G1 CLIMAX 29 Prediction Contest

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Ishin: Dec 31, 2008; ~the animatronic spirit of
so many forgotten waves

Rarity posted:

Ah, you'd written Archer in one of the boxes and Ospreay in the other one and that's the one I was looking at. I'll let you off with that but you do get a stern glare.

Ah poo poo, sorry I didn't notice.

: edit: I dunno what it is about Archer but I messed up and put both results for him and Okada's match also... just mark me for a loss either way on that one to make up for it

Ishin fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Jul 7, 2019

# ? Jul 7, 2019 09:08

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 11:48

Veryslightlymad: Jun 3, 2007; I fight with
my brain
and with an
underlying
hatred of the
Erebonian
Noble Faction

Was I disqualified? As near as I can tell, I ought to be tied for first right now.

Incidentally, Rarity, in the other thread, you said it was mathematically impossible to have someone win with 9 time limit draws. This is incorrect. It would just need several people to have matches that end in double disqualifications.

# ? Jul 7, 2019 09:32

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Veryslightlymad posted:

Was I disqualified? As near as I can tell, I ought to be tied for first right now.

Incidentally, Rarity, in the other thread, you said it was mathematically impossible to have someone win with 9 time limit draws. This is incorrect. It would just need several people to have matches that end in double disqualifications.

I HAD A KILLER HANGOVER WHEN I MADE THAT POST I'M SORRY, GEEZ

# ? Jul 7, 2019 10:22

TriffTshngo: Mar 28, 2010; Don't get it twisted who your enemies are.

oh poo poo I read my own bracket wrong I was convinced I put Ibushi over KENTA

well hell yeah 6 points baby

# ? Jul 7, 2019 10:51

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

Well I didn't do too bad so far, but man Fale winning has knocked me for a loop.

GEORGE W BUSHI posted:

5-0 after one day. Ask me how it feels to be a super genius.

I'm a big fan, Gedo

# ? Jul 7, 2019 11:35

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Rarity posted:

Night 1 of the G1 Climax is in the books! Here's where we are:

1. Will Ospreay (69%) vs. Lance Archer (31%)
2. EVIL (78%) vs. Bad Luck Fale (22%)
3. SANADA (57%) vs. Zack Sabre Jr (43%)
4. Kota Ibushi (52%) vs. KENTA (48%)
5. Hiroshi Tanahashi (12%) vs. Kazuchika Okada (86%)

3=. TriffTshingo - 6 points
3=. karmicknight

Didn't I go 4 - 1 for 8 points, I (thought I) had Archer, EVIL, SANADA, KENTA, Okada.

# ? Jul 7, 2019 11:46

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

karmicknight posted:

Didn't I go 4 - 1 for 8 points, I (thought I) had Archer, EVIL, SANADA, KENTA, Okada.

Whoops, must have misread the table when I was setting up my spreadsheet. Sorry!

Everyone, there is a lot of niggly admin involved in this so if I do make a mistake with your prediction please do point it out!

# ? Jul 7, 2019 12:11

Gaz-L: Jan 28, 2009

forkboy84 posted:

A Block Winner
Kota Ibushi is the big favourite, 64.7% predicting him standing tall. Somehow Junior Heavyweight Champ Will Ospreay has the 2nd most first place support, 8.6%, with Tanahashi 3rd with 7.9%

It actually makes a ton of sense if you do the thing of looking at the final night of the blocks and looking at what match is likely to main event, thus will probably be the decider. B block pretty much only has Naito/White possible, so it's probably one of them, but A block has both Tana/Ospreay and Okada/Ibushi on the last night, and you could do those in either order and have a credible main event.

# ? Jul 7, 2019 12:16

karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

forkboy84 posted:

Most Lopsided Match
Jon Moxley vs Taichi. 96.4% picked Mox.

I am ready for the Holy Emperor to beat Mox.

also:

Rarity posted:

Whoops, must have misread the table when I was setting up my spreadsheet. Sorry!

