Lavender Room's World Cup Bracket Challenge

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Just for bragging rights…a gentleman’s bet.

I created it as a private group, so you’ll need the password which is the following;

Tibbs4president

Login here:

http://games.espn.go.com/bpredictor/en/group?groupID=41473

If, somehow, that doesn’t take you to the group, then the group name is the following:

ST Lavender Room WC Pool

Along the right side of the page, there should appear a text box for group conversation. Post your ST username to the group conversation to correlate to your ESPN username.

Very intuitive to select your picks – drag and drop or just click.

Cheers.

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Forgot to mention how it is scored.

Scoring. A correct answer in a given round is shown below:
Group Stage - 1 point per correct pick
Group Stage Bonus - 1 point per pick if team is in correct slot
Round of 16 - 2 points per correct pick
Round of 16 Bonus - 2 points per pick if team is in correct slot
Quarterfinals - 4 points per correct pick
Quarterfinals Bonus - 4 points per pick if team is in correct slot
Semifinals - 8 points per pick
Semifinals Bonus - 8 points per pick if team is in correct slot
Finals - 32 points per pick

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I’m in (ncs75 - ‘bob loblaw’ was taken!)

can’t say I put a lot of thought into it… it’s the only bracket i filled out.

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Entered. Let’s go Oranje.

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It’s not taking that password for me. Oh well. I have Spain beating England for the whole thing.

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Dammit - can’t access that from work. I’ll try to get on from home later :frowning:

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It’s not taking that password for me. Oh well. I have Spain beating England for the whole thing.

You do realize that you have to be signed into ESPN.com first with your own Login & Password, yes? The above password is just for the group.

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It’s not taking that password for me.

You have to stop typing in Portuguese…

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Ok, I’m in, “Maui 1”
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It’s not taking that password for me.

You have to stop typing in Portuguese…

Well played. But everyone in the LR will admit that “Tibbs4president” is the same in any language, even down here in Sðo P— er, I mean, Pretoria.

Jersey, I am signed in to ESPN, username and everything. Might be a work filter (since Dunga doesn’t want us betting against ourselves). I’ll take care of it tonight.

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If you copied it and pasted it, try erasing the blank spaces at the beginning or the end of the password. It happened to me, it didn’t take it the first time but it had a space at the end.

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OK, I’m in but I’ll admit to being new to the ESPN brackets. I made one entry and now I see the following when I go to “Frontpage”.

“You are currently using 1 of 5 entries. Click on the Create Entry button below to create another entry.”
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Should we make 5 entries? (Not that anything I enter is much more than a shot in the dark.)

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You can if you want to, but the way I’m interpreting that section of the website is that’s for ESPN’s contest for $5,000. I have no idea if the bracket you filled out for the ST group enters you into the ESPN cash contest or not.

You won’t be able to view others’ brackets until they’re locked in tonight or tomorrow at kickoff.

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As mentioned I did enter but I kind of feel dirty…betting without any money is just plain wrong.

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Ok. Well, you can just send your money to me. =-) Will that help you feel any better?

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We’ve got a pretty decent group together. Get your brackets in today. They get locked in tonight.

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Bracket is in.

Went against my gut instinct and picked Germany to win it all, even though I doubt they will. Picked a few other random upsets (Brazil not making it out of the group phase!) just to keep it interesting.

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I also made some random picks just to make it interesting.
I have Spain over Germany and Brazil over England in the semi’s and Spain over Brazil in the final. Althogh not sure that will be the outcome should those two meet in the final.

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Winner, winner. FakeKaka is in, but don’t tell Dunga. Shh!

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I guess it’s too late to enter? I have an ESPN acct., reach the group page, see who is in, but can’t join.