2010 FIFA World Cup Tipping competition

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's a loosing battle, alas.

ÖVP voters: 72% Spain
SPÖ voters: 66% Spain

FPÖ voters: 54% Holland
Green voters: 50% Holland

wtf partisan patterns

[Franzl]

How many say Limburg or Flevoland? Did they poll that?

You've made your point...

I apparently haven't, since people keep saying Holland.

And I'll keep saying it. It's widely used and even the Dutch themselves say it. It may not be "correct"....but is it that important to you?

[Hash]

How many say Limburg or Flevoland? Did they poll that?

You've made your point...

I apparently haven't, since people keep saying Holland.

And I'll keep saying it. It's widely used and even the Dutch themselves say it. It may not be "correct"....but is it that important to you?

It's a pet peeve that people say the name of a province (or two provinces) rather than the name of the whole country. And, yes, it pisses me off.

[Tender Branson]

How many say Limburg or Flevoland? Did they poll that?

You've made your point...

I apparently haven't, since people keep saying Holland.

And I'll keep saying it. It's widely used and even the Dutch themselves say it. It may not be "correct"....but is it that important to you?

It's a pet peeve that people say the name of a province (or two provinces) rather than the name of the whole country. And, yes, it pisses me off.

I live in a tourist area where many tourists are either from Germany or Holland. And I´ve talked with many of them and about 90% of them answer "Holland" when I ask them where they are from (As if it where necessary to ask them, because most times you already know that they are from Holland because of their Holland dialect).

[Hash]

How many say Limburg or Flevoland? Did they poll that?

You've made your point...

I apparently haven't, since people keep saying Holland.

And I'll keep saying it. It's widely used and even the Dutch themselves say it. It may not be "correct"....but is it that important to you?

It's a pet peeve that people say the name of a province (or two provinces) rather than the name of the whole country. And, yes, it pisses me off.

I live in a tourist area where many tourists are either from Germany or Holland. And I´ve talked with many of them and about 90% of them answer "Holland" when I ask them where they are from (As if it where necessary to ask them, because most times you already know that they are from Holland because of their Holland dialect).

...and? They're still wrong. Holland is flipping region, not a country.

[Tender Branson]

ÖVP voters: 72% Spain
SPÖ voters: 66% Spain

FPÖ voters: 54% Holland
Green voters: 50% Holland

wtf partisan patterns

They polled 400 people, of which 18% are FPÖ folks and 11% Green folks.

That would produce a 20% margin of error ...

[Lunar]

How many say Limburg or Flevoland? Did they poll that?

You've made your point...

I apparently haven't, since people keep saying Holland.

And I'll keep saying it. It's widely used and even the Dutch themselves say it. It may not be "correct"....but is it that important to you?

It's a pet peeve that people say the name of a province (or two provinces) rather than the name of the whole country. And, yes, it pisses me off.

I live in a tourist area where many tourists are either from Germany or Holland. And I´ve talked with many of them and about 90% of them answer "Holland" when I ask them where they are from (As if it where necessary to ask them, because most times you already know that they are from Holland because of their Holland dialect).

Well, talking to a German, that would probably be the more natural word to use, right?  The Germans use the term Holländer for them, no?  I remember hearing that was because "Dutch" sounds too much like "Deutsch"

[Tender Branson]

How many say Limburg or Flevoland? Did they poll that?

You've made your point...

I apparently haven't, since people keep saying Holland.

And I'll keep saying it. It's widely used and even the Dutch themselves say it. It may not be "correct"....but is it that important to you?

It's a pet peeve that people say the name of a province (or two provinces) rather than the name of the whole country. And, yes, it pisses me off.

I live in a tourist area where many tourists are either from Germany or Holland. And I´ve talked with many of them and about 90% of them answer "Holland" when I ask them where they are from (As if it where necessary to ask them, because most times you already know that they are from Holland because of their Holland dialect).

