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PredictTheScore Week 4 starts tomorrow!

posted by Phil on 27 Aug 2010

PredictTheScore Week 4 starts tomorrow, Saturday 28th August 2010.

Get your predictions in now!

There are 10 Prediction Premiership games this week.
There are 12 Prediction Championship games this week.
There are 6 SuperScots games this week.

Don't forget, you can change your predictions at any time right up to kick-off for each game.

Good Luck!
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PredictTheScore Week 3 starts tomorrow!

posted by Phil on 20 Aug 2010

PredictTheScore Week 3 starts tomorrow, Saturday 21st August 2010.

Get your predictions in now!

There are 10 Prediction Premiership games this week.
There are 12 Prediction Championship games this week.
There are 6 SuperScots games this week.

Don't forget, you can change your predictions at any time right up to kick-off for each game.

Good Luck!
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Forest vs Leeds

posted by Phil on 13 Aug 2010

If you're playing Prediction Championship, you may have fallen victim to a glitch in our fixture feed, which meant that the Nottingham Forest vs Leeds Utd game on Sunday temporarily disappeared from the fixture list. Looking at the predictions that have been made, this has affected, at most, 20 people but if that's you, you could be missing out on vital points. Make sure you check your predictions over the weekend, and update for that game if necessary.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Phil
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PredictTheScore Week 2 starts tomorrow!

posted by Phil on 13 Aug 2010

PredictTheScore Week 2 starts tomorrow, Saturday 14th August 2010.

Get your predictions in now!

There are 10 Prediction Premiership games this week.
There are 12 Prediction Championship games this week.
There are 6 SuperScots games this week.

Don't forget, you can change your predictions at any time right up to kick-off for each game.

Good Luck!
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The new season...

posted by Phil on 23 Jul 2010

Guess who's back?

Well, with the World Cup, we've hardly been away, but the new season is nearly upon us! Prediction Premiership (for the Premier League), Prediction Championship (for the Championship) and SuperScots (for the SPL) are all now LIVE at http://predictthescore.net.

You can set up your mini leagues, invite your friends and (if you're keen) make your predictions from now...  all the action starts on August 6th when the Championship gets underway, with the top flight action in both England and Scotland following the week after. All the rules are under "How To Play" on the site...  but you know the score by now(!)

Hope to see you this season - and good luck!

PredictTheScore - Every Game Counts

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PredictTheScore World Cup Champions

posted by Phil on 11 Jul 2010

It's the first ever World Cup/Premier League Double! (although, to be fair, there aren't many places such a feat can be achieved).  Yes. Team Eamonn III have followed up their Prediction Premiership win by taking the second PTS World Cup crown as well!

Congratulations to Eamonn - just goes to show how important form is in this game...

Second place was taken by joint Golden Boot winner - Invisible Bob (with an impressive 41 points, jointly held with 14h place Mickchester), with PTS regular V will rock u!!! taking third.

It's a shame we only get to do this every 4 years... but fear not, Prediction Premiership, Prediction Championship and SuperScots will all be back very very soon.  Register and make your predictions from next weekend!

In the meantime, thanks to everyone who played - it's been a bumper turnout.  It really means a lot to us that you lot enjoy the game.  Keep playing, and we'll keep doing it!

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Watch This Space...

posted by Phil on 11 Jul 2010

News coming very soon about next season - Prediction Premiership, Prediction Championship and SuperScots will ALL be back in August..!

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Extra Time and Penalties in the Knock-Out Rounds

posted by Phil on 23 Jun 2010

We've had a few questions about this, so here's the definitive policy:

In the knock-out games, you need to predict the result at the end of extra time (if played).

However, penalty shoot-outs don't count!

* So if you predict 2-1 and the game finishes 2-1 at the end of 90 minutes you get 5 points.

* If you predict 2-1 and the game finishes 1-1 (or 0-0) at the end of 90 minutes, but is 2-1 at the end of extra time you get 5 points.

* If you predict 2-1 and the game finishes 1-1 (or 0-0) at the end of 90 minutes AND finishes 1-1 (or 0-0) at the end of extra time, it doesn't matter what the score is in the penalty shoot out, you'll only get 1 (or 0) points.

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Eurostars Champions...

posted by Phil on 25 May 2010

Congratulations to k3v0n (Kev Gray) who triumphed on Saturday night, with a winning margin of 4 points.  Ultimately it came down to who you thought would win - MES QUE UN CLUB picked Bayern, whereas Kev sensibly plumped for Inter.  Kev's been a PTS member since the start (he didn't have much option, he pretty much sat next to us in the office at the time) but this is his first victory - and a very well deserved one too!

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PredictTheScore Week 42 starts tomorrow!

posted by Phil on 21 May 2010

PredictTheScore Week 42 starts tomorrow, Saturday 22nd May 2010.

Get your predictions in now!

There are 1 Eurostars games this week.
There are no PTS World Cup games this week.

Don't forget, you can change your predictions at any time right up to kick-off for each game.

Good Luck!
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The PredictTheScore World Cup 2010!

posted by Phil on 21 May 2010

Just a quick note for anyone who has not noticed - the PredictTheScore World Cup 2010 competition is now live!

It works broadly along the usual PTS lines, but with a few tweaks:

* You can predict game by game, as usual, but if want to you can predict the whole tournament in advance, and then sit back and watch the results come in
* You can pick 10 goalscorers for the whole of the group stage
* You can then reassess and pick another 5 for the knock-out stages
* Leaderboards, Manager of the Day and Mini Leagues will all run as usual
* No need to register - just log on as usual and get predicting

All the rules are at http://predictthescore.net/howtoplay/WC.php

It's the biggest football event there is - we hope you'll join us!

