Avatars: HFSJ WJC Elimination Round Predictor contest - Win avatars!

[Barrie22]

Russia 4 - Canada 3
USA 3 - Finland 2

 

[landshark]

Canada 3 Russia 2

Finland 4 USA 2

 

[The Nemesis]

Semifinal predictions are now closed.

 

[The Nemesis]

Everybody but Barrie gets a point for semi #1 based on predicting a Canada win. Nobody had a 5-0 score though.

 

[themelkman]

Come on finns I need a perfect game here.

 

[Barrie22]

Everybody but Barrie gets a point for semi #1 based on predicting a Canada win. Nobody had a 5-0 score though.

That was my only way into winning it from behind haha.

But truthfully i did not hear enough good things from any one with regards to canadas game other then it is up and down and russia usually brings its A game always vs canada in the jrs. So it was a combination of canada not being as good as predicted and russia being top notch.

 

[The Nemesis]

	Poster	Pts	Correct Predictions	Quarterfinal Pts	Semifinal Pts
T-1)	NiWa	6	1	5	1
	landshark	6	1	5	1
T-3)	one2gamble	6	0	4	2
	slocal	6	0	4	2
	LadyStanley	6	0	4	2
T-6)	Cas	5	0	3	2
	KarlssonsGroin	5	0	3	2
8)	themelkman	5	0	4	1
9)	Kcoyote3	4	0	3	1
10)	Barrie22	1	0	0	1

[THEAD] [/THEAD]
[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Tiebreak procedures are:
1) correct predictions (ie games predicted with the right score and winner)
2) points earned in the semifinal games
3) points earned in the quarterfinal games
4) I haven't figured one out yet.

With 5 posters tied at 6 points NiWa and landshark retain their co-grip on 1st thanks to nailing the Finland/Sweden QF. themelkman has the same # of points as Cas and KarlssonsGroin, but his single point in the semis compared to the other two picking up a pair of points drops him to 8th.

Our final round to either have someone pull away or give me a headache through an even larger logjam is the medal round to try and sort through for final placements. I expect at this point that I'm going to have to give out more than just the baseline 3 prizes, but I don't yet know how many or how I'll decide on the cutoff now that it's as close as it is entering the last day (I honestly banked on a pool of this many people at least stumbling into one or two more correct predictions before all the wonky final scores turned things on their head.)

Your matchups are:

Bronze Medal Game: Russia vs Finland (Tuesday @ 2:30pm PT)
Gold Medal Game: Canada vs USA (Tuesday @ 6pm PT)

 

[one2gamble]

Registered User

Bronze Medal: Russia(2) vs Fin(3)
Gold Medal: Canada(4) vs USA(2)​

 

[slocal]

Russia (1) vs Finland (3)
USA (4) vs Canada (3)

 

[NiWa]

Finland (3) vs Russia (1)
Canada (4) vs USA (2)

 

[Barrie22]

Finland 2 - Russia 1
USA 5 - Canada 2

 

[Kcoyote3]

Finland 4 Russia 3
Canada 3 USA 2

 

[KarlssonsGroin]

Finland 4 Russia 2

Canada 6 USA 3

 

[Cas]

Finland (4) over Russia (1)
Canada (4) over United States (3)

It's really hard to predict the gold medal game.

 

[themelkman]

Canada (3) over USA (2)
Finland (4) over Russia (2)

 

[LadyStanley]

Russia 0 vs Finland 2 Hatakka with point

Canada 1 vs USA 2 (OT)

 

[landshark]

Canada 3 - USA 2
Finland 2 - Russia 1

 

[The Nemesis]

We're like 7 minutes into the game, so safe to say that medal round predictions are closed.

EDIT: also LadyStanley's bronze prediction is already invalid. Ouch.

 

[LadyStanley]

pfft

 

[NiWa]

No!

 

[Cas]

Yes!

 

[The Nemesis]

We had a clean sweep of Finnish victory predictions, so everyone gets 1 point. But @Cas picks up the extra point for the 4-1 final. Sorry @slocal and @NiWa, you guys were lined up for the extra point right up until that second EN goal.

 

[Barrie22]

Wow it was 1-1 when i looked on tsn not even 10 minutes ago. Where did that offense come

 

[The Nemesis]

We had 3 correct predictions of a USA victory (@slocal, @LadyStanley, @Barrie22) and no correct scores. The final leaderboard looks like this (I reversed the order of the points-by-round so that left-to-right more properly reads in order of the tiebreakers):

	Poster	Pts	Correct Predictions	Medal Rd Pts	SF Pts	QF Pts
T-1)	Slocal	8	0	2	2	4
	LadyStanley	8	0	2	2	4
2)	Cas	7	1	2	2	3
T-3)	NiWa	7	1	1	1	5
	landshark	7	1	1	1	5
4)	one2gamble	7	0	1	2	4
5)	KarlssonsGroin	6	0	1	2	3
6)	themelkman	6	0	1	1	4
7)	Kcoyote3	5	0	1	1	3
8)	Barrie22	3	0	2	1	0

[THEAD] [/THEAD]
[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Tiebreak procedures were:
1) Slocal and LS (8 total points apiece) finished in a dead heat. So.... see below.
2) Cas and NiWa and landshark (7 points each) earn initial tieberakers over one2gamble (also 7 points) for having an exact correct prediction during the contest.
3) Cas earns the tiebreaker on NiWa and landshark for notching 2 points in the medal round today while one2gamble only had a single point
4) NiWa and landshark were in a dead heat.
5) KarlssonsGroin earns the tiebreaker over themelkman (6 points apiece) for having more points in the semifinals

I think I got everything right in terms of tabulation, but if anyone wants to double-check my math, go ahead and let me know if I screwed up.

I also never did figure out a final tiebreaker past the above-listed items, and maybe it's just me thinking in a sort of "congrats" attitude to the mostly-American HFSJ who just beat my team for a well-deserved gold medal, but I might as well just count the tie and adjust placements accordingly.

So....

tying for 1st place, @slocal & @LadyStanley both have earned themselves 2 packs of avatars.

earning 2nd place alone is @Cas, who will score a pack of avatars and one extra rare avatar from a pool of undistributed designs (they are "official" I just had more finished products than slots in the packs I made)

tying for 3rd place are @NiWa & @landshark, who have each secured 1 pack of avatars.

congrats to everyone who competed and to the winners. I'll likely hand out rewards tomorrow.

 

[Cas]

congrats to everyone who competed and to the winners.

Thank you for an excellent contest, this was a lot of fun!