⭐⚽⭐ Rainbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL)

Quote from: Harkorede on April 21, 2026, 06:01:42 PM

Chelsea is the first and most noticeable, I'll just have to live with whatever outcome the have today, I should have known better, below is the lineup from Liam Rosenior that I'd expect to defeat Brighton, smh, I'd definitely take a draw, at least with that I'd not fall behind immediately in the league duel.

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Chelsea remains one team to have done me so much dirty through most of the polls I play, they’ve just being one hell of a terrible team. You bank on them, just hoping they would at some point want to return to winning ways and you’re hit with yet another disappointment. They are off the radar for me now, loosing to Brighton just shows how weak the team is and they would as well lose to any other team that comes knocking. I trust Sanchez to let the balls in.

Inter Milan gave us yet another spectacular game. Coming from behind to win Como yet again, that was unexpected from how slow they started the game, it was all Como but, I suppose being behind has being such a boost for this team.

a huge thanks to chelsea or should i say, 'thanks, brighton, for the decisive home win' which gave me a 2-1 lead over Kokee44 going into the fourth round
and as i can see, out of the remaining 8 answers, only #9 matches ours, so there’s still a lot that could happen in this round...

Quote from: paco92x on April 21, 2026, 01:53:29 PM

There is no bad blood between us, only a slight rivalry. It is good to have that teams play with fire and passion in these games. Wish you all the luck, my man, in this round—and I hope the outcome will be different than the last time we met Wink

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Answers are submitted. A lot of football this week and another basketball question, but it’s only yeses and nos, so I can't already make a stupid submission. But maybe it will be later when I don't guess any of them right Grin

I heard our supporters are already in a fan alliance.
They share our cuisines and of course the most important thing....liquor

You are already leading 2-1 -well deserved let's hope we can equalize but it could also end very badly for us Cheesy

I don't know if it's just me but the current set of questions was really challenging for me - the only one where I could instantly predict was Question 9 with the FA cup matches.

Quote from: Rikafip on April 21, 2026, 08:30:42 AM

Quote from: slaman29 on April 21, 2026, 07:41:55 AM

DOTA to me very important match happened as some big teams really really needed to win otherwise they are out. I even put a big bet on one because I thought, they are no way gonna go down without a fight!!

How many games does each team play during the group stage? I guess its not everyone playing against each other, as that would mean 15 games in the group stage.

I see @buwa already answered you, actually I didn't even know the rules until he explained it. All I saw was the green and red on the table, green is qualified and everybody seemed to play up to 5 games. Good to know LOL

Anyway, bad start for me, seems 90% of the whole league got 2/2 but I chose to go for Inter Como 1-1 draw. Very very tricky pick but I thought it was the right call Sad

I knew that going for a draw at Brighton vs Chelsea ( how can someone support such a shitty club as Chelsea Grin

) is very risky, but serves me well to lose a point there for not following my rules.

At least there are plenty of different answers left between me and Ulven. Also, it looks like neither of those dota teams that he chose are in the next round (Gainin Gladiators weren't even playing I think) so all now I need is either Betboom or Team Liquid to reach the final to win that question.

Quote from: jayce on April 21, 2026, 01:41:25 PM

DOTA as our favorite. Nice one cryptofrka, I lol'ed so hard reading the question.

The worst part of the question was they did not even mention what tournament it was and you had to make sure to find the one that was happening live,,, guess what they were 3 going on so I had to find out which was the correct Prize Pool I knew it was a trick to make sure you did research but I can see some people already failed by putting teams not even in the fight Grin

Quote from: Trofo on April 21, 2026, 04:14:21 PM

We made some new deals with Rainbet and now they are far enough to leak some of the info to BSFL gang. While competitions will not be locked only to BSFL gang we expect most of you to play and to dominate the newbs from other pools

So during WC we will have two new promotions running beside BSFL. Both sponsored by Rainbet and both having 100 mBTC of sponsored money for the rewards Grin

One will be team based, with teams of 3 people connected geographically and the other will be let's say just a thing for serious gamblers. More info to come up soon, and you will all get at least one tag when both new threads are up and running.

For now, put some money to the side, you will need it during WC for sure Grin

That is super amazing news and we have been waiting for it a lot

One thing I have to say I hope it is not so much timebased like BSFL,,, by this I mean like we do not gain much advantage waiting for games to submit before deadline. Geography is important here for sure and I do not complain much about BSFL where usually 1 question like tennis or DOTA or whatever needs to wait close to deadline. It affects us guys in Asia a lot to be honest and now if World Cup is in USA timezone that is clearly gonna affect a lot of us

Do we already have a rough idea of geography? Me and my buddy @goodpunt want to be in the same team Cool

Great start for both me and my opponent @leea-1334

After the first day, the score is 2-2! Looks like it’s gonna be an exciting and high-scoring match.

Good luck to my opponent — may the best one win! If I’m not mistaken, this is our first head-to-head match in BSFL.

Oh, I see that I got another free pass because un_rank failed to submit his answers. I don't like winning like that, but I'll take those free 3 points Grin

The bigger problem is that it looks like yassinmanai again failed to submit making it his 2nd failed submission so he could be out of the competition if he fails to submit once again. Then those free 3 points that I got in the round 2 won't mean much.

So, in this round I'm again competing only for the freebet. For now everything is going great with two correct answers, but it looks like everyone expected those results.

I have zero victories so far in current round Sad

I'm particulary unhappy about that because I just checked the result of my opponent and noticed he has two victories. There can still be surprises, of course, but so far I'm not happy with my current result.

