Hello dear friends, the World Cup gave us its first verdicts today: South Africa, France, Nigeria and Greece are out, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina and South Korea will play in the round of sixteen. We had some spectacular matches to watch today and the results have not always been the expected ones: South Africa beat France 2-1 but they could have scored a few more, Uruguay looked mighty strong and went past Mexico 1-0, Argentina scored twice against Greece but both games came pretty late in the game, South Korea and Nigeria produced a fierce battle and a 2-2 draw.
As you know the leader of the rankings, Lye, announced that he doesn’t want to receive the prize, a copy of Football Manager 2011, so thanks to his generosity the second placed will receive the prize if Lye will win the contest eventually. There is a long way to go until the World Cup final though and lots of things can happen. What I can say right now is that the battle for the prize is extremely hot and with 24 points at stake every day until the end of the group stage the table can change dramatically every single day.
World Cup Predictions Contest Rankings 22nd of June
1. Lye — 51 points (*playing just for fun)
2. Majk — 41 points
3. ChroMe -40 points
4. Chris @ chester — 38 points
5. Taylor091 — 37 points
Ravenie 36
Sears 36
markjulian 36
Laxeyman 34
Mariano 33
Martin 30
Johnny Karp 30 (*playing just for fun)
Chris 28
Zheljo 28
Kofte101 28
Burak_gs 26
dami 25
Riza 25
Callum 23
Matthew 15
MisterC 15
Matt 10
Krishn 8
Kayonga Bernard 7
Cory Berman 4
Zam 2
MartinH 1
As always, I am asking you to help me with the points calculation, if you notice any errors please let me know.
On to the next matches:
June 24th Fixtures
15:00 GMT Paraguay vs New Zealand Group F
15:00 GMT Slovakia vs Italy Group F
19:30 GMT Cameroon vs Holland Group E
19:30 GMT Denmark vs Japan Group E
Thanks for participating and good luck!
