Re: [Skate] The 2017 Ortygia World Championship Prediction Championship

Jørgen predicted the men’s positions 1 to 8 best, scoring 24 points with the right winner (of course) and bronze medallist and nailing Swings, Giovannini and Beckert correctly as well as scoring a couple of points with Pedersen and Roest. Too bad for him that he was the only one to gamble with a Martina win in the other gender, proving a costly gamble. Second best were Nils, me and Jos with 23, then followed Arild, Bjørn, Carool, Gerrit and Tim with 21. And guess who runs away with the trophy once again:

Tara – tara – tara – tara – taraaa – – –

GOLD. Tim Wolfkamp, NED 81 (2-2-4-6-8-8-2-1-1-1-1)

Thus we in the organising committee (me and my catly owner Julius) once again request a winning speech, hoping that you’re not too tired of writing them yet. Along with perhaps some more tips for our predictive training schedule heading for 2018.

The silver was a three-way Norwegian tie (after all winning silvers behind Dutchmen has been a popular pastime here lately):

Silver. Knut Egil Gundersen, NOR 79 (2-2-1-2-2-2-2-4-5-1-2)
Silver. Lars Finsen, NOR 79 (2-2-4-4-5-8-11-13-14-6-5) 
Silver. Nils Meland, NOR 79 (2-5-4-4-4-3-4-6-8-8-5)

5. Marcel Warnaar, NED 76 (2-8-16-16-17-17-15-6-8-4-3)
Arild Jensen, NOR 76 (11-8-9-12-8-4-4-4-3-6-8)
Gerrit Stevens, NED 76 (11-8-9-6-8-13-11-12-11-11-8)
Jos Kloppenborg, NED 76 (11-8-13-12-8-4-4-6-5-11-12)
9. Sybe van Hijum, NED 75 (2-1-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-5)
Carool van Kesteren, NED 75 (2-8-13-6-5-8-4-6-7-8-11)
11. Eric Kraan, MEX 73 (11-8-4-6-8-7-8-3-3-8-8)
12. Kees de Vroege, NED 71 (2-8-9-12-14-14-9-10-11-3-3)
13. Francis Stalpers, NED 70 (1-5-9-6-5-8-11-13-11-13-13)
Brigt Bø, NOR 70 (2-5-2-2-3-4-9-10-8-15-15)
15. Dick Pluim, NED 68 (11-16-17-16-14-14-16-13-14-13-13) 
16. Bjørn Hagen, NOR 66 (11-18-18-18-18-17-18-18-18-17-17)
17. Jørgen Slyk, NOR 65 (11-16-4-6-8-8-11-13-16-18-18)
18. Harm van den Belt, NED 60 (11-15-13-15-16-14-17-17-17-16-16)

The all-time medal table now:

Tim Wolfkamp.NED 8-5-2
Gerrit Stevens.NED 7-0-2
Marcel Warnaar.NED 3-6-4
Nils Meland.NOR 3-4-3
Bjarte Hetland.NOR 2-0-1
Kees de Vroege.NED 2-0-0
Lars Finsen.NOR 1-3-4
Arild Jensen.NOR 1-2-3
Jos Kloppenborg.NED 1-2-0
Knut Egil Gundersen.NOR 1-1-1
Tore Jan Narvestad.NOR 1-1-0
Erik van Leeuwen.NED 1-1-0
Dick Pluim.NED 1-1-0
Bert Steghuis.NED 1-1-0
Carool van Kesteren.NED 1-0-1
Adam Iwaniszyn.CAN 1-0-0
Maarten Mulder.NED 1-0-0
Tom Nieuwenstein.NED 1-0-0
Marcel 1-0-0 (Marcel Van Dieren? - the winner of worlds 2004)
Arnout Steenhoek.NED 1-0-0
Trond I Hovland.NOR 1-0-0
Nol Terwindt.NED 1-0-0
Ivo van Bommel.NED 1-0-0
Daniel 1-0-0
Håkon Mørk.NOR 0-2-2
Joe Gier.USA 0-1-5
Annet F Lenderink.NED 0-1-1
Rik van Kesteren.NED 0-1-1
Eric Kraan.MEX 0-1-0
Christian L.GER 0-1-0
Kees van Vugt.NED 0-1-0
Gab Raaijmakers.NED 0-1-0
J Wiertz.NED 0-1-0
TB Hansen.NOR 0-1-0
Tom van Kleef.NED 0-1-0
Vidar Stenberg.NOR 0-1-0
Vincent Buskens.NED 0-0-1
Arnt Olaf Stillerud.NOR 0-0-1
Jeroen Heijmans.NED 0-0-1
Brigt Bø.NOR 0-0-1
Patrick Kersten.NED 0-0-1
Harm van den Belt.NED 0-0-1
Erick Vogelzang.NED 0-0-1

Thanks to you all and every one for a memorable if not great season and if you don’t find yourself at or near the top of any of these list there’s no reason to weep overlong, just enjoy the spring and summer, keep honing your predictor skills and if the great nations keep their peace we shall perhaps meet again when the snow falls on them (or most of them) and the ice crackles under their feet for the next Olympic winter. Good luck!

hilsen Lars Finsen / www.ortygia.no
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