It's time again! With the Veterans of the Clash tournament getting ready to begin, prove your AoC knowledge and foresight by predicting the outcome of the tournament and you could win $200! The premise is simple: predict the outcome of each of the 21 matches scheduled for the VoC tournament and receive points based on how close your prediction is to the actual outcome. Score the highest and win!
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Note: Sorry for the late notice, but the first match will likely kickoff either Thursday night or Friday morning, at which point entry to the contest will close. If you are interested in participating, please submit an entry ASAP. Remember, the format for this is every match has 5 maps played regardless of the result. This is different from TEL (but the same as CoT RR).
Rules
- An entry consists of a score prediction for every round robin match. Entries without every match or with invalid scores will be disqualified. Remember that every match will have 5 maps played total, regardless of the result.
- Entries must be submitted using the template below. I am lazy and using a different format will probably cause me to skip your entry.
- Multiple entries will result in disqualification
- The 7 players in the tournament are not allowed entry :P
- The deadline to submit an entry is at the scheduled start time of the first match. Right now this appears like it will be either Thursday night/Friday morning.
- You are allowed to edit your entry up until the entry deadline. Please mark on your entry somewhere that you made an edit. Any edits made after the deadline will void that entry.
- Rules are subject to change as deemed necessary.
- The winner will receive $200.
- You must have PayPal to receive your prize.
- A perfect entry will win $1000 (I will cover the difference if the sponsor does not agree to this)
Scoring
Each entry will receive points based upon accuracy of their predictions and such. The entry with the highest total at the conclusion of the tournament is the winner. In case of a tie, the prize will be split amongst the winners.
Scoring will work as follows:
- For predicting the exact outcome of a match, receive 3 points.
- For a prediction off by one game, receive 1 point (e.g. Prediction is 4-1, Actual is 3-2 or 5-0).
- For correctly predicting winner of the match, receive 1 point.
- For correctly predicting final placement of a player, receive 2 point (e.g. Predicted player X to finish 2nd and player X actually does finish 2nd)
- For correctly predicting a players exact final point total, receive 2 point.
- For correctly predicting tournament winner, receive 6 points (in addition to the 2 point received from rule 4)
Example:
A "perfect" entry is worth 118 points broken down as follows:
63 points from rule (1) with 21 perfect predictions of matches
0 points from rule (2) with 0 predictions 1 game off
21 points from rule (3) for correctly predicting winner of 15 matches
14 points from rule (4) for correctly predicting final placement of 7 players
14 points from rule (5) for correctly predicting exact final point total of 7 players
6 points from rule (6) for correctly predicting tournament winner.[/list]
Each match is worth up to 4 points (with a perfect prediction; 3 from rule (1) and 1 from rule (3)). The other possible outcomes are:
2 points: Predicted correct winner but off by one game in final score
1 point: Predicted correct winner but off by two games in final score OR off by one game in final score but predicted incorrect winner (e.g. predicted 3-2 but actual was 2-3)
0 points: Did not predict correct winner and was off by two or more games in final score.
At the conclusion of the tournament, up to 34 more "bonus" points can be gained based on final standings from rules 4-6.
Entry Template
Please use the template in the box below exactly to submit an entry. Change the numbers only, please do not rearrange the order of the matches or add extra spaces or whatever.
Code:
Nicov 0 : 0 TiMe_4_F1Re
Nicov 0 : 0 slam
Nicov 0 : 0 VG_Paladin
Nicov 0 : 0 poZ_Tammy
Nicov 0 : 0 BacT
Nicov 0 : 0 Chris
TiMe_4_F1Re 0 : 0 slam
TiMe_4_F1Re 0 : 0 VG_Paladin
TiMe_4_F1Re 0 : 0 poZ_Tammy
TiMe_4_F1Re 0 : 0 BacT
TiMe_4_F1Re 0 : 0 Chris
slam 0 : 0 VG_Paladin
slam 0 : 0 poZ_Tammy
slam 0 : 0 BacT
slam 0 : 0 Chris
VG_Paladin 0 : 0 poZ_Tammy
VG_Paladin 0 : 0 BacT
VG_Paladin 0 : 0 Chris
poZ_Tammy 0 : 0 BacT
poZ_Tammy 0 : 0 Chris
BacT 0 : 0 Chris
Note that the entry does not include the final standing or points total. I'll calculate it based on your match results. If you feel the need to include it yourself to make it easier to understand your predictions, feel free, but please put it before or after your match predictions so they can still be easily parsed.
If you wish to participate but do not want your entry public, you may submit an entry via PM.
Please use this thread for submitting entries only.
Good luck!