Quote from: Rikafip on April 22, 2026, 07:14:32 AM

At least there are plenty of different answers left between me and Ulven. Also, it looks like neither of those dota teams that he chose are in the next round (Gainin Gladiators weren't even playing I think) so all now I need is either Betboom or Team Liquid to reach the final to win that question.

As I see in the spreadsheet, ulven has selected Team Spirit as the winner of Dota 2 tournament.
Team Spirit is still in the competition. They will play against Xtreme Gaming today and if they win, they will advance to the quarterfinals.

Quote from: hosemary on April 22, 2026, 09:16:06 AM

Ah yeah you are right, as usual. Do you maybe work as a fact checker IRL or something like that? If not, you should consider changing the profession. Cheesy

I don't know why I thought he went with Tundra. Anyway, too bad.

Here you guys can see Dota2 pre odds on outright winners in this tournament.. We don't always see the odds at bookies.. I always use this page to see who is the outright favorite

https://esportbet.com/dota-2/pgl-wallachia/

Quote from: goodpunt on April 22, 2026, 06:02:24 AM

I heard our supporters are already in a fan alliance.
They share our cuisines and of course the most important thing....liquor

You are already leading 2-1 -well deserved let's hope we can equalize but it could also end very badly for us Cheesy

I don't know if it's just me but the current set of questions was really challenging for me - the only one where I could instantly predict was Question 9 with the FA cup matches.

You heard it right: the fans are in alliance. For most fans, liquor is a problem, but not in our case Wink

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Inter and Como went my way, and what a game it was! I would say it was almost identical to the last match between them; Como took a 2:0 lead at home, only to lose unexpectedly 3:4. But at least it was not a classic, boring Italian game.

Is just incredible after scoring 7 point in the past round when i didnt repay the LMS reentry fee now im again 2/2 correct answer in this round, i knew i fucking knew this was gonna happen.

I have a lot of diferent answer with my rival of this round so is gonna be a long round for us, im now 1 point above but still a lot of points to play, the h2h question is gonna be super interesting since we have 4 diferent selections.

Quote from: leea-1334 on April 22, 2026, 08:15:45 AM

Do we already have a rough idea of geography? Me and my buddy @goodpunt want to be in the same team Cool

Nope, it will take probably a minute or 2 to submit per player per round. Also, you'll be able to mitigate some factors through team coordination.
If you live even remotely close to each other, it will be possible. We'll announce it soon so you'll be able to see how it will work.

I personally feel it's gonna be super fun, hope you guys will like it.

Ey Cro2, what a piece of good news to share, now we can all have something to spice up our lives during World Cup (which I suspect will be quite dull and unwatchable otherwise). Great stuff, and you can count on us to join in. Is my geography where I come from or where I live? Just want to know if I'm buddies with mv1986 or with er, I guess, maybe Papa Steve? Who's not in BSFL of course but...

A bit worried about the "serious gamblers" bit because I'm trying to save money, not donate huge loads of it Wink

Quote from: vivekdhyani1 on April 21, 2026, 06:07:22 PM

A luxury prostitution network involving 50 Serie A footballers and an F1 driver has been uncovered, with 4 arrests made.About hundred girls were involved in the network, which the agency charged 50% per client.

Why do you think Trofo and frka are always "not at their computer"?

Quote from: Trofo on April 21, 2026, 02:47:20 PM

It is actually very good system. First day it is quite random but on each next round you are only playing other teams with same result. So if you won in first 2 rounds. Round 3 you are playing against one of the other teams that won in first 2 rounds. So it quickly gets very evenly matched. 3/3 gets you in the upper bracket, and others are playing until they get that 3rd win or 3rd loss.

I would argue this is one of the most fair systems out there.

On basis of merit, yeah, completely agree I like this system but it does have a fair bit of luck involved in the first round, and could even lead to some pre-planning. But definitely appears to reward good form and ensuring every match counts (until you get your 3rd win).

The bracket system that follows though, I'm not a fan of. Feels on the surface to me like Champs League group, where the seeds can always have a second, sometimes even a third chance.

Lately, Chelsea have been really disappointing for me, honestly more than I expected. This time, and also the last few times when there was a Chelsea game to bet on, I thought they would show a bit more.

But once again, they lost 3:0 yesterday. I actually thought that since they’re not in great form right now, they did get their act together and at least scrape a draw, but nope. I made two picks yesterday, and right now I’m down 2–1 against my opponent.

Today is a pivotal day in our round duel need Bayern to continue smashing and playing that high scoring brand of football that they been playing or Leverkusen to win Grin

, if I can capture the early lead it would super well for this round. I'm just glad KD came back yesterday he should be on track to playing game 3 since they are in do or die mode after going down 2-0 to the Lakers, and after Knicks lost to Hawks the other night they should also be fired but we see. Grin

This round feels less exciting since the opponent did not submit, but at least 3 points are safely secured.
Not sure why the teams in division 3 did not submit, especially since they were already tagged before and should have received a notification. Hopefully next round will bring more competition.

Quote from: buwaytress on April 22, 2026, 02:05:03 PM

Why do you think Trofo and frka are always "not at their computer"?

Very true, we are working closely with the justice departmen of Italy, the investigation starts here from the mafia behavior of this guys who paid with womans the players to underplay or overplay when they need it, we are close following this since we detect they brive the players with womans if they score more goals for the madness for example.
The F1 driver involved is also because of BSFL and Madness, dont be a fool and follow the thread of the ball. Cheesy