Dear friends of ITALY community,
Welcome to the eighth week of the contest
🏆 ITALYGAME CUPTM 🏆
a ten-week tournament based on predictions for the Italian football league Serie A (or other football tournaments).
Starting with this episode, the game is divided into two: on the one hand, the weekly competition with its prizes, whose participation is free, and on the other hand, the pathways (Play-off and Secondary Trophy) leading to the final prizes, reserved for qualified users during the first seven weeks (Regular Season).
👨🏫👩🏫 HOW DOES THE GAME WORK? 👩🏫👨🏫 |
Each week, six matches from the Italian football league Serie A (or other football tournaments) will be selected. The participants' task will be to indicate (in the comments) for each match which team will score more goals than their direct opponent, and by how much, or if the two teams will score the same number of goals.
Each correctly predicted result will score three points. Predictions that are wrong by only one goal (either more or less) will score one point, while all other predictions will score zero points.
😀 It is possible to take part in the weekly contest in any week, even if you did not participate in the previous episodes.
🌍 Help your country win the 'Olympics'!
✍✍ EXAMPLE ✍✍
During the 25th round of Serie A, among others, the following matches were played (with the results in parentheses):
- Napoli-Lazio (0-1)
- Atalanta-Udinese (0-0)
- Inter-Lecce (2-0)
The exact predictions for these three matches, which would score three points for each, would be:
- Lazio +1
- ND (no difference)
- Inter +2
If the prediction was wrong by only one goal, each match would score one point, as shown in the following example:
- Lazio +2 or ND
- Atalanta +1 or Udinese +1
- Inter +1 or Inter +3
Other predictions that are wrong by a difference of more than one goal would not score any points, as shown in the following example:
- Lazio +3, Lazio +4, Napoli +1, Napoli +2...
- Atalanta +2, Atalanta +3, Udinese +2, Udinese +3...
- ND, Inter +4, Lecce +1, Lecce +2...
Every week, the three users who achieve the highest scores will be set as beneficiaries of the post with the contest results, with the following percentages:
- 1st place - 40%
- 2nd place - 20%
- 3rd place - 10%
In case of two or more equal scores, the user who guessed the highest number of correct predictions will be awarded, followed by the one who entered their predictions first.
Speed becomes an important factor in the game, and therefore editing one's own comment will not be allowed, an event that could result in exclusion of the weekly prediction from the game or the loss of acquired temporal priority.
To discover the rankings and events of the last week (individuals and by nations), read the seventh issue of the ITALYGAME CUP JOURNAL, official weekly digital magazine of the contest.
At the end of the Regular Season (first seven weeks of the tournament), the main course of the play-offs is reserved for users ranked from first to eighth.
The first and second in the rankings at the end of the Regular Season, @opera.shoujo (1st) and @robytrix (2nd), are according to the rules automatically promoted to the second round of the play-offs, which will be played next week. They are of course free to play in this episode of the competition as well and try to win the relevant weekly prizes, but their result will be irrelevant for the qualification to the second round.
The following users are therefore invited to participate in this week's play-off round:
The four users with the best score will advance to the semi-final round, the last two will be eliminated from the main course, but repechaged in the second round of the secondary trophy.
N.B.: The time priority only remains valid for the weekly game: in the event of a tie, the highest ranked user during the Regular Season will advance to the next round.
🥈🥈 Secondary Trophy - Round 1 🥈🥈 |
At the end of the Regular Season (first seven weeks of the tournament), the 'Secondary Trophy' route is reserved for users ranked ninth to sixteenth.
The ninth and tenth in the rankings at the end of the Regular Season, @kork75 (9th) and @yancar (10th), are according to the rules automatically promoted to the second round of the Secondary Trophy, which will be played next week. They are of course free to participate in the game in this episode of the competition as well and try to win the relevant weekly prizes, but their result will be irrelevant for the qualification to the second round.
The following users are therefore invited to participate in the first round of the Secondary Trophy:
The four users with the best score will advance to the semifinal round, the last two will be eliminated from the secondary trophy, but they can of course continue playing in the following weeks to try to win the weekly prizes.
N.B.: The time priority only remains valid for the weekly game: in the event of a tie, the highest ranked user during the Regular Season will advance to the next round.
The final prizes, at the end of ten weeks, will be as follows:
- PLAY-OFF WINNER - 100 Steem
- PLAY- OFF Runner-up - 60 Steem
- PLAY-OFF Third place - 40 Steem
- Winner of the secondary tournament - 20 Steem
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⚽⚽ MATCHES OF THE WEEK #8 ⚽⚽
Ready to take 'the field'? Fingers on the keyboard and off you go with your predictions! As the level increases, this edition of the contest will not only focus on the Serie A league (matchday 34), but will also include two matches from the English Premier League (matchday 35). Here are the six matches chosen for this week's competition.