Everyone, there is a lot of niggly admin involved in this so if I do make a mistake with your prediction please do point it out!

Cool cool, thank you for doing this cool prediction contest, I cannot imagine the amount of fiddly admin that is going on.

karmicknight fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Jul 7, 2019

# ? Jul 7, 2019 12:28

Ganso Bomb: Oct 24, 2005; turn it all around

This thread rules. Thanks for doing all of this extra work, Rarity! Gonna add another layer of fun to see the rankings after each show.

# ? Jul 7, 2019 14:01

cams: Mar 28, 2003

Gaz-L posted:

It actually makes a ton of sense if you do the thing of looking at the final night of the blocks and looking at what match is likely to main event, thus will probably be the decider. B block pretty much only has Naito/White possible, so it's probably one of them, but A block has both Tana/Ospreay and Okada/Ibushi on the last night, and you could do those in either order and have a credible main event.

i do think we all got baited by this and the story is gonna be how ospreay loving kills himself but has a really bad g1, only to finally get the final night win against tanahashi, keeping the ace from mattering in the final results.

# ? Jul 7, 2019 23:43

Bard Maddox: Feb 15, 2012; I'm just a sick guy, I'm really just a dirty guy.

if I got anything wrong in my submission, it was a joke, and it should have been with the correct result instead, with me getting the points. thank you

# ? Jul 8, 2019 14:03

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

The B Block has kicked into gear with Night 2, here are your results:

Juice Robinson (33%) vs. Shingo Takagi (67%)
John Moxley (83%) vs. Taichi (17%)
Toru Yano (5%) vs. Tetsuya Naito (95%)
Tomohiro Ishii (69%) vs. Jeff Cobb (31%)
Hirooki Goto (33%) vs. Jay White (67%)

Which means the latest standings are as follows:

1=. John Dudebro (16 points)
1=. GEORGE W BUSHI
2=. SatoshiMiwa (14 points)
2=. Do not even ask
3=. Captain Magic (12 points)
3=. Veryslightlymad
3=. KoldPT
3=. SG Bamboo
3=. Schneider Helm
3=. Bard Maddox
3=. Jerusalem
4=. Kevino7 (10 points)
4=. Lid
4=. VJeff
4=. Peanut President
4=. extradite THIS!
4=. try the new taco place
4=. an_mutt
4=. Baron La Croix
4=. forkboy84
4=. HidaO-Win
4=. Benne
5=. TriffTshngo (8 points)
5=. STONE COLD 64
5=. Ishin
5=. Gumball Gumption
5=. Ganso Bomb
5=. Artelier
5=. Dr. Dirt
5=. Gaz-L
5=. GenericMartini
5=. Rodney the Piper
6=. Super No Vacancy (6 points)
6=. Looten Plunder
6=. Insertnamehere31
6=. cams
6=. Power Windows
7=. Rarity (4 points)
7=. Sticky Nate
7=. Unlimited Spessmans
8. Venomous (-2 points)

# ? Jul 14, 2019 05:31

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

I only managed to get 60% right and I'm in 3rd place, ahaha.

# ? Jul 14, 2019 05:53

Benne: Sep 2, 2011; STOP DOING HEROIN

My Night 2 predictions were completely hosed by:

1) Not guessing when the Yano upset would happen correctly
2) Overlooking Goto's mini-redemption arc
3) Assuming that Shingo would win his first G1 match

Other than that I'm in great shape!

# ? Jul 14, 2019 05:59

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Jerusalem posted:

I only managed to get 60% right and I'm in 3rd place, ahaha.

Don't worry, it's still very early days and there's a huge amount of points to play for _{_{she says to herself desperately}}

# ? Jul 14, 2019 06:15

UnlimitedSpessmans: Jul 31, 2015

i feel so stupid for not backing yano to beat naito when on the night I was certain yano would win

# ? Jul 14, 2019 06:19

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

Oh hey I went 3-2. I was convinced I had Cobb beating Ishii but apparently not.