Well, talking to a German, that would probably be the more natural word to use, right?  The Germans use the term Holländer for them, no?  I remember hearing that was because "Dutch" sounds too much like "Deutsch"

Yeah, nobody says "Dutch" when a "Holländer" is meant. It´s either a Holländer or a Niederländer. While almost everyone speaking will say Holländer, Niederländer is the preferred written way (even though the Bild used Holland instead of Netherlands in their rankings of the WC). Don´t even know what the offical writing style is in the Beamtentum. For example if a German border cop finds drugs in a Dutch car and writes a report, which term is he allowed to use ? "Der holländische Tatverdächtige" or "Der niederländische Tatverdächtige" and so on ...

[Lief 🗽]

Holland is definitely correct at least when you're referring to their soccer team (see here and here), and considering that I know Dutch people who call their own country Holland as well, Hashemite needs to be stop complaining.

[Hash]

Holland is definitely correct at least when you're referring to their soccer team (see here and here), and considering that I know Dutch people who call their own country Holland as well, Hashemite needs to be stop complaining.

It remains officially incorrect at any rate, and I'm quite allowed to have that as my pet peeve.

[minionofmidas]

ÖVP voters: 72% Spain
SPÖ voters: 66% Spain

FPÖ voters: 54% Holland
Green voters: 50% Holland

Lol, what's behind that? Small sample size, or are the FPÖ voters just that dumb and the Green voters just that football-unsavvy?

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, nobody says "Dutch" when a "Holländer" is meant.

Except brainshat anglophones, of course.

Speaking of anglophones... in the first ever recorded instance of the word (or second now maybe?) they're what's meant by it.

[Edu]

Spain - Netherlands 2-1

[Franzl]

Will we ever get results?

[minionofmidas]

You do it, Joe.

[Platypus]

I'm currently just finishing up the group stages. I have limited access to the necessary combo of results, spreadsheet and forum at the moment

[Platypus]

bump for self. I have to start the whole count again, but I will get it done by the end of the weekend. Possibly.

[minionofmidas]

Hizzah!

[Platypus]

I can now proudly announce that all the data has been collated, and the scores are being tabulated.

[Platypus]

The scores are in, and we have a final ranking for all 19 people who tipped at any stage. I am now just tabulating the points-per-game ratio for tiebreaking purposes

[minionofmidas]

You know, I thought about bumping this thread two or three times over the past year, but desisted every time.

[Platypus]

Sorry

Our first two awards are for best and worst averages. To be eligible, you needed to tip at least 20 games.

The best:

1. exnaderite, adjusted score of 4.650 per game
2. LewisTrondheim, adjusted score of 4.509
3. Lief, adjusted score of 4.296

The worst:

9. Tender Branson, adjusted score of 2.535 per game
8. Jas, adjusted score of 3.360
7. Akno, adjusted score of 3.663

Next, our awards for the raw points before Winner predictions:

1. Lewis Trondheim
2. Edu
3. Lief
4. Franzl
5. Akno

And finally, our full results, including winner predictions, with ties being broken by points per game:

1. Lewis Trondheim, 239 points
2. Edu, 225 points
3. Lief, 202 points
4. Franzl, 201 points
5. Hughento, 185 points
6. Akno, 178 points
7. Jas, 168 points
8. exnaderite, 93 points
9. Bacon King, 72 points
10. Tender Branson, 71 points
11. GMantis, 34 points
12. Nhoj, 12 points
13. Earth. 11 points
14. Tmth, 7 points
=15. freek, 5 points
=15. Lunar, 5 points
17. Gustaf, 4 points
18. DC_Cutie, 4 points
19. Antonio V, 2 points

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The best of the under-20 games for average points per game was GMantis on 4.250 (34 points in 8 games). The worst was DC_Cutie with 0.500 points per game, 4 points for 8 games.

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Thank you to all who played and congratulations to Annie, Tender, exnaderite, and GMantis, and particularly to Lief, Edu, and our champion Lewis Trondheim.

[Platypus]

Also commiserations to Franzl for missing out on third by a single point, and I think I deserve the award for most winner points, with 25, followed by Lewis with 5 and Antonio V with 3, if that is an award

[Edu]

Well, 2nd is good enough, especially when I was closer to the 1st position than th 3rd

Congrats to Lewis for winning , Lief too, and to Hughento for running the whole thing

[Platypus]

I should also note that Edu was just barely ahead after the 1/4 finals, and that only he and Lewis tipped every game. Well done guys