafip
Saint-loup
Slissy
ulven

What about me?!! I am 2nd in classment

[casperBGD]

~snip
Wow! Most of you went with Netherlands to qualify for the finals. Being from Croatia I couldn't help myself to go with Croatia.

from my point of view, Netherlands are favorite in this duel as hosts, if it is played in Croatia, I would go with Croatia, match can go either way, but being host is a solid advantage
nevertheless, Italy and Spain should be a better duel, but these are glorified friendlies after all, and motivation is questioned, although Italy is motivated by missing WC, and Spain by lousy result on WC, so I decided to go with them for Finals/3rd place

Netherlands changed coach, but I don't see their QF as bad result, so Final should be a good compensation

kudos to Vegas, didn't expect 9 goals from them, win certainly

[cryptofrka]

What about me?!! I am 2nd in classment

You finished the round 1 with 1 point. You are nowhere near the bonus rewards