# ? Jul 14, 2019 06:26

Sticky Nate: Jan 9, 2012

there's still like a hundred matches so I have time to get points

# ? Jul 14, 2019 06:55

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

There are, in fact, 81 matches remaining.

# ? Jul 14, 2019 07:28

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

And we're coming right back at'cha with the results from Night 3:

Lance Archer (79%) vs. Bad Luck Fale (19%)
SANADA (53%) vs. Will Ospreay (45%)
Kazuchika Okada (60%) vs. Zack Sabre Jr (38%)
Kota Ibushi (79%) vs. EVIL (21%)
Hiroshi Tanahashi (40%) vs. KENTA (56%)

And so tonight's results have really started to shake up the rankings:

1. GEORGE W BUSHI (22 points)
2=. KoldPT (20 points)
2=. Peanut President
2=. John Dudebro
3=. Captain Magic (18 points)
3=. SatoshiMiwa
3=. Veryslightlymad
3=. Do not even ask
3=. Schneider Helm
3=. Bard Maddox
3=. karmicknight
3=. try the new taco place
3=. Jerusalem
4=. Kevino7 (16 points)
4=. Lid
4=. Ishin
4=. SG Bamboo
4=. VJeff
4=. extradite THIS!
4=. Artelier
4=. Gaz-L
4=. HidaO-Win
5=. an_mutt (14 points)
5=. GenericMartini
5=. Rodney the Piper
6=. TriffTshngo (12 points)
6=. STONE COLD 64
6=. Super No Vacancy
6=. Looten Plunder
6=. Gumball Gumption
6=. Baron La Croix
6=. Benne
7=. Rarity (10 points)
7=. Ganso Bomb
7=. Dr. Dirt
7=. cams
8=. Insertnamehere31 (8 points)
8=. Power Windows
8=. forkboy84
9=. Venomous (2 points)
9=. UnlimitedSpessmans
10. Sticky Nate (-18 points)

Sticky Nate posted:

there's still like a hundred matches so I have time to get points

Rarity fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Jul 14, 2019

# ? Jul 14, 2019 10:14

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

Two 3-2 days but I'm still on top let's go Taichi

# ? Jul 14, 2019 10:15

Benne: Sep 2, 2011; STOP DOING HEROIN

Went 2-3 tonight as my bracket continues to sink. Big misses this time were:

1) ZSJ worked me into a shoot over wanting a title match with Okada in London
2) KENTA going 2-0 against last year's finalists, which I probably should've seen coming but didn't
3) I pegged Billy as going on an early losing streak before surging late, and SANADA getting a hot start before fading in the standings. This result probably doesn't change much in the long run, but I still missed it.

Benne fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Jul 14, 2019

# ? Jul 14, 2019 10:16

UnlimitedSpessmans: Jul 31, 2015

just glad to still have positive points

# ? Jul 14, 2019 10:16

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

I think the only mistake I made today was not realising Gedo would want SANADA and EVIL to go into their match with each other equal on points

# ? Jul 14, 2019 10:18

SG Bamboo: Aug 21, 2013; Smile. Win. Yay!

Friend Rarity, I appear to have gone from equal third after 2 rounds to completely gone by the third. Please advise

# ? Jul 14, 2019 10:30

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

3-2 for all three nights, I honestly did not see KENTA beating Tanahashi being possible and I was punished for my lack of foresight.

# ? Jul 14, 2019 10:34

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

I have no idea who KoldPT is but i should be scared of their foresight.

# ? Jul 14, 2019 10:39

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

SG Bamboo posted:

Friend Rarity, I appear to have gone from equal third after 2 rounds to completely gone by the third. Please advise

I'VE HAD TWO HOURS SLEEP GET OFF MY BACK, DAD

(You're joint 4th, thanks for pointing it out!)

# ? Jul 14, 2019 11:01

SG Bamboo: Aug 21, 2013; Smile. Win. Yay!

