Predictor Competition

26/05/2017

The most painful part of this season, the handing over ceremony to this seasons Chump doubling his entire wealth with the £525 first prize and attempting a homosexual kiss I give you Mark Whiting

19/07/2016

Our winner Amanda Markin Verity collecting her prize, see you in 2018

11/07/2016

Final Table

Portugal 1 France 0

With yet another drab final to end proceedings at a major tournament, the few of you who were hoping for a France victory to propel you to a life of untold riches in the top 5 can, like the French, only dream of what could have been.

Portugal lifted the trophy after finishing 3rd out of four in their league & only winning 1 match in 90 minutes throughout the whole tournament. This taken into account must give the English hope that there is reward for failure in the new format.

Out of 171 entrants, we have a chosen one who predicted that Portugal would rise up, be victorious and prevail. Andi Brown is our predicting Messiah gathering the solitary 5 point haul in the last round to propel him to the lofty heights of 92nd place overall and is the only mover of the evening.

Billericay Town clinches 3rd spot, Grace Lowe 4th and Paul UKIP McGrath & Mick Glossop share the 5th prize. Mick kindly donating his to Treetops Hospice, so a big thanks to him.

An average score of 77.76 scored out of a possible 203 on offer for the competition, so if you scored 78 or above you are above average IQ. If you scored 77 or below you are a dunce!

Finally for those who are interested, Darren Stapleton will be in the Corn Mill car park this weekend having his man-bits chopped off by work colleague Lisa Mucznic having failed to beat her in the competition as promised. There will be a cheesy chipolata roll for sale immediately afterwards.

Final congratulations to Amanda Markin & Tony Hurst, who had already secured the top 2 spots and to all entrants who made it worthwhile doing, see you in 2018....................

Well it is now!

10/07/2016

Table after Semi Finals

The top four rest on their laurels and whilst Amanda Markin & Tony Hurst are assured of the top 2 prizes, Billericay Town & Grace Lowe will be donning their green and red scarves for this evenings final in the hope of top prizes.

Nobody correctly predicting both of this years finalists, but 73 entrants guessing one of the two champions elect.

The prize for the worst predictor and the wooden spoon, ends up in its rightful kitchen of Mini Cooper, who after sitting at the foot of the table for most of the competition finally gets pipped at the post by Jake Parkin.

Amanda Markin becomes our Serena Williams, acing her way through the tournament with a never seen before lead from day 1 through to the final, to be crowned Queen and lift the trophy. Tony Hurst assures himself second spot and relied on a German victory to have any chance of catching Amanda falling at the penultimate fence.

A few entrants around the prize positions still have a hope for the crumbs from the top table and the final table will be updated after the final....

They think its all over.................................................

04/07/2016

League after End of Quarter Finals

04/07/2016

Poland 1 (3) Portugal 1 (5)
Wales 3 Belgium 1
Germany 1(6) Italy 1(5)
France 5 Iceland 2


As many of you pack your suitcases and exit this years tournament, the lucky few get to remain & fight it out for this years silverware. Most entrants now are just jostling for bragging rights, none more so than Darren Stapleton, who currently sits 3 points adrift of colleague Lisa Mucznic and relies on France winning the tournament to keep what little of his manhood remains intact.

A few late dips for the line with a number of entrants ending the competition strongly, but with only 11 points left up for grabs, it has officially become a 2 horse race. Amanda Markin Verity clenches her buttocks as Tony Hurst comes at her from behind & is the only remaining entrant who can both score the maximum 11 points & catch our long serving leader. A few people around the top spots haven’t quite finished but rely on France not winning the tournament outright not to be pipped for the prize positions.

The end column is how many teams you correctly predicted into the semis.

Our Donkeys of the round, failing to choose any of the semi-finalists & limping over the finishing line are Dave Wakelin, Lauren Lambshank Taylor & David Cole (who actually gave up predicting after the round of 16 and still didn’t finish last!)

