The old Prediction Championship will resume under this new name.
MARCELLO CHICARELLA CHAMPIONSHIP RULES
1. How To Play
1 a. Predict results on the forum using the appropriate prediction thread (e.g. WEEK 1 PREDICTIONS) which corresponds to the Serie A week.
1 b. Predict results using the letters H, A and D which correspond to your prediction of Home, Away and Draw respectively. E.g. Milan - Juventus … D For Milan and Juventus to draw the game in the San Siro.
1 c. Do NOT predict results using any other format other than in rule 1b, such as 1, 2 and X, or you will not score points.
1 d. Do NOT predict scores (i.e. 0-0, 1-0, 1-2, etc.).
1 e. Predict results before the deadline (usually midnight before the first game of the weekend).
2. How To Score Points
2 a. 1 point is scored for each result predicted correctly.
2 b. 0 points is awarded for each result predicted incorrectly or predictions posted after the deadline.
2 c. Your score for each week is added to your accumulated score of the previous weeks.
3. The Deadline For Predictions
3 a. The deadline for predicting results is midnight (GMT) Friday [12:00am (GMT) Saturday morning] of each weekend which games are played.
3 b. The deadline will be changed appropriately to a different day or time if a Serie A game(s) is not played at the weekend.
3 c. Any changing of the deadline will be posted on the prediction thread for that Serie A week effected by the deadline change.
4. South/North American and Caribbean Members
4 a. The deadline will be extended for individual members who live in a country that is West of the GMT line and whose time line is after the GMT line.
4 b. An appropriate deadline will be set to correspond with Friday midnight of an individual members’ local time.
4 c. To avail of the options in rules 4a and 4b, the member concerned must post on the forum their country of residence and time difference to GMT, this will then be verified by an administrator.
5. Postponed/Suspended Matches and Voided Results
5 a. If a match result is changed or voided by the FIGC or otherwise, your score will be altered to comprehend with the official result.
5 b. If a match is postponed or suspended before or during the match, then the result used for accumulating your score will be the result made official by the FIGC.
5 c. Only results made official by the end of 29/05/05 will be used for accumulating members scores, therefore any match result still outstanding, or suspended/postponed matches to be played after 29/05/05 will be voided for the purpose of accumulating members scores. Hence; the prediction championship will finish on 29/05/05 (week 38).
6. Members Absent
6 a. If you are absent from the forum, post predictions in advance on the Prediction Championship Thread.
6 b. Members who do not post predictions for 4 consecutive weeks will be withdrawn from the Prediction Championship.
7. Members Posting The Table
7 a. Any forum member may take the initiative of posting the whole table before an administrator.
7 b. Members cannot post only part of the table as this undermines the role of members participating whom are not included in a part-table.
The administrators understand that delays in posting the whole table are frustrating to the participating members. However, as there is a structured process to compiling the weekly table by the administrators. Sometimes an administrator may be unavailable to complete his role in the process within a desired timeframe due to personal commitments, which take priority (i.e. work or study).
8. Tie-break
8 a. In the event of a tie-break in the table after week 38, between two or more participants. The winner will be the member whom predicted the highest score for the most amount of weeks, and so on in descending order. Thereafter, if more than one member is still tied, more than one winner will be declared.
9. Indiscipline on Prediction Championship threads.
9 a. Members will be expelled from the prediction championship after reaching the number of warnings required to deem expulsion, which are outlined below.
a (i) 1 warning + 2 point deduction - Abuse of a personal nature (i.e. swearing at another member, intending to provoke or insult). - Abuse of a social nature (i.e. racial, sexist, etc.).
a (ii) 2 warnings + 1 point deduction – Abuse by a member, towards a situation but not an individual, due to a decision of the administrators or otherwise.
a (iii) 3 warnings - Discussion of a topic that may be libel to warrant deletion of one or more of the prediction threads (i.e. political, religious, racial, etc.).
9 b. 1 point deduction - Breach of rule 7 b
9 c. ‘Friendly slagging’ or ‘banter’ which incorporates swearing will not be disciplined if not deemed to warrant a deletion of a prediction thread.
