The Syndicate

Group play:
A
Russia
Uruguay
B
Portugal
Spain
C
France
Denmark
D
Argentina
Croatia
E
Brazil
Costa Rica
F
Germany
Mexico
G
Belgium
England
H
Colombia
Senegal

Round of 16:
Russia over Uruguay
France over Denmark
Brazil over Costa Rica
Belgium over England
Spain over Portugal
Argentina over Croatia
Germany over Mexico
Senegal over Colombia

Quarter-finals
France over Russia
Brazil over Belgium
Spain over Argentina
Germany over Senegal

Semi-finals
France over Brazil
Germany over Spain
Spain over Brazil (3rd)

Finals
France over Germany

Syndicator to win it all: JaggedJimmyJay

Golden Ball winner: Paul Pogba
Golden Boot winner: Marco Reus
Golden Glove winner: Hugo Lloris

I don't quite understand the Syndicator to win it all thing. Let's say the following happens for all scoring other than that specific award:

1. Player 1 - 100 points
2. Player 2 - 98 points
3. Player 3 - 89 points
4. Player 4 - 78 points
etc

Let's say Player 2 correctly predicted that Player 1 would win it all, but Player 1's prediction was incorrect. This means Player 2 gets 5 points, and totals at 103 -- enough to take over first place.

But then Player 2 wins it all, meaning their original prediction was then wrong, so they don't get the 5 points. But then Player 1 wins, so their prediction was right, so they...

Russia 2-1

I'm not sure how I can pick either of you to win when I am obviously picking me to win.

Uruguay over Egypt 2-1

Iran and Morocco 1-1

Spain over Portugal 2-1

France 2 Australia 0
Peru 1 Denmark 1
Argentina 1 Iceland 0
Croatia 1 Nigeria 0

I've only just now realized I did the picks for the R16 incorrectly. Clueless.

Costa Rica 1 Serbia 1
Germany 2 Mexico 1
Brazil 2 Switzerland 0

Me gusta México

muy bien

Sweden over South Korea 2-0
Belgium over Panama 3-0
England over Tunisia 2-0

Colombia over Japan 3-0
Poland and Senegal 1-1
Russia over Egypt 2-1

Oh wow.

Maybe I should change, Golden is bad luck.

Portugal over Morocco 2-0
Uruguay over Saudi Arabia 3-0
Spain over Iran 3-1

Denmark over Australia 1-0
France over Peru 2-0
Argentina over Croatia 2-1

dunya wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 3:27 am Hahahahahahahahaaaaa

Brazil over Costa Rica 2-1
Iceland over Nigeria 1-0
Serbia and Switzerland 1-1

Belgium over Tunisia 1-0
Mexico over South Korea 2-0
Germany over Sweden 2-0

England 3 Panama 0
Poland 1 Colombia 1
Senegal 2 Japan 1

I feel like I've been one goal off 40 times now.

Egypt 2-1 Saudi Arabia
Uruguay 2-2 Russia
Spain 2-0 Morocco
Portugal 2-1 Iran

Australia 1-1 Peru
Denmark 1-2 France
Argentina 1-1 Nigeria
Iceland 0-2 Croatia

Brazil 3-0 Serbia
Switzerland 1-0 Costa Rica
Germany 3-0 South Korea
Mexico 1-1 Sweden

I saw the Germany/South Korea game was 0-2 and didn’t register which side had the 2. Took me 10 minutes to realize Germany wasn’t the team mopping up.

Love seeing the favorites drop. No team from a continent other than Europe or South America has ever won this thing, so all of my rooting interest is in bucking that trend.

Senegal 2-2 Colombia
Japan 1-1 Poland
England 2-3 Belgium
Panama 0-1 Tunisia

Free Senegal

France 1-1 Argentina, Argentina wins
Uruguay 2-1 Portugal

Spain 2-1 Russia

Croatia 2-0 Denmark

look at Mother Russia now

Mexico 1-2 Brazil
Belgium 3-1 Japan

I hope I'm wrong about both. That's the last of the non-Europeans/South Americans.

(unless you count Russia, but meh Moscow is in Europe)

This all seems to be aligning for a Brazil cakewalk

RIP non-soccer continents

Sweden 2-1 Switzerland

England 3-2 Colombia

england more like lolgland amirite

France 1-1 Uruguay, (France wins)
Brazil 2-1 Belgium

England 2-1 Sweden
Croatia 2-0 Russia

Well that was fun.

France 2-1 Belgium
England 2-1 Croatia

I've been making what I feel are the rational, unemotional choices the whole time, and I'm essentially in last place.

Golden wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 6:40 pm
dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 6:30 pm Nah against this Croatia, picking England is the logical choice actually.
Do you know how many times...

Against [xxxx], picking England is the logical choice.

This is never true. In any sport.

They're in the semi-finals.

Fun game to set up an interesting final.

I don’t think anyone can say England disappointed in this tournament.

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 5:42 pm 48 teams (16 groups of 3 teams) – 80 matches

lmao.

i can't even.

nope.

Is it just the single group winner advancing to a round of 16? Because if so I like that. England tanking against Belgium to finish 2nd for the easier draw was lame, and getting rid of that kind of thing would be nice.

2 Stupid Dogs wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 5:57 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 5:52 pm
dunya wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 5:42 pm 48 teams (16 groups of 3 teams) – 80 matches

lmao.

i can't even.

nope.
Is it just the single group winner advancing to a round of 16? Because if so I like that. England tanking against Belgium to finish 2nd for the easier draw was lame, and getting rid of that kind of thing would be nice.
i wish, but nope. top two will progress to a knockout round with 32 sides

Okay that's dumb.

People had pagers before color TV?

Belgium 2-1 England
France 1-0 Croatia

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Jul 15, 2018 1:29 pm I think I can comfortably say after this tournament: football > football.

I think that when it comes to what I most respect when considering format, athleticism, and reach: football > football.

When it comes to what I most easily invest emotion into, I might still be stuck at football > football.

However, football might continue to close that gap with football if prominent health concerns don't improve quickly.

What we've learned here is that the more football you watch, the worse you perform in predictions.

Nice job to those who placed, and thanks for running the action dunya!

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