RWC Competition 2019

First topic message reminder :

All the pool games now added so please continue to post your predictions prior to all kick offs or you won't score in that match.

Just checking if there is an appetite to have a RWC competition similar to our normal 6Ns one? Same rules which I copy below. I am happy to run this, but if someone else who has done it before has a desire to run it I will happily stand aside??

Your predictions must be posted prior to the matches starting.

1 Friday, Sept. 20 A Japan vs. Russia 19:45 Tokyo Stadium
2 Saturday, Sept. 21 D Australia vs. Fiji 13:45 Sapporo Dome
3 Saturday, Sept. 21 C France vs. Argentina 16:15 Tokyo Stadium
4 Saturday, Sept. 21 B New Zealand vs. South Africa 18:45 International Stadium Yokohama
5 Sunday, Sept. 22 B Italy vs. Namibia 14:15 Hanazono Rugby Stadium
6 Sunday, Sept. 22 A Ireland vs. Scotland 16:45 International Stadium Yokohama
7 Sunday, Sept. 22 C England vs. Tonga 19:15 Sapporo Dome
8 Monday, Sept. 23 D Wales vs. Georgia 19:15 City of Toyota Stadium

and the next bunch of matches before they start please!!

Tue, 24 Sep Russia v Samoa Kumagaya Rugby Stadium Watch Live 19:15
Wed, 25 Sep Fiji v Uruguay Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium Watch Live 14:15
Thu, 26 Sep Italy v Canada Fukuoka Hakatanomori Stadium Watch Live 16:45
Thu, 26 Sep England v USA Kobe Misaki Stadium Watch Live 19:45
Sat, 28 Sep Argentina v Tonga Hanazono Rugby Stadium Watch Live 13:45
Sat, 28 Sep Japan v Ireland Shizuoka Stadium Ecopa Watch Live 16:15
Sat, 28 Sep South Africa v Namibia City of Toyota Stadium Watch Live 18:45
Sun, 29 Sep Georgia v Uruguay Kumagaya Rugby Stadium Watch Live 14:15
Sun, 29 Sep Australia v Wales Tokyo Stadium, Tokyo Watch Live 16:45
Mon, 30 Sep Scotland v Samoa Kobe Misaki Stadium Watch Live 19:15
Oct 2 France vs USA Pool C, Fukuoka 8.45am
Oct 2 New Zealand vs Canada Pool B, Oita 11.15am
Oct 3 Georgia vs Fiji Pool D, Higashiosaka 6.15am
Oct 3 Ireland vs Russia Pool A, Kobe 11.15am
Oct 4 South Africa vs Italy Pool B, Shizuoka 10.45am
Oct 5 Australia vs Uruguay Pool D, Oita 6.15am
Oct 5 England vs Argentina Pool C, Tokyo 9am
Oct 5 Japan vs Samoa Pool A, Toyota City 11.30am
Oct 6 New Zealand vs Namibia Pool B, Tokyo 5.45am
Oct 6 France vs Tonga Pool C, Kumamoto 8.45am
Oct 8 South Africa vs Canada Pool B, Kobe 11.15am
Oct 9 Argentina vs USA Pool C, Kumagaya 5.45am
Oct 9 Scotland vs Russia Pool A, Shizuoka 8.15am
Oct 9 Wales vs Fiji Pool D, Oita 10.45am
Oct 11 Australia vs Georgia Pool D, Shizuoka 11.15am
Oct 12 New Zealand vs Italy Pool B, Toyota City 5.45am
Oct 12 England vs France Pool C, Yokohama 9.15am
Oct 12 Ireland vs Samoa Pool A, Fukuoka 11.45am
Oct 13 Namibia vs Canada Pool B, Kamaishi 4.15am
Oct 13 USA vs Tonga Pool C, Higashiosaka 6.45am
Oct 13 Wales vs Uruguay Pool D, Kumamoto 9.15am
Oct 13 Japan vs Scotland Pool A, Yokohama 11.45am

1) Each week you will be asked to predict the scores from that weekend's games. All predictions must be made before the start of the games.

2) You will be get points depending on how close you are to the actual score. Points will be awarded in the following way:-
- You will get 20 points for getting the correct match outcome.
- You will get 10 points for getting a teams score correct.
- You will lose one of those 10 points for every point you are away from a teams score. Therefore you must be with 10 points of a teams score to gain points.
- If you get a match score spot on you will be awarded with double points. So if the correctly predict a match's score you will receive a maximum 80 points.

Example:-
Your prediction - Ireland 17-31 Wales
Actual result - Ireland 25-31 Wales
Your score 32 points

You would receive 20 points for correctly predicting Wales to win. As you were 8 points off Ireland's score you get 2 points for that and another 10 points for getting Wales' score spot on.