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Viva La Liga & Prediction Italia Champions...

posted by Phil on 17 May 2010

Thank you to everyone who came with PredictTheScore on our holidays this year...

For the first time ever, PTS ventured into Europe and took on two of the big continental leagues.  And congratulations are due to reza dashti - Viva La Liga champion and, erm, reza dashti - Prediction Italia champion.

Yes, in a PTS first, fewer than 20 people had the stamina to get to the end of either competition, and one man has shown that he knows his Madrids from his Milans, his Genoas from his Gijons and his Barcelonas from his Bolognas.  It was his gift for goalscorers that did it, as the same man claimed the Golden Boot in both competitions.

Coming close in Spain was MES QUE UN CLUB - the only other predictor to make it over 1000 points and Rossoneri, whilst runners up in Italy were Rossoneri (again!) and...  who's this?  Phillareal!  Hooray - I never do as well as that in the Premier League.

Thanks to everyone who took part in our little European experiment...  if anyone has any thoughts on whether we should repeat it next year feel free to post them below!

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The FAntasy Cup Final - Result!

posted by Phil on 16 May 2010

Full details of this year's FAntasy Cup final can be found here:

The FAntasy Cup 2009/10

Congratulation to this year's winner - Northern Monkey FC!

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PredictTheScore Week 41 starts tomorrow!

posted by Phil on 14 May 2010

PredictTheScore Week 41 starts tomorrow, Saturday 15th May 2010.

Get your predictions in now!

There are no Prediction Premiership games this week.
There are no Prediction Championship games this week.
There are no SuperScots games this week.
There are 10 Viva La Liga! games this week.
There are 10 Prediction Italia games this week.
There are no Eurostars games this week.
There are 1 The FAntasy Cup games this week.

Don't forget, you can change your predictions at any time right up to kick-off for each game.

Good Luck!
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Prediction Premiership Champions...

posted by Phil on 09 May 2010

That's it!  The end of the fifth season of Prediction Premiership has come, and whilst there will be a proper write-up in the Hall of Fame section very soon, it's time to hail the winners of this year's competition...

...in particular, this year's champion - Team Eamonn III (Eamonn Geoghegan) who finished ahead by 12 points, thanks to his Golden Boot (suggesting a Chelsea-esque fondness for goalscoring?)

In second was .STREV87....... - his third season in a row in the runners-up spot, followed by original PTS member Boca Coidan, all the way from China.

Of course, we'll be back next year... but in the meantime, why not join us for the World Cup?  Announcement coming very soon.  Promise.

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SuperScots Champions...

posted by Phil on 09 May 2010

And so we come to the end of our first ever season 'North of the Border'...  As with all of our competitions, there'll be a proper write-up in the Hall of Fame imminently.

Emerging victorious was BRECHIN WIND (Mark Smith) who finished top in Game 1 by nearly 40 points,  and finished ahead overall by 26.  Congratulations!

Second place was claimed by Mirren Buddies who also claimed the Golden Boot, which was enough to keep him ahead of Happy days in third.

Thanks to everyone who played this season - especially those who kept going to the end!  See you all for the World Cup next month?

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Prediction Championship Champions...

posted by Phil on 09 May 2010

This post should have been written last weekend, ideally, but I was away.  There'll be a full write up of the first ever Prediction Championship season in the Hall Of Fame once I have some time to write it up...

But in the meantime, congratulations to the runaway winner, the mysterious cyborg predicting machine that is Total Network Predictions (Predict-a-Bot), who comfortably racked up more Game 1 points than anyone else, and didn't do too badly with his goalscorers either.

Second was Bamathinaikos, followed by Golden Boot winner BRECHIN WIND.

Thanks to everyone who played - it was a bit of an experiment for us, and I think quite a successful one too.  So we might well do it again next season...  See you there!

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PredictTheScore Week 40 starts tomorrow!

posted by Phil on 07 May 2010

PredictTheScore Week 40 starts tomorrow, Saturday 8th May 2010.

Get your predictions in now!

There are 10 Prediction Premiership games this week.
There are no Prediction Championship games this week.
There are 6 SuperScots games this week.
There are 10 Viva La Liga! games this week.
There are 10 Prediction Italia games this week.
There are no Eurostars games this week.
There are no The FAntasy Cup games this week.

Don't forget, you can change your predictions at any time right up to kick-off for each game.

Good Luck!
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PredictTheScore Week 39 starts tomorrow!

posted by Phil on 30 Apr 2010

PredictTheScore Week 39 starts tomorrow, Saturday 1st May 2010.

Get your predictions in now!

There are 12 Prediction Premiership games this week.
There are 12 Prediction Championship games this week.
There are 12 SuperScots games this week.
There are 20 Viva La Liga! games this week.
There are 10 Prediction Italia games this week.
There are no Eurostars games this week.
There are no The FAntasy Cup games this week.

Don't forget, you can change your predictions at any time right up to kick-off for each game.

Good Luck!
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The FAntasy Cup Final

posted by Phil on 25 Apr 2010

I'm putting the finishing touches to the details for The FAntasy Cup final 2010 - finalists can expect an email in a week or so.

Those finalists are:
.STREV87....... - still in with a chance of a unique PTS Premier League/Cup/European treble
....EVRA.....
The Joy Of Cesc
Northern Monkey FC

Surprisingly enough, the final will be on May 15th.  See you there!

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