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Topic: ⚽⚽⚽ Sportsbet's Bitcointalk World Cup 2022 - discussion ⚽⚽⚽ - page 3. (Read 10066 times)

legendary
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Big congrats to CasperBGD, you played one hell of a competition and big thanks to all of you guys participating. It was a real pleasure to organize competition like this even though it got quite challenging sometimes in the early rounds.

I have collected all your BTC addresses in the meantime and you have until tomorrow to double check them and yell if something is not as it should be Smiley You can find them in the last sheet of official tournament spreadsheet. Rewards will go out tomorrow afternoon, same time as our Livecasino campaign and since there is quite a few of you in it, you now know when you are getting the money.
legendary
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So, the answers for this round were hard to check Grin
We will recheck tomorrow once more as well, but please check by yourselves too.

Messi will probably be player of the tournament but all of you have the same answers so it won't influence the results.

The (unofficial) results are:

Final:
Harkorede - casperBGD 3-5

3rd place:
Kanapka - slaman29 4-5

We will make an official announcement tomorrow afternoon, and we will also send the rewards then so please send your wallets to Trofo if you haven't already.
We will also prepare a questionnaire for you to fill out and provide some feedback.

Congrats to everybody that participated and especially to casperBGD - the Sportsbet's Bitcointalk World Cup 2022 champion!

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EDIT: all wallets have been submitted, make sure to doublecheck them.
EDIT2: Messi won player of the tournament, points have been added.
legendary
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it was a real thriller, congrats to darxiomi and Argentina, it was a popular pick after all
so many penalties in regular time and overtime, there will probably be a total discussion on that, same as Croatia vs Argentina?

similar thriller in our final too
not sure how it all went in the end, Lloris is on the move for me, but cannot count shots/saves at the moment, waiting for final results by Cro2

legendary
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Giroud seems to have been a popular pick, I also fancied him but his early substitution prevents him from any further contribution... Too lazy to count the lineups or who took shots so not sure of anything there, but it looks tight as always, and tiebreakers again favouring those who went for earlier goals (semi and finals hunger huh!).

I'll just wait and wake up tomorrow to see Cro2's final tallies. Didn't get very much in on Harko in the end, but will be a nice bonus to have to cap off Argentina's win!

Well done Messi and friends deserved it. @darxiaomi, don't get too drunk =)

Final thanks to Sportsbet and all involved. I had a lot of fun, even just following the remaining participants.
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I wouldn't believe the world cup final stage between two giant countries like France and Argentina would play above 3 goals, as I know that the probability of such an outcome in this stage would be very narrow. I know gamblers with such a mindset will be so few. same with the quarter-final stage between Morocco and Croatia (two defensive sides) whose under-two goals odd prediction was very small, this means that the expected result was to be 0:0, 0:1, 1:0, highest 1:1 followed by PK, but the whole thing turns out to be 2:1. Indeed, football is so difficult to predict. for one to graduate from the school of football one needs to be under relentless scrutiny.
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Small countries different focus I guess. I know some other small countries focus on science competitions, others on farming, others on sports but again different sports. Football is a culture in Croatia I guess? I don't even know the history of that.

I hope Croatia knocks out some big teams from rankings (which is shit anyway as Belgium proved!!!) sometimes its nice to see #1 rank that never won the right to wear a star on their jersey.

But anyway, enough congratulations and sympathy for winners and losers, time to prepare our weapons for French and Argentinian losers later lol.

Football is actually a global sport, it's just the level of exposure that differs, and regardless of the population of a country, almost every country has a national league of it's own and often multiple division, If Iceland as a country of less than 400,000 people could have a multiple division league and even the same goes for their females as well.

It's has became customary to always have dark horse(s) in these type of competition, we've seen a couple in Euro, and some previous World Cup tournament, especially what brought Iceland, and Hungary to limelight a couple of years ago, as well as an Algerian team that were playing a beautiful style of football some years back, possession and attacking game, like an European team, having the likes or Riyad Mahrez, Slimani, Feghouli and Ghezzal. This current Moroccan squad typical reminds me of Algerian team of that year.
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Small countries different focus I guess. I know some other small countries focus on science competitions, others on farming, others on sports but again different sports. Football is a culture in Croatia I guess? I don't even know the history of that.

I hope Croatia knocks out some big teams from rankings (which is shit anyway as Belgium proved!!!) sometimes its nice to see #1 rank that never won the right to wear a star on their jersey.

But anyway, enough congratulations and sympathy for winners and losers, time to prepare our weapons for French and Argentinian losers later lol.

