Thanks, fbaezer! Unlike others here, I have no reasonable substantiation for my choices...
group A
USA Women
Germany
Group B
Australia
Netherlands
France
Group C
Canada
Sweden
Brazil
Czech
Kenya
Group D
South Africa
Puerto Rico
Croatia
New Zealand
Austria
Welcome pnut, good luck & have fun on A2K.
My predictions
Ok. Here are my predictions. I had a really hard time picking the bottom Olympic teams...
Group A> USA male, Germany
Group B> Cuba, UK, South Korea
Group C> Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Canada, Norway
Group D>Columbia, Argentina, Finland, Austria, Portugal
sorry I copied some of your picks but it was really hard to make my picks, my "geolympic" knowledge it's really lousy, by the way can anyone post the link to the SI article?
Patada Veloz!!
Here's the link to Cazenueve's predictions:
Sports Illustrated medal picks
My Olympic Predictions
Cool idea.
My predictions:
Group A: China, U.S. Men
Group B: Australia, France, Italy
Group C: Hungary, Poland, Spain, Canada, Sweden
Group D: Turkey, New Zealand, Belgium, Nigeria, South Africa
Thanks, markr, and welcome to A2K.
Just for information: Tomorrow there is no more to apply here.
Thok wrote:Just for information: Tomorrow there is no more to apply here.
But tomorrow on Mexican time... mañana, mañana
of course, morgen on MT or UST :-)
why? I think we should let people vote until first competition starts, even until first medals (around 11 in the morning, August 14th, Greek time).
MOU's proposal makes sense, even if competitions have already started (football).
New deadline for inscriptions: 23:59, August 13 CST (7:59, August 14, Greek time)
I'll edit the original post.
How do I register to play this game? If I need to do something else, please let me know.
Anyway here is my entry:
Group A: United States Men, China;
Group B: Australia, France, Italy;
Group C: Belarus, Canada, Hungry, Poland, Spain;
Group D: Algeria, Belgium, Georgia, Turkey, South Africa.
Please keep me posted.
douglashuang wrote:How do I register to play this game?
You're already registered.
welcome to a2k, you have nearly the same avatar as the administrator.
Athen 2004 Olympic Medal Prediction
Here is an ECON major's prediction:
Total Medal Gold
1. United States 102 37
2. Russian 84 32
3. China 65 29
4. Australia 52 16
5. Germany 51 13
6. France 39 11
7. Italy 31 12
8. United Kingdom 30 8
9. South Korea 27 9
10. Cuba 25 10
With the host country, Greece, winning 25 medals (9 gold), ranking a close 11.
welcome douglashuang.
There are all sorts of predictions. There is also one made by the accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCooper, based on past performances, population, economics and a bit of history (excommunist countries have an edge).
Unluckily for Mexico, I think it will fail. PWC gives us 4 more medals than SI.
It gives India 10 medals, while Cazenueve's event by event analysis gives them only one.
I don't know what ECON is. Can somebady explain pls?
The link to the PWC
http://www.pwc.com/extweb/ncpressrelease.nsf/docid/6F4863E26F5434FC85256EE7006BD177
I think it reallies to heavily in the "politics factor", but anyway it's quite interesting the analysis they make.
(checked) RESULTS AFTER 1 DAY OF COMPETITION
1. douglashuang - 74 points
2. markr - 71 points
3. fbaezer - 60 points
4. Laeknir Scrat - 50 points
5. MOU - 47 points
6. ossobuco - 38 points
7. pnut - 27 points
8.Craven de Kere - 23 points
9. Patada Veloz - 18 points
10. thok - 16 points
11. jabs - 16 points
All in all, a good day for those who bet on China, and not a good one for those who did on Germany.
and then again, there are some like me that have them both