9 d. Interpretation of any of the above in-disciplines is at the discretion of the administrators, by which a vote will determine if an in-discipline has occurred.
10. Appeals
10 a. A participant can appeal an awarded score to any participant if s/he feels the awarded score is incorrect.
10 b. A participant can appeal disciplinary action taken on him/herself, with at least one reason of appealing (i.e. unfairness, evidence, etc.).
10 c. A participant can appeal by posting on the forum or e-mailing: forumpredictions@yahoo.co.uk
10 d. A participant cannot appeal an awarded score of 0 given for late predictions, regardless of forum technicality, no Internet access, holidays, bereavement, apologies or otherwise.
10 e. A participant can only appeal once, unless a new reason or evidence is submitted, and can only appeal within 7 days of disciplinary action been posted on the forum.
11. Rule Amendments/New Rules
11 a. New rules or/and rule amendments can be proposed by any member/administrator participating.
11 b. Proposed new rules or/and rule amendments will be discussed if deemed necessary by at least 2 administrators.
11 c. Any proposed new rules or/and rule amendments discussed, will be implemented if passed by a majority vote of the administrators.
11 d. Only votes submitted by the administrators within 7 days of the end of discussion period/start of voting process will be counted.
11 e. Re-submission of any proposals is only accepted one whole month after the end of the voting process of the initial proposal.
It was posted on the forum that the deadline in mid-august for signing up was scraped and anyone who predicted in week 1 or week 2 or anyone who posted after the signing-up deadline giving their intention to participate would be allowed to join. This was posted on the 'Prediction Championship Thread' and on the threads for each weeks predictions.
The following was posted... ------------------------------------------------ EVERYONE CONTINUE POSTING PREDICTIONS
Any member who has; - not signed up before the deadline - not posted predictions for week 1 or 2 - or neither of the above, - or any member who wishes to join up regardless of been a regular, irregular or new member and will consistently post predictions every week from hereafter.
You are advised to keep posting predictions until further notice, as provisions may or may not be made for you. ------------------------------------------------ The above was posted in the following threads; Prediction Championship thread (page 7) Week 1 Predictions (page 6) SERIE A PREDICTIONS - WEEK 2 (page 2)
After consulting the other administrators it was decided to allow those who wanted to join - but missed the signing-up deadline and those who posted predictions even if they didn't post their intention to sign-up - to be added to the table and be marked by the markers.
So then the following was posted... ------------------------------------------------ MEMBERS ADDED TO PREDICTION CHAMPIONSHIP
With the co-operation of the other administrators, the following members have been accepted and will be marked and added to the Prediction Championship table.
Your marks obtained from week 1 & 2 will be compiled and sent to Michael within the next few days.
Members on Liam's or Micky's list will be marked as usual for week 2, and the scores for the above names will be added during next week. ------------------------------------------------ The above was posted in the following threads; SERIE A PREDICTIONS - WEEK 2 (page 2) Prediction Championship thread (page 7)
If you didn't see any of this, of course you would not have known, but unforntunately it is too late to be allowing more members to participate as we cannot allow members to join when it's too far into the championship because to many members would be coming and going throughtout the year without telling us that they've decided not to participate, then it gets very messy. Unfortunately we don't have enough markers as it is, i'm sorry, but there is absolutely no way you will be added to the table, the book has been along time closed on new entries.
Officially, you were withdrawn for not predicting for 4 consecutive weeks, which has been a rule since last season. See rule 6 b
quote:Originally posted by Giovanni Lavafiume: Nice work. Would it be possible to make an allowance for InterNumeroUno despite the fact his name is a travesty of the truth?
Lucian, if you bother to read something lower down on the site, you'll find out why this thread bears the name of someone.
I suspect that members of the forum will just about tolerate your trolling on other threads, but not this one. If you've nothing constructive or helpful to add, please don't bother commenting. You'll only create ill-will and have lots of referrals to the moderators if you carry on...
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and I've posted for Week 9
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