Euro 2012 Score Prediction Competition*

[Northern Goblin]

* Where the prize is bugger all! (except some irrelevant bragging rights)

With the tournament kicking off on Friday (yes really THIS Friday!) I thought I'd throw this together as a bit of fun.

THIS IS NOT A DISCUSSION THREAD FOR THE TOURNAMENT, DON'T USE IT AS SUCH.

Right, now that that's sorted, here's the rules.

We're going to be doing this on a round by round basis, I don't expect you to predict the entire tournament at the start, just the results in each round.

Scoring goes as follows:
-1 point for getting the correct type of result (say if Spain beats Ireland 3-1 but you said Spain to win 4-0)
-1 point for getting either team's score correct, regardless of result (so in the above scenario if Spain were to win 3-0 you'd get a point for predicting Spain's goal score, as well as your point for getting the result type correct)
- If you predict the complete score it's worth 5 points (1 point for the result, 1 point for either side's score (each) and a bonus 2 points for a perfect prediction)


All entries must be finalised BEFORE the kickoff of the first game of that group. Any posts that are submitted, or previous submissions that are edited after this time will be declared null and void. (Note posts CAN be edited BEFORE the deadline, in case you change your mind or something happens)

The dates are as follows (times in Ukrane time, the responsibility is yours in checking how what this is in your local timezone.):

Group Stage - Round one: Friday 8th June - 19:00 // Round two: Tuesday 12th June - 19:00 // Round three: Saturday 16th June - 21:45
Quarter Finals - Thursday 21st June - 21:45
Semi Finals - Wednesday 27th June - 21:45
Final - Sunday 1st July - 21:45


A score table will be put up after each stage so you can check your own progress. Any matches that are called off will be declared null and void, regardless of the score at the time of game's ending. If any games are subject to replays the predictions will be for the replayed fixture.

Good luck everyone!


Scoreboard

72 Points: Kel
69 Points: Avrantia
66 Points: Lajkko
65 Points: Fengore
57 Points: Sepharoth
56 Points: JS3
54 Points: D4rr4gh0n31ll
50 Points: Xanjori
47 Points: Nektar
43 Points: Tibbler
40 Points: Skr
38 Points: Troll
34 Points: Maedra, Marleycat
33 Points: Jackmoves
25 Points: Mirodin
23 Points: Savvasp
22 Points: CrisMcAulay, Edc
18 Points: Spellweaver
16 Points: Peggleftw
13 Points: Gilian, TheFurry
11 Points: JamesHunt
10 Points: Bolson13, Broudhans, Synytza
9 Points: Bikni, Jaja, Janosaphat, Krolikn
8 Points: Butler Log, Tordfish
7 Points: Elegorn, Mongoose
6 Points: Goosebump, Topspin2011
5 Points: Flimsy, Zeverin

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Which time-zone is Ukraine in? CEST?

[Deleted]

Which time-zone is Ukraine in? CEST?

CEST + 1. (EEST)

This is a great idea, maybe something similar could be done for the upcoming EPL season and maybe for the other big leagues (Bundesliga in particular for me ).

[Northern Goblin]

I'm not sure about individual leagues just yet, this is really more a trial run thing, but if it goes well I might run one for the 2012-2013 EPL season.

Just with this being a tournament the upkeep is significantly easier, rather than dealing with fixtures on a week by week basis (predicting an entire season is a complete kettle of fish)

[Deleted]

I hope I'm doing this correctly. Do I have to predict every result of the group before their first match or can I just predict the matches as they go? I decided to do the latter, I'll correct it if I'm wrong.

First matches of every team.

Group A
Poland 1-0 Greece
Russia 2-1 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 3-0 Denmark
Germany 2-1 Portugal

Group C
Spain 2-1 Italy
Republic of Ireland 0-2 Croatia

Group D
France 3-1 England
Ukraine 0-0 Sweden

[Bikni]

Ill do the same and then predict the next round

Group A
Poland 1-0 Greece
Russia 1-1 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 4-0 Denmark
Germany 1-3 Portugal

Group C
Spain 2-0 Italy
Republic of Ireland 0-1 Croatia

Group D
France 1-1 England
Ukraine 1-2 Sweden

[Deleted]

Poland 2-1 Greece
Russia 1-3 Czech Republic

Netherlands 2-0 Denmark
Germany 2-1 Portugal

Spain 0-1 Italy
Republic of Ireland 2-2 Croatia

France 1-3 England
Ukraine 2-0 Sweden

[Northern Goblin]

I was originally going to do the entire group stage at once, so you'd predict the first three matches of each team. Considering that unforseen circumstances can happen match to match, I'll be revising it so that the group stage is in three segments. Will edit the OP to reflect this.

