[Skate] The 2018 World Championship Prediction Championship

I invite you hereby to the 2018 World Championship Prediction Championship. Predict the top 8 in the overall standings for each gender and in addition the next 4 that you think would have qualified for the last distance if they had allowed 12 in there, as well as the distance winners and the winning times, similar to the set-up below, and I will score you according to the following rules:

Correct winner: 8 points
Correct silver or bronze winner: 5 points
Medal winner mentioned among the medals but with the wrong medal: 3 points
Correctly predicted 4th to 8th place: 3 points
Your 4th to 8th placed skaters finishing 1 place off your prediction: 2 points
Your 4th to 8th placed skaters finishing 2 places off: 1 point
Your bronze winner finishing 4th: 2 points
Your bronze winner finishing 5th or your silver winner finishing 4th: 1 point
Your 9th to 12th placed skaters predicted correctly according to the 1500+longest distance samalog ranking: 2 points
Your 9th to 12th placed skaters finishing within 9th to 12th place, but not in your predicted place: 1 point
Your 9th placed skater finishing in 8th place: 1 point..
Correct distance winner: 3 points
Your distance winner in 2nd or 3rd place: 1 point
Winning time within 0.1 %: 3 points
Winning time within 0.5 %: 2 points
Winning time within 1.5 %: 1 point
Bonus for correct 500 m time: 1 point
Bonus for correct 1500 to 5000 m time: 2 points
Bonus for correct 10000 m time: 3 points

My preliminary prediction: 

men:
1. Sven Kramer
2. Sverre Lunde Pedersen
3. Patrick Roest
4. Ted-Jan Bloemen
5. Bart Swings
6. Marcel Bosker
7. Simen Spieler Nilsen
8. Patrick Beckert

9. Denis Juskov
10.. Nicola Tumolero
11. Håvard Bøkko
12. Danila Semerikov

500 m: Roest 37,32
1500 m: Pedersen 1.53,13
5000 m: Kramer 6.29,38
10000 m: Bloemen 14.10,44

women:
1. Ireen Wüst
2. Antoinette de Jong
3. Martina Sáblíková
4. Natalia Voronina
5. Ivanie Blondin
6. Annouk van der Weijden
7. Ida Njåtun
8. Olga Graf

9. Natalia Czerwonka
10. Gabriele Hirschbichler
11. Claudia Pechstein
12. Roxane Dufter

500 m: Wüst 40,44
1500 m: Wüst 1.59,56
3000 m: Wüst 4.18,89
5000 m: Sáblíková 7.22,12

Deadline is Friday 19:30 CET, or when the first pair starts in the female 500 m, if earlier.

Good luck!

hilsen Lars Finsen / www.ortygia.no
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Posted by: Lars Finsen <[email protected]>
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