Ada's Eurovision Game 2015 - Make Your Selections

[TheGoodGuy]

Hi all......
If anyone wants to play, just follow the instructions below...

The list below shows this year's 27 finalists RUNNING ORDER for Saturday's finale:

Slovenia
France
Israel
Estonia
United Kingdom
Armenia
Lithuania
Serbia
Norway
Sweden
Cyprus
Australia
Belgium
Austria
Greece
Montenegro
Germany
Poland
Latvia
Romania
Spain
Hungary
Georgia
Azerbaijan
Russia
Albania
Italy


WHAT YOU MUST DO NOW:
You must now either PM or Email (address below) me the countries that, in your opinion, will finish in the Top 5 AND Bottom 3 in the correct order, in this year’s Eurovision contest, PLUS the answer to a tie-break question.

So......I will require 8 'answers' from each of you…… 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 25th, 26th, 27th.....PLUS.....
You must ALSO provide an answer to the tie-break question :-
In which position (1-27) will the UK song finish?

PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR SELECTIONS ON THIS THREAD (unless you absolutely have to)


DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 21:00 SATURDAY 23rd MAY.

Scoring
The person finishing with the overall highest score will be declared the winner.

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:
12 points will be ADDED to your score.

ii) If any of your nominated countries finish in their respective Top 5 or Bottom 3 zones but are incorrectly placed within those zones…..
10pts will be ADDED to your score if the difference between the country’s actual placing & your predicted placing = 1
8pts will be ADDED to your score if the difference between the country’s actual placing & your predicted placing = 2
6pts will be ADDED to your score if the difference between the country’s actual placing & your predicted placing = 3
4pts will be ADDED to your score if the difference between the country’s actual placing & your predicted placing = 4

For example: If you predict that the UK will finish in 2nd place but they ACTUALLY finish in 4th place….the difference between their actual placing (4) and predicted placing (2) ……4-2 = 2, so 8 points will be added to your score.

iii) If any of your nominated countries fail to finish in their respective 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.

I will post a new game thread containing each player's selections at around 19:00 Saturday.

EMAIL ADDRESS (you know what to do):
adabt1105-win2win at yahoo dot co dot uk

Good Luck

[vegyjones]

Vegy from London calling. Thank you for being a fabulous host Ada and here's to the crown remaining with us or another year.

[TheGoodGuy]

Sorry guys,

I'm really quite ill today and think I may need a visit to hospital.
If I'm not back on here by early this evening then I won't be able to host the game.

[piggy]

piggy40 entry
1. sweden
2. estonia
3. italy
4. russia
5. serbia

25. UK
26. armenia
27. albania

[vegyjones]

1 Russia
2 Belgium
3 Sweden
4 Australia
5 Slovenia

25 Lithuania
26 France
27 Hungary

[vegyjones]

You could be on to something with Estonia Piggy. I liked that. Had France in my bottom 3 but I think it will do better than thy now.

[vegyjones]

Hmm... Lithuania better than expected. can feel my title slipping away from me.

[Paul]

Sweden* 1
Lithuania* 2
Belgium* 3
Russia* 4
Latvia* 5

Romania* 25
Albania* 26
Germany* 27

[vegyjones]

I thought I had maybe overestimated the Belgique entry but it seemed to get a loud cheer in the arena.

[Paul]

Politically, do you think Russia have a chance?

[vegyjones]

I dunno, could be onto a winner with Russia.

[vegyjones]

Guaranteed 10 points from Ukraine no?

[vegyjones]

Well Russia out scores Sweden in vote no. 1

[vegyjones]

Italy an early frontrunner

[vegyjones]

Russia with a 10 point lead. Too tight to call but A lot of Russia's neighbours have voted already which may mean Sweden have this

[Paul]

Currently I have Veggie, Piggy and Paul all on 48 points!

[vegyjones]

Russia Nowt off Lithuania and still to vote ... Looks like curtains for Russia an my crown.

[Paul]

Europe snubbing Russia!

[Paul]

2 points for the UK!

[Paul]

Well, from the 3 of us who put up thier teams (Ada is not able to be around tonight), I think this is the score, can anyone confer?

50 48 46
1 Russia 10 Sweden 12 Sweden 12
2 Belgium 8 Lithuania 0 Estonia 4
3 Sweden 8 Belgium 10 Italy 12
4 Australia 10 Russia 8 Russia 8
5 Slovenia 0 Latvia 6 Serbia 0

25 Lithuania 2 Romania 0 UK 10
26 France 10 Albania 0 Armenia 0
27 Hungary 2 Germany 12 Albania 0

Paul

[Paul]

Veggie 50
Paul 48
Piggie 46

[vegyjones]

You get minus points for ones that you didn't get right Paul. Just need to wait to see if Ada had any other submissions, but I think you have the right order in regards to the 3 of us.

[Paul]

Veggie,

I knew it would be more complicated. Ada should hopefully be back online on Tuesday.

Paul

[vegyjones]

You were sorely missed tonight Asa and I hope you are feeling well soon. Credit o you for keeping this going in the face of seemingly dwindling participation. Eurovision night is one of my favourites of the year because of this competition on this little old forum.

[piggy]

get better very soon ada , i'll post races for the joint effort but i'll leave the scoring up to you.
at least i did better on eurovision than last year i might come 3rd

[Paul]

All,

I am going to see Adrian tomorrow. I will let you know when he hopes to be back online.

Paul

[vegyjones]

Cheers Paul. Make sure he knows he has the best wishes of all his win2win chummies.