I'll see if I can also bet on you haha, same odds again I expect?
This time I am not so sure, we have some data to slightly offset the odds based on past performances and taken bets so we will see. And while I was writing this I realized that special should be available already. I can only find the one for our final match and that one is slightly slanted to Harkorede favor. Is this a chance to take Casper as underdog? I think so, at least for me Smiley

https://sportsbet.io/sports/sportsbet-specials/matches/future

I missed these specials, otherwise I would have bet on myself again (I maxed bet on me the last time and lost, would have been cool to try recover something).

Oh well, I hope everyone had fun betting, I'm just happy there were people who had belief in me other than myself lol
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I think in modern football yes, Croatia its by far the most sucefull little country (talking about population and dimesion) but in total football history we also have Uruguay with the same size in term of population.

Trofo how many Croats do you are talking ab out Croat diaspora?,not only the people in Croatia.
I have no idea how many Croats are there in the world but we are not getting a lot of players from that pool. There is occasional player, most famous probably being Rakitić who passed all the football schools in Switzerland and then decided to play for us. Another one is Stanišić who played for us as RB yesterday.

Most of our players are born in Croatia, raised in local league and then bought by Dinamo. At that moment you get a call to national team, that inflates your price and Dinamo sells you for good money to big European clubs Smiley
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Overall a really good game from Croatia, and all things considered - another fantastic success from our national team. Well done!

To think about it, Croatia is the smallest country that made it to the R16, if not the smallest that came to Qatar (I can't confirm the other countries' populations), a country of less than 4 million people, which is about the population of Lagos State. Six World Cup appearances, three medals, and the younger players in the team are some of the wanted names in Europe. If Croatia maintains this pace and keep the coach for a longer period of time, they may dominate Europe, and this is no joke. I heard Modric is sticking with the team till after the next Euro, which is absurd because he will be 39 in 2024, and we are about to witness another greatness. I believe he is striving for 40



I wouldn't be surprised if the next FIFA ranking shows Belgium, Italy, Germany, and England rated higher than Croatia, despite the fact that these countries should be ranked lower. I'm not sure how FIFA ratings work, but they're garbage.

I think in modern football yes, Croatia its by far the most sucefull little country (talking about population and dimesion) but in total football history we also have Uruguay with the same size in term of population.

Trofo how many Croats do you are talking ab out Croat diaspora?,not only the people in Croatia.

The FIFA rank its shit. I never look that.

Its amazing how Messi, Cristiano , Modric and others, push the age of retirement and also the age of playing a highg level of football, i remember no so far ago, like 10 or 20 years ago, a footballer in his 32 it was old and goes to USA or some minor leagues, and retires at 35. And that was a lot in that time.

legendary
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We were talking about penalty for Argentina against Croatia and I am the only Croatian that still doesn't claim it wasn't a penalty. I can see that situation both ways.

But how in the hell we did not get a penalty for start on Gvardiol today? Ok, I understand the ref is bad and without experiance but that is also a problem since FIFA chose him. If VAR does not call ref to check situation like this there is no point in having VAR at all.
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Overall a really good game from Croatia, and all things considered - another fantastic success from our national team. Well done!

To think about it, Croatia is the smallest country that made it to the R16, if not the smallest that came to Qatar (I can't confirm the other countries' populations), a country of less than 4 million people, which is about the population of Lagos State. Six World Cup appearances, three medals, and the younger players in the team are some of the wanted names in Europe. If Croatia maintains this pace and keep the coach for a longer period of time, they may dominate Europe, and this is no joke. I heard Modric is sticking with the team till after the next Euro, which is absurd because he will be 39 in 2024, and we are about to witness another greatness. I believe he is striving for 40



I wouldn't be surprised if the next FIFA ranking shows Belgium, Italy, Germany, and England rated higher than Croatia, despite the fact that these countries should be ranked lower. I'm not sure how FIFA ratings work, but they're garbage.
legendary
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Damn! I literally missed the specials bet for today, and stayed up all night, and I needed to take a quick nap which went for too long  Wink

I literally think I might have missed first 3 question, I had Ivan Perisic to play for 85+ minutes and have short on goal or assist, and the reason for my choice was literally down to Perisic already been totally overused and I felt Dalic might given an early rest today, but If the question were assist or goal, without the 85 minutes clause, I definitely would have gone for Yes, I really don't remember all the questions that involves the third place match, so I'd would have known what my answers were.

You didn't start well, you have 0/4 so far. casperBGD has 1 correct, but out of 3 questions (you had Kramarić to score, he has Alvarez so he's still alive there) - so he's got a solid lead so far.
You can check all answers in the spreadsheets now, they were hidden while the bets were open.