- 1 - Roma-Inter
- 2 - Cremonese-Spezia
- 3 - Torino-Monza
- 4 - Lecce-Verona
- 5 - Liverpool-Brentford
- 6 - Newcastle-Arsenal
You can leave your predictions in the comments, according to this example scheme:
1 - Roma +1
2 - ND (no difference)
3 - Monza +2
4 - Verona +3
5 - Liverpool +1
6 - Arsenal +4
🏁🏁 DEADLINE TO PARTICIPATE 🏁🏁 |
The closing date for entering the seventh week's contest is:
Saturday, May 6th, 2023, 5.59 p.m. (Italian time) - 3.59 p.m. (UTC Time)
👮♂️👮♀️ GENERAL RULES 👮♂️👮♀️ |
- The weekly game is open to all verified users, of any language or nationality.
- Upvote and resteem are not necessary to participate, but remain very welcome to support this and future initiatives, as well as tag some friends, to make them aware of the game or try to re-engage them.
- It is not possible to change your predictions. Edited comments may be excluded from the game or lose any acquired time priority.
- During the last three weeks (playoffs and secondary trophy), for those who have not yet participated and for those excluded from the final phase, it will still be possible to join the contest to participate in the weekly game.
- In the event that a match is anticipated before the deadline of this contest or postponed to a date later than Sunday May, 6th, 2023, a final result of 0-0 will be considered. In the event that a match is suspended and not finished until Sunday May, 6th, 2023, the result at the time of the suspension will be considered valid.
Have fun and good luck!
This contest is sponsored by:
👉 VOTE US AS YOUR WITNESS👈
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Acá mis pronosticos de esta 8va semana:
Roma-Inter ND
Cremonese +1
Monza +2
Verona +2
Liverpool +2
Arsenal +1
Quiero invitar y darle mis intensiones de buena suerte a los compañeros que pueden disputar el trofeo secundario:
@dave25
@patjewell
@davidesimoncini
@pikkio82
Muchas gracias Yancar. Buena suerte para ti también :)
PS.: I usé un traductor, ya que no hablo español. Espero que no haya errores
Muchas gracias por tu participación!
Gioco settimanale: Partecipante #4
Thank you! My guess is in (•ิ‿•ิ)
1 - Roma +1
2 - Cremonese +1
3 - Torino-Monza ND
4 - Lecce-Verona ND
5 - Liverpool +3
6 - Arsenal +2
Benissimo!
Gioco settimanale: Partecipante #14
Eccomiiii, appena in tempo.. ;D
Roma +1
ND
Torino +1
Verona +1
Liverpool +2
Arsenal +1
Grande!
Gioco settimanale: Partecipante #16
Saludos amigo mis elegidos
1 - Inter (+2)
2 - Cremonese-Spezia (ND)
3 - Monza (+1)
4 - Lecce - Verona (ND)
5 - Liverpool (+2)
6 - Arsenal (+2)
Muy bien amigo!
Gioco settimanale: Partecipante #15
Saludos amigo, mis elegidos de esta semana espero continuar con la misma suerte
1 - Inter (+1)
2 - Cremonese-Spezia (ND)
3 - Monza (+1)
4 - Lecce - Verona (ND)
5 - Liverpool (+2)
6 - Arsenal (+1)
Muchas gracias por tu participación!
Gioco settimanale: Partecipante #13
Ciao a tutti ecco il mio pronostico
1 - Roma-Inter ND
2 - Cremonese-Spezia ND
3 - Monza +1
4 - Verona + 1
5 - Liverpool +2
6 - Arsenal + 2
Grazie mille!
Gioco settimanale: Partecipante #1
1 - Roma (ND)
2 - ND +1
3 - Monza +1
4 - Verona +3
5 - Liverpool +2
6 - Arsenal +3
Thank you!
Gioco settimanale: Partecipante #2
Le mie previsioni....
1 - Roma-Inter (ND)
2 - Cremonese-Spezia (ND)
3 - Torino-Monza (Torino +1)
4 - Lecce-Verona (lecce +1)
5 - Liverpool-Brentford (liverpool +2)
6 - Newcastle-Arsenal (Arsenal +1 )
Grazie per la partecipazione!
Gioco settimanale: Partecipante #3
Tu scegli molto bene le partite, è stato difficile decidere visto che sono molto similare, ci sono squadre che non hanno fatto una buona prestazione in casa e lo stesso con gli visitatori , ho guardato la storia delle squadre e ho fatto decisione, vedremo cosa succede
1 - Inter +2
2 - Cremonese-Spezia ND
3 - Torino-Monza +2
4 - Lecce-Verona ND
5 - Liverpool +3
6 - Arsenal +1
Hi @lilbiz-yl, please correct match 3. What team is the +2 for (Torino or Monza)? Your participation will be validated after correction, thank you.
3 - Monza+2
Thank you, good luck!
Gioco settimanale: Partecipante #11
1 - Roma-Inter (+1 Inter)
2 - Cremonese-Spezia (+3 Cremonese)
3 - Torino-Monza ND
4 - Lecce-Verona (+1 Verona)
5 - Liverpool-Brentford ND
6 - Newcastle-Arsenal ND
Grazie per la partecipazione!
Gioco settimanale: Partecipante #5