Rarity posted:

I'VE HAD TWO HOURS SLEEP GET OFF MY BACK, DAD

(You're joint 4th, thanks for pointing it out!)

Much appreciated. You're doing God's work

# ? Jul 14, 2019 11:20

Gaz-L: Jan 28, 2009

Benne posted:

Went 2-3 tonight as my bracket continues to sink. Big misses this time were:

1) ZSJ worked me into a shoot over wanting a title match with Okada in London
2) KENTA going 2-0 against last year's finalists, which I probably should've seen coming but didn't
3) I pegged Billy as going on an early losing streak before surging late, and SANADA getting a hot start before fading in the standings. This result probably doesn't change much in the long run, but I still missed it.

The ZSJ thing is kinda genius. They can still do the match in London. No-one said it had to be for Lil Kazu's belt.

# ? Jul 14, 2019 12:09

TriffTshngo: Mar 28, 2010; Don't get it twisted who your enemies are.

god dammit zack socialism can't be going 0-2 in the g1 climax you gotta get your act together my dude

ah well at least it wasn't another 1-4 thank you KENTA

# ? Jul 14, 2019 13:18

Sticky Nate: Jan 9, 2012

lol

# ? Jul 14, 2019 19:31

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Fucksake picking a draw was moronic and I did it anyway.

# ? Jul 15, 2019 10:18

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

forkboy84 posted:

Fucksake picking a draw was moronic and I did it anyway.

Nothing moronic about correctly picking SANADA and Okada are gonna draw in their match :colbert:

# ? Jul 15, 2019 10:25

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Jerusalem posted:

Nothing moronic about correctly picking SANADA and Okada are gonna draw in their match

I picked ZSJ and Okada drawing though

# ? Jul 15, 2019 10:31

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

forkboy84 posted:

I picked ZSJ and Okada drawing though

# ? Jul 15, 2019 11:02

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

The G1 rolls on with Night 4 and the results are:

Toru Yano (9%) vs. Shingo Takagi (91%)
Juice Robinson (67%) vs. Hirooki Goto (33%)
Jeff Cobb (21%) vs. Jon Moxley (70%)
Tomohiro Ishii (29%) vs. Jay White (71%)
Tetsuya Naito (71%) vs. Taichi (27%)

Which moves our standings onto:

1. GEORGE W BUSHI (30 points)
2=. KoldPT (26 points)
2=. Peanut President
2=. try the new taco place
2=. John Dudebro
2=. Artelier
3=. Captain Magic (24 points)
3=. SatoshiMiwa
3=. SG Bamboo
3=. extradite THIS!
4=. Veryslightlymad (22 points)
4=. Lid
4=. Schneider Helm
4=. Bard Maddox
4=. karmicknight
4=. Jerusalem
5=. TriffTshngo (20 points)
5=. Do not even ask
5=. Ishin
5=. VJeff
5=. Gumball Gumption
5=. an_mutt
5=. Gaz-L
5=. GenericMartini
5=. Rodney the Piper
6=. Looten Plunder (18 points)
6=. Baron La Croix
6=. HidaiO-Win
6=. Benne
7=. Kevino7 (16 points)
7=. Rarity
7=. Super No Vacancy
7=. Ganso Bomb
7=. cams
8. Power Windows (14 points)
9. forkboy84 (12 points)
10. STONE COLD 64 (10 points)
11=. Venomous (8 points)
11=. UnlimitedSpessmans
12=. Insertnamehere31 (4 points)
12=. Dr. Dirt
13. Sticky Nate (-20 points)

Rarity fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Jul 15, 2019

# ? Jul 15, 2019 13:27

TriffTshngo: Mar 28, 2010; Don't get it twisted who your enemies are.

A 4-1 is definitely helpful, thank you Stone Pitbull

# ? Jul 15, 2019 13:34

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 11:48

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

My strategy of 'let other people screw themselves out of points by predicting draws' continues to pay off!

# ? Jul 15, 2019 13:36

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