Ada's Eurovision Game - In Play

[Ada]

Your selections are in & are as follows:

ADA:
1st Sweden 2nd Russia 3rd Serbia 4th Portugal 5th Greece
23rd United Kingdom 24th Romania 25th Poland
TB - UK 23rd

IRON CHRIS:
1st Russia 2nd Ukraine 3rd Greece 4th Serbia 5th Finland
23rd Albania 24th Croatia 25th Germany
TB - UK 22nd

SPARKYMINER:
1st Latvia 2nd Croatia 3rd Russia 4th United Kingdom 5th Serbia
23rd Ukraine 24th Azerbaijan 25th Armenia
TB - UK 4th

MATHARE:
1st Armenia 2nd Latvia 3rd Turkey 4th United Kingdom 5th Iceland
23rd France 24th Bosnia & Herzegovina 25th Israel
TB - UK 4th

BIGCUMBA:
1st Russia 2nd Croatia 3rd Georgia 4th Latvia 5th Greece
23rd Portugal 24th Norway 25th United Kingdom
TB - UK 25th

SCOOBYDOO:
1st Sweden 2nd Greece 3rd Russia 4th Finland 5th Ukraine
23rd Germany 24th Albania 25th Romania
TB - UK 19th

GLOSRFC:
1st Ukraine 2nd Russia 3rd Sweden 4th Serbia 5th Poland
23rd United Kingdom 24th Albania 25th Croatia
TB - UK 23rd


Scoring
The person finishing with the overall highest score will be declared the winner & will win the £15 Amazon Voucher prize...however, if I score the highest, then I win and therefore won't have to shell out any prize money.

Each person will start with 100 points.
Points will be added or deducted to/from this score using the following rules:

i) If you correctly predict the final placing of any of your nominated countries: 10 points will be added to your score.

ii) If any of your nominated countries finish in either the Top 5 or Bottom 3 zones but are incorrectly placed within those zones….. 5 points MINUS the difference between the country’s actual placing & your predicted placing will be added to your score….
For example: If you predict that the UK will finish in 2nd place but they ACTUALLY finish in 4th place…. 5 points (for correctly predicting UK to finish in the Top 5) MINUS the difference between their actual placing (4) and predicted placing (2) …………… 5-(4-2) = 3 points will be added to your score.

iii) If any of your nominated countries fail to finish in either the Top 5 or Bottom 3 zones, the difference between the country’s actual placing & your predicted placing will be DEDUCTED from your score…..
For example: If you predict that the UK will finish in 4th place but they ACTUALLY finish in 21st place…. 21 – 4 = 17 points will be deducted from your score.


Good luck to you all

Ada. :thumbs

[mathare]

So the UK are either going to do OK and come about 4th or bomb and finish in the bottom 3 :laugh

[scoobydoo]

So the UK are either going to do OK and come about 4th or bomb and finish in the bottom 3 :laugh

:)

Its a total lottery isnt it Mat....You have Armenia to win and Sparky has them to be last!! Can't wait for the votes to come in. :laugh

[GlosRFC]

So the UK are either going to do OK and come about 4th or bomb and finish in the bottom 3 :laugh


By rights, it deserves to bomb - it's probably one of the worst entries we've ever submitted. Listening to it again hasn't changed my mind. In fact, 30 seconds later I can't even remember the tune, the lyrics, or any significant melody.

The BBC should've rigged the result of the poll that elected this as our entry.

[bigcumba]

it's probably one of the worst entries we've ever submitted.

it's totally insipid which is sad as the guy has a pretty decent voice... just a crap song

[GlosRFC]

The Bosnia entry was like something out of Playschool! And yet...strangely catchy

[bigcumba]

I see Finland are still going with the heavy metal entry... there will never be another Lordi!

[GlosRFC]

Finland probably think they're entering the 1968 contest!

[Ada]

OK.......

I have the results.....but......I've been on the lash tonight......so.....

......I really think I need to verify my maths, just to make sure I don't humiliate or embarrass any of you more than is absolutely necessary... in naming you the 2008 Eurovision 'anorak' (sorry....champion).

Is it you AGAIN Iron Chris?........or has someone else saved you from eternal Eurovision Win2Win humiliation.......

Watch this space.....

Ada :thumbs

[GlosRFC]

All I know is...the Poles let me down...bah

[Ada]

The final placings are as follows:
I realise some countries scored equal points, but the placings are based on % highest points awarded.

1 Russia
2 Ukraine
3 Greece
4 Armenia
5 Norway
6 Serbia
7 Turkey
8 Azerbaijan
9 Israel
10 Bosnia & Herzegovina
11 Georgia
12 Latvia
13 Portugal
14 Iceland
15 Denmark
16 Spain
17 Albania
18 Sweden
19 France
20 Romania
21 Croatia
22 Finland
23 Germany
24 Poland
25 United Kingdom

So the points awarded & positions in reverse order:

7th SPARKYMINER -7pts
6th MATHARE 24pts
5th BIGCUMBA 59pts
4th GLOSRFC 64pts
3rd SCOOBYDOO 72pts


That means it's between me & Iron Chris for the title of Win2Win Eurovision Chump (sorry Champ) 2008......











Have I managed to steal Chris's Eurovision crown & prevent his hat-trick of wins......


















In a word.......




















NO


















He's only gone & done it again.......



2nd ADA 83pts


1st IRON CHRIS 105pts


Well done Chris......3 wins in a row.
You are the undisputed W2W Eurovision anorak.

Congratulations :icon_win:

Do you want the £15 Amazon voucher sent to the Email address you used to submit your entries?


Thanks to you all for taking part.

Ada. :thumbs

[scoobydoo]

Well done Chris....I think anyway!! :thumbs

I see Wogan is probably packing it all in...it is getting silly now isnt it. & the songs and what they get up to gets worse and worse. I only watch for the voting...honest! :laugh

[mathare]

Well done Chris - a stunning hat trick :thumbs

I'm pleased I wasn't last :laugh

[sparkyminer]

I'm pleased I wasn't last :laugh

I'm pleased I was.:D
I think an extra special acheivement to get a minus score.:thumbs

[GlosRFC]

Extra-special? All you have to do is represent the UK and you automatically end up with nul points nowadays!

There's a thought though..next year we can be represented by Sparky and the Mynah Birds singing "Be Mine Tonight", or the theme from "Shaft". Even "Hi Ho, Hi Ho"!

Any more suggestions?

[mathare]

Any more suggestions?Anything by Coal Porter or Nat King Coal :D

[Iron Chris]

Thanks everyone...:D

Well, what an achievment... :REDanceda:icon_win: or is that embarrassment... :doh :geek

The same email address will be fine Ada, thanks for running the competition and offering such a generous prize, why these things don't get more support is beyond me but we've been there before...:thumbs

If only the horses and football teams performed as they were supposed to things would be a lot better...:laugh

[bigcumba]

nice one again Chris, I was surprised enough to get the winner and last and do as well as I had, as I just had an educated guess based on rumour and what little I'd heard of the UK song.

[Ada]

Iron Chris,

Well done again....

Your Amazon voucher has been sent.

Please let me know if, for any reason, you don't receive it.

Regards

Ada. :thumbs

[vegyjones]

Apologies for my absense. Love doing this every year, but unfortunately been away since Friday morning.

I'm sure I would have given Sparky a run for his money though :D

And Chris, good grief man, have you no shame :laugh