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[cryptofrka]

The bronze medal match at women's football ended with victory of Germany and Spain couldn't win any medal in that event.
Now, we don't need to wait for men's fooball final match to know the correct answer to the question number 6. The correct answer is NO and only 12 people predicted that correctly.

Spain missed the penalty to make it 1-1 in the 98th minute. 'No' was the expected pick after Spain's womel lost to Brazil. I thought Spain will have both men and women in the finals.

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Looking brutal in LMS standings, we still have 4 regular questions to go but a lot of people need 2 (some more than 2) points to survive. H2H's are looking horrible for most, so there won't be much to gain there as well.

Will be an interesting weekend ahead of us.

[ralle14]

The bronze medal match at women's football ended with victory of Germany and Spain couldn't win any medal in that event.
Now, we don't need to wait for men's fooball final match to know the correct answer to the question number 6. The correct answer is NO and only 12 people predicted that correctly.

I finally got my first point after their loss, and we "no" backers were lucky for Germany's goalkeeper to clutch up during that moment.

The bookies have placed handicap margins at around 15-16, in BSFL it is 12,5. I think those with 52 or more take this one easily.

I hope you're right, on paper they could easily win by at least 20 points, but I also don't want to underestimate France as much.

[buwaytress]

The bookies have placed handicap margins at around 15-16, in BSFL it is 12,5. I think those with 52 or more take this one easily.

All I was thinking for this question is USA have NBA. And yes, other countries have been catching up in recent years but I doubted to the level required for this Olympics. I'm not sure how I'll think in another four years, but if I'm still on BSFL answering Olympics 2028, my life is probably too dull to be thinking differently.

Damn you Spain, by the way. Definitely a lot of people in trouble for LMS, I don't think I'm in jeopardy just yet, but tomorrow evening will paint a clearer picture. Trofo took a point from Spain so he'll be breathing well.

[Rikafip]

Damn you were right about Serbia. Now USA still looks safe for a gold, but now our 52+ points selection doesn't look as easy as I thought too. If it wasn't for S Curry, we'd already be out.

Hah yeah, it went pretty much as I speculated. I expected the tough game, but not as close as it was.

@cryptofrka seems to think US will hammer France. I can't decide now. Maybe should bet on France as a sort of consolation if US don't make it

I think that it will an easier game for them than vs Serbia as I think they learned a lesson or two last night and will want to show everyone that they are undoubtedly the best team at the moment. So they gonna go hard from the start.

ll I was thinking for this question is USA have NBA. And yes, other countries have been catching up in recent years but I doubted to the level required for this Olympics.And yes, other countries have been catching up in recent years but I doubted to the level required for this Olympics.

Last 6 MVP awards were won by non-US players so yeah, things are changing. Having said that, NBA is basically unwatchable at the moment. Well, at least the regular season part of it.

[mv1986]

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Looking brutal in LMS standings, we still have 4 regular questions to go but a lot of people need 2 (some more than 2) points to survive. H2H's are looking horrible for most, so there won't be much to gain there as well.

Will be an interesting weekend ahead of us.

Oh I thought that 2 points or less is automatically eliminated. But now you said a lot of people need 2 and some more than 2. What does it depend on whether 2 points are enough or not since the rule states

All those that have 2 points per round or less will be eliminated...

I thought it is pretty much over for me this round as it is looking awful so far.

[hosseinimr93]

Oh I thought that 2 points or less is automatically eliminated. But now you said a lot of people need 2 and some more than 2. What does it depend on whether 2 points are enough or not since the rule states

I think you didn't understand cryptofrka correctly. All users need to have more than 2 points to survive.
cryptofrka said that some people need 2 points, because they have already received 1 point and he said some users need more than 2 points, because they now have zero point.

[mv1986]

Oh I thought that 2 points or less is automatically eliminated. But now you said a lot of people need 2 and some more than 2. What does it depend on whether 2 points are enough or not since the rule states

I think you didn't understand cryptofrka correctly. All users need to have more than 2 points to survive.
cryptofrka said that some people need 2 points, because they have already received 1 point and he said some users need more than 2 points, because they now have zero point.

Yea makes sense, got that wrong, thanks!


What a crazy game between France and Spain. That's rough giving that lead away after 3-1. But it was deserved I guess as France put up all the pressure and dominated the game as far as I can see. Still though having a penalty against you shortly before the final whistle is always brutal.

