The Great Big A2K Fantasy Olympics Game For 2012!

Tell us more, boss!

similar threads from yesteryear:
http://able2know.org/topic/29980-1
http://able2know.org/topic/119788-1

Watch this space in the next few days. We'll be back - just as we were in 2008 and 2010 - with the rules. We need to finish making them up first.
You will be given a list of countries, divided into Group A through Group D. You will be asked to choose two (2) from Group A, three (3) from Group B, five (5) from Group C and five (5) from Group D before the start of the games. Then you can rest.
If one of your countries wins a gold medal, you win five (5) points. You get three (3) points for a silver and one (1) for a bronze.
Pretty painless, huh?
We had some 50 players in the past. Some of the backroom logistics of keeping track of the scores is a bit tedious, but doable.

STEP #1:
Choose two (2) teams from Group A -
> Australia
> China - Men's team
> China - Women's team
> German
> Russia
> United Kingdom
> United States - Men's team
> United States - Women's team

China and the U.S. - large teams - have been divided in two.

STEP #2:
Choose three (3) teams from Group B -
> Belarus
> Canada
> Cuba
> France
> Hungary
> Italy
> Japan
> Netherlands
> South Korea
> Spain
> Ukraine

STEP #3:
Choose five (5) teams from Group C -
> Argentina
> Brazil
> Czech Republic
> Denmark
> Georgia
> Jamaica
> Kenya
> New Zealand
> North Korea
> Norway
> Poland
> Romania
> Slovakia
> Sweden
> Thailand
> Turkey

And finally,
STEP #4:
Choose five (5) teams from Group D -
> All of the other countries in the world.

I, or others perhaps, will list countries that have won medals in the past.

Please pick Steps #1 through #3. You can change your guesses before opening day.

Will do - need to read up.

Thanks, realjohnboy! I'll post my pics in a few weeks after some research. In the meantime, I'm going to forward this thread to my friends.

Research? I'm clearly out of my league.

GROUP D:
You must choose five (5) countries not listed in groups A, B or C to round out your picks. I googled "2008 summer olympics medal count" and found that there were over 50 countries who won at least one medal.
I am not going to attempt to list them. Wikepedia has a tally of medals by every country.

Fine. But I left Kazakhstan out of Group C.
I kid you not.
They did well in 2008.

Research? I wouldn't know where to begin.
Johnboy's picks:
Group A: Russia and U.S. Men
Gr0up B: Finland, Japan and South Korea
Group C: Czech Republic, Jamaica, Kenya, Norway and Poland
Group D: Switzerland, Azerbajan, Uzbekizstan, Indonesia and Greece
(Azerbajan has a really good 50 and 100 meter air pistol team)

Group A: Germany and U.S. Men
Gr0up B: Canada, Japan, S. Korea
Group C: Brazil, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia
Group D: S. Africa, Mexico, Greece, Jamaica, Lichtenstein (quadrennial underdogs)

54 days, 17 hours to go.
36 sports from archery to wrestling.

42 days now to go before the start of the London Olympics. Please post your picks from the groups above. Thanks.

A: Russia, US Men
B: France, Italy, Japan
C: Czech, Jamaica, New Zealand, Poland, Turkey
D: Cuba, Kazakhstan, Iran, Croatia, Switzerland

That should be good for the gold this time around.

Group A
China - Women's team and United States - Men's team

Group B
France, Japan, South Korea

Group C
Brazil, Denmark, Romania, Sweden, Turkey

Group D
Ireland, Israel, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam

After thinking about it, I am changing how I want to rank them...

A: Russia, Germany
B: France, Italy, Japan
C: Czech, Jamaica, New Zealand, Poland, Turkey
D: Cuba, Kazakhstan, Iran, Croatia, Switzerland

That should be good for the gold this time around.

Tico, Jamaica's in group C.