England 35-Australia 18

New Zealand 28-Ireland 31

Wales 18-France 30

Japan 35 SA 25

England 37-18 Australia
New Zealand 9-16 Ireland
Wales 24-19 France
Japan 7-41 South Africa

England 32-24 Australia
New Zealand 21-26 Ireland
Wales 24-19 France
Japan 24-21 South Africa

England 18 New Zealand 26
Wales 19 South Africa 18

LT......head over heart......minus 10 points straight away

hugehandoff wrote:LT......head over heart......minus 10 points straight away

I can still change it. A win would be a nice birthday present

England 23 - 32 New Zealand
Wales 28 - 24 South Africa

NZ 34 - 21 ENG
SA 27 - 24 WAL

NZ 36 - Eng 23
SA 28 - Wal 16

NZ 34 - Eng 31
SA 25 - Wal 27

NZ 40 - 20 ENG
SA 20 - 10 WAL

ENG 30-NZ 20
WAL 10-SA 30

England 22 - 27 Kiwis

South Africa 19 - 25 Wales

England 24-28 NZ
South Africa 29-22 Wales

Afro wrote:

maestegmafia wrote:England 33 - 32 Australia
New Zealand 18 - 21 Ireland
Wales 21 - 20 France
Japan 21 - 19 South Africa

We're in for a cracking weekend of games if your predictions are good

That is such a good prediction Maes and deserves the bonus

England 28 - 33 NZ
South Africa 14 - 17 Wales

Afro wrote:

Afro wrote:

maestegmafia wrote:England 33 - 32 Australia
New Zealand 18 - 21 Ireland
Wales 21 - 20 France
Japan 21 - 19 South Africa

We're in for a cracking weekend of games if your predictions are good

That is such a good prediction Maes and deserves the bonus

Though perhaps best to draw a veil over the other 3

Missed the quarters due to being on holiday and having important things to attend to like eating, drinking and enjoying the sunshine

England 38 - 32 NZ
SA 18 - 16 Wales

Get those two bang on and I reckon it puts me in the mix...

England 28 - 33 New Zealand

South Africa 18 - 17 Wales

Afro wrote:

Afro wrote:

maestegmafia wrote:England 33 - 32 Australia
New Zealand 18 - 21 Ireland
Wales 21 - 20 France
Japan 21 - 19 South Africa

We're in for a cracking weekend of games if your predictions are good

That is such a good prediction Maes and deserves the bonus

Got something right for a change mate.

England 19 - New Zealand 25
Wales 18 - South Africa 22

England 20 - 28 NZ
Wales 17 - 15 SA

England 22 - NZ 32
Wales 13 - SA 25

England 17 - 18 New Zealand
Wales 16 - 22 South Africa

England 28 - 36 New Zealand
Wales 33 - 25 South Africa

England 19 - 26 New Zealand
Wales 18 - 30 South Africa

England 18 - 28 New Zealand
Wales 20 - 30 South Africa

England 27 - 26 New Zealand
Wales 32 - 27 South Africa

England 26 19 new Zealand
South Africa 32 13 wales

1/4 finals round up and results......quite a few of us going with the heart, which generally did not pay off. Add in that we are hoping for a miracle to catch up robbo which we will certainly need from now on. Some perfect scores required!

Well played Taylorman for winning the 1/4 finals round

Taylorman 121
robbo227 118
Wiglaf 117
RDW 114
London Tiger 112
Tattie Scones RRN 110
Afro 110
BamBam 107
sportform 105
miaow 105
TightHEAD 104
ebop 103
bsando 95
alive555 89
7&1/2 87
hugehandoff 85
Irishhoneymonster 65
Pie 58
No9 55
majesticimperialman 50
Pal Joey 47
maestegmafia 44

Which brings the new combined totals for the whole tournament to date as follows:

robbo227 1155
BamBam 1084
London Tiger 1073
Wiglaf 1048
Tattie Scones RRN 1045
ebop 1044
Irishhoneymonster 1030
alive555 1024
No9 1023
7&1/2 1004
Afro 997
hugehandoff 986
miaow 961
RDW 960
Pal Joey 945
TightHEAD 930
sportform 927
bsando 903
maestegmafia 876
Rinsure 852
LordDowlais 835

Eng 32 V NZ 24

SA 24 V Wales 22

Are there double marks for semis/final?

LondonTiger wrote:Are there double marks for semis/final?

maybe for the final? Then you could get 160 points for a perfect prediction!

hugehandoff wrote:1/4 finals round up and results......quite a few of us going with the heart, which generally did not pay off. Add in that we are hoping for a miracle to catch up robbo which we will certainly need from now on. Some perfect scores required!

Well played Taylorman for winning the 1/4 finals round    

Taylorman 121
robbo227   118
Wiglaf   117
RDW   114
London Tiger   112
Tattie Scones RRN  110
Afro  110
BamBam  107
sportform  105
miaow 105
TightHEAD 104
ebop  103
bsando  95
alive555  89
7&1/2   87
hugehandoff  85
Irishhoneymonster  65
Pie 58
No9   55
majesticimperialman  50
Pal Joey  47
maestegmafia  44

Thanks, yeah nearly fluked the AB score spot on if Sexton had kicked the conversion.

¿Huh?

From memory it was 46-12? I had 46-14 so conveniently blamed Sexton. Can’t remember if that was how it planned out, was a bit of a blur...

I will get slated for posting this.

England 40 NZ 20

Wales 15 SA 30.

You did say you didn't have much luck on the horses maj...let's see how this one pans out...!

Nice round number Maj, like it

Taylorman wrote:From memory it was 46-12? I had 46-14 so conveniently blamed Sexton. Can’t remember if that was how it planned out, was a bit of a blur...

Close. Final score was 46-14, you had 46-12

Oh, he needed to miss that conversion.

Too late for Eng v NZ.

SA 24 Wales 21

Wales 17 NZ 27
SA 19 England 37

Wales 18 - 34 NZ

SA 23 - 22 England

Wales 19 NZ 53
SA 17 England 29

edit

Wales 16 - 30 NZ
SA 16 - 34 England

I am waiting to see what teams are selected for the 3/4 match.

LondonTiger wrote:I am waiting to see what teams are selected for the 3/4 match.

I'm working on the basis that Wales don't have many players left standing, and that the All Black second strong will be too strong for the Wales Walking Wounded