Regular season finale in Vegas (game 8)

[Fippy]

Okay check done with hopefully no mistakes..

Saxo
Kai
Nick723
4. Ariosto (did not play this round)
5. Lymond
6. Elliot

Cheers everyone, the house will see you again in the playoffs

 

[Kaitzilla]

3,750 Louis first

5,600 Napoléon second
7,650 Ramesses second

4,450 Cultural
3,050 Domination

And another game in a row where I will have to catch the recording

Amazing!
All 3 bets payed off, even the 40-to-1 Ramesses one.

Thanks for the regular season side betting Fippy.

 

[Saxo Grammaticus]

I need to doublecheck but sure looks like @Saxo Grammaticus got with Ramster 2nd alone..which gave a crazy 306000.

I couldn't believe it when Ramesses crossed over into 2nd in the last few turns with Sulla raging over Huayna Capac

All 3 bets payed off, even the 40-to-1 Ramesses one.

I calculated around a 35% chance that each category would yield something, which was by far the highest of any game so far.

And I second the hearty thanks for a wonderful regular season of fantasy picks! I have had a lot of fun, especially today

 

[Nick723]

Thanks for running @Fippy - highly enjoyable! Very satisfied with my third place in such an esteemed field!

Looking forward to round 2!

 

[Fippy]

Overall i had a feeling that culture win can come very close to Space in this one..putting it ahead of domination was clear for me.
But +500 was still rather generous imo.

Happy with +400 for Lou..do peoples think he will win more than 25% of games in alternate histories?

 

[Saxo Grammaticus]

I had Louis and Cultural both favored at 60%. Will also be curious whether the alternate histories prove consistent with that.

 

[NickGabben]

The feeling when your FTD takes out your bet for second... (not quite what happened, but close enough!)

 

[Thrasybulos]

Congrats @Saxo.

Damn, I did score for Ramesses 2nd in the Picking Contest (but not through any kind of good reading of the game - I bet on a possible alternate scenario which absolutely did not come to pass but happened to have Ramesses 2nd. Better be lucky than good, as they say). Should have gone for that here too.

 

[Elliot_Ness]

Congratulations to Saxo, Kai and Nick!

And much thanks to Fippy for organizing the contest!