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I was horrible at the beginning of the season. However after figuring out the system slowly I managed to get a few striking results. First the semi finals in the cup and now my defeating cryptofrka who was the unbeaten leader. I wouldn't have believed if someone told me 2-3 weeks before that these things were going to happen.


You can check this post for the calendar.

Wow! Am I seeing this right? Now that cryptofrka lost his game I am the only one who managed to remain undefeated the entire season! I don't know what to say... I was thinking of taking a break this week and not answering the cup questions but now I have a feeling I have to answer them so I don't lose momentum for the final week. I'm not sure who I will be up against. I know that it was posted somewhere in the thread but there's 80 pages and I don't feel like browsing all of them.

Nice to have a breather this week and good luck to Pulsar in the cup semi finals, i'm rooting for you to go all the way so that my elimination in the early round won't be wasted.  

I was very close to achieving victory in this round against my opponent @ralle14. Due to the loss of Union Berlin in the German league, I lost a part of the competition, but there is still hope to achieve a tie because my answer to the question about the Miami track is different from my opponent's answer.

For now think about it like when club like Manchester City wins the title and then in the last 2 league games fields mostly juniors and saves main players for Champions League. If they play against clubs fighting relegation battle is totally unfair situation since they destroyed other clubs from bottom of the table and now they will even possibly loose points. So if organizations like Premier League did not find a way to regulate it how can we?

We will think about it, but whatever we do somebody can still find a way to avoid our measures. Best thing to do is to have a bunch of people playing that mutually respect one another and do whatever possible to uphold fair play. We are quite happy how first season went so far and I think it can only get better in the future as rivalries and friendships form among out group.

Lol Arsenal try to catch up with their own shadow,  they will not win this title but great game from them and expected a better performance from Newcastle not what we saw today

5.3 seconds what a #$&@ driver, Sergio Perez didn't see this coming after looking like he was taking it home as the hot favourite ,but what can I say team Redbull is doing the most...these cars are destroying the competition at will,  hope team Mercedes will come through stronger in the next meet (EMILIA ROMAGNA GRAND PRIX)

Wowsers Verstappen kicking arse today like Arsenal kicked Newcastle's , I didnt know how to answer that question, cheers to who did.

Wowsers Verstappen kicking arse today like Arsenal kicked Newcastle's , I didnt know how to answer that question, cheers to who did.

Cmonn man, cryptofrka wrote about H2H question when free bets are concerned at least 5 times now.

Match 29 : Pulsar77 vs vd309
Match 30 : mv1986 vs mitchr4

We fully agree with this, yes. We'd like to once again ask all players to be fair to the competition and submit all answers, because skipping some of them directly harms some people in the league and helps others.
There's actually no easy fix for this - because even if we do punish the player who does not submit the damage is still done - it does not change the outcome for the affected party.

Still - we'll take what you said into serious consideration because we understand it's a crappy feeling when a person close to you on the table is getting points for free.

But I think that casuals are as well interested in a certain level of competitive integrity. As soon as you take skin out of the game for those who can harm the competition even deliberately (like simply not submitting an answer in H2H), you take away some of the least requirement for integrity, which is "if you submit, submit all answers". I think that integrity would actually attract more people than shy them away. I like the competition here and since it is a long-term thing, I think it would be bad if someone gets relegated or not promoted because someone else decided to give away 3 points to a potential direct competitor. But your competition, your rules.

What you are saying makes sense, but we won't be introducing such penalties. We think that the competition should be open for the casuals as well, and they will fall into the lower leagues very soon with this approach, or stay in them.
It's a shame when someone gets a free point against a player like that, but we really don't want to be too strict with it.

Considering that it's the first season, we're actually quite surprised that almost all of you answer all the questions on time.

8-14.5. - league
15-21.5. - cup (SF, Final)

It is sad to see that all those who won the tennis question only did so because they benefitted from someone refusing to submit an answer despite not being late. I get that in @jayce case it wouldn't have mattered as he was late anyway.

Don't get me wrong here, but I would really like to understand why someone refuses to answer questions when they are totally fine in terms of time. "I have no idea about the sport" really is no excuse because I, yes me personally, I have zero idea about DOTA2, never played it, never followed it, don't know a single player from the entire DOTA2 scene and never read any articles out of interest, but the least you can do to keep the competition fair is to open up a gambling website and pick the favorites.

Now someone could say "I still didn't feel like answering the DOTA question because too complex". Alright, but then seriously, how is someone not able to fill out the tennis question? How is that possible? I mean tennis is not nice sport and seriously, putting down Alcaraz should be possible for everyone. Even if you get the seeds wrong and didn't check the brackets, it would still cost you around 20 seconds to check the outrights for the ATP Madrid and nobody would have gotten a point because everyone would have put down Alcaraz.

I see this is as a problem specifically for the H2H questions. It does have influence on the standings in the table and it often really makes zero sense when almost an entire column is filled with the same answers, but less than a handful of people score because some refuse to answer questions even when they submitted way in time. I don't know, but refusing to fill out questions should perhaps come at a penalty. I understand when someone comes late one time in a season because it can happen and so did it to me one time in round 5, but other than that penalties should become a thing.

Maybe for both, that those who come late or refuse to answer questions get a penalty in the final table, not in the head to head. That way everyone would benefit in the same way. We could also discuss a "one joker per season" solution for coming late, but I think a penalty should apply.

When it happened to me in round 5 I did have personal reasons and I certainly still wanted to win the competition as you could see and I did lose it because one correct answer wasn't counted as I was late. But not filling in two H2H questions at all is like giving the other person 3 free points on purpose.