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Overall a really good game from Croatia, and all things considered - another fantastic success from our national team. Well done!
copper member
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Damn! I literally missed the specials bet for today, and stayed up all night, and I needed to take a quick nap which went for too long  Wink

I literally think I might have missed first 3 question, I had Ivan Perisic to play for 85+ minutes and have short on goal or assist, and the reason for my choice was literally down to Perisic already been totally overused and I felt Dalic might given an early rest today, but If the question were assist or goal, without the 85 minutes clause, I definitely would have gone for Yes, I really don't remember all the questions that involves the third place match, so I'd would have known what my answers were.
legendary
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entered my picks as well
Sportsbet was easy on me, and let pressure on Harkorede, feels good to be an underdog

good luck to all participants, in both finals (good luck Harkorede) and third place competition
it is a good time to thank once more to organizers Cro2 and to Sportsbet for sponsoring this one, it was a good fun all the way, no matter result in final (but, hoping for the best)

and it is good that more questions are regarding final, so it would be probably possible to overcome tomorrow eventual miss from today

P.S. rooting for neighbors today, go over Atlas mountains
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I'll see if I can also bet on you haha, same odds again I expect?
This time I am not so sure, we have some data to slightly offset the odds based on past performances and taken bets so we will see. And while I was writing this I realized that special should be available already. I can only find the one for our final match and that one is slightly slanted to Harkorede favor. Is this a chance to take Casper as underdog? I think so, at least for me Smiley

https://sportsbet.io/sports/sportsbet-specials/matches/future
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These are bets placed per our competitor, don't have the stats for amounts though.

Harkorede   19
Kanapka     12
   
Slaman29     10
CasperBGD   12

I believe we will have our bets settled tomorrow morning and then we should also get new markets for final and 3rd place playoff.

My bets have indeed been settled! Unfortunately, I'm going to be out all day until the match, so not sure if can place bets. Depends a lot on whether my mobile connection is friendly to me, and whether I will be allowed to be on my phone long enough without causing daggers in my back haha. Edit: Specials are out. Harko's the favourite, noooo! Haha. 1.75, don't let me down Harko Wink my pick for the winner since Group Stages ended.

GL to Slam and Kanapka too of course! I'll see if I can also bet on you haha, same odds again I expect?
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Yes, as Trofo said above:

"3+ covers three goals or more. So 3,4,5.... or winning combinations."

So it should be read as 3+ goals.

I sent my picks yesterday because there is no point to overthink the answer, given the unpredictability of this WC.

Good luck for you too, slaman29
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I have not seen a penalty discussed and contested like this for a very very long time lol. Let us hope there is no penalty in this final so that nobody needs to talk about deserve or not.

Did anybody notice odds in Sportsbet is exactly the same and unchanged since 2 days?

Anyway I finally submitted my quiz today. I have a few more hours to submit but I might be required to go out later or just be away so must put it in or risk being late lol. Good luck kanapka:)

Some things I notice, but for question #2: obviously 4 or more also means "3" is right, correct?
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there is one question where may be needed clarification
what happens in (highly unlikely) case that there is.more than three goals in Morocco Croatia mafch, is this 3 - over 3, or 4+ goals means no points for any player?
3+ covers three goals or more. So 3,4,5.... or winning combinations.

I just got confirmation that we will have betting for these matches as well. Look at the specials page 4 hours before the first game. Same deal as last time around. Hope many of you take this opportunity Smiley

I submitted my picks for the finals about an hour+ ago, and what's left to do is to sit back and enjoy the grand infantino of a socially awkward tournament, but Sportsbet still found a way as they always do to make it worth more than just bore fest.

With CasperBGD being the bigger favorite and myself the underdog, could I get a 3.00 or thereabout for me to win the world cup ? Cheesy Tongue

I'll definitely be banking on myself regardless, and whatever the outcome is I'm sure I'm up against a great opponent, and to have come this far against all the odds and other big members from the gambling community here sure is an honor.

As for my regards towards Sportsbet, I'm sure by now everyone in this community knows how I feel about them, and I'm sure we all share the same sentiment on this opinion.
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there is one question where may be needed clarification
what happens in (highly unlikely) case that there is.more than three goals in Morocco Croatia mafch, is this 3 - over 3, or 4+ goals means no points for any player?
3+ covers three goals or more. So 3,4,5.... or winning combinations.

I just got confirmation that we will have betting for these matches as well. Look at the specials page 4 hours before the first game. Same deal as last time around. Hope many of you take this opportunity Smiley
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