Our Thoroughbreds of the round top scoring with 3 out of the 4 semi- finalists are Amanda Markin, Tony Hurst, Adrian Moss, Bob Quinn, John Turnip Taylor, Levis Legends, Michelle Duggan, Ray Cave, Wendy Lievesleyy, Neil Depledge, Ray Eddyshaw, Andy Short, Helen Barton, Andi Brown , who all add a further 9 points to their overall scores in their bid for glory.

In the battle for the wooden spoon, this also becomes a 2 horse race with Jake Parkin being the only entrant who, our fashionably last placer, Mini Cooper can catch and will be decided from the Germany v France game.

A big thanks to everyone for entering this year. £171 was donated to Treetops hospice this weekend from the entry money bring the total donation to Treetops of £966 added to what was raised on our charity Coast to Coast bike ride earlier this year. Give yourselves a big pat on the back and if anyone wants to donate the last £34 to bring it up to a nice round number, please feel free to do so by following this link

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Adam-Lievesley1


Apologies in advance, but due to holiday commitments, the next updated league will not be until the Sunday afternoon.

Some of the crowd are on the pitch………………..

02/07/2016

A Big thank you to everyone who entered our Predictor Competition this year - £171 raised by entrants towards a great cause, taking our overall donation to almost £1000 - great effort by all.

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Adam is raising money to help Treetops Hospice Care

28/06/2016

Switzerland 1 (4) Poland 1 (5)
Wales 1 N Ireland 0
Croatia 0 Portugal 1
France 2 Rep of Ireland 1
Germany 3 Slovakia 0
Belgium 4 Hungary 0
Italy 2 Spain 0
Iceland 2 England 1

Whats the difference between a pile of s**t and the England team? Actually, very little apart from a pile of s**t becomes more useful as time goes by. In a week where England voted out of Europe and the team obliged. We also said goodbye to Sports Directs poster boy possibly playing his last game in goal for Hungary before he returns back home to the car wash at the end of our street, much the same as many of our competitors say goodbye to their hopes of winning anything in our competition.

Our Dr Emmett Browns, predicting 6 out of the 8 quarter finalists are Billericay Town, Mick Glossop, Paul UKIP McGrath, Alex Cope
Josh Wood, Dylan Mitchell, Malc Harrison, Mark Rimmington, Sean Lynch, Ben Stapleton, Lisa Searby, John Turnip Taylor, Mrs Turnip Taylor, Patrick Fearn, Mel Gould 1, Alex Rimmington & Ryan Markin ,

They can only ruffle their unkempt hair and tip their hats to our Spanish Soothsayer who becomes the Marty McFly of the round , Eduardo Moran, who returns back from the future with his predictions of 7 out of the 8 quarter finalists.

In the battle for Europes worst predictor at the foot of the table, a momentus day for Mini Cooper who moves off the bottom for the first time since day 1 to be replaced by Jake Parkin.

Billericay Town becomes our chief challenger to our ever present and long serving Queen Amanda, but there is there about to be a coup d'etat? Between you and me, our monarchs predicted winner left the tournament on the Costa Brava plane yesterday throwing the tournament wide open..................

23/06/2016

End of Round 1

Hungary 3 Portugal 3
Iceland 2 Austria 1
Italy 0 Rep of Ireland 1
Sweden 0 Belgium 1

Some unexpected scores to bring round 1 to a close. Iceland scoring in the dying seconds to set up a last 16 tie with England & Rep of Ireland scoring in the dying minutes to ensure all home / adopted nations (apart from Scotland) qualify for R2.

The end of R1 table was posted earlier (with a few names missing - my bad) with a repeat of the poor scoring of the previous night with approx 40% of entrants failing to register a point whilst Jules Coales, Mark Rhodes, Jon Richmond, Kieran Hilson, Snowy, Bill McGuirk all top score hitting a boundry and each scoring 4 points for the day.

