2021 Irish: Tipping Competition

Retd.LoyolaCpt

In the absense of Sodacat who is presumably mid-prep.. I'll propose his rules from 2020 for this year's event with some bonuses:

"Yes folks it's back and likely to be even more fiercely contested this year than ever. Some people thought that the scoring last year was a bit convoluted so the format has changed.

Each round you pick three games,,,,,,,,you get 2 pts for any of those games that are drawn and 5 points for each that results in a win for the lower rated player. You get nothing for any of the games that the higher rated player wins. So you aren't actually naming the results, just picking the games that you think could surprise. Maximum score per round is 15 pts.

I want to see a good clean contest,no gouging, kicking or head butting, no petrol bombing of houses, no poisonous snakes in the letterbox or ringing people at 3 a.m to deprive them of sleep all of which we saw in last years competition."

We can add 15 points for naming the winner correctly (no joint winners - so no points for anyone who loses a tiebreak) - you can name who'll finish in next few places to show off but no points for that. 10 points for best U2100 by points scored - joint winners count there.

Please count your score and include in your prediction each day. We can also count predictions for round 1 and winners made in the other thread - but this thread thereafter.

CremeDeLaHarvey

Reigning champion CremeDeLaHarvey here, with some early predictions. Round 1 tips will come at 2.59pm.

Irish 2022 Champ: Accenture's finest Conor O'Donnell.

Top U2100 player: Kavin Venkatesan.

Irish 2022 Tipping Champ: CremeDeLaHarvey.

James Patrick

I’ll go for Andrey Ivanov, Jason Liu and Alex Goss

rapidrook181

Overall:

1. O' Donnell

2. Kanyamarala, Tarun

3. Baburin

Rd 1:

Win for Ivanov

Draws for Fox, Keenan

Soda_Bread

Slight ammendments due to change of rules

Overall

1. C. O'Donnell
2. A. Goss
3. P. Caffola

R1

Ivanov - Doyle

Venkatesan - Keenan

A. O'Gorman - Baburin

FMtoog

Tipping

Overall winner: O'Gorman T

U2100 prize: O'Gorman A

Round 1

Ivanov

Goss

Keenan

alicechristina

Overall winner: T O'Gorman

Under 2100: A O'Gorman

R1

Ivanov - Doyle

Goss - Carroll

Kavin - Keenan

CremeDeLaHarvey

CremeDeLaHarvey R1 tips:

Keogh, Ivanov, Liu. Will be very surprised if there's more than 3 upsets across the 12 boards.

CremeDeLaHarvey

CremeDeLaHarvey (5 points) R2 tips:

Bit easier this round.

O'Donnell, Melaugh, Keenan.

There will be around 4-6 shocks this round I reckon.

FMtoog

Round 2 (7 points)

Doyle - Melaugh

Kennedy - Cafolla

Fox - Liu

EnPassant

R1 Nul points :(

For round 2, I will go for experience - wins for Colm Daly, Peter Cafolla and Eamon Keogh.

Also, Kavin Venketesan as best U-2100.

checknraise

Round 2 (5 Points)

O'Donnell - O'Gorman

Doyle - Melaugh

Keenan - O'Gorman

rapidrook181

Round 2: 5 points

O'Donnell - O'Gorman

O'Cuilleanain - Carroll

Doyle - Melaugh

James Patrick

Round 2 Melaugh Cafolla and O’Cuilleanin

Retd.LoyolaCpt

Apologies for delay. I’m on 5 points, haven’t seen today’s games as yet. Melaugh, COD, cafolla.

Retd.LoyolaCpt

RLC: 11 points

round 3

COD vs Ryan

kanyamarala vs Baburin

Cafolla vs Doyle

CremeDeLaHarvey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119286623#Comment_119286623

You're on 11 points RLC.

Retd.LoyolaCpt

Thought I’d a win 🫣

CremeDeLaHarvey

CremeDeLaHarvey (14 points) R3 tips:

Expecting upsets galore.

Tarun, O'Donnell, O'Cuilleanain

FMtoog

Round 3 (11 points)

Ryan - O'Donnell

Cafolla - Doyle

Carroll - Daly

James Patrick

Round 3 (11 points)

Cafolla, Carroll and O’Cuilleanain

rapidrook181

Round 3: 9 points

Flynn, Carroll, Keenan

Soda_Bread

5 points

R3

Cafolla - Doyle

Ryan - O'Donnell

Carroll - Daly

checknraise

Round 3 (14 Points)

Tarun - Baburin

Cafola - Doyle

Ryan - O'Donnell

Retd.LoyolaCpt

RLC: 20 points

Doyle vs Oisin

Baburin vs TOG

Daly vs Ryan

FMtoog

Round 4 (15 points)

Doyle - O'Cuilleanain

Li - Kanyamarala

Daly - Ryan

James Patrick

Round 4 (17 points)

Daly, O’Connell and O’Cuilleanain

CremeDeLaHarvey

CremeDeLaHarvey (26 points) R4 tips:

A shame COD couldn't secure me the Maximum 15 points for R3.

Li, Daly, Ivanov

Joedryan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119291301#Comment_119291301

You have 16 posts on here and all have been absolutely rubbish!

checknraise

Round 4(23 Points)

O’Cuilleanain

Henry Li

Baburin

Soda_Bread

R4 9 points

AD - OOC

HL - TK

AI - PC

(+10 for a default)