[Skate] The 2018 World Championship Prediction Championship – the final resolution

As Semerikov was disqualified, it is questionable whether he should be ranked as 8th as the last of the 8 finalists or as 10th according to his rank overall after 3 distances. But I think I’m within the rules when I’m ranking him as 8th in this competition.

Anyhow, this was a very unpredictable championship and the final scores are just about the lowest ever, I think. Almost everybody predicted Sverre correctly in 2nd place, believe it or not, and almost everybody predicted Kramer incorrrectly as the winner. Bjørn Hagen, who has been sitting modestly at the bottom end for most of the turnament, gets a final boost by predicting Pedersen and Swings correctly and also gets 3 points for Roest and 2 for Silovs, one of the few predicting Silovs to finish top 8. I got a boost myself, predicting Pedersen, Swings and Roest like Bjørn, but missing out on Silovs. Jos, Sybe and Arne Johan also did well with 10 points. Knut-Anders was the only one who predicted the correct winner, but apart from those 8 points he only got 1 more for Swings.

1.Bjørn Hagen.NOR 13
2.Lars Finsen.NOR 11
3.Jos Kloppenborg.NED 10
Sybe van Hijum.NED 10
Arne Johan Isaksen.NOR 10
6.Kees de Vroege.NED 9
Knut-Anders Løken.NOR 9
Svein M. Køhn.NOR 9
Knut Egil Gundersen.NOR 9
10.Nils Meland.NOR 8
Bert Steghuis.NED 8
Tim Wolfkamp.NED 8
Tore Jan Narvestad.NOR 8
14.Brigt Bø.NOR 7
Brynjar Haarberg.NOR 7
Vidar Stenberg.NOR 7
17.Marcel Warnaar.NED 6
Dick Pluim.NED 6
19.Harm van den Belt.NED 4
Gerrit Stevens.NED 4

And as the differences were rather small, it’s clear that we again can congratulate as the World Championship Prediction Champion – – –

taram, taram, taraaaa – – –

GOLD.(0)Tim Wolfkamp.NED 51

Silver.(+1)Jos Kloppenborg.NED 50 

bronze.(−1)Nils Meland.NOR 49

4.(0)Vidar Stenberg.NOR 45
(0)Brynjar Haarberg.NOR 45
6.(0)Marcel Warnaar.NED 43
(+2)Svein M. Køhn.NOR 43
(+5)Lars Finsen.NOR 43
9.(−2)Dick Pluim.NED 42
(0)Knut-Anders Løken.NOR 42
(0)Kees de Vroege.NED 42
12.(+1)Sybe van Hijum.NED 41
13.(−2)Tore Jan Narvestad.NOR 40
14.(−1)Brigt Bø.NOR 38
15.(+1)Bert Steghuis.NED 36
16.(−3)Harm van den Belt.NED 35
(+3)Bjørn Hagen.NOR 35
18.(0)Knut Egil Gundersen.NOR 34
19.(0)Arne Johan Isaksen.NOR 32
20.(−3)Gerrit Stevens.NED 31

(+ means up, − means down)

Will you contribute a winner speech this time, please, Tim? 

All-time medal table:

Tim Wolfkamp.NED 9-5-2
Gerrit Stevens.NED 7-0-2
Marcel Warnaar.NED 3-6-4
Nils Meland.NOR 3-5-3
Bjarte Hetland.NOR 2-0-1
Kees de Vroege.NED 2-0-0
Lars Finsen.NOR 1-3-4
Jos Kloppenborg.NED 1-3-0
Arild Jensen.NOR 1-2-3
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

Tim is getting hard to catch up here. Gerrit is safe in 2nd place, but ended up in the other end of the result table this time. Will we see you in better prediction shape next time around, Gerrit? As we can see from the medal table, the other two medal winners also have their fair share of merits in this competition. When will we see a newcomer among the medals next? 

Anyway, thanks for a most beautiful championship. I’m sorry that we didn’t manage to ruin the party more for you good Dutchies. But I promise we’ll come on stronger next time around. Thanks for a beautiful prediction championship, too. I’m hoping to see you all in the next edition, and more. And if you don’t find yourself in the upper reaches of the final results, there’s another little date that we’re having together down in the Italian alps in just a few short summer months, where we’ll all be starting from scratch again. See you all then (and more)!

LEF

…from Amsterdam, where the tulips will bloom when I’m well settled back home again, but the crocuses and daffodils as well as the coltsfeet are making a show at least, and the jackdaws are nosy...

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Posted by: Lars Finsen <[email protected]>
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