With the top & bottom remaining pretty familiar, we give the 'STD' award to Amanda Markin Verity and give her a big clap. An amazing 20 out of 36 correct results in the first round with 50% of these correct scores to top the table at the end of R1 with 40 points.

Spare a thought for Mini-Cooper, our only entrant who gets the 'Derby County' award as the only entrant not to reach double figures.

With all the teams now decided for the round of 16, see below up to date table with these points now added. This now becomes a manual operation for the scoring system so is prone to the odd error. If you notice any errors, please message me & I will correct this if required. HOWEVER before you do message me, a number of half wits have been deducted points where they have predicted the same team more than once through to the next round - no-one more so than Tim Bousfield, who predicted 3 teams through twice into the 2nd round & Immy Whiting & Bradley Dove, who predicted Ukraine through 3 times. Some errors were noticed prior to the start of the tournament and were corrected, for those whose weren't so lucky - tough t***y!

With his meter running, John Hilson is our London cab driver on a mission, starting the morning in 54th & driving 48 houses along to 6th position charging a monkey and putting everyone else in a right two and eight. Tony Hurst brings back a bit of dignity to the Carmel workforce and now appears to be the main challenger to our 'Coco Chanel', still smelling of roses at the top - AMV!

Our predictors of the day for the last 16 goes to Amanda Markin, Tony Hurst, Billericay Town, John Hilson, Derby Dave, ACDCFC, Malc Harrison, Julia Fox & Lisa Mucznik (who may be starting to sharpen her knife for co-worker Darren Stapleton for the Cornmill Cock-Chop) who all predict 14 of the 16 teams correctly through to R2.

No more updates until the end of R2 - let battle commence.........

23/06/2016

League at End of R1

Report and updated league later today with qualifying team points added

22/06/2016

Day 12

Ukraine 0 Poland 1
N Ireland 0 Germany 1
Croatia 2 Spain 1
Czech Rep 0 Turkey 2

Games coming thick & fast now, unlike the points for our entrants.The Germans march into the last 16 topping the group on goal difference. Northern Ireland progress as one of the best 3rd place finishers, Croatia put the Spaniards to the sword to top group D and place Spain into Englands half of the draw & the Czechs were bounced out of the tournament scoring fewer points than Mini Cooper.

Like the Czechs, we have 7 Entrants failing to register a point so its back to the drawing board for our Rolf Harris's of the Day - Martin McGuirk, Ian McKinney, Lillo Pitrolino, Andy Short, Pat Duggan, Jake Parkin, Bill McGuirk & Marcus Duffield

At the easel and adding the finishing touches to their masterpiece, our Claude Monets for the day, top scoring with 5 points a piece are Rob ' Fredpiece' Attwood, Grace Lowe, Jordan Searby, Mark Rimmington, Joseph Skelton, Jules Coales, Kath Whiting, Steve Stuart, Jake Richardson & Jack Barfield.

Amanda Markin Veritys lead at the top is slashed and the table is starting to stretch more than a pair of Kim Kardashians knickers with a 29 point gap from top to bottom. and the jostle for positions has started. Zak Fryer & Rob ' Freddo' Attwood lead the charge to catch our leader, whilst Laura Boocock, Grace Harrison, Alex Rimmington & The Flying Sausages looked to be cooked and are in freefall in the battle against Mini Cooper to take the title of Europes Worst Predictor......................

21/06/2016

Days 10-11

Romania 0 1 Albania
Switzerland 0 0 France
Russia 0 3 Wales
Slovakia 0 0 England

Low scoring over the last few days from both group favourites and entrants alike.

France and Wales top groups A & B respectively.

Top score over the last 2 days a miserly 4 points and barely worth mentioning but accolade of predictors of the day goes to Bradley Dove & Immy Whiting, Jennifer Matthews, Ian & Matt Hudpeth Lamb (Builders), Tony Cowlishaw who all jump in to bed to make bacon with Winston the Pig - which in Sheffield is known as a good night out.

The table has changed very little & is shown below. Update in a couple of days...........