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The CBn 2010 World Cup Game


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#1 stromberg

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 10:07 PM

4 years after the success of CBn’s 2006 Football World Cup Game, it’s now time to start the new game for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

The rules will be the same as last time and are as simple as that:
The game won’t be on exact results, but only on which teams will make it to the next round. There will be 8 groups of four teams (A-H), winner and runner-up of which will make it to the usual K.O. rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals. All predictions for the complete tournament will have to be submitted before the opening game South Africa vs. Mexico kicks off on June 11th 2010 at 16:00 (SAST). This thread will be closed at this point, a PDF list of all entries will be compiled and posted (in order to make it easier to follow the game). Until then, participants can edit and change their list as often as they want to. Attention: due to new technical features on the CBn forums, the time for members to edit their own posts is limited. Should you find yourself unable to edit your post, just send me a PM with your desired changes in time and they will be taken into account. Or simply post a new list in this thread.

In order to keep the game manageable, the number of participiants is limited to 32 - exatly the number of countries taking part in the World Cup. You’re in when you post your first list, first come first served.

Correct predictions score the following points:
Groups to Round of 16 (16 Teams, scores 2,5 points each, 40 points total)
Round of 16 to Quarterfinals (8 teams, scores 5 points each, 40 points total)
Quarterfinals to Semifinals (4 teams, scores 10 points each, 40 points total)
Semifinals to Finals (2 teams, scores 20 points each, 40 points total)
World Champion: (1 team, scores 40 points)

Maximum score: 200 points. Your predictions have to make sense and follow the tournament’s logic.

Please download the attached PDF file that contains the complete rules of the CBn 2010 World Cup Game and a rough tournament schedule. Attached File  CBN_WCG_2010_rules.pdf   47.18KB   5 downloads

The winner can pick one of these three prizes:
- a double pack of original Casino Royale playing cards by CartaMundi (still sealed; red Poker deck and movie images deck)
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- a limited edition golden vinyl single of „Another Way to Die“ (mint condition).
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- a German TLD poster (Gunbarell montage, original release, top condition, folded, with pin holes),

Unlike other CBn competitions, team members are allowed to enter this one.

If you want to get an idea of how the game works and what happened last time, please visit the threads for the CBn 2006 World Cup Game: Submission thread and discussion thread

Please use this thread only for submitting your entries to the Game. There will be a separate discussion thread for the CBn’s 2010 Football World Cup Game, in which I’m also going to post intermediate results and comments. For general discussion on the 2010 World Cup, unrelated to this game, please use this thread.

Not certain if I’ll be able to post updates on a daily basis like last time, but I’m aiming at it. As last time, the game will start a bit slow with not much happening within the first week or so. The fun will most likely kick in when the second rounds of group matches have been played, so please be patient. Interesting fact about the 2006 Game: the winner was the only participiant who did not have his own national team taking part in the tournament, Double-Oh-Zero from Canada :tdown:

To give you an idea of how to submit your entries (please use this as a template), here’s my personal list (not final).

Round of 16:
A: FRA, URU; B: ARG, GRE; C: ENG, USA; D: GER, SRB; E: NED, CAM; F: SVN, ITA; G: BRA, POR; H: ESP, SUI

Quarter-finals:
FRA, ENG, ARG, GER, NED, BRA, CAM, ESP

Semi-finals:
ENG, BRA, GER, ESP

Final:
BRA, ESP

Winner:
ESP


As last time, I will take part in the game myself. My prize will be the fact that I can keep a double item from my collection and that I spare the shipping costs B)

Let the mayhem begin. Have fun, Good Luck to everyone and may the best team win!

#2 O.H.M.S.S.

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Posted 31 May 2010 - 09:04 AM

Great idea, stromberg. It will be my debut in this game as I wasn't a member in 2006. Belgium, unfortunately did not qualify again. But I'll be rooting for my European brothers in South Africa (and Germany is one of them of course B) ).

For the record: you might want to separate Slovenia from Slovakia because in the pdf they are both abbreviated as SVN, the official abbriviation for Slovakia however is SVK.

My predictions:

Round of 16:
A: URU, RSA; B: ARG, GRE; C: ENG, USA; D: SRB, GER; E: DEN, NED; F: ITA, SVK; G: BRA, CIV; H: ESP, SUI

Quarter-finals:
URU, ENG, SRB, ARG, DEN, BRA, ITA, CIV

Semi-finals:
ENG, SRB, BRA, ITA

Final:
ENG, ITA

Winner:
ITA

Good luck everybody.

#3 Carver

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Posted 31 May 2010 - 02:57 PM

Alrighty then, hadn't really decided before this who I'd predict as winner so shall have to wing it:

Round of 16:
A: MEX, RSA; B: ARG, GRE; C: ENG, USA; D: GER, AUS; E: NED, DEN; F: ITA, PAR; G: BRA, POR; H: ESP, HON

Quarter-finals:
ARG, ENG, BRA, ITA, NED, ESP, AUS, MEX

Semi-finals:
ARG, BRA, NED, ENG

Final:
ARG, BRA

Winner:
ARG

#4 stromberg

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Posted 31 May 2010 - 11:01 PM

Carver, old chap.
Haven't seen you around these parts for ages.
Welcome back B)

#5 stromberg

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Posted 08 June 2010 - 11:00 AM

Bumping this one up, hoping the game won't be played with only three people (including myself).

#6 stromberg

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Posted 10 June 2010 - 03:21 PM

Hmmm....

Less than 24 hours to go and still only two entries.
Had hoped for a bit more interest, and I have to say, if it stays like this, I'm going to cancel the game. Doesn't make much sense playing it with only three people. B)

#7 Jim

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 06:37 AM

Jim

Round of 16:
A: FRA, URU; B: ARG, NIG; C: ENG, USA; D: GER, AUS; E: NED, DEN; F: ITA, SLO; G: BRA, POR; H: ESP, SWI

Quarter-finals:
FRA, ENG, GER, ARG, NED, BRA, ITA, ESP

Semi-finals:
BRA, ENG, ARG, ESP

Final:
BRA, ESP

Winner:
ESP

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 08:53 AM

Haven't the faintest. Still, giving it a shot:




Round of 16:
A: FRA, MEX; B: ARG, GRE; C: ENG, USA; D: GER, GHA; E: NED, DEN; F: ITA, SLO; G: BRA, POR; H: ESP, CHI

Quarter-finals:
FRA, ENG, GHA, ARG, NED, BRA, SLO, ESP

Semi-finals:
BRA, ENG, ARG, ESP

Final:
BRA, ESP

Winner:
BRA

#9 stromberg

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 01:00 PM

Ah, nice. 5 players (until now). Not much, but the game will take place.
Updated my own list, now with Spain winning instead of Argentina.

One hour to go, last orders, please

#10 Jim

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 01:19 PM

Mrs Jim (Anything to have Italy win).

Round of 16:
A: FRA, MEX; B: ARG, GRE; C: ENG, USA; D: GER, GHA; E: NED, JAP; F: ITA, SLO; G: BRA, POR; H: ESP, SWI

Quarter-finals:
FRA, ENG, USA, ARG, NED, BRA, ITA, ESP

Semi-finals:
BRA, FRA, ARG, ITA

Final:
ITA, FRA

Winner:
ITA

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 01:43 PM

Spain to win...

#12 stromberg

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Posted 11 June 2010 - 02:16 PM

Spain to win...

"Spain to win" is not enough, sorry.
Predictions for the entire tournament were necessary to enter.

Interesting to see that the thread closing automatic did work B)