Taking the cue from Paul#42 in the PBEM thread...
The EC starts tomorrow, the greatest event of the year apart from the Olympics in August. And while a championship is always fun in and of itself, it's always more fun when you share your thoughts and tips with your friends. So without further ado I give you the
Council European Championship Betting Championship
or CECBC for short.
Ok, some of you are obviously going to be thinking now, EC, how fun is that? I bet you'll be Americans mostly. But even if you don't enjoy the championship itself, I promise you'll have lots of fun in the CECBC. There's no reason not to join - ignorance is no excuse, and this won't take any time to mention. The winner gets enormous bragging rights, and the losers will still have had a lot of fun.
The rules are simple. We will have bets for all games in the EC, as well as for the final result. Every game will give points to those who bet correctly, and I will keep a running score tally. Or to put it more formally:
* Before each game, send me your bet for the end result, in exact numbers (e.g. 1-0 or 3-1). If you correctly predict the result, you get 3 points. If you predict the correct sign - i.e which team wins or if there's a draw - but with the wrong numbers, you get 1 point.
* Before the start of the tournament, send me your prediction for the top three of the tournament - gold, silver and bronze. Correctly predicting the gold will give 10 point, 7 points for the silver and 4 points for the bronze. If one of the teams you have predicted ends up in the top 3, but not in the exact position you placed it, you get 2 points for that team (you could get 6 points this way, if you place all three but in the wrong order).
* After the first round, before the playoffs, you're allowed to change any one of your top three. If you do, you will instead gain 5 points for gold, 3 points for silver and 2 points for bronze.
Place your bets either by posting them in this thread, or by sending me an email (no PMs please, my inbox is too cramped already). If you don't have my mail address, send me a PM and I'll give it to you.
Final results:
1: donsig - 28
1: Niklas - 28
3: Aigburth - 26
4: zyxy - 25
5: Paul#42 - 21
5: peter grimes - 21
7: tomasjj - 19
8: AutomatedTeller - 11
España wins the EC 2008!
Here's a link to the official EC 2008 site: http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/
So come on, place your bets and join the fun! No reason to sit out, not even if you don't like Football, not even if you're American!
(Not even for Englishmen or Norwegians! )
The EC starts tomorrow, the greatest event of the year apart from the Olympics in August. And while a championship is always fun in and of itself, it's always more fun when you share your thoughts and tips with your friends. So without further ado I give you the
Council European Championship Betting Championship or CECBC for short.
Ok, some of you are obviously going to be thinking now, EC, how fun is that? I bet you'll be Americans mostly. But even if you don't enjoy the championship itself, I promise you'll have lots of fun in the CECBC. There's no reason not to join - ignorance is no excuse, and this won't take any time to mention. The winner gets enormous bragging rights, and the losers will still have had a lot of fun.
The rules are simple. We will have bets for all games in the EC, as well as for the final result. Every game will give points to those who bet correctly, and I will keep a running score tally. Or to put it more formally:
* Before each game, send me your bet for the end result, in exact numbers (e.g. 1-0 or 3-1). If you correctly predict the result, you get 3 points. If you predict the correct sign - i.e which team wins or if there's a draw - but with the wrong numbers, you get 1 point.
* Before the start of the tournament, send me your prediction for the top three of the tournament - gold, silver and bronze. Correctly predicting the gold will give 10 point, 7 points for the silver and 4 points for the bronze. If one of the teams you have predicted ends up in the top 3, but not in the exact position you placed it, you get 2 points for that team (you could get 6 points this way, if you place all three but in the wrong order).
* After the first round, before the playoffs, you're allowed to change any one of your top three. If you do, you will instead gain 5 points for gold, 3 points for silver and 2 points for bronze.
Place your bets either by posting them in this thread, or by sending me an email (no PMs please, my inbox is too cramped already). If you don't have my mail address, send me a PM and I'll give it to you.
Final results:
1: donsig - 28
1: Niklas - 28
3: Aigburth - 26
4: zyxy - 25
5: Paul#42 - 21
5: peter grimes - 21
7: tomasjj - 19
8: AutomatedTeller - 11
España wins the EC 2008! Here's a link to the official EC 2008 site: http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/
So come on, place your bets and join the fun! No reason to sit out, not even if you don't like Football, not even if you're American!
(Not even for Englishmen or Norwegians! )
Germany (Niklas 7; donsig, tomasjj, zyxy, Paul 2)
Now I'm really confused... 
