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"Freeola World Cup Prediction Thread"

It's back!

Due to popular demand, and thanks to the success of Emmie's Premier League Prediction thread, I am kicking off a copy-cat thread for the biggest sporting competition in the World, the FIFA World Cup.

Rules are found here UPDATED FOR KNOCKOUT STAGES 30/6:

[SPOILER]
Rules are simple, predict the result, score and first scorer of each game throughout the tournament to accumulate points. The person who is top of the league after the Final on July 11th will be awarded with a special GAD prize!

Points scoring works as follows:

Correct Outcome - 1 point
Correct First Scorer - 1 point
Correct Score - 1 point
All Correct - 5 points

As we are now in the knock-out stages of the competition the rules need clarifying slightly:

Scorecasts are counted from the full-time whistle only:
- If a game only goes for 90 minutes, with a winner than this score is used
- If a game is level at 90 minutes and a winner is found in extra time, the score after 120 minutes is used
- If a game is level at 90 minutes AND 120 minutes and a winner is found on penalties the score after 120 minutes will be used (i.e. a draw)

Penalties make no changes to the score of a match for the purpose of this game:
- For example, if England beat Germany on penalties after drawing 1-1 AET the score is 1-1 NOT 2-1 to England

Results are decided on who goes through, or out:
- If you predict a draw with your score, specify a winner on penalties!

Scoring in the Quarter Finals (2-3rd)
- Standard scoring for score, result and first goal-scorer
- Bonus points will be awarded, on top of those above, for the number of correct results, not scores, over the two days. Points will be awarded as follows:
2 games correct - 1 point
3 games correct - 3 points
All 4 games correct - 5 points

Scoring in the Semi Finals (6-7th) and Third Place Play-off (10th)
- Standard scoring for score, result and first goal-scorer
- You will also be required to predict the period in which the first goal will be scored, from the following categories:
0-15mins
16-30mins
31-45mins
45-60mins
61-75mins
76-90mins
ET1
ET2
No goal

2 bonus points will be awarded if you get this correct. For arguments sake, the minute listed as when the goal was scored on the BBC Football website will be used, no other report or media will be used. Also, if a goal is scored in first-half injury time this will be included in the 31-45min period, the same will apply to second half injury time.

Scoring in the Final (11th)
A.K.A. The 'lots of bonus points' game

- Standard scoring for score, result and first goal-scorer
- You will also be required to predict the period in which the first goal will be scored, as explained above: 2 points.
- A prediction for the first yellow card of the match: 2 points.
- The method of the LAST goal of the final, excluding a penalty shoot-out:
Open Play
Free-Kick
Penalty-Kick
Corner-Kick
No Goal

To prevent arguments, the decision on when a corner-kick period ends will be decided by myself, Warhunt and whomever else in Freeola Support saw that passage of play. However, as a rule of thumb, if the majority of players are still in the box after a corner is cleared, this will still count: 2 points
- Finally, as a little extra bonus, I would also like a prediction for the minute of the first goal, again as published by BBC Football, closest to this time, wins: 3 points

14 points will be available from this one game.

Any forum user is free to enter and eligible to win, including staffies. Due to this, these 'bonus point' games have already been decided in advance to prevent any fixing from over eager staff members :)

Good Luck!

Wednesday 30th - 4 games (2nd-3rd) Quarter Finals
July 4th - 2 games (6-7th) Semi Finals
July 8th - 2 games (10-11th) 3rd/4th Playoff & Final