So I guess the @blocktrades World Cup contest includes making more posts with more selections.
Time to shine.
Link to the announcement: https://steemit.com/blocktradesworldcup/@worldcup-russia/the-knockout-stage-is-on-submit-your-entry-to-keep-competing-for-the-2-000-sbd-prize-pool
And here are my selections:
| Score | Team | vs | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France | vs | Argentina | 0 |
| 1 | Uruguay | vs | Portugal | 1 |
| 1 | Spain | vs | Russia | 0 |
| 1 | Croatia | vs | Denmark | 0 |
| 1 | Brazil | vs | Mexico | 0 |
| 2 | Belgium | vs | Japan | 0 |
| 0 | Sweden | vs | Switzerland | 1 |
| 0 | Colombia | vs | England | 1 |
::shrugs::
gl gl everyone!
dang.. I'm so tilted that I picked a tie here instead of Uruguay to win.
THATS WHAT I GET FOR CHOOSING A TIE #TheMathematicsDoNotShineBrightlyOnIt
Only reason I did it was because of the bonus for correct score. I liked the 1-1 score. But was really borderline, felt dirty and wrong.
Jesus christ, you like soccer too! K, get more awesome than this. I dare you!!
ahahah
once there was an injured pigeon limping across the road, and cars were coming, and I got into the road in front of him so that the cars would stop and he was kind of crowing at me and confused but I hope deep down understood that I was his friend, and I used my body to dictate him back against the curb
::shrugs::🤓🤓🧐🤓🤓🧐🤓🤓
I'm tearing up 😢😢😢😭...that is so beautiful!!! poor little pigeon. I'm sure he wishes there are more people like you in the world 😣😭....
::shrugs:: xD
yaaa.. tbh, I wouldn't have taken one on the chin for him if it seemed like the traffic didn't see me or anything lol 😆😆 So it's whatever. Being on a bike and not driving, I'm more engaged and was much more likely to notice it... I think a lot of people would do the same thing if they noticed the dynamic of what was happening, but most are buzzing by in their cars and trucks lol
I'm with until the last one, #Colombia is the cinderella squad maybe.
dang! I shoulda consulted you, I don't know these storylines 😆
Men @full-measure only Belgium has a chance of scoring more than one goal? That's scary like. I don't know what goals to put in mine though. Let me go and write something. I only watched the Nigerian matches, so I don't even know how good the other teams are. 😂 I will be picking blind.
Nice one though, I hope some country that has never won the World Cup wins this time.
nope, they all have a chance 😃 but gotta go with the math and the likelihoods
I don't expect that only 1 team will score more than 1 goal, but I don't know which games will be higher scoring, for each contest taken one at a time those are what I believe the most likely scores to be.
::shrugs::
we'll see how it pans out!! good luck with your blind selections! haha
Thanks. I have done mine, lots of weird wins. 😂 we will see how it will pan out truly. All the best.
you too!! good luck!
I just made the post as well. I have to admit my chance to win has diminished. I had to make desperate moves, completely different than what I would do. I saw you at the top. At least that made me happy while going through the list. You still have a great chance. Let’s hope the prize gets someone from our circle.
Good luck!
thanks! good luck to you too on your desperation attempt! and ya, if you're off the pack that's probably the best chance to get back in it.
do you know if it's only 1 winner? or a few, or small payouts for everyone? I'm not sure if they made that clear.. I can't seem to find the info :/
Im not 100% sure either. But from what I understood there is “winner takes all”. However, it would be nice if they announced more winners such as 1st...$500.00, 2nd...$250.00...
ya, the @steemitboard contest is using some of the prize pool to payout everyone, commensurate to how many you get right. I like that way of doing it.
often I like winner-take-all, but there are so many players that it's kind of bleh, I tend to not like all or nothing when it's super unlikely to win it
granted I did notice they said they will check to make sure you're a real/active Steem user, which is good. so maybe that's their thing, they want it to be top-heavy so that they can manually confirm the prize goes to a real person.
still, I think they could do a top 10 or even top 25 and it wouldn't take too much time to check.
we'll just wait and see I guess hehe, fun contest either way
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nice thinking
thanks, nice spam
Nice :D I also participated and wish you good luck!
Today I found a Steem Tool that offers even better Steem SportsBets on the Worldcup! You should definetly check it out: https://steemit.com/@bigbets
I wish you good luck!
So it's your site or we're pretending you actually just stumbled into it and wanted to spam it out to everyone?
I advise people to stay away.
I don't need to bet with SBD, I'd rather do it with BTC on a reputable website. Maybe you're honest, who knows, but in general it's bad to send money to unknown people with a brand new gambling website.
Especially when their marketing mechanism appears to be spam.
I try not to click on external links, so I'm not willing to actually view the website. But by the description here on Steemit, it's not "blockchain-based" in any meaningful way. You accept SBD, is all it is.
If it's centralized (i.e., people send SBD to you, you track the results, and send it back to the winners), then there's really no "blockchain-based" interesting sort of thing going on here. You're a guy with a website trying to get people to send money to it, is all this is.
Lol, this is exactly like any sports book. There's no sports book out there where you can't see your transactions and your current bets, or where you worry about them faking the results.
If there was any reason to give some benefit of the doubt, this easily takes it away.
First of all, thank you very much for your response. I am sorry that my comments seem to be spam to you but I didn't have a better idea to promote my project on Steemit apart from buying bid bots and boosting my article in the trends. This isn't a better way is it?
Of course, BigBets is my project. Related to your criticism.
You are right, it is not 100% decentralized. But it can't be compared to a normal sports book.
The point, that everything is transparent and documentated in the blockchain changes many things. It's sure that I would be still able to scam people but everyone would instantly see it and my project would be dead.
Furthermore, I think that SBD is better than BTC because of the 0 fees and transaction time.
Maybe I am not able to convince you... Nevertheless, thank you for your feedback. I really appreciate it and maybe you have some good tips left for me :)
No worries on it seeming like spam, it's definitely interesting to me either way (it's not like "nice poast resteemit done" type of spam hehe), so it didn't annoy me or anything, was fun to look at..
just felt the need to say my thoughts if it's here in my blog's comments.
hmmmm. I mean if I send a bank wire or BTC or anything to a conventional sports book, there are records of this.
I guess you're saying where it's different is the actual bet itself is recorded on the blockchain?
But meh, I don't think "what if they edit the bets I've made" is a concern or worry when you use a sports book. (Enough people would have records and screen shots to be able to quickly show what they're doing.) If you worried about that, you'd just worry about them running off with the money. They would do other things (like pretend their wallet needs updating, "please be patient") rather than edit user bets.
The important thing is that in both cases the money is centrally held, and you're trusting the website operator to pay you.
If your intentions are good, I say carry on and ignore me! lol. Obviously I have no way to know your intentions, but I do disagree that there's a meaningful "blockchain" aspect here.
Appreciate your clarification and wish you the best.
I get your point. And I wouldn't say that the Blockchain aspect is the most special thing about BigBets.
In general, the main reason why I am using SBD as a payment is because I love Steem and all projects based on Steem. That's why I wanted to develop a tool that may increase the demand for Steem and make it a little bit more interesting for other people.
Let's see what the future will bring. I also wish you the best. Maybe you will like my project one day ;)
Maybe!! Hehe. Wilder things have happened :p
Good luck to you. 😃