Edit - Scoreboard will not be updated till after the group stage though.

And Laj, if you want to edit your post to the first round of group qualifying then post the other rounds later, if you change your mind about rounds 2&3 you wouldn't be able to update that post after round 1.

[Deleted]

Got it. Will update my post accordingly.

[Spellweaver]

Giving this a try, predicting the first matches of every team aswell:

Group A
Poland 1-1 Greece
Russia 2-1 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 3-1 Denmark
Germany 2-0 Portugal

Group C
Spain 3-0 Italy
Republic of Ireland 1-2 Croatia

Group D
France 0-0 England
Ukraine 1-2 Sweden

[savvasp]

These are my predictions

Group A
Poland 1-0 Greece
Russia 4-0 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 2-0 Denmark
Germany 1-3 Portugal

Group C
Spain 1-0 Italy
Republic of Ireland 0-1 Croatia

Group D
France 1-2 England
Ukraine 0-2 Sweden

[Goosebump]

Group A
Poland 2-0 Greece
Russia 2-1 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 1-1 Denmark
Germany 2-1 Portugal

Group C
Spain 3-0 Italy
Republic of Ireland 2-1 Croatia

Group D
France 2-2 England
Ukraine 1-2 Sweden

[Panquake]

Here's my attempt.

Group A
Poland 0-1 Greece
Russia 2-0 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 3-0 Denmark
Germany 3-2 Portugal

Group C
Spain 2-0 Italy
Republic of Ireland 0-1 Croatia

Group D
France 2-1 England
Ukraine 1-1 Sweden

[kel]

might as well give it a shot

Group A
Poland 2-0 Greece
Russia 2-2 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 3-1 Denmark
Germany 3-3 Portugal

Group C
Spain 4-1 Italy
Republic of Ireland 0-1 Croatia

Group D
France 1-1 England
Ukraine 0-1 Sweden

[JS3]

Group A
Poland 1-0 Greece
Russia 2-1 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 2-0 Denmark
Germany 2-1 Portugal

Group C
Spain 1-1 Italy
Rep. Ireland 0-0 Croatia

Group D
France 2-1 England (although i hope differently )
Ukraine 2-2 Sweden

[Mongoose19]

Group A
Poland 2-1 Greece
Russia 3-2 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 2-1 Denmark
Germany 3-3 Portugal

Group C
Spain 1-0 Italy
Republic of Ireland 0-2 Croatia

Group D
France 2-2 England
Ukraine 1-3 Sweden

[Deleted]

Group A
Poland 1-1 Greece
Russia 0-1 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 3-0 Denmark
Germany 3-1 Portugal

Group C
Spain 2-0 Italy
Republic of Ireland 0-3 Croatia

Group D
France 1-2 England
Ukraine 1-2 Sweden

[Deleted]

Group A
Poland 2-0 Greece
Russia 2-1 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 3-1 Denmark
Germany 2-1 Portugal

Group C
Spain 2-0 Italy
Republic of Ireland 0-2 Croatia

Group D
France 2-1 England
Ukraine 1-1 Sweden

[Topspin2011]

Group A
Poland 1-0 Greece
Russia 2-2 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 2-0 Denmark
Germany 1-2 Portugal

Group C
Spain 3-0 Italy
Republic of Ireland 0-1 Croatia

Group D
France 2-1 England
Ukraine 0-1 Sweden

[Deleted]

Group A
Poland 0-1 Greece
Russia 1-1 Czech Republic

Group B
Netherlands 3-0 Denmark
Germany 3-2 Portugal

Group C
Spain 3-1 Italy
Republic of Ireland 0-2 Croatia

Group D
France 0-1 England
Ukraine 1-2 Sweden

i dont really know much about football, just random guesses here for the most part.