[Chi20]

The bronze medal match at women's football ended with victory of Germany and Spain couldn't win any medal in that event.
Now, we don't need to wait for men's fooball final match to know the correct answer to the question number 6. The correct answer is NO and only 12 people predicted that correctly.

Spain missed the penalty to make it 1-1 in the 98th minute. 'No' was the expected pick after Spain's womel lost to Brazil. I thought Spain will have both men and women in the finals.

Kind of confused here because the last statement on that question 6 stated " with at least one them being the gold " and I remembered even before I submitted my answers where @cryptofrka said the question was purposely phrase that way to confuse people but then, the answer has already been graded even before the France and Spain final.. still confusing for me.

[Woodie]

Medals question was easy but choose to find what wasn't there @#$& ,wish I stuck with the default answer I wouldn't  have given a point away

Other interesting question was the Water polo one,this one  I was nowhere near Serbia/Croatia...and wondering if anybody would have predicted Croatia to find themselves in the finals  

Well played cro2, enjoyed this Olympics  themed round  

[arallmuus]

Kind of confused here because the last statement on that question 6 stated " with at least one them being the gold " and I remembered even before I submitted my answers where @cryptofrka said the question was purposely phrase that way to confuse people but then, the answer has already been graded even before the France and Spain final.. still confusing for me.

There was nothing wrong to grade it after Spain Women lost their game

The full phrase of the question was

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Will both of their teams end up winning the medal, with at least one of them being the gold?

So both of these Spain team need to win a medal with atleast one of them being gold. Spain Women played for Bronze, they lost therefore they are not getting any medal so yeah the correct answer was NO and it was graded even before the other game started

[hosseinimr93]

Other interesting question was the Water polo one,this one  I was nowhere near Serbia/Croatia...and wondering if anybody would have predicted Croatia to find themselves in the finals

There were people predicting that correctly.

7 people predicted that Croatia would advance to Waterpolo's final.
3 people predicted that Serbia would advance to Waterpolo's final.
1 person (ILuckyGuyI) predicted both finalists correctly.

There was nothing wrong to grade it after Spain Women lost their game

I agree. I also believe that the question number 6 was clear enough.

[Harkorede]

Things are not looking good for me in this round of BSFL, I made some mistakes and I was feeling sick the day when I answered questions
I am already down 2:1 and I think I lost in last two questions, but I hope to win more points in next few days, every point can count in the end for better position.
This designer derbies are always hard for me for some reason  

That makes two of us as the freaking USA Water Polo team got handed their by Serbia, probably as revenge for losing to the USA in the Basketball Semi finals last night after dominating the game the entire first 3 quarter.


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Shame on the Olympics anyway, you really just kind majority of the sports highlights anywhere even on Youtube huh Wtf are they and what's the relevance restricting media content creators or even big media outlets like ESPN unable to have the highlights, is there some rebroadcasting value or something I'm failing to understand ?

[cryptofrka]

I think you didn't understand cryptofrka correctly. All users need to have more than 2 points to survive.
cryptofrka said that some people need 2 points, because they have already received 1 point and he said some users need more than 2 points, because they now have zero point.

Just confirming that this is correct, thanks hosseinimr93

There was nothing wrong to grade it after Spain Women lost their game

The full phrase of the question was

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Will both of their teams end up winning the medal, with at least one of them being the gold?

So both of these Spain team need to win a medal with atleast one of them being gold. Spain Women played for Bronze, they lost therefore they are not getting any medal so yeah the correct answer was NO and it was graded even before the other game started

Same goes to arallmuus, you don't need us guys anymore at all

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I didn't think we (Croatia) had much chance for the final because we played Spain - but I felt Serbs had no chance at all. Will be a nice final, 2 waterpolo heavyweights paired against each other once again. We will be favorites I think, and we'll be taking that gold home.

[arallmuus]

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So question regarding ATP Montreal

It seems the games scheduled for today was postponed and Sinner will play tomorrow for his 1/8 finals. Thats still a long way for the final and Im not even sure if we will even get the result by the end of sunday

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Sinner will be here to defend the title, he has been dominant on hard surface recently. Will he win the title and how?

This is the question so if he still stays in the tournament by sunday but the final game hasnt been played then what will happen to everyone that picked he will win the tournament by losing X sets ?

[Harkorede]

I didn't think we (Croatia) had much chance for the final because we played Spain - but I felt Serbs had no chance at all. Will be a nice final, 2 waterpolo heavyweights paired against each other once again. We will be favorites I think, and we'll be taking that gold home.

It's just too bad that we would get another BSFL round before the game, the final as a question possibility would have made sense.

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I really don't know the possibility of me getting more than two questions for this round, that'd be solely dependent on Man City and Hull City doing their thing for me, or at least either of them, that's if Lebron and Chef Curry can cover the spread against Wemby and the French Basketball Olympics team.

[CLS63]

I'm showing a terrible performance in this round. However when I check the spreadsheet I see that I'm not alone about this topic. Thankfully even though I have given 1 correct answer so far, the tie still continues as Trofo also made bad predictions as much as I did.

By the way I was going to create a spreadsheet for side bets. It totally went out of my mind. I'm very sorry for this. I'm going to handle it tomorrow.   

[ralle14]

It seems the games scheduled for today was postponed and Sinner will play tomorrow for his 1/8 finals. Thats still a long way for the final and Im not even sure if we will even get the result by the end of sunday

This is the question so if he still stays in the tournament by sunday but the final game hasnt been played then what will happen to everyone that picked he will win the tournament by losing X sets ?

To catch up with their schedule, there could be a possibility for the players to play twice on the same day unless there's an updated schedule.

7 people predicted that Croatia would advance to Waterpolo's final.
3 people predicted that Serbia would advance to Waterpolo's final.
1 person (ILuckyGuyI) predicted both finalists correctly.

Unfortunately for me, my opponent is one of those people, and now i'll need USA's basketball team to win dominantly later today for the equalizer.

[Harkorede]

It seems the games scheduled for today was postponed and Sinner will play tomorrow for his 1/8 finals. Thats still a long way for the final and Im not even sure if we will even get the result by the end of sunday

This is the question so if he still stays in the tournament by sunday but the final game hasnt been played then what will happen to everyone that picked he will win the tournament by losing X sets ?

To catch up with their schedule, there could be a possibility for the players to play twice on the same day unless there's an updated schedule.

It is already a huge mess imo, and the fixture is very clogged already.

Some players might eventually pull out or give up their match to lower seeded players, especially top seeds the who might want to participate in the Cincinnati open 2024, which officially begins tomorrow August 11th, although that would be a kind of tricky decision to make since both tournaments are ATP Masters 1000 events, it wouldn't make much sense to give up a potential quarter final spot up to go start from a round 32 or 16 in Cincinnati, while they might have no choice if the timeline can't afford them to win the QF match up, I'm sure there is going to be a change in the draws of the Cincinnati tournament, though.

[Trofo]

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So question regarding ATP Montreal

It seems the games scheduled for today was postponed and Sinner will play tomorrow for his 1/8 finals. Thats still a long way for the final and Im not even sure if we will even get the result by the end of sunday

Code:

Sinner will be here to defend the title, he has been dominant on hard surface recently. Will he win the title and how?

This is the question so if he still stays in the tournament by sunday but the final game hasnt been played then what will happen to everyone that picked he will win the tournament by losing X sets ?

This one is a freak occurrence, I have already commented on it before and said we would wait bu things have changed a little from then. Did not watch the tournament but I can see we still have round 2 matches to be played. That means probably rain delays were present every day and I am not sure situation is getting better. Today is cloudy, Sunday and Monday are showers for Toronto. That means this tournament could go deep into next week. We have only two fair options here:
1. Void the question, if we decide on this course of action, our official statement will come before play starts today
2. Keep the round open for as long as it takes for tournament to finish

This is my personal opinion as a player, will talk it out with cryptofrka and we will made the decision before 3PM GMT today when play is scheduled to start. This will also result in another rule added to OP. Maybe something on the line what happens in delay situations.

Neither option is perfect since if we get good weather today I wouldn't be surprised to see some players playing even 3 matches and that isn't really conditions we had in mind when asking/answering questions.

[cryptofrka]

Yeah, whatever we decide it will be unfair to somebody.

If we void it now, we're unfair to the guys that have him not to win - because he will still play this week. Imagine us voiding and him losing later today.
If we put a deadline to the settlement time (let's say beginning of next round), it can potentially be 6-2 4-0 in the final at a time we chose and we have to void it although we have a clear answer in place.

If we let it play out, it is fair to everyone but we go deep into next week.

Tennis.. It